ANDREA MYERS BIO:

 

Andrea Myers explores the space between two and three dimensionality, hybridizing

painting, sculpture and fiber arts. She received her BFA in Printmedia in 2002 and her

MFA in Fiber and Material Studies in 2006 both from the School of the Art Institute of

Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Hyde Park Art Center, Evanston Art Center, Toledo

Museum of Art, Art Prize, Art Miami, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Fiber Arts International,

the Columbus Museum of Art, and coGalleries (Berlin, Germany). Recent exhibitions

include her first solo museum exhibition, Neon Speed, at the Textil und Rennsport

Museum, Hohenstein-Ernstthal, Germany and Pieced+Painted, a two-person exhibition

with Galen Cheney at the Haggerty Gallery, University of Dallas. Upcoming exhibitions

include a collaborative installation at the Akron Art Museum with Natalie Lanese, solo

exhibition at Galerie C.O.A. in Montreal and a solo exhibition at the Springfield

Museum of Art in 204.

She has participated in residencies at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, MI, A Studio in the

Woods, a program of Tulane University in New Orleans, Fortress Man Textile

Symposium in Daugavpils, Latvia, the Textile Art Center in New York City, the Studios

at MassMoCA and in 2018 traveled to Dresden, Germany for two months as part of the

Greater Columbus Arts Council artist exchange program. Recent publications include

TimeOut Chicago, the Boston Globe, New American Paintings, the Columbus

Dispatch, and Cut Me Up Magazine issue 5.

Andrea was one of five 2011 Efroymson Fellowship recipients and has also been

awarded artist’s grants from the City of Chicago, the Ohio Arts Council and the Greater

Columbus Arts Council. She has works in the collections of the Columbus Metropolitan

Library, Omaha Children’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, Chase Bank, Capital

One, Dayton Metro Libraries and Facebook Corporate Offices in Chicago.

She is represented by Hammond Harkins Galleries in Columbus, OH, Galerie C.O.A. in

Montreal, GUT Gallery in Dallas, TX, K Imperial Fine Art in San Francisco, McCormick

Gallery in Chicago, IL and Galerie Klaus Braun in Stuttgart, Germany. Andrea works

and lives in Columbus, OH.