Andrea Blum
Born
New York City
Education
Art Institute of Chicago, MFA
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts/Tufts University, BFA
Grants/Fellowships
2013 SJ Weiler Fund Award
2012 Scholar’s Incentive Award. Hunter College,CUNY
2007 Presidential Travel Award Hunter College CUNY
2005 Chevalier Order of Arts and Letters French Minister of Culture
2000 Residency Fondation Albert Gleizes Sablons, FR
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
1999 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1994 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1994 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design for the Reconstruction of 107th ST Pier NYC
1992 New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Architecture
1991 Design Award Certificate for 107 ST Pier Renovation American Institute of Architects
1991 PSC-CUNY Research Foundation Award Hunter College CUNY
1986 Art Matters Inc. Fellowship
1983 Graham Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Fine Art
1978 National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Artist Fellowship
Public Commissions
2018 Plateau (2 )40th st & Locust ,University of Pennsylvania & Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia PA
2011 Design for Trygve Lie Plaza, NYC% for Art (not realized)
2010 Design for Knickerbocker Station, NYC % for Art (not realized)
2009 Design for City of Hoorgeven, NL (not realized)
Paloma Garden, Musee de Monaco (not realized)
2008 Gardens+Fountains Summer Café MUDAM - Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg
2007 Arcadia Place D’Italie Paris FR (commissioner: City of Paris) (not realized)
2006 Plateau (1) 40th st & Walnut , University of Pennsylvania & Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia PA
Island, Cite de la Musique, Andrea Blum/David Watson, Paris, FR (not realized)
2004 New City Square London UK (Modus Operandi)(not realized)
BikeHouse Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
Drink/Sleep Le Jardin des Deux Rives City of Strasbourg FR
GreenHouse Centre des Livres D’Artistes Saint-Yrieux La Perche FR
2003 Living Spaces Institut des Jeunes Sourds et Aveugles de Marseille (IRSAM) Marseille FR
(Fondation de France /Bureau des Competences et Desirs) (publication)
Police Station Bobigny Paris FR (not realized)
Nomadic House ART3, Valence FR (publication) ( collection: Fondation Nationale D’Art Contemporaine Paris, FR
2002 Information Loop BBC News Headquarters London UK (Modus Operandi) (not realized)
Rotary Garden SMAT-Metro Toulouse FR (not realized)
2001 Bureau Art3 Valence FR
En Route University of Paris 8 St.Denis FR
Suspended Animation SMAT-Metro Toulouse FR (not realized)
1999 Mobile Display Unit French Institute of Architects Paris FR (Caisse Des Depots)
Common Meerveld Almere NL (not realized)
1998 Adolescent Playground College Daubigny D'Auvers-sur-Oise FR
Pavilion University of Toulon FR (not realized)
1997 Floating Island 2000 Millenium Project Bristol UK (Public Art Development Trust) (not realized)
Agora University of Rennes FR (not realized)
News Station,72nd st Subway, MTA, NY (not realized)
1996 Information Plaza Universiteit Twente Enschede NL
Musical Chairs, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (not realized
