Andrea Bass Bio

My art practice is an unabashedly slanted view of contemporary life, feminism and femaleness, filtered through pop media, my prior corporate marketing career, and my inclination to look AT one thing and see another. I also try to be amusing, if possible.

Prior to engaging full-time in art, I was employed as a vp-level marketing executive at major corporations and startups for 20+ years. After amassing sufficient (funds and) life-experience to produce worthy content, I began thinking of myself as an artist in 2014, and I completed my MFA in Studio Art at The City College of New York in 2018. My solo thesis show "(Ms.) Understandings of Feminism" visually embraced hypocrisies, catastrophes, tropes, expectations, affectations, and clichés of having-it-all.

After graduation, I was accepted into the October 2018 L'Air FIAP Jean Monnet Paris Residency. In March 2019, my work was selected for the group show "La Femme du Futur" at Galerie Mémoire de l'Avenir in Paris. In the US, exhibition venues include Every Woman Biennial, The Invisible Dog Art Center, Local Project Art Space (Long Island City), Rockaway! /MOMA PS1, The New Britain Museum of Art, and Brooklyn Waterfront Artists’ Collective (BWAC). My art and writing have been published in The Offbeat (Michigan State University Press); Our Rhythm, Our Blues; and PonderSavant. My videos have been finalists/official selections at independent film festivals in NYC, Miami, London, and Aurora, Italy.

I live and work in New York City.