Bio
Born in Hong Kong and raised there, Texas and rural England Andrew Printer is a British artist who has been living and working in southern California since 1991. Now based in Indianapolis he most recently lived and worked in Key West where he established Key West Contemporary Art.
Printer's videos have been screened widely at festivals in Europe, the US and on public television. His photographs have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, they are included in several private collections and are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Library of the University of Indiana, Bloomington. He is also the recipient of several grants and scholarships.
Printer obtained his M.F.A. at the University of California, Irvine. He has worked as an adjