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'''Andrew Berardini''' (born 1982) is an American [[art critic]], writer, and curator of contemporary art. He has published articles and essays in publications such as Fillip (Vancouver), [[Artforum]] (New York), X-TRA (Los Angeles), Artnet, Frieze (London), MOUSSE (Milan), [[La Stampa]] (Turin), Paper Monument (New York), Angeleno (Los Angeles), Art Review (London), Style and the Family Tunes (Berlin), Rolling Stone (Italia), Art Lies (Houston), LA Citybeat (Los Angeles), LA Weekly (Los Angeles), and Afterall (London/Los Angeles).<ref>http://writing.calarts.edu/index.php?id=93</ref>. A graduate with an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] from the School of Critical Studies at [[California Institute of the Arts]], Berardini has lectured on Art History and Cultural Production at the [[Southern California Institute of Architecture]] (SCI-Arc)<ref>http://www.mammutmagazine.org/download/mammut_issue1_v14_screen.pdf</ref>. He previously held the position of Assistant Editor of [[Semiotext(e)]] Press.<ref>www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/.../news_lauri_firstenberg_is_name.php</ref> Berardini was recently Adjunct Assistant Curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and is currently Los Angeles Editor for Mousse and Senior Editor for Artslant.<ref>antonkerngallery.com/bios/21.pdf</ref><ref>www.museumsla.org/meventmore.asp?key=23448</ref><ref>http://www.artslant.com/global/articles/show/9036</ref>
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'''Andrew Berardini''' (born August 21, 1982) is an American writer known for his work as a visual [[art critic]] and [[curator]] in [[Los Angeles]]. Described as "the most elegant of all art critic cowboys",<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 2016|work=Spike Art Quarterly}}</ref> Berardini works primarily between genres, which he describes as "quasi-essayistic prose poems on art and other vaguely lusty subjects."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/andrewberardini/|title=Instagram|last=Berardini|first=Andrew|website=instagram.com |access-date=December 8, 2016}}</ref>
==Recent Projects==
Berardini was a translator of the 2008 American edition of [[Jean Baudrillard]]'s [[In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities]], a contributor to the catalog of the 2008 [[California Biennial]], and as research editor for the non-fiction book ''[[David Wojnarowicz]] A Definitive History of Five of Six Years of the Lower East Side''.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.semiotexte.com/authors/davidWojnarowicz.html |title= A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side |author=Interviews by Syvère Lotringer, Edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino, Co Edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus,
and Justin Cavin. |publisher=Semiotext(e) and The MIT Press |isbn=9781584350354 |date=10/01/2006 }}</ref>
<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.semiotexte.com/books/inTheShadow.html |title= In the Shadow of the Silent Majority |author= Jean Baudrillard, Translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton and Andrew Berardini. |publisher=Semiotext(e) and The MIT Press |isbn=978-0-936-75600-4 |date=2007-08-31 }}</ref><ref>http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=categories&product=465</ref> In the Spring of 2008, he curated with Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer an exhibition at Mandarin Gallery in Los Angeles titled "You, Whose Beauty Was Famous in Rome..." which included work from the artists [[Richard Hawkins]], [[Morgan Fisher]], Eduardo Consuegra, [[William E. Jones]], Hedi El Kholti, Brian Kennon, and Elad Lassry. The accompanying catalog was designed by Berardini.<ref>Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, February 9 – March 22, 2008 http://www.mandaringallery.com/exhibition34.html</ref> As Adjunct Assistant Curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Berardini curated original projects include "The mullerstudio Musical Library" with artist Dave Muller in September 2008, "Camilo Ontiveros: Deportables" in Spring 2009, a collaboration between Yoshua Okon and [[Raymond Pettibon]] called "Hipnostasis" in Summer 2009, and in September 2009, a never-before-produced public skywriting piece by [[Bruce Nauman]].<ref>
http://themagla.com/cgi-bin/artmagla/page.cgi?g=Detailed/574.html;opening=3324</ref> In 2010, Berardini curated a solo project with Emily Mast at Steve Turner Contemporary<ref>http://www.steveturnercontemporary.com/artists/mast/index.html</ref> and a group show titled "Project and Assignments" on distribution strategies in conceptual art at the artists' space Saprophyt.<ref>http://www.saprophyt.net/current.html</ref> In October 2010, Berardini penned a monograph ont he work of Los Angeles artist Richard Jackson, published by the Rennie Collection in Vancouver. <ref>http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Jackson-Andrew-Berardini/dp/0986596116</ref>


