b. 1965, United States

Andrea Zittel Biography

Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University, 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.

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Influenced by Modernist design and architecture from the early twentieth century, the artist’s one-woman mock organization, A–Z Administrative Services, develops furniture, homes, and vehicles for contemporary consumers with a similar simplicity and attention to order. Seeking to attain a sense of freedom through structure, Zittel is more interested in revealing the human need for order than in prescribing a single unifying design principle or style. “People say my work is all about control, but it’s not, really,” she remarks. “I am always looking for the gray area between freedom—which can sometimes feel too open-ended and vast—and security—which may easily turn into confinement.” Her, A–Z Pocket Property, a forty-four-ton floating fantasy island off the coast of Denmark, commissioned by the Danish government, contrasts the extremes of a creative escape with the isolation that occurs when a person is removed from society. Altering and examining aspects of life that are for the most part taken for granted, Zittel makes hand-crafted solutions that respond to the day-to-day rhythms of the body, and the creative need of people to match their surroundings to the changing appearance of life. Zittel lives in California and New York.
— Text courtesy of Art21 PBS

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A-Z Cellular Compartment Communities #3 by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork painting
Andrea Zittel A-Z Cellular Compartment Communities #3, 2002 Latex paint, tape, and pen on birch
124.5 x 246.4 cm
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Parallel Planar Panel (black, gold, off-white) by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork sculpture, textile
Andrea Zittel Parallel Planar Panel (black, gold, off-white), 2014 Woven wool textile mounted on enamel coated fir plywood
59.7 x 124.5 cm
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Planar Partition #1 by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork painting, sculpture, textile
Andrea Zittel Planar Partition #1, 2015 Weaving, stainless steel, steel, paint, wood, lacquer, concrete, carpet
203.5 x 395 x 335 cm
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Aggregated Stacks, #4 A by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork sculpture
Andrea Zittel Aggregated Stacks, #4 A, 2011 Cardboard, plaster, gauze
175 x 175 x 105 cm
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Clutch by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork moving image
Andrea Zittel Clutch, 2010 Colour video with sound 11:22 min
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A-Z Deserted Island VI by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork sculpture
Andrea Zittel A-Z Deserted Island VI, 1997 Fibreglass, wood, plastic, vinyl seat, vinyl logo
91.4 x 228.6 x 228.6 cm
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A-Z Aggregated Stacks #39 by Andrea Zittel contemporary artwork sculpture
Andrea Zittel A-Z Aggregated Stacks #39, 2015 Cardboard, plaster gauze
99.1 x 125.7 x 33.7 cm
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