Monthly Archives: January 2015

2012 Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts

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Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture from San Diego State University in 1988, and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Zittel’s sculptures and installations transform everything necessary for life—such as eating, sleeping, bathing, and socializing—into artful experiments in living. Blurring the lines between life and art, Zittel’s projects extend to her own home and wardrobe. Wearing a single outfit every day for an entire season, and constantly remodeling her home to suit changing demands and interests, Zittel continually reinvents her relationship to her domestic and social environment.

She has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. Zittel has been included in numerous group shows at renowned institutions in Germany, the U.S., Japan, the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland. She has received awards such as the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show in 2007, the College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award in 2006, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005. Zittel lives in Joshua Tree, California and New York.

Andrea Zittel is currently a Visting Critic at the MFA Visual Arts Program here at Columbia University.

View Jacolby Satterwhite’s Art 21 New York Close-Up here.

Bulglar Alarm, 2008, Pine wood, glue, nails

Until the end of the 19th century house-builders and stair carpenters occasionally included a passive “alarm” system in the homes they built—a “trip-step” rising a few inches higher than the other steps—that would cause an unwary and unknowing intruder to stumble in the night and awaken slumbering occupants. The idea was adapted from an earlier military defense strategy used by medieval stone masons who constructed uneven steps in castle stairwells hoping to thwart invading foreign armies.

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Utilizing photography, film, video, writing, audio, and drawing, Matthew Buckingham’s work questions the role of social memory in contemporary life. His projects create physical and social contexts that invite viewers to reconsider what is most familiar to them.

He has presented solo exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum; Camden Arts Centre, London; the Reina Sofía, Madrid; the Dallas Museum of Art; the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin and the Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, among others.

His work is included in the collections of K21, Düsseldorf; The Museum of Modern Art, New York
; Tate Modern, London; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the 
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC; 
and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.

He has been a resident at Artpace, San Antonio; the DAAD, Berlin, The Freund Fellowship, St. Louis; IASPIS, Stockholm and received fellowships from Apparatus, Art Matters, the New York Foundation for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts and the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation.

He taught at the Malmö Art Academy of Lund University, Sweden, from 2003 to 2010 and was appointed Associate Professor of Visual Art here at Columbia University in 2013.