He has published articles and essays in publications such as ''[[frieze (magazine)|frieze]]'', ''Mousse'', ''[[Fillip]]'', ''[[Artforum]]'', ''[[ArtReview]]'', ''Art-Agenda'', ''Paper Monument'', ''[[Art in America]]'', [[Public Fiction]], ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' (Italy), [[Die Welt]] and the ''[[LA Weekly]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://writing.calarts.edu/alumni |title=CalArts: MFA Creative Writing Alumni |access-date=2013-11-19 |archive-date=2013-05-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526062632/http://writing.calarts.edu/alumni |url-status=dead }}</ref> A graduate with an [[Master of Fine Arts|MFA]] in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at [[California Institute of the Arts]], Berardini has lectured on Art History and Cultural Production at the [[Southern California Institute of Architecture]] (SCI-Arc),<ref>[http://www.mammutmagazine.org/download/mammut_issue1_v14_screen.pdf Berardini, Andrew,"Leave the Land Alone," Mammut Magazine #1]</ref> and has been faculty at [[the Mountain School of Arts]] since 2008, in addition to guest lecturing widely. He previously held the position of assistant editor of [[Semiotext(e)]] Press<ref>[http://www.banffcentre.ca/event/6311/curators-talk-andrew-berardini?d=2013-10-08+16:00 "Curator's Talk: Andrew Berardini," The Banff Centre, Oct 6, 2013] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213121512/http://www.banffcentre.ca/event/6311/curators-talk-andrew-berardini?d=2013-10-08+16%3A00 |date=December 13, 2013 }}</ref> and is currently Los Angeles editor for ''Mousse'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://moussemagazine.it/staff.mm?lang=en |title="Masthead," Mousse Magazine |access-date=2013-11-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131126095001/http://moussemagazine.it/staff.mm?lang=en |archive-date=2013-11-26 |url-status=dead }}</ref> senior editor for ''Artslant'',<ref>[http://www.artslant.com/global/articles/show/9036 Berardini, Andrew, "Letter from Los Angeles," Artslant, August 2, 2009]</ref> contributing editor for Momus and Art-Agenda, and co-founder of the Art Book Review. As a curator, Berardini held appointments at the [[Armory Center for the Arts]] in Pasadena<ref>[http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/taubman/endless-summer10-15-09_detail.asp?picnum=3 Taubman, Lara, "Endless Summer" Artnet, October 15, 2009]</ref> and LAXART in Los Angeles and in 2013 he organized and co-organized exhibitions at the [[Palais de Tokyo]] in Paris,<ref>"[http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/young-curators-season-2013 Arte-Sur: Collective Fictions" Palais de Tokyo, curated by Andrew Berardini, Albertine de Galbert, Isabelle Le Normand, Jesse McKee, and Anca Rujou] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005002719/http://www.palaisdetokyo.com/en/exhibition/young-curators-season-2013 |date=October 5, 2013 }}</ref> the [[Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles|Museum of Contemporary Art]] in Los Angeles,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/05/14/chris-johanson-within-the-river-of-time-is-my-mind/ |title="Chris Johanson: Within the River of Time is My Mind," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Berardini |access-date=2013-07-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131005010550/http://sites.moca.org/thecurve/2013/05/14/chris-johanson-within-the-river-of-time-is-my-mind/ |archive-date=2013-10-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and the Castello di Rivoli in Turin.<ref>[http://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/il-museo-e-piu-vicino/ "Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Vanessa Safavi, Santo Tolone" Castello di Rivoli, curated by Andrew Berardini, Gregor Muir, and Beatrix Ruf] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103210110/http://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/il-museo-e-piu-vicino/ |date=November 3, 2013 }}</ref>
==Book Contributions==


He is the past recipient of an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Grant and the 221A Curatorial Residency.
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* <i>Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears</i>, Pitzer Art Galleries/Claremont Museum of Art,

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* <i>5 Years: The Mountain School of Art. MSA, 2010.
In 2016, he was appointed writer-in-residence at the Institute for Art and Olfaction<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://artandolfaction.com/projects/andrew-berardini-wir/|title=Writer In Residence|website=Institute for Art and Olfaction|date=24 February 2016 |access-date=December 8, 2016}}</ref> in Los Angeles and appointed a judge for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent for the Art and Olfaction Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artandolfactionawards.org/judges/andrew-berardini/|title=Judges: Andrew Berardini|date=December 8, 2016|website=Art and Olfaction Awards|access-date=December 8, 2016}}</ref>
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* <i>Desert Interviews, Or How To jump Off the Roof and Not Hit the Ground: Piero Golia</i>. JRP/Ringier & Jumex Foundation and Collection, 2010.

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* <i>Richard Jackson</i>, The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC, 2010.
==Publications==
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* <i>Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists</i>. Witte de With Center for Contemproary Art, 2010.

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* <i>Yoshua Okon: US</i>, Museo Carillo Gil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010.
===Books===
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* <i>All Time Greatest</i>. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2010.

* <i>Cornerstones</i>. Witte de With Contemporary Art Center and University of Amsterdam Press, 2010.
* ''Colors.'' Not a Cult Media, 2023.
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* <i>I like your work: Etiquette and Art</i>, Paper Monument, 2010.
* ''Danh Vo: Relics'', Mousse, 2015.
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* <i>Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009</i>, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
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* ''Richard Jackson'', The Rennie Collection, 2010.
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* <i>Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon</i>, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.

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* <i>LA Potential</i>, Basis-Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
===Book contributions===
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* <i>2008 California Biennial</i>. Orange County Museum of Art, 2008.

* ''Phillip Guston’s The Red Sea'' The Collection, SFMOMA. 2016.
* ''The City of Glass,'' Xavier Veilhan, Gallerie Perrotin, Paris. 2015.
* ''DO NOT TIRE. EVERYTHING IS OPEN: On Robert Motherwell,'' Paul Kasmin Gallery. 2015.
* ''Hand in Glove, Make.A.Match,'' Revolver Verlag. 2014.
* ''Battle Painting. Leander Schwazer: Bikini.'' Museion, Bolzano. 2014.
* ''Home is the Place You Left,'' Biography: Elmgreen & Dragset, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, 2014.
* ''Your looks are laughable/ Unphotographable/ Yet you’re my favorite work of art'' Sarah Anne Johnson: Wonderland, CAM Raleigh. 2014.
* ''Whitney Biennial 2012.'', Whitney Museum, 2012.
* ''Sarah Cain'', LAND, 2012.
* ''Singapore Biennial 2011: Open House'', Singapore Art Museum, 2011.
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* ''Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears'', Pitzer Art Galleries/Claremont Museum of Art, 2010.
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* ''5 Years: The Mountain School of Art''. MSA, 2010.
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* ''Desert Interviews, Or How To Jump Off the Roof and Not Hit the Ground: Piero Golia''. JRP/Ringier & Jumex Foundation and Collection, 2010.
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* ''Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists''. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2010.
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* ''Yoshua Okon: US'', Museo Carillo Gil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010.
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* ''All Time Greatest''. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2010.
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* ''I like your work: Etiquette and Art'', Paper Monument, 2010.
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* ''Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
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* ''Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
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* ''LA Potential'', Basis-Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
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* ''2008 California Biennial''. Orange County Museum of Art, 2008.

===Translations and editorial===

* ''Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
* ''Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
* Jean Baudrillard, ''In the Shadow of the Silent Majority,'' translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton, and Andrew Berardini (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext, 2007.
* ''David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side''Edited by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin. Research Editor: Andrew Berardini. 2006.


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Andrew Berardini
Born
Andrew Berardini

(1982-08-21)August 21, 1982
Huntington Beach, California,
United States

Andrew Berardini (born August 21, 1982) is an American writer known for his work as a visual art critic and curator in Los Angeles. Described as "the most elegant of all art critic cowboys",[1] Berardini works primarily between genres, which he describes as "quasi-essayistic prose poems on art and other vaguely lusty subjects."[2]

He has published articles and essays in publications such as frieze, Mousse, Fillip, Artforum, ArtReview, Art-Agenda, Paper Monument, Art in America, Public Fiction, Rolling Stone (Italy), Die Welt and the LA Weekly.[3] A graduate with an MFA in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts, Berardini has lectured on Art History and Cultural Production at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc),[4] and has been faculty at the Mountain School of Arts since 2008, in addition to guest lecturing widely. He previously held the position of assistant editor of Semiotext(e) Press[5] and is currently Los Angeles editor for Mousse,[6] senior editor for Artslant,[7] contributing editor for Momus and Art-Agenda, and co-founder of the Art Book Review. As a curator, Berardini held appointments at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena[8] and LAXART in Los Angeles and in 2013 he organized and co-organized exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris,[9] the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles,[10] and the Castello di Rivoli in Turin.[11]

He is the past recipient of an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Grant and the 221A Curatorial Residency.

In 2016, he was appointed writer-in-residence at the Institute for Art and Olfaction[12] in Los Angeles and appointed a judge for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent for the Art and Olfaction Awards.[13]

Publications

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Books

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  • Colors. Not a Cult Media, 2023.
  • Danh Vo: Relics, Mousse, 2015.
  • Richard Jackson, The Rennie Collection, 2010.

Book contributions

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  • Phillip Guston’s The Red Sea The Collection, SFMOMA. 2016.
  • The City of Glass, Xavier Veilhan, Gallerie Perrotin, Paris. 2015.
  • DO NOT TIRE. EVERYTHING IS OPEN: On Robert Motherwell, Paul Kasmin Gallery. 2015.
  • Hand in Glove, Make.A.Match, Revolver Verlag. 2014.
  • Battle Painting. Leander Schwazer: Bikini. Museion, Bolzano. 2014.
  • Home is the Place You Left, Biography: Elmgreen & Dragset, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, 2014.
  • Your looks are laughable/ Unphotographable/ Yet you’re my favorite work of art Sarah Anne Johnson: Wonderland, CAM Raleigh. 2014.
  • Whitney Biennial 2012., Whitney Museum, 2012.
  • Sarah Cain, LAND, 2012.
  • Singapore Biennial 2011: Open House, Singapore Art Museum, 2011.
  • Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears, Pitzer Art Galleries/Claremont Museum of Art, 2010.
  • 5 Years: The Mountain School of Art. MSA, 2010.
  • Desert Interviews, Or How To Jump Off the Roof and Not Hit the Ground: Piero Golia. JRP/Ringier & Jumex Foundation and Collection, 2010.
  • Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2010.
  • Yoshua Okon: US, Museo Carillo Gil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010.
  • All Time Greatest. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2010.
  • I like your work: Etiquette and Art, Paper Monument, 2010.
  • Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
  • Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
  • LA Potential, Basis-Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
  • 2008 California Biennial. Orange County Museum of Art, 2008.

Translations and editorial

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  • Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
  • Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, Armory Center for the Arts, 2009.
  • Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majority, translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton, and Andrew Berardini (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext, 2007.
  • David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East SideEdited by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin. Research Editor: Andrew Berardini. 2006.

References

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  1. ^ Spike Art Quarterly. April 2016. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  2. ^ Berardini, Andrew. "Instagram". instagram.com. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  3. ^ "CalArts: MFA Creative Writing Alumni". Archived from the original on 2013-05-26. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  4. ^ Berardini, Andrew,"Leave the Land Alone," Mammut Magazine #1
  5. ^ "Curator's Talk: Andrew Berardini," The Banff Centre, Oct 6, 2013 Archived December 13, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ ""Masthead," Mousse Magazine". Archived from the original on 2013-11-26. Retrieved 2013-11-19.
  7. ^ Berardini, Andrew, "Letter from Los Angeles," Artslant, August 2, 2009
  8. ^ Taubman, Lara, "Endless Summer" Artnet, October 15, 2009
  9. ^ "Arte-Sur: Collective Fictions" Palais de Tokyo, curated by Andrew Berardini, Albertine de Galbert, Isabelle Le Normand, Jesse McKee, and Anca Rujou Archived October 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ ""Chris Johanson: Within the River of Time is My Mind," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Berardini". Archived from the original on 2013-10-05. Retrieved 2013-07-02.
  11. ^ "Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa, Vanessa Safavi, Santo Tolone" Castello di Rivoli, curated by Andrew Berardini, Gregor Muir, and Beatrix Ruf Archived November 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ "Writer In Residence". Institute for Art and Olfaction. 24 February 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
  13. ^ "Judges: Andrew Berardini". Art and Olfaction Awards. December 8, 2016. Retrieved December 8, 2016.
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