1995 Camouflage Metrobus de l'Agglomeration Rouennaise (SIVOM) Rouen FR (publication)
1994 Courtyard Arrangements Inland Revenue Nottingham UK (Public Art Development Trust) (not realized)
1993 Judicial Building, St Paul,Minnesota (not realized)
1992 Corporate Displacement General Mills Corporation Minneapolis MN.
Surveillance Stations The Campagne Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
Split Pavilion City of Carlsbad CA (destroyed)
Livonia Art in Public Places Commission Livonia MI
TF Green Airport, Rhode Island (not realized)
Story Bench, Air Rotterdam, NL (not realized)
1991 107th Street Pier New York City Percent for Art and Public Development Corporation NY
(cooperation: Cavaglieri & Sultan Architects)
1990 Sunken Network System with Mirrored Arbor Fillmore Center San Francisco CA
1989 Rotational Shift University of Wisconsin State Arts Commission Madison WI
Street Link Dayton City Beautiful Dayton OH
1988 Landfill/ Bus Station The New Urban Landscape (exhibition) Battery Park City NYC (collaboration: Dennis Adams)
Linear Park Center City Development Corporation San Diego CA
(collaboration: Dennis Adams Martha Schwartz Peter Walker) (not realized)
Newsstand Public Art Fund NY (collaboration: Ken Kaplan & Ted Krueger) (not realized)
1987 133rd st Manhattanville Bus Depot MTA,NY (not realized)
1986 Rainier Washington State Arts Commission Buckley WA
1985 Benches and Walkways East Carolina University Greenville NC.
Stairwell North Shore Community College Percent for Art Lynn MA
1983 3 Pavilions National Endowment for the Arts Commission City of Boulder CO (not realized)
Private Commissions/Special Projects
2020 Bureau/Romainville Insitu/Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
2017 Green Rubber Lounge, Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, FR
2015 Exhibition Design: Galerie Insitu/FabienneLe Clerc.FIAC,FR.
2014 MAK Center for Art and Architecture, WEB Project ,Schindler House,Los Angeles,CA.
2013 Scenographic Designer, La Favorite, Gaetano Donizetti Opera in 4 Acts, Theatre Des Champs Elysees, Paris FR
2009 Flip Lounge Cumulus Studio New York
2008 Bureau/6ieme Galerie Insitu/Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
2005 Project Office Galerie Insitu/Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2004 Slide Lounge Galerie Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2003 ZigZag Desk Galerie Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
Loveseat & Aquarium (collection: Frac Ile de France Paris FR)
Nomadic House ART3, Valence FR (prototype collection: Fondation Nationale D’Art Contemporaine Paris FR) (publication)
