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Andrea Fraser: Exhibition

2002 / ISBN 0-88865-630-0
128 pages, b/w and colour, hardcover

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Exhibition catalogue from Andrea Fraser: Exhibition at the Belkin (18 January—3 March 2002) with texts by Isabelle Graw, James Meyer, John Miller, Scott Watson, Thryza Nichols and Andrea Fraser. Informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Andrea Fraser is well-known for her performances that appropriate different genres of public speech such as the museum tour and the inaugural address in order to critique the relations between the art institution, its patrons and its visitors. The exhibition consists of recent and new performance-based video work including Little Frank and his Carp (2001), Kunst muß hängen (Art Must Hang) (2001), Soldadera (1998/2002) and Exhibition (2002).

 

 

 

  • Andrea Fraser

    Artist

    Andrea Fraser (American, b. 1965) is an artist internationally recognized for her performances that appropriate different genres of public speech such as the museum tour and the inaugural address in order to critique the relations between the art institution, its patrons and visitors. Fraser is based in Los Angeles and is a professor in the Department of Art at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) School of the Arts and Architecture. Most recently, Fraser’s work has been exhibited in solo shows at the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), the Philadelphia Museum of Modern Art, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York) and the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (Vienna). Fraser has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2017), the Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria (2015), the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Cologne, Germany (2013), the Anonymous was a Woman Fellowship (2012), the Art Matters Inc. Fellowship (1996-1997, 1990-1991 and 1987-1988), National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship (1991-1992) and Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art Award (1990-1991).

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  • Isabelle Graw

    Writer
  • James Meyer

    Writer
  • John Miller

    Writer
  • Thryza Nichols

    Writer
  • Scott Watson

    Curator, Writer

    Scott Watson (Canadian, b. 1950) is Director Emeritus and Research Fellow at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia. A curator whose career has spanned more than thirty-five years, Watson is internationally recognized for his research and work in curatorial and exhibition studies, contemporary art and issues, and art theory and criticism. His distinctions include the Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence in Contemporary Art (2010); the Alvin Balkind Award for Creative Curatorship in BC Arts (2008) and the UBC Dorothy Somerset Award for Performance Development in the Visual and Performing Arts (2005). Watson has published extensively in the areas of contemporary Canadian and international art. His 1990 monograph on Jack Shadbolt earned the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize in 1991. Recent publications include Letters: Michael Morris and Concrete Poetry (2015); Thrown: British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries (2011), a finalist for the 2012 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize; “Race, Wilderness, Territory and the Origins of the Modern Canadian Landscape” and “Disfigured Nature” (in Beyond Wilderness, McGill University Press, 2007); and “Transmission Difficulties: Vancouver Painting in the 1960s” (in Paint, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2006).

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  • Exhibition

    18 January 2002 – 3 March 2002

    Andrea Fraser: Exhibition

    The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Canada’s of work by American artist Andrea Fraser. Informed by the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Fraser is well-known for her performances that appropriate different genres of public speech such as the museum tour and the inaugural address in order to critique the relations between the art institution, its patrons and its visitors. This exhibition consists of recent and new performance-based video work including Little Frank and his Carp (2001), Kunst muß hängen (Art Must Hang) (2001), Soldadera (1998/2002) and Exhibition (2002).

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