Education

2014

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, MFA Fine Arts

2007

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, BA Art History, cum laude

Selected Solo & 2-Person Exhibitions

2018

Pockets for Losers, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY (with Borna Sammak)

2017

Morning People, Holiday Forever, Jackson, WY (with Ben Dowell)

Reduced Guilt, Miami Practicas Contemporaneas, Bogotá, Colombia

2016

UNPAINTED Media Fair Lab 3.0, Munich, Germany

Material Art Fair with East Hampton Shed, Mexico City, Mexico (with Theodore Darst)

2015

Spiritual Awakening Tailgate Party, High Tide, Philadelphia, PA

Life’s a Beach!!!, Hotel-Art.us, New York, NY

lifecreep, Papa John’s Projects, Facebook

happiness is overrated lol jk, 5 Sutton Street, Brooklyn, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021

Sunny Side Up, Sunny NY, New York, NY

2020

Might Delete Later, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

Factory Recall, Liberal Arts Roxbury, Roxbury, NY

2019

Figure Fantasy, Kinfolk, Brooklyn, NY

Scarecrow Show, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY

Housewarming, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY

A Broken Frame, Petra Bibeau, Oakland, CA

Clear Objects, Like Lalique, Ventanas Techo, Mexico City, Mexico

2018

The Generation of Choice, Gern en Regalia, Ridgewood, NY 

MOONDOG, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY

Fire in the Mountains Festival, Grand Teton National Park, WY

Smooth Muscle, The Whitehaüs, Oakland, CA

NY Roses, Crystal Flowers, New York, NY

The Clarkory Show, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Home Edition, Essex Flowers, NY

Palm Artists, ArtLacuna, London, UK

Always First Demolition, Dispersed Holdings, New York, NY

2017

Crystal Flowers: LA Rose, Index, Los Angeles, CA

Mood, Yes Ma’am Projects, Denver, CO

The Fridge Show, Grand Opening Gallery, Denver, CO

SPRING/BREAK Art show with Jonald Dudd, New York, NY

Post-Election, September Gallery, Hudson, NY

2016

Television, 99cent Plus, Brooklyn, NY

Summer Fling: The Barn Show, Johannes Vogt, East Hampton, NY

Networked Souls, Alter Space, San Francisco, CA

Hope Chest, Imersten, Vienna, Austria

Curiosities, 17 Essex, New York, NY

Low-Grade Euphoria, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY

Ryobi Room 6, 120 Grattan Street, Brooklyn, NY

Material Pressure, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY

2015

Befana’s Secret Booty, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY

White Rock, New Release, New York, NY

Inside Joke, Formerly Gallery, Ridgewood, NY

Sight, Site, Cite, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Bounce Castle, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY

Mingled Bodies, Vanity Projects, New York, NY

Plus One, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Colors, Louis B. James, New York, NY

New Release, New Release, New York, NY

Gezellig, Achter de Boom, New York, NY

Nonprojections for New Lovers, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Ice Storm, The Willows, Brooklyn, NY

Material Art Fair with Beverly’s, Mexico City, Mexico

2014

Bye, Felicia, BHQFU, New York, NY

The Night of the Lost Art, Akranes Museum Center, Akranes, Iceland

Urban View, Periscope, Salzburg, Austria

Between Two Thoughts, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY 

Homefront, Visual Arts Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY 

Beaver, The Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY

2013

Balloon Ball, Beverly’s, New York, NY 

Body Dirt, The Refrigerator, Richmond, VA

Antithesis, Active Space, Brooklyn, NY

NOW, FUSE Art Infrastructure, Allentown, PA

Conversation Drivers, Tracx Gallery Space, New York, NY

2012

Dark City, The Refrigerator, Richmond, VA

2011

Other Possible Titles, Grizzly Grizzly Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Film Festivals/Screenings

2016

Temporary Highs, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR

Temporary Highs, Ditch Projects, Springfield, OR

Nitehawk Shorts Festival: Art Seen, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

Temporary Highs, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Passion/Compassion, Slag Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Video Art Program, Tulsa Overground Film Festival, Tulsa, OK

2015

Arcadia, Bruce High Quality Foundation Studios, Brooklyn, NY

Tutorial, El Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá, Colombia

The Situation Room, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, CA

Night of art and Art, The Commune at 1605, Washington, DC

2014

Nitehawk Shorts Festival, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY

Fun For Summer, CoWorker Projects, New York, NY

Quarterly Arts Soiree, Webster Hall, New York, NY

2013

New Years Eve, Beverly’s Project Space, New York, NY

Video Art Program, Select Fair, Miami, FL

Transmediation, CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY

Transmediation, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Artist Film Club, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY


Fellowships/Residency Programs

2018

The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY

2014

Arteles Creative Residency Program, Finland

Awards

2014

The Paula Rhodes Memorial Award

SVA Alumni Scholarship Award

2013

School of Visual Arts MFA Fine Arts Award

Publications As Author

2017

“Special Panties”, Small Claims Vol. 1, June

"Ah Yes Bad Things", New York: Soft City Printing, 2017, Artist book

2016

“Good Night Day Care”, Black Cat Journal, December 20

"Big Decisions", Bonefold Compiles, Issue 1

2015

“0 favs, 0 RTs”, Packet Biweekly, Issue #061

“OK Cupid”, Alt/Process Magazine, Issue 1

“God, I Don’t Even Know Your Name”, New York: Badlands Unlimited, 2015, Print and Ebook