1997 Biblioteque Mobile, l'Observatoire Marseille /Fabrique Sensible, Arles ( publ.“Home”, Artist Book) Ongoing.
Exhibition Locations
1997 Perceptions Nomades/Espaces Urbains Ateliers d’Artistes de la Ville de Marseille FR
1998 CIPM Centre International de Poésie de Marseille,FR
1999 Art3/ la Drôme à Valence, Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux,
Mediateque de Valence Art 3 Valence FR
2003 Ma petite Entreprise l’Abbaye Saint-André, Centre d'art Contemporain de Meymac FR
2006 MONUMENT MINIMUM, l’Exposition Petits Habitats Nomades au Château”,
Conseil Général des Bouches-du-Rhône…FR
2007 Marseille Artistes Associés, l’Exposition Musee D’Art Contemporain, Marseille,FR
2008 (CCL) Centre de Conservation du Livre, Arles,FR
Biblioteque Municipales de Lyon,Lyon FR
Angle Art Contemporain St.Paul les Trois Chateaux Vasseviere FR
2010 la Maison des Editeurs, Arles,FR
2013 Publications d'Artistes et la bibliothèque mobile de Andrea Blum, Baux-de-Provence FR 2013
Solo Exhibitions / Installations
2021. Parallel Lives,Kunsthaus Baselland.CH.
2019 Grey Matter, Insitu/Fabienne LeClerc,Paris
2013 Still-Life, Insitu/Fabienne LeClerc,Paris
2012 Social Studies , La Conservera Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Murcia , Spain
2011 Paradise…….Lost , Sikkema - Jenkins Gallery,NY
2010 Andrea Blum / Jerzy Grotowski, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville,SP
2008 Home on the Street/Landscape in the Palace stART/Catarina Tognon Venice IT
Birdhouse Café La Maison Rouge-Fondation Antoine de Galbert Paris FR
Babel Galerie Insitu/Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
2005 Hotel/Apartment/House/Nomadic House Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
2003 Metropolitan Biography Le Crestet Centre D'art Contemporarin FR (publication)
Nomadic House & Designs for Living Galerie InSitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
2001 Utopie Art3 Valence FR
1999 Mobile Institute#2 archive/theater/library Henry Moore Institute Leeds UK
Video Viewing Station Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo Seville SP
Mobile Institute #1 office/exhibitionspace/theater/library Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1998 Centre D'art Contemporain Auvers Sur Oise FR
1997 Polder De Paviljoens Almere NL
1996 Mobile Home Galerie des Archives Paris FR
Universiteit Twente Enschede NL
1995 American Center Paris FR
Public Affairs Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL (publication)
Domestic Arrangement #3 Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1994 Domestic Arrangement #1 Storefront for Art & Architecture NY
1994 Domestic Arrangement #2 Galerie Des Archives Paris FR
1991 Bain-Douche collaboration: Shirley Irons / Jeanne Silverthorne Simon Watson Gallery NY
Surveillance Chamber New York Diary) Institute for Contemporary Art PS1 Long Island City NY
1985 Vanguard Gallery Philadelphia PA
Sibell Wolle Gallery University of Colorado Boulder CO (publication)
1984 Protetch McNeil Gallery NY
1982 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago, IL.
Tibor De Nagy Gallery NY
1981 Primary Pits DeCordova Museum Lincoln MA
1980 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago IL
Courtyard Hudson River Museum Yonkers NY.
Corridor Vassar College Art Gallery Poughkeepsie NY
1979 Room 218 Institute for Art and Urban Resources PS1 Long Island City NY
1978 Marianne Deson Gallery Chicago IL
Group Exhibitions
2022 Flower Power, Le 109 Art Center, Nice, FR (curator: Marie Maertens) (publication)
2017 Other Hours, 601Artspace, NYC
2016 Foundation Barbin Presents: Redeux (Sort of) Kai Matsumiya Gallery
2015 Pam Lins and "sorry, i've been trying to teach a peacock how to act:" Rachel Uffner Gallery, NYC
Andrea Blum / Martha Rosler,Valie Export .screenings Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville,SP
The Sculptor's Eye: Prints,Drawings, and Photographs from the Collection. Decordova Museum,Lincoln,Mass.
2012 Explorers, The Centre National des Arts Plastiques (CNAP), in collaboration with the Musée de l’Abbaye
Sainte-Croix in Les Sables d’Olonne,FR
2010 Brave New World, MUDAM Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg
Explorateurs, Centre des Arts d'Enghien-les-Bains,FR
2009 Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou,Paris FR (Bernard Blistene)
