Andrea Fraser

Individual

Roles

Artist, Educator, Writer

Biography

Andrea Fraser is a professor of art at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture who studies the social and financial economics of arts and cultural institutions, fields and groups. Her research focuses on many aspects of the art world, including art museums, the contemporary art market and cultural philanthropy, as well as institutional governance and labor issues in the nonprofit arts sector. An artist and performer who has worked internationally, Fraser is an expert on conceptual art, institutional critique, feminist performance art, exhibition-making and the psychology of art practice. She is also a certified group-relations consultant and an authority on the psychodynamics of groups and organizations, particularly those in cultural fields. Her books include Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser (2005), 2016 in Museums, Money and Politics (2018), and Andrea Fraser Collected Interviews 1990–2018 (2019). Fraser is the former board president of WAGE (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) and of Grex, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems.

UCLA, 2024

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)

Related programs

Writer's Talk (Artist)
LIVE at the End of the Century (Artist)

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