# Andrea Ackerman

Andrea Ackerman is an American artist, theorist and writer best known for her New Media artworks. She lives and works in New York.

## Biography

At Yale, Ackerman studied physics and biophysics; afterward, she graduated from Harvard Medical School and practiced as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. She has used digital technology since the mid-1990s in order to fabricate her work, which dabbles in the realms concerning technology, nature, aesthetics, and ethics. She imbues objects with qualities not ordinarily occurring in nature, and in doing so fabricates a “synthetic” nature. Specific aspects of 2D and 3D still and animation software are applied in subtle ways like using effects meant for fluids on rose petals or skin. Ackerman believes finding meaningful ways to use these effects is essential to the evocation of a seamless transformation - digital to human.
Ackerman has taught 3D computer modeling (Maya) at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, was a co-director of ISEA2011, and is an editor of Leonardo Electronic Almanac, most recently, the associate editor of Uncontainable, the exhibition catalog of electronic art exhibited at ISEA2011, Istanbul. Ackerman lives in New York, New York with her husband and two children.

## Exhibitions

| Title | Venue | Location | Date |
| Art Learning Lab: Koret Gallery | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | August 12, 2024 - June 1, 2025 |
| Extended Senses & Embodying Technology 2022 | Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich | London, UK | September 8, 2022 - September 10, 2022 |
| Almost Human: Digital Art from the Permanent Collection | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | September 22, 2019 - September 27, 2020 |
| Your Mind this Moment: Art and the Practice of Attention | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | February 17, 2017 - August 27, 2017 |
| Momentum: An Experiment in the Unexpected | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | October 2, 2014 - February 22, 2015 |
| Vital Signs: New Media Art from the San Jose Museum of Art | Wichita Art Museum | Wichita, KS | September 14, 2013 - January 19, 2014 |
| Vital Signs | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | June 12, 2010 -February 6, 2011 |
| Polymer | Hunter Museum of American Art | Chattanooga, TN | March 26, 2009 |
| NABLAB Volume 1 | NAB Gallery | Chicago, IL | November 17, 2006- December 8, 2006 |
| Instant Gratification | Like the Spice Gallery | Brooklyn, NY | January 12, 2007- February 17, 2007 |
| Rose Breathing | Live Box Gallery | Chicago, IL | April 23–27, 2006 |
| Poesia in Forma di Rosa | La Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone | Italy | November 4, 2005 |
| Brides of Frankenstein | San Jose Museum of Art | San Jose, CA | July 30, 2005 – October 30, 2005 |
| Second Nature | Fish Tank Gallery | Brooklyn, NY | June 18, 2004- July 19, 2004 |
| Allure Electronica | Wood Street Galleries | Pittsburgh, PA | January 23, 2004- March 6, 2004 |
| Cartoombria 2003 | Center for Contemporary Art Trebisonda | Perugia, Italy | Dec. 3-Dec 7, 2003 |
| New Lawn: Contemporary Nature in a Subdivision World | Jack the Pelican Presents | Brooklyn, NY | July 2, 2003- Aug 3, 2003 |
| Calculus of Transfiguration | Williamsburg Art and Historical Center | Brooklyn, NY | October 10, 1998 - November 15, 1998 |
| Group Show | Name Brand Damages | Brooklyn, NY | 1993 |

## Selected collections

* San Jose Museum of Art