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.

Education 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.

Career 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