[Bio]:
Andréa DeFelice is a visual artist living and working between New York City and artist residencies. Her work uses various media, usually putting objects, images, and sound into motion, creating illusions and blending analog with digital. Works are conceptual and aim to turn the notion of observation inside out. Also to reconsider what we think we know. DeFelice is a Professor of Media Studies and Art & Technology at two New York City colleges. She’s a lives in NYC with her bird.
Exhibition venues include The Painting Center, The Austrian Cultural Forum, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center. Works have been publically commissioned, or bought for private collections. International exhibitions and alternative spaces include Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art: Art As Gift, in Iași, Romania; The Lab for Electronic Arts & Performance in Berlin; The Contemporary Art Center in Greece, and Hafnarborg Museum in Iceland. Artist residencies include Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center (NYC), Hafnarborg: Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture & Fine Art in Iceland, Hungarian Multicultural Center in Budapest, and Event Horizon in Greece.
[Solo Shows & Performances]:
FRAID, TheBrownstoneArt, 129 Park Place Brooklyn, NY (January 22 – February 17 2023)
4Walls, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (one time event February 27, 2021)
Portal: Governor’s Island 2019, 4heads, Governor’s Island, (2019)
Blank Out, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2019)
Rauder Thradur (Red Thread), The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Badland, Porter Contemporary, New York, NY (2015)
New Works Exhibition at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY, (2012)
Please Adjust Accordingly, Klapper Hall Gallery at Queens College, NY (2008)
Emergenc/y, 2017: Artwork performance with live coding and responsive video installation. This artwork connects to Twitter. Data from Twitter is revealed or hidden by the workings of the video installation. This artwork premiered in my solo show “Blank Out” in 2017. It showed again in 2017 at DIY venue Pet Rescue (now closed) and at The Yard in Gowanus Brooklyn. Lastly it exhibited in 2018 in the group show RE:ACTION, Curated by Amanda Lee, at the Pfizer Building.
Downshock, 2011-2012: Artwork performance where I am exploding glass inside a custom-built structure in front of a live audience. There have been several iterations of Downshock. I performed the last one in 2012 at the event Winkel & Baltick Present: Laboratory. This took place in the Pfizer Building. There were 5000 attendees.
Untitled, 2011: Artwork performance with six life-size gypsum skulls, sledgehammer, costumes, and props. Developed out of a self-declared residency in White Sands Desert, New Mexico. The desert sand here is made of gypsum--essentially the same material as plaster. I sculpted six human skulls out of gypsum and smashed each one into the desert floor. This was a performance with no real audience. I experienced and documented it.
Untitled, 2009: Artwork performance with piano and knives. In 2008 I simultaneously learned piano and knife-throwing. In 2009 I acquired an upright piano and moved it to an empty warehouse in Orange, NJ. I planted microphones and cameras throughout the space and hosted a three-hour concert/performance of throwing 200 knives at the piano. There were roughly 50 attendees.
[Residencies & Other projects]:
Julienne Dolphin-Wilding: Event Horizon, Neapolis, Crete, Greece (2021)
New Works Residency at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, (2018-2019)
Hafnarborg - Hafnarfjördur Centre of Culture & Fine Art, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland, (2015)
New Works Residency at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, (2011 – 2012)
White Sands Desert & National Monument, Alamagordo, New Mexico (2011)
Hungarian Multicultural Center, Budapest, Hungary (2008 – 2009)
Engineering Residency with technologists at Specialized Tool Technology, Inc. (2010)
Screening of Emergenc/y at RE:ACTION, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY, (2018)
Screening of Hotspots at Rauder Thradur, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
Screening of Place With A Pulse at BADLAND, Porter Contemporary (now Porter Advisory), NYC (2015)
Screening of Hers in Glass Jars at Artconnect Berlin, Lab for Electronic Arts & Performance, Berlin, (2011)
Screenings of Subtitled, 17 Days Video Series, Digital Media & Animation Gallery (2010), CEPA Gallery, and Atrium Gallery, Kalamazoo, Michigan, (2009)
Artist Collaborative project: The Institute for Wishful Thinking, (International & US-based intervention and social practice projects ongoing since 2008) notable projects/shows include:
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Post-Fordist Variations created for this traveling exhibition curated/organized by Oliver Ressler & Gregory Sholette. Showed globally at multiple venues (2012-2016)
The IWT Artist in Residence for the U.S. Government (self-declared) at Momenta Art, NYC (2011)
Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art: Art as Gift, Iasi, Romania (2008). IWT granted wishes made by the underrepresented staff workers in the biennial. IWT granted them in various ways including handmade artworks, music, video, and physical labor. IWT delivered them to the staff in person in Iasi.
[Exhibitions (selected)]:
Ghost Shadows, Shockboxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (September 2023)
New Old World, DIGIANA Group show, Yashar Gallery in Greenpoint Brooklyn (2022)
Digital Arts Department Faculty Show, DDA Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2022)
The Streets, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (April 2022)
Vidiot Windows (online video art showcase) The Unstitute: Interactive Art Lab (2022-ongoing)
Place/Displace, Schafler Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2021-2022)
Digital Arts Department Faculty Show, DDA Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY (2021)
The Other Art Fair Virtual and In-person editions, Brooklyn Expo Center, Brooklyn, NY (2021)
Art for Environmental & Climate Justice, Virtual Exhibition on Artsy: Arts Gowanus (2021)
AWAKENED, curated by Yvena Despagne, Virtual Exhibition on Artsy: Arts Gowanus (2021)
Portal: Governor’s Island 2019, 4heads, Governor’s Island (2019)
Green: The Impossible Color, The Painting Center, New York (2019)
Harvestworks: Artworks & Experiences Exhibition, Governors Island (2018)
RE:ACTION, Curated by Amanda Lee, Pfizer Building, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
Digital Arts Faculty Show, Pratt DDA Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY (2018)
Order/Disorder, The Yard Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY (2018)
Group Show, 313 Butler Gallery, NYC (2017)
Digital Arts Faculty Show, Pratt DDA Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY (2017)
Cardinals & Drones, Barclays Think Rise, 43 W. 23rd Street, New York, NY, (2017 - 2018)
Wonderland, The Invisible Dog, Brooklyn, NY (2016)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! A traveling exhibition co-organized by Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette Reed Gallery, University of Cincinnati, OH (2016)
Chrysalis, Friday Studio Gallery, NYC (2016)
Wonderland, The Invisible Dog, NYC (2015)
The Institute for Wishful Thinking: In Residence, Harlem Biennale, New York, NY (2015)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! NeMe Arts Centre, Limassol, Cyprus (2014)
The Institute for Wishful Thinking: In Residence, The Harlem Arts Walking Tour, NYC (2014)
It's the Political Economy, Stupid. Galerija Nova, Zagreb, Croatia (2014)
ACT: Activism & Artist Collectives, Theater for the New City, NYC (2014)
9th Annual Small Works Show, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2013 – 2014)
Show #8, The Parlour Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY (2013 – 2014)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Gallery 400, Chicago, IL (2013 – 2013)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Paviljon Veljković, Belgrade, Serbia (2013)
New Works, Local Projects at 5 Pointz, Long Island City, NY (2013)
Alumni Show, SAC Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY, (2013)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Pori Art Museum, Finland (2013)
Queens Drawing Center, JCAL Gallery, Queens, NY (2012)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Contemporary Art Center, Thessaloniki, Greece (2012)
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid! Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC (2012)
TEXT, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (2011)
The IWT Artist in Residence for the U.S. Government (self-declared), Momenta Art, NYC (2011)
X12, Arts Incubator Gallery, Orange, NJ (2010)
Peripheral Field, Arts Incubator Gallery, Orange, NJ (2010)
Uncharted Territory, Oualie Art Gallery, Orange, NJ (2009)
Top Show, The Puffin Room, NYC (April 2009)
Retail Space Available, Gallery 151, NYC (2008)
Periferic 8 Biennial for Contemporary Art – Art as Gift, Iasi, Romania (2008)
Print Show, Tabler Gallery, Stony Brook University, NY (2005)