Andrea Geyer

Andrea Geyer's lens-based practice originates from her studies in photojournalism that evolved into a dynamic, cross-disciplinary, research-based artistic practice encompassing photography, printmaking, video, performance, sculpture, and installation. Her work engages the material poetics of storytelling as both method and inquiry and examines socially, culturally, and historically significant individuals, events, and sites. The stories her work tells circulate around historic occurrences, such as Hannah Arendt’s reporting on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem, the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, and women’s central role in defining American Modernism and its institutions. They also emerge from an examination of place, such as the American Southwest, its settler-colonialism and the repression of traditional landowners, past and present. Additionally, Geyer reflects on the histories of Germany, the country of her origin, where she contemplated both the emergence of her queer identity and the continued trauma of fascism and its far-reaching aftermath. 

Awards include: Guggenheim Fellowship, Robert Rauschenberg Residency, Creative Time Global Residency, Museum of Modern Art Research Fellowship, Art Matters Grant. Exhibitions include: MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, Leslie Lohman Museum in New York, TATE Modern, Serpentine Gallery in London, Gropius Bau in Berlin, Jumex Foundation in Mexico, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Generali Foundation, and the Secession in Vienna; Sao Paulo Biennial and documenta12/ .