Andrea Dezsö

Represented by Pucker Gallery since 2009

BORN: 1968 in Satu-Mare, Romania
RESIDES: Amherst, Massachusetts and Jackson Heights, New York

Andrea Dezsö’s work encompasses drawing, painting, sculpture, installation, public art, embroidery, cut paper, and artists books. Born in Romania where travel was restricted during communism, Dezsö took to traveling through her imagination and as an artist her work explores terrain including issues of authoritarianism and freedom; gender; myth, superstition and wisdom; folk art and craft; and designing art for public spaces. Dezsö exhibits nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, the Rice Gallery in Texas, the Aldrich Museum in Connecticut, Museum Bellerieve in Switzerland, the Fujikawa Kirie Art Museum in Japan, the Cheongjou Biennale in South Korea, Art Basel Miami, and the New York Armory Show. Her work was also recently included in the exhibition Dread & Delight at the Akron Art Museum alongside Ghada Amer, David Hockney, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others. Dezsö’s award winning public art has been installed in three New York City subway stations, the United States Embassy in Bucharest, Romania, and the Borough of Manhattan Community College Fiterman Hall in New York. Dezsö has received numerous fellowships and awards including recognition from Americans for the Arts, Kohler Arts & Industry, the MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Center for Book Arts, Six Points Foundation, and the Ucross Foundation; and has been awarded artist residencies at the Guanlan International Printmaking Base in Shenzen, China, Tamarind Institute in New Mexico, Museum of Glass in Washington, and Kamiyama AIR in Japan. Her work has been featured in ArtForum, ArtNews, The New York Times, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, NPR, New York Magazine, Print, Fiber Arts, Hand/Eye, and numerous books. Andrea Dezsö is a professor at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).