An installation view of an exhibition titled Andra Ursuta: Void Fill at David Zwirner, Paris, in 2021.

(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.

From 2018 to 2019, a solo exhibition of the artist’s work, 

, was presented at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy. 

, 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: 

, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2022);

, 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); 

, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut (2017–2018); 15th Istanbul Biennial (2017); 

, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2016–2017); 13th Lyon Biennale (2015–2016); 

, The High Line, New York (2013–2014); 55th Venice Biennale (2013); 

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, 

, was on view at David Zwirner, Paris, in 2021. In 2022, she received a solo exhibition, 

, at David Zwirner, London. Ursuţa’s work was included in the group exhibition 

, held at the gallery’s West 20th Street location in New York in 2020, and in the group exhibition 

, 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; Rubell Museum, Miami; Tate, United Kingdom; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Ursuţa lives and works between London and New York.

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An installation view of the exhibition, Andra Ursuţa: Joy Revision, at David Zwirner in London, dated 2022.

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The Guardian, announcement by Nadia Khomami

‘Everywoman’ And Horse Sculptures Chosen For Display At London’s Fourth Plinth

The Evening Standard, article by Robert Dex

New Sculptures Unveiled For Trafalgar Square's Fourth Plinth

The New Yorker, review by Johanna Fateman

Otto Dix / Andra Ursuţa

The New York Times, review by Jason Farago

What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries

Artnet News, interview by Taylor Dafoe

Peer Inside the Otherworldly Studio of Andra Ursuţa, a Sculptor Who Transforms Horror-Movie Props Into Eerie Totems

frieze, review by Hettie Judah

Aggressive Masculinity and Radical Politics: How Extremism Has Emerged as the Teenage Rebellion of Choice

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View a selection of works by Andra Ursuta, whose work mines the darker undercurrents of society, drawing on memory, nostalgia, art history, and popular culture.

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Andra Ursuţa: Void Fill

Canopic Jerrycan

Canopic Demijohn

Yoga Don't Help

Terminal Figure

Predators 'R Us

Half-Drunk Mummy

Andra Ursuţa: Nobodies

Impersonal Growth / I Don't Feel at Home in the World Anymore

Succubustin' Loose

May You Live In Interesting Times

Divorce Dump

Andra Ursuţa: Vanilla Isis

Getting Dressed All at Once

Andra Ursuţa: Alps

Andra Ursuţa: Ο Νότος θα εγερθεί ξανα

Natural Deselection

Tomatopig

Andra Ursuţa: As I Lay Drying

Orthodoctrinator

Andra Ursuţa: Scytheseeing, Kölnischer

Crush

T, Vladimirescu Nr. 5 , Pantry

T, Vladimirescu Nr. 5 , Sleeping room

Installation view, Andra Ursuta: The Encyclopedic Palace, at the 55th Venice Biennale, dated 2013.

Andra Ursuţa: Magical Terrorism

Conversion Table

Commerce Exterieur Mondial Sentimental

Cartwoman

Andra Ursuţa: Vandal Lust

Andra Ursuţa: The Management of Barbarism

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Installation view, Andra Ursuta: Nobodies, at Ramiken Crucible in Brooklyn, dated 2019.

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Installation view of work titled Nobodies by Andra Ursuta, in the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, dated 2019.

Installation view of work titled Divorce Dump by Andra Ursuta, in the 58th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, dated 2019.

, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2018–2019

Alps New Museum, 2016

, Ramiken Crucible, New York, 2015. Photo by Dario Lasagni

Installation view, Andra Ursuta: Ο Νότος θα εγερθεί ξανα, at Ramiken Crucible in Brooklyn, dated 2015.

ICA Miami

, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, 2014. Photo by Ulrich Holz

Installation view of the exhibition Scytheseeing, by Andra Ursuta, at Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.

, 55 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2013. Photo by Uli Holz

Installation view: The Encyclopedic Palace

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