No Bees, No Blueberries Harris Lieberman Gallery,NY (Sarina Basta)
Tristes Utopies Insitu Fabienne LeClerc Paris FR
CUMULUS Studio New York NY
2007 Happiness of the Object, Sculpture Center Long Island City NY (Sarina Basta)
2006 Eldorado, MUDAM Fondation Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean Luxembourg (publication)
Monument Minimum, Château d'Avignon Camargue FR
2005 Gardens + Fountains The Experience of Art , 51st Venice Biennale Italian Pavilion Commission (Maria De Corral)
2005 Nomadic House FIAC Grand Palais Paris FR
Beyond Narcissus Dorsky Gallery NY (Soko Phay)
2004 Le Paris des Maisons Objects Trouves Pavillion d’Arsenal Paris FR (publication) (Luc Babolet)
2003 Books-Machine Colette Paris FR (Jean-Max Collard)
Ma Petite Entreprise Abbaye Saint Andre Centre d'art contemporain Meymac FR (publication)
Le Diable Evidement Collection FRAC Bretagne Musee des Beaux Arts de Brest FR
2002 Loveseat with Aquarium FIAC Paris FR
LMX etape3 Ecole Superieure des Beaux Arts du Mans FR
2001 To the Trade Diverse Works Houston TX
Ambiance Magasin Abbaye Saint Andre Centre d'art Contemporain Meymac FR
Groupe Exhibition Galerie InSitu Fabienne Leclerc Paris FR
LMX etape 2 FRAC / PACA Marseille FR
2000 Design 2000 Espace Landowski Boulogne Billancourt FR
Exurbia Theresa Luisotti Gallery Los Angeles CA (publication)(Shirley Irons)
BikeCity City Hall Den Haag NL
BabyBloom Galeria Luisa delle Piane Milan IT(publication)
1999 Espace modes d'emploi FRAC Bretagne FR
Design me a School Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig D (Reudi Bauer)
1997 The Private Eye in Public Art Nations Bank Plaza Charlotte NC
1996 Galerie LumenTravo Amsterdam NL
1995 Contemporaneously Castle of Baia Naples IT (Christophe Boutin)
1993 Transpositions Ferme du Buisson Centre d'Art Contemporain Noisiel FR (publication)(Chantal Cusin-Berche)
1992 A Marked Difference Maatschappij Arti et Amicitiae Amsterdam NL (Saul Ostrow/Peer Veneman)
Surveillance Marquee 33’11 Galerie Des Archives Paris FR (Jerome Sans)
1990 Michael Klein Inc. NY
Uncommon Ground: Architecture and Sculpture at 2AES San Francisco CA(Andrea Blum Dennis Adams Ken Kaplan/Ted Krueger)
Post Consumerism Storefront for Art and Architecture NY
Painting Between the Paradigms Part IV: A Category of As Yet Unnamed Penine Hart NY (Saul Ostrow)
1988 Works on Paper Shea & Beker Gallery NY
Contemporary Sculptors Maquettes & Drawings Hofstra University NY
Art for the Public New Collaborations Dayton Art Institute Dayton OH
Projects and Proposals New York City’s Percent Program Department of Cultural Affairs NY
1985 Vanguard Gallery Philadelphia PA.
Large Drawings Renaissance Society University of Chicago IL (Blum LeVa Morris Nauman Serra)
1984 Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL.
Wellspring Project Baca Downtown Cultural Center Brooklyn NY
Large Scale Drawing Wesleyan University CT (publication)
1983 Beyond the Monument MIT Hayden Corridor Gallery Cambridge MA (Gary Garrels)
Commissioned Proposals for Louisiana World Exposition New Orleans Museum LA
1982 Momentary Halt Artpark Lewiston NY (publication)
Pit Art on the Beach Creative Time Inc NY
1980 Beyond Object Aspen Center for the Visual Arts Aspen,CO (PhilipYenawine)
Summer News Frank Kolbert Gallery NY (Barry Rosen)
Architectural Sculpture Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles CA (publication)
1979 13 Trees/13 Walls Wards Island NY
Art from Chicago Koffler Foundation National Museum of American Art DC
Chicago Karlsruhe Karlsruhe D
Three Sculptors Northern Iowa University Museum of Art Cedar Falls IO
1978 Art in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Video (publication)
Chicago/Texas:Texas/Chicago Delahanty Gallery Dallas TX
American Drawing: New Direction University of South Florida & Miami Dade College Miami FL
Works on Paper Art Institute of Chicago Chicago IL
Works on Paper Feigenson-Rosenstein Gallery Detroit MI
1977 Drawing of the Seventies Art Institute of Chicago IL (Harold Joachim)
All Over the Place Moming Chicago IL(performance by Meredith Monk)
American Women Artists Galleria D’Arte Del Cavallino Venice IT
Current Concerns University of Iowa Museum of Art Iowa City IO
1977 Blum/LeVa/Hansell Renaissance Society University of Chicago IL
