Andrea Zittel

Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University, and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of Design. In the early 1990s she founded A-Z Administrative Services, which sells prototypes and designs that help individuals organize their domestic spaces. She has had recent solo exhibitions and installations at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; Gallery Side 2, Tokyo; Boise Art Museum, Idaho; Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore; and International Print Center, New York.

 Zittel's work transforms everything necessary for everyday life into artful experiments in living.
Wearing a single outfit every day for an entire season, and constantly remodeling her home to suit changing demands and interests, Zittel continually reinvents her relationship to her domestic and social environment.
Seeking to attain a sense of freedom through structure, Zittel is more interested in revealing the human need for order than in prescribing a single unifying design principle or style.

Altering and examining aspects of life that are for the most part taken for granted, Zittel’s hand-crafted solutions respond to the day-to-day rhythms of the body and the creative need of people to match their surroundings to the changing appearance of life.