Cortney Andrews
b. 1983, Emporia, Kansas

EDUCATION
2014 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2005-2007 MFA, Department of Photography, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2001-2005 BFA, Department of Photography & New Media, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / PERFORMANCES
2022
Echoes, Marinaro, New York, NY - performance and solo exhibition
2020
I See You, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2018
I Have Repeated You, performance, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY - supported by a grant from the Franklin Furnace Fund
2017
Play It as It Lays, Gallery 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY - supported by a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts
2016
Curtain, Harbor / Regina Rex, New York, NY
2015
Positions, Cave, Detroit, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
Ghosts, group exhibition, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Outlines, performance, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2017
Timeshare: Reframed, IMAX theater screening curated by Cristin Tierney Gallery, Zaha Hadid Building (520 West 28th Street, NYC)
Two Positions, performance at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
Within Arm's Reach, part of the STREB Emerging Artists Fellowship Performance Program, STREB Lab for Action Mechanics, Brooklyn, NY
2016
Fixed/Flux, collaboration with Meghan Gordon, Seven Below Arts Initiative at Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT
Summer Anagram, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Cemeterium, presented by Regina Rex at Dorsch Gallery, Art Basel, Miami, Florida
Performances by Cortney Andrews and Jaeeun Lee, Regina Rex, Brooklyn, NY
Skowhegan Performs, performance at Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
2013
One, Two, Three..., curated by Robert Olsen, South of Sunset, Los Angeles, CA
Endless Summer, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY
Fits and Starts, screening, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Project Space: Cortney Andrews, Storefront Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY
2012
In Wonderland Today: Cortney Andrews, performance in conjunction with In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Selling Sex, SHOWstudio, London, UK
2011
Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2010
Wave Energies FeedBack: 30 Years of Electronic Media at Kansas City Art Institute, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute, curated by April M. Watson and Keith F. Davis, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS
2021
City Artist Corps Grant from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and The New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs (DCLA)
2017
Franklin Furnace Fund Grant for Performance Art, Brooklyn, NY
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY
GO! Emerging Artist Commissioning Program, STREB Lab for Action Mechanics, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2013
Yaddo, Performance Artist in Residence, Saratoga Springs, NY

PRESS / PUBLICATIONS
2020
"Cortney Andrews: I See You,” Brooklyn Rail, Helen Georgas.
"Sailing with Artists,” DRAWN, Issue #1, "The Infinite Sea", Interview with Cortney Andrews and Tonian Irving, founders of Offshore Residency.
2017
"Cortney Andrews: Gallery 106 Green,” ArtForum Critics' Picks, Zak Hatfield.
2013
“Storefront Bushwick: Art, Open to the Streets,” Brooklyn Magazine, The Culture Issue: Spring 2013, p. 42.
2012
Maria Elena Buszek, “Eros and Thanatos: Surrealism's Legacy in Contemporary Feminist Art,” in In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (catalogue), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
“Akt Now: Cortney Andrews,” Art das Kunstmagazin, online, art-magazin.de, December 2012.
Eric Russ, “The Work of Cortney Andrews,” Scrapped, Issue 1: Hit It, Summer 2012, p. 8-11.
2011
Anatole Ashraf, “Claustrophilia,” NY Arts Magazine, Spring 2011.
Holland Cotter, “Always the Young Strangers,” The New York Times, June 10, 2011: 82-99.
2010
Emilio Peña, “Cortney Andrews: Interior Architecture,” Devora Ran: Issue 5, December 2010: 82-99.
2009
Anonda Bell, “Cortney Andrews,” Hysteria: Past Yet Present (catalogue), (Newark: Paul Robeson Galleries, Rutgers University, 2009), 54-55.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO