Andrew Berardini (born August 21, 1982) is an American writer known for his work as a visual

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. Described as "the most elegant of all art critic cowboys", Berardini works primarily between genres, which he describes as "quasi-essayistic prose poems on art and other vaguely lusty subjects." He has published articles and essays in publications such as ''

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'', ''Mousse'', '' Fillip'', ''

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'', '' ArtReview'', ''Art-Agenda'', ''Paper Monument'', '' Art in America'', Public Fiction, ''

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'' (Italy),

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''. A graduate with an MFA in Writing from the School of Critical Studies at

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, Berardini has lectured on Art History and Cultural Production at the

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(SCI-Arc), and has been faculty at the Mountain School of Arts since 2008, in addition to guest lecturing widely. He previously held the position of assistant editor of

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Press and is currently Los Angeles editor for ''Mousse'', senior editor for ''Artslant'', contributing editor for Momus and Art-Agenda, and co-founder of the Art Book Review. As a curator, Berardini held appointments at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena and LAXART in Los Angeles and in 2013 he organized and co-organized exhibitions at the

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in Paris, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Castello di Rivoli in Turin. He is the past recipient of an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Grant and the 221A Curatorial Residency. In 2016, he was appointed writer-in-residence at the Institute for Art and Olfaction in Los Angeles and appointed a judge for the Sadakichi Award for Experimental Work with Scent for the Art and Olfaction Awards.

Publications

Books

* ''Colors.'' Not a Cult Media, 2023. * ''Danh Vo: Relics'', Mousse, 2015. * ''Richard Jackson'', The Rennie Collection, 2010.

Book contributions

* ''Phillip Guston’s The Red Sea'' The Collection, SFMOMA. 2016. * ''The City of Glass,'' Xavier Veilhan, Gallerie Perrotin, Paris. 2015. * ''DO NOT TIRE. EVERYTHING IS OPEN: On Robert Motherwell,'' Paul Kasmin Gallery. 2015. * ''Hand in Glove, Make.A.Match,'' Revolver Verlag. 2014. * ''Battle Painting. Leander Schwazer: Bikini.'' Museion, Bolzano. 2014. * ''Home is the Place You Left,'' Biography: Elmgreen & Dragset, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, 2014. * ''Your looks are laughable/ Unphotographable/ Yet you’re my favorite work of art'' Sarah Anne Johnson: Wonderland, CAM Raleigh. 2014. * ''Whitney Biennial 2012.'', Whitney Museum, 2012. * ''Sarah Cain'', LAND, 2012. * ''Singapore Biennial 2011: Open House'', Singapore Art Museum, 2011. * ''Bas Jan Ader: Suspended Between Laughter and Tears'', Pitzer Art Galleries/Claremont Museum of Art, 2010. * ''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. * ''Rotterdam Dialogues: The Critics, The Curators, The Artists''. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, 2010. * ''Yoshua Okon: US'', Museo Carillo Gil, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2010. * ''All Time Greatest''. Fellows of Contemporary Art, 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, 2009. * ''Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009. * ''LA Potential'', Basis-Wien, Vienna, Austria, 2009. * ''2008 California Biennial''. Orange County Museum of Art, 2008.

Translations and editorial

* ''Bruce Nauman: Untitled (leave the Land Alone) 1969/2009'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009. * ''Hipnostasis: Raymond Pettibon and Yoshua Okon'', Armory Center for the Arts, 2009. * Jean Baudrillard, ''In the Shadow of the Silent Majority,'' translated by Paul Foss, John Johnston, Paul Patton, and Andrew Berardini (Los Angeles, CA: Semiotext, 2007. * ''David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side''Edited by Sylvère Lotringer, Giancarlo Ambrosino, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin. Research Editor: Andrew Berardini. 2006.

References

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