Cortney Andrews

b. 1983, Kansas
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

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 EXHIBITIONS

2012-Forthcoming

• In Wonderland Today: Cortney Andrews, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011

• Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
• Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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
• Arrival/Departure, curated by Maria Elena Buszek and Jonah Criswell, Urban Culture Project's La Esquina, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, MO

2009

• Summer Sexy, online exhibition, Schroeder Romero and Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY
• ArtWall, commissioned billboard image by Art in the Loop Foundation, Kansas City, MO
• Hysteria: Past Yet Present, Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ
• Group Show No. 28, online, curated by Jon Feinstein, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, NY
• Free Will, curated by Jared Panick, Paragraph Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2008

• New York/New England/New Talent, UMASS, Amherst, MA
• Is Pain Your Pleasure?, film screening as part of Supermasochist, Apexart, New York, NY
• Gangbusters, Plane Space, New York, NY

2007

• Phantom Limb, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY
• Rhode Island School of Design MFA Thesis Exhibition, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
• Yes (to everything), Winkleman Gallery, New York, NY

2006

• The Clouded Eye, curated by Andrea Flamini, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO

2005

• The Fall, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
• Without Interruption, The Lynn Foundation, Kansas City, MO

2004

• Cortney Andrews and Kelli Connell, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
• Flatfile Portfolio Exhibition, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

RESIDENCIES/LECTURES

2010

• Emporia State University, Guest Artist Lecturer, Emporia, KS
• Kansas City Art Institute, Visiting Artist and Panel Discussion, Kansas City, MO

2009

• Rutgers University, Paul Robeson Galleries, Artist Talk, Newark, NJ
• Camac Artist Residency, Marnay-sur-Seine, France

2008

• Artist Residency Grant, Hopkins Foundation and The Alliance of Artists Communities

AWARDS

2005

• Graduate Fellowship, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011-Forthcoming

• 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.

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

• Alice Thorson, "Cortney Andrews' 'Eros and Thanatos' graces Loop ARTwall," Kansas City Star, March 7, 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

WRITING

• BITCH Magazine, Film and Art Reviews, Portland, OR