Bibliography

2019

“Speed of Resin”, Dispersed Holdings, September 2019, book

“Her anonymous hotel hookup: A Salon After Dark read”, Salon Magazine, March 23

C. C. Camuglia, “Peach Picks: Three Things to Read This Week”, The Public, March 14

2018

Mufson, Beckett, “Here Are the Artists that Made The Museum of Pizza More Than a Selfie Stop”, Vice,October 16

Schroeder, Nick, “Why Not Make Things?: The brilliant New England Art Book Fair converges this weekend at SPACE”, The Portland Phoenix, October 4

2017

Artspace Editors, “8 Artists to Watch in September”, Artspace, September 9

Jones, Isa, “Summer brings six can’t miss shows to valley”, Jackson Hole News and Guide, May 31

Smallwood, Christine, “Pleasure and the Text”, BookForum, June/July/August

Carney, Sean J Patrick, "Andrea McGinty Logs On And Finds Bad Things", Humor and the Abject, May 10

2016

“My Top 5 Internet Obsessions: Andrea McGinty”, New Hive, July 18

Reber, Nicole, “Andrea McGinty: A Studio Visit by Nicole Reber”, Packet Biweekly, Issue #074, March 11

Petrarca, Emilia, “Who Won Armory Week on Instagram?”, W Magazine, March 6

Creahan, D., “AO On-Site - New York: SPRING/BREAK Art Show in the Skylight at Moynihan

Station, March 1st - 7th, 2016”, Art Observed, March 5

Jordan, Eliza, “SPRING/BREAK’s Fifth Installment The Coolest Show This Week”, Whitewall, March 3

Durón, Maximilíano, “ A Tour of the SPRING/BREAK Art Fair”, ArtNews, March 3

Lynch, Scott, “Spring/Break Kicks Off Armory Arts Week”, Gothamist, March 2

Messinger, Kate, “Beyond the Main Fair: 9 Things to See This Armory Arts Week”, Paper Mag, March 1

Van Houten Maldonado, Devon, “Itinerant and Off-the-Map Galleries Find a Place in MexicoCity’s Material Art Fair”, Hyperallergic, February 5

“Material Art Fair and Zona Maco, Mexico City”, SFAQ, February 3

“Museo Jumex Curator José Esparza Chong Cuy's Material Art Fair 2016 Picks”, ArtSpace, February 3

2015

Palmer, Lauren, "20 Emerging Female Artists to Keep on Your Radar", ArtNet, December 9

Messinger, Kate, “6 Contemporary Female Sculptors to Know”, Man Repeller, November 12

Indrisek, Scott, "5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York: Sarah Sze, Julia Bland, and More", Blouin ArtInfo, October 9

Farley, Michael Anthony, “Is Site Specificity Relevant to a Generation of Nomads? Not Really.”, Art F City,August 28

Messinger, Kate, “12 Art Shows to See in NYC This Month”, Paper Magazine, August 3

Laster, Paul, “8 Things to Do in New York’s Art World Before August 7”, The Observer, August 3

Indrisek, Scott, “Parting Shot”, Modern Painters, July/August, Vol. 27, No. 7

Messinger, Kate, “Can’t Hardly Wait for Summer”, Paper Magazine, June 26

Gross, Jessica, “Finding a Haven for Taboo Fantasies in Erotica”, Hyperallergic, May 7

Berardini, Andrew, “Art About Fucking”, Mousse Magazine, Issue 48, April 15

Indrisek, Scott, “S**t My Cats Read: A Feline Conversation With Andrea McGinty”, Blouin ArtInfo, March 30

Pollack, Barbara, “Talking With Guggenheim Artist Paul Chan About Fame, Failure, Politics”, New York Observer, March 23

Diamond Hamer, Katy, “New Lovers of Paul Chan”, W Magazine, March 11“Andrea McGinty”, We Find Wildness, March 10

Krasinski, Jennifer, “New Lovers: An Interview with Paul Chan”, The Paris Review, March 10"9 Art Events to Attend In New York City This Week", ArtNews, March 9

Duray, Dan, "The Art of Cunning", ArtNews, March 6

Cotter, Holland, “Every Installation Needs a Shoe”, The New York Times, February 28

Haramis, Nicholas, “Smutty Books for Smart People”, T Magazine, February 24

2014

“Short Fest Midnite Q&A: ‘McDreamy’ Director Andrea McGinty”, Hatched, November 21

2013

“Antithesis Group Show at The Active Space”, NY Arts Magazine, October 21McClure, Kelly, “Andrea McGinty at SVA Open Studios”, Bust Magazine, April 27

Reading/Talks/Teaching

2018

Artist Talk, Lighthouse Works, Fishers Island, NY

2017

Reading, Small Claims poetry series, June, Ridgewood, NY

Reading and book launch with Soft City Press, Printed Matter, New York, NY

Artist Talk, Miami Practicas Contemporaneas, Bogotá, Colombia

Reading, Outlet Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2016

Reading, Sunview Luncheonette, Brooklyn, NY

2015

Reading and book launch with Badlands Unlimited, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY

2014

Co-Teacher, Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, Salzburg, Austria

Curatorial Projects

2016

Material Pressure, Spring Break Art Show, New York, NY

2015

Pure Potentiality, Achter de Boom, New York, NY

The Future is Whatever, Nitehawk Cinemas, Brooklyn, NY

Humor and the Abject, BHQFU, New York NY

2013

Time Base, Nitehawk Cinema, Brooklyn, NY


Andrea McGinty was born 1985 in Sunrise, FL / lives and works in Hamden, NY.