Andrea Carlson

Through a practice that combines lived experience with intergenerational oral history and storytelling, archival research, art and film history and theory, Andrea Carlson creates incisive works of resistance and sovereignty that disempower colonial histories and practices of erasure.

Carlson’s forthcoming exhibitions include at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (solo, 2024) and Scientia Sexualis, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (group, 2024–2025). Among her group exhibitions in 2023 were The Land Carries Our Ancestors, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; and the Chicago Architecture Biennale. Her recent public art commissions include You are on Potawatomi Land, Chicago Riverwalk (2021–2023), and RED EXIT, Whitney Museum of American Art with TF Cornerstone and High Line Art (2021). In 2020, Carlson cofounded the Center for Native Futures in Chicago.

Carlson has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships including Creative Capital (2024), United States Artist Visual Art Fellowship (2022), Chicago Artadia Award (2021), and Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant (2017). Her work is collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art, the British Museum, the National Gallery of Canada, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Institute of Art, among many other institutions.

Andrea Carlson (b. 1979) is a visual artist who maintains a studio practice in northern Minnesota and Chicago, Illinois. She received her BA in American Indian Studies and Studio Arts from the University of Minnesota (2003), and her MFA in Visual Arts from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2005).

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