Born Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Lives and works in London
EDUCATION
2014 Level 3 Award in Education & Training, Citi Lit, London
2007 – 2009 MFA School of Fine Arts, History of Art & Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
2004 – 2007 BFA Studio Art, City University of New York
1987 – 1989 Apprenticeship Certificate Photography, Bavarian Academy of Photography, Munich
TEACHING
2025 Lecturer Creative Media & Technology, Lewisham College, London
2024 Creative Arts Lecturer, Graphic Design & Photography, Southbank Technical College, London
2022 – 2025 Lecturer Media Design (Photography, Video, Animation), International University of Applied Science
2018 – 2022 Lecturer Studio Art, Oxbridge Academic Programs @ Ruskin College, Oxford
2008 – 2010 Lecturer Digital Photojournalism, Oxbridge Academic Programs, Cambridge & Oxford
PHOTOGRAPHY
1994 – present Photographer for The New Yorker, Time, Fortune, Zeit, Spiegel, Stern, Geo, Brigitte, BA highlife, Hamburg, New York, London www.andreaartz.com
AWARDS GRANTS FELLOWSHIPS
2024 Longlist Format Festival 2025
2024 Shortlisted for Artists Meet Archives 2024 International Photoszene Koeln
2023 Shortlisted for VR Art Prize awarded by DKB in cooperation with the CAA Berlin
2022 Time – Space – Money Bursary The Artists Information Company and Arts Council England
2020 Grain Projects Commission Award to develop a body of work in response to Covid 19
2020 Arts Council England Lottery Funding for the VR project Ghost Weight Experience
2018 Fellowship Award MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, USA
2018 Arts Council England: Developing Your Creative Practice for the VR Project Ghost Weight
2017 Solo exhibition Farewells funded by ECCE (European Centre for Creative Economies)
2017 Shortlisted for Contemporary Visions 8, Beers London
2017 Shortlisted for Columbia Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize
2016 Selected for East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2013 Selected for Creekside Open, A.P.T Gallery, London
2011 Selected for Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2005 Diego Hidalgo Fellowship for the Arts, New York
2005 Smith Fellowship, New York, Studio Residency Beaver Street, New York
2004 Connor Award, City University of New York
2002 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition, Bronze
2002 Fuji Euro Press Awards, Merit Award Travel, Barcelona
2001 Marianne Brandt Competition, Merit Award, Chemnitz, Germany
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Passages, Project Divfuse, London
2022 Rise of the Tidal Island Queens, Online exhibition
2021 Distant Peregrinations, Neuland Projekt Raum, Bochum, Germany
2021 Ghost Weight Experience, Coleman Project Space, London
2019/2020 Forest of Query, Foyer Gallery, School of Design, University of Leeds
2018 Ghost Weight, Crol & Co, London
2017 Farewells, Rottstr5 Kunsthallen, Bochum, Germany
2014 City of Dreams, Bäckerei Innsbruck, Austria (with Almut Maria Moelk)
2013 Dickens Locations, Charles Dickens Museum, London
2010 Passengers, First Class Lounge, London Euston, London
2003 Propaganda? Cafe de Engelbewaarder, Amsterdam
1993 Metropoliten, GlassGo Gallerie, Hamburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 International Original Print Exhibition, Royal Society of Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