The Challenge of New Ideas: Contemporary Chicago Sculpture
Kalamazoo Institute of Art Kalamazoo MI (publication)(Pauline Saliga)
1976 Abstract Art in Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago IL (publication)(Ira Licht)
1975 25 Years to 2000 N.A.M.E. Gallery Chicago IL
Professorial Positions
1986-present Hunter College City University of New York, Professor of Art/Associate Chair of Studio
1985- 1989 Cooper Union School of Art NY
1983- 1985 SUNY College at Purchase NY
1984- 1985 Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville NY
1984 Princeton University NJ
1983 Princeton University NJ
1982 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill NC
1981 Art Institute of Chicago IL
1980- 1981 Rhode Island School of Design RI
1977 University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus IL
Visiting Artist/Conferences
2022 Institut Kunst Gender Natur Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst,Basel CH
2021. Public Works / 5 day Workshop, CONFLUENCE, Institute for Innovation & Creative Strategies in Architecture, Paris, FR
2019 Moon Village/5 day Workshop, CONFLUENCE, Institute for Innovation & Creative Strategies in Architecture, Lyon, FR
2018 Bespoke Architecture, Art, History / Past, Present, Future/Urban Futures, Havana, Cuba. Sponsor: Bronx Museum.NY
Graduate Thesis Reviews, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2015 Re-use/Re-cycle5 dayWorkshop ,CONFLUENCE,Institute for Innovation & Creative Strategies in Architecture, Lyon, FR
Exhibition Design 5-day Workshop , DNSEP/Masters in Exhibition Design Work/ Ecole Nationale Superiere des Beaux Arts, Lyon,FR.
Lecture: CONFLUENCE Institute for Innovation & Creative Strategies in Architecture, Lyon FR
2014 Bard College Summer Program in Sculpture.
2013 Core Critic, Yale University, New Haven CT
2011 Graduate Reviews ,Yale University, New Haven CT
In Conversation with artist Elena Del Rivera, The New Museum NY
Festival of Ideas, The New Museum/Architectural League NYC/Workshop Leader
2010 Southern Methodist University, Dallas,TX
2009 Redevelopment Authority , Philadelphia , PA
2008 La Maison Rouge.Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris FR
2007 Coloque International Geneva University of Art and Design &Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva CH(publication)
2006 International Laboratory on Social Sculpture Bassano del Grappa IT
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia PA
Pennsylvania Academy of Art Philadelphia PA
2005 Ecole D’ Architecture Superior Paris FR
Anti-Spectacle conversation avec critique d’art Jacinto Legeiro Entretiens sur l’art Espace Paul Ricard Paris FR
2003 Columbia University School of Architecture Jury 5th year (studio Odile Decq)
2001 Columbia University School of Architecture Jury 5th year (studio Odile Decq)
Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts Lyon FR
2001 Utopie Symposium ART3 Musee de Valence FR
1999 Columbia University School of Urban Planning (studio: Andrea Kahn)
1997 FRAC pays de la Loire Nantes FR
1996 Ecole des Beaux Arts Paris FR
Consultant Hudson River Park Conservancy NY
Scenographie Urbaine Coté Jardin(s) Seminaire École des Beaux Arts Nancy Fr
1994 Storefront for Art & Architecture NY.
1993 L'Usine Fromage-GNAC Ecole D'Architecture de Normandie FR
Symposium De Campagne Stroom Center for Art & Architecture Den Haag NL
Trinity College CT
1992 Public Art for Public Works: Municipal Art Society NY
1990 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
Parsons School of Art NYC
Queens College CUNY
International Sculpture Conference Washington D.C.
1989 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
1988 Graduate School of Architecture Columbia University (studio Ken Kaplan)
1987 University of Wisconsin Madison WI
Harvard University Graduate School of Design Landscape Architecture Juror
1986 Tyler School of Art Temple University PA
1984 Art Institute of Chicago IL
1983 Syracuse University NY
1981 SUNY College at Purchase NY
University of Illinois Chicago Circle Campus IL
Hobart and William Smith Colleges NY
1979 University of Chicago IL
1978 University of Hartford School of Art CT
1977 Kalamazoo Institute of Art Gallery MI
1976 Notre Dame University IN
Advisory Board
CONFLUENCE, Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Lyon France.