Andrew Mezvinsky

Andrew Mezvinsky



About The Artist


Andrew Margolies Mezvinsky was born in 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is currently based in Vienna, Austria. He uses a large variety of different techniques such as india ink, graphite, oil, pastel, collages and indian dyeing technique and introduces mixed media into his sculptural drawings, paintings and videos. He approaches each piece as a painting but not letting medium or form dictate the final result. His work has been shown internationally from Russia to India, Slovenia, Great Britain, Austria, Mongolia and the U.S.A. In 2005 he was represented in a side event at the Biennale di Venezia as a part of the Art group RGB (Slovenia). In 2007 he contributed a fabrication installation for a satellite fair of the Art Basel in Switzerland. Under his direction, in October 2011, Il Fazzoletto“ a contemporary divertimento/operetta, celebrated its premiere at the Institute of Fine Arts in San Francisco. In 2014 his touring solo show “ A Good Day” debuted at the Jewish Museum Vienna . His art is part of many private and museums' collections such as The Hirshhorn Collection in Washington DC, the Brot Kunsthalle in Vienna, Zanabazar Museum in Mongolia and the Jüdisches Museum Vienna as well as the collections of Jim Lambie (UK), Jane Holzer, (USA) Ernst Hilger(Austria), Albert Baker Knoll(USA), Franz West (Austria) and Bernhard and Elizabeth Hainz(Austria). He has been featured in several publications such as The Harvard Advocate, Eco Magazine Vienna, Falter, Parnass Magazine and also produced the books “a Good day” , “Nabucco's Hubris”, and “the adventures of Trauma”. www.andrewmezvinsky.com Solo-shows 2015 Crude Randomness of the Mind, SITE109, NYC, USA Lessing/ A Good Day, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, USA the crude randomness of the mind, O.T. Max Lust, Vienna, Austria 2013 A Good Day, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria 2011 A Moveable Feast, PS Art Space, Vienna, Austria Il Fazzoletto, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco,USA 2009 All roads lead to ..., Rafael Gallery, Delhi, India 2008 Socialism Now* here,, ROG Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia Mister Manic, Raafael Gallery, Delhi , India 2007 Traumatic Ice Cream Dreams, Fridge Gallery, Glasgow, UK Painterly Visions, curated by Annie Gatwick, G Fine Art, Washington DC, USA 2006 Struggletown, Blue Sun Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Bad Grammar, Zanabaazar Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2005 Trauma, Trauma, Trauma, Izola Library, Slovenia Unknown Propaganda, curated by Vasja Nagy, City Counsel of Koper, Slovenia Landscapes for Paradise, Maison Gallery, Mont Clair, USA 2004 Fish tank of Trauma, Dom Dva Topola, Izola Slovenia Gimp of the Jellyfish, Arthouse Hotel, Glasgow, UK Group-shows 2016 * “Double decker Dada Theatre”, Vienna, Austria 2015 “The University. A Battleground”,Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria LOCOMOT, Einsbeuro, Vienna, Austria Book Opening, Hilger NEXT Gallerie, Vienna Austria 3 min to Midnight, Off space -Vienna, Austria Findin Frida, NSU ART MUSEUM, Fort Lauderdale,USA Klagenfurt Museum, Austria 2014 Parallel Art Fair, Project 4 space, Vienna, Austria SLEDI / SPUREN, 12-13 Gallery, Touring Europe MOYA Annuale 2014, Museum of Young Artist, Vienna, Austria zur Erinnerung an Bernsteiner West, Schloss Galerie Herzogburg, ST. Veit, Austria 2013 ViennaFair, Hilger Solo booth Zone 1, Vienna, Austria Tribute to Franz West, Gallerie Konzett, Vienna, Austria Dal Telescopio al Mondo, Lequartto Pareti, Napoli, Italy 2012 ViennaFair , Vienna, Austria Emerge Art Fair, Hilger Brot Kunstahalle, Washington Dc, USA ENDLICH IM KLIMT JAHR, NishnijI Nowgorod , Russia Affordable Art Fair North, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK Young Masters Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK Tell me..., Operngasse 4, Vienna, Austria Sound and the Fury, Hubert Winter Gallery, Vienna, Austria Pulse New York, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Things We Like, Toomey – Tourell Gallery, San Francisco,USA H.O.M.E.D.E.P.O.T, Vienna, Austria Food Art and Science 1° edition 2010, I Leone, Vienna Austria 2011 Pulse Art Fair Maimi Art Basel, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria Aqua Art Fair Miami Art Basel, Toomey – Tourell Gallery, San Francisco,USA Emerge Art Fair DC, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle , Vienna, Austria North by Northwest, Magazin , Vienna, Austria 2010 Aquarell Happening Tux, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria 2009 Art Happens, curated by Asher Barker, Project Shift Gallery, Philadelphia, USA 2008 Bridge Art Fair Berlin, curated by Amalie Merson, Vagabond Gallery, New York City, USA Basel Art Fair, curated by Barbara Laux, Zooloose Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland Red Dot Art Fair, curated by Amalie Merson, Vagabond Gallery, New York City, USA Holli Exhibition, curated by Himanshu Verma, Rafaael Gallery, Delhi, India 2007 Aquarell Happening, curated by Olivia Gunther, Mehlerhaus, Tux, Austria Kunstmarkt, curated by Olivia Gunther, Fridge Gallery-Art Basel, Switzerland 2005 Future Trip...Sketch box.04, curated by Art Group Morion, Lido, Italy Light Drawing for All, curated by Art Group Morion, Mars Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia Piran Extempore, Piran, Slovenia Aquarell Happening, curated by Olivia Gunther, Mehlerhaus, Tux, Austria Sketchbox.03, curated by RGB group, Gallery Zapoor, Koper, Slovenia Contemporary visions, curated by Mladen Bosanac, Contra Gallery, Koper, Slovenia 2004 Slovenska visions, curated by Simon Svetlik, Hotiza city counsel, Slovenia Terra Nova, curated by Ruth Hedges, Macintosh Gallery, Glasgow, UK Scottish Society of Artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK