Andrew Berardini

Andrew Berardini (b. 1982) is an American art critic, writer, and curator of contemporary art. He's published numerous articles and essays in international publications (on and offline) such as Fillip (Vancouver), Artforum (New York), X-TRA (Los Angeles), Artnet, Frieze (London), MOUSSE (Milan), La Stampa (Turin), Paper Monument (New York), Art Review (London), and Afterall (London/Los Angeles). A graduate with an MFA from the School of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts, Berardini has most recently lectured on Art History and Cultural Production at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He previously held the position of Assistant Editor of Semiotext(e) Press and is the Los Angeles Editor for Mousse and Artslant.

Recent Projects

Berardini is listed as a translator on 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. 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. As Adjunct Assistant Curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, Berardini's 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.

Publications

• Amazon Reviews
• The Expanded Field: Published by Andrew Berardini
• Artforum
• Afterall
• Fillip
• Paper Monument
• Mousse Magazine
• Art Review