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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).[1]. A graduate with an 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)[2]. He previously held the position of Assistant Editor of Semiotext(e) Press.[3] 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.[4][5][6]

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.[7] [8][9] 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.[10] 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.[11] In 2010, Berardini curated a olo project with Emily Mast at Steve Turner Contemporary[12] and a group show titled "Project and Assignments" on distribution strategies in conceptual art at the artists' space Saprophyt.[13] In October 2010, Berardini penned a monograph ont he work of Los Angeles artist Richard Jackson, published byt he Rennie Collection in Vancouver. [14]

Book Contributions

  • Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears, Pitzer Art Galleries/Claremont Museum of Art,
  • 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.
  • Richard Jackson, The Rennie Collection, Vancouver, BC, 2010.
  • Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists. Witte de With Center for Contemproary Art, 2010.
  • Yoshua Okon: US, Museo Carillo Gil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010.
  • All Time Greatest. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2010.
  • Cornerstones. Witte de With Contemporary Art Center and University of Amsterdam Press, 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, Pasadena
  • Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
  • LA Potential, Basis-Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009.
  • 2008 California Biennial. Orange County Museum of Art, 2008.


References

  1. ^ http://writing.calarts.edu/index.php?id=93
  2. ^ http://www.mammutmagazine.org/download/mammut_issue1_v14_screen.pdf
  3. ^ www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/.../news_lauri_firstenberg_is_name.php
  4. ^ antonkerngallery.com/bios/21.pdf
  5. ^ www.museumsla.org/meventmore.asp?key=23448
  6. ^ http://www.artslant.com/global/articles/show/9036
  7. ^ Interviews by Syvère Lotringer, Edited by Giancarlo Ambrosino, Co Edited by Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, and Justin Cavin. (10/01/2006). A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side. Semiotext(e) and The MIT Press. ISBN 9781584350354. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help); Check date values in: |date= (help); line feed character in |author= at position 105 (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ Jean Baudrillard, Translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton and Andrew Berardini. (2007-08-31). In the Shadow of the Silent Majority. Semiotext(e) and The MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-936-75600-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ^ http://www.ocma.net/index.html?page=categories&product=465
  10. ^ Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA, February 9 – March 22, 2008 http://www.mandaringallery.com/exhibition34.html
  11. ^ http://themagla.com/cgi-bin/artmagla/page.cgi?g=Detailed/574.html;opening=3324
  12. ^ http://www.steveturnercontemporary.com/artists/mast/index.html
  13. ^ http://www.saprophyt.net/current.html
  14. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Jackson-Andrew-Berardini/dp/0986596116