Andra Ursuţa

Andra Ursuţa (b. 1979) was born in Salonta, Romania, a town on the Romanian-Hungarian border, and left for the United States in 1997. She moved to New York in 1999, and received a BA in art history and visual arts in 2002 from Columbia University, New York.

The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art will open a solo exhibition dedicated to Ursuţa on June 24, 2025, at their Slaughterhouse Project Space in Hydra, Greece. From 2018 to 2019, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work, Vanilla Isis, was presented at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. Alps, which was on view in 2016 at the New Museum, marked the artist’s first museum show in New York. Ursuţa’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at prominent venues internationally, including Kunsthalle Basel (2015); Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (2014–2015); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014); Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2014); and Peep-Hole Art Center, Milan (2014).

Ursuţa’s work has also been included in important group exhibitions worldwide, such as the 59th Venice Biennale (2022); ARS22: Living Encounters, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2022); Souffle de son souffle, Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, France (2021­–2022); 58th Venice Biennale (2019); The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC (2019); The Trick Brain, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2017–2018); 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017); High Anxiety: New Acquisitions, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016–2017); 13th Lyon Biennale (2015–2016); Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna (2015); Busted, The High Line, New York (2013–2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1, New York (2013); and Ostalgia, New Museum, New York (2011).

In 2024, a sculpture by Ursuța was selected to be installed as the Fourth Plinth Commission in London's Trafalgar Square. The sculpture will be on view from 2028 through 2030.

Ursuţa has been represented by David Zwirner since 2020, and her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Void Fill, was on view at David Zwirner, Paris, in 2021. In 2022, she received a solo exhibition, Joy Revision, at David Zwirner, London. Ursuţa’s work was included in the group exhibition 20/20, held at the gallery’s West 20th Street location in New York in 2020, and in the group exhibition Vessels, held at the gallery’s London location in 2022.

The artist’s work is held in public collections worldwide, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; Posten Moderne Kunstmuseum (PoMo), Trondheim, Norway; Rubell Museum, Miami; Tate, United Kingdom; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Ursuţa lives and works between London and New York.