Andra Ursuta

Kindly donated by the the artist and David Zwirner

Andra Ursuţa (b. 1979, Romania) has gained recognition for her inventive sculptural work that mines the darker undercurrents of contemporary society. Drawing from memory, nostalgia, art history, and popular culture and employing a variety of media, the artist.mes rges traditional sculptural processes and new technologies to transform commonplace objects and materials into viscerally evocative sculptures and installations that give new, redemptive form to subjective experience.

Ursuţa was born in 1979 in Salonta, Romania, a town on the Romanian-Hungarian border, and left for the United States in 1997. She moved to New York in 1999, and received a BA in art history and visual arts in 2002 from Columbia University, New York.

The artist has been represented by David Zwirner since 2020, and her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Void Fill, was on view at David Zwirner Paris in 2021. In 2022, she received a solo exhibition, Joy Revision, at David Zwirner London. Ursuţa’s work was included in the group exhibition 20/20, held at the gallery’s West 20th Street location in New York in 2020, and in the group exhibition Vessels, held at the gallery’s London location in 2022.

From 2018 to 2019, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Andra Ursuţa: Vanilla Isis, was presented at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. Andra Ursuţa: Alps, which was on view in 2016 at the New Museum, New York, marked the artist’s first museum show in New York. Ursuţa’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at prominent venues internationally, including Kunsthalle Basel (2015); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014–2015); Hammer Museum, University of California, Los Angeles (2014); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2014); and Peep-Hole Art Center, Milan (2014). Ramiken Crucible presented the artist’s first solo exhibition, Andra Ursuţa: The Management of Barbarism, in New York in 2010.

Ursuţa’s work has also been included in important group exhibitions worldwide, such as the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); ARS22: Living Encounters, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2022); Souffle de son souffle, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France (2021­–2022); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, The Phillips collects ion, Washington, DC (2019); The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2017–2018); 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017); High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family collects ion, Miami (2016–2017); 13th Lyon Biennale (2015–2016); Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna (2015); Busted, The High Line, New York (2013–2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2013); and Ostalgia, New Museum, New York (2011)

The artist’s work is held in public collects ions worldwide, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Rubell Museum, Miami; Tate, United Kingdom; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Ursuţa lives and works in New York.