2025 Awagami International Miniprint Exhibition AIMPE’25, Inbe Art Space, Yoshinogawa City, Tokushima, Japan
2025 In Praise of Darkness, Unit 2, St Leonards on Sea
2025 Bainbridge Open, Handbag Factory, London
2025 On the Edge of the Horizon, curated by Diane Dubry and Tina Sauerlaender
2024 Rise of the Tidal Island/ Ice Queens, ISEA2024
2024 Rise of the Ice Queens, im konsthall, Moskosel, Sweden.
2024 IMC24 Juried International Mokuhanga Exhibition, Echizen, Japan 2024
2023 Postcards for Palestine, Clair de Rouen, London
2021 Southwark Park Galleries Open, London
2021 Tree of Life, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
2021 FORMAT Festival, Covid-19 Responses, Derby
2019 Folds, Lewisham Art Space, London
2019 Object-ivity, Offshoot Art Space, London
2018 The GHost Tide, Thames-Side Gallery, London
2018 No Man’s Land, Solaris Print, St Leonards on Sea
2017 Sea Road, Electro Studios Project Space, St Leonards on Sea
2017 Pick It Up, Horizonte Zingst Fotofestival, Zingst
2016 East Sussex Open, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2015 DisRuptive at I’Klectik, IKlectik Art Lab, London
2015 Anti Gallery Show, Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London
2014 Spur der Steine, Druckwerkstatt Kulturwerk BBK, Berlin
2014 Family Chronicles, Textil Werk Bocholt, Bocholt, Germany
2013 Creekside Open, A.P.T. Gallery, Deptford, London
2012 12-12-12, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2011 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2011 Re-Sketching Boz, Dickens Museum London
2011 Peckham Open, Peckham Space, London
2010 The Summer Exhibition SE1, Vitrine Gallery, London
2010 Silent City, Part One, The Rag Factory, London
2010 Between Expression and Action, Red Eric Studios, Leeds
2009 Sheffield Artist Book Prize, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
2009 Final Days, Temple Works, Leeds
2009 Open Art Show, Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds
2009 MA(FA) MFA Degree Show, University of Leeds
2008 Figurative Art Prize, Boundary Gallery, London
2005 Spice, ABC No Rio Gallery, New York
2004 The New Tastemakers, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2001 Here is New York, New York, Zurich, Berlin
2000 Marianne Brandt Competition, Galerie Rosenkranz, Chemnitz, Germany
1997 Visage de Hambourg, Palais des Arts Marseille &
1995 Be4light, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany
1995 Cherchez la Femme, Kunsthaus Hamburg
1994 Menschenbilder, Kampnagelfabrik Hamburg
1993 Made in Hamburg 2, Kunsthaus Hamburg
RESIDENCIES
2024 iM Konsthall, Northern Sustainable Futures, Lapland, Sweden
2022 Virtual Residency Mozilla Hubs, Agora Digital Art
2020 Yucca Valley Material Lab, Joshua Tree, California/ USA
2018 Fall/ Winter Residency Mac Dowell Colony for the Arts, Peterborough, NH/USA
2010 Residency Druckwerkstatt, Kulturwerk, Berlin
2009 Vijnana Kalavdei Cultural Centre, Aranmula, India
2005 Residency Centre d’Art i Natura, Farrera, Spain
COMMISSIONS
2023 Papercuts for Sylvia Pankhurst: Artist, Writer, Fighter by Joan Ashworth
2020 Grain Projects Commission Award to develop a body of work in response to COVID-19
ART FAIRS etc
2025 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London
2025 Illustratorsfair, Granary Square, London
2025 YES!ART, Big Penny Social, London
2025 Camberwell Arts Festival, Open Studios, London
2025 100th Baren Print Exchange, Mokuhanga in Traditional Pillar (Hashira-e) format
ARTIST TALKS/ CONFERENCES
2024 ISEA Everywhen, Styly platform (International Symposium on Electronic Arts), Brisbane, Australia
CURATED PROJECTS
2011 Re-Sketching Boz, Dickens Museum London (with Livia Garcia, Claudia Artz, Julie Fiala, Andrea G Artz)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Shifted #16 On Andrea G Artz’s ‘Albertina the Snow Woman’ and the Aesthetics of Postnatural Grief (Diane Dubray)
2023 Radiance VR Rise of The Tidal Island Queens
2022 Radiance VR, Ghost Weight Experience, 2021
2021 Ghost Weight Experience FAD Magazine, Paul Carey Kent
2021 Ghost Weight Experience Press Release, Coleman Project Space (Rebecca Geldard)
2021 Article about Pandemia to Pandemia by systemic psychotherapist Liz Day
2018 Ghost Weight by Ignacio Diaz Vazquez
2017 Exhibition Catalogue Farewells, published by Maiden Publishing
2017 Farewells exhibition Rottstr5 Kunsthallen Bochu,m Germany, article WAZ
2017 Nid (New in Germany) http://nid-zeitung.de/farewells-rottstr5-kunsthallen
2016 Acme Open Studios 2016, article by Ignacio Diaz Vazquez
2015 Hastings Online Times ‘A Photographic Sense of Place’
2002 Here is New York, a democracy of photographs, Books, Scalo
2001 The Poetry of the Functional, catalogue, Marianne Brandt Competition
2000 Fiction Issue, The New Yorker, June 19/26, 2000
1997 Nachtarbeiter, Visage de Hambourg, catalogue, Palais des Arts, Marseille
1996 Nachtarbeiter, Artgenda Copenhagen, Denmark
1996 Metropoliten, Weiter so, art magazine Hamburg
1996 Metropoliten, Szene Hamburg, 4/1996, p 90
1995 Cherchez la femme, catalogue, Kunsthaus Hamburg
1993 Made in Hamburg 2, catalogue, Kunsthaus Hamburg
COLLECTIONS
The Museum of London
MFAH The Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Charles Dickens Museum, London
Bank Street Arts, Sheffield
Museum for Kunst & Gewerbe, Hamburg
Textil Werk, Bocholt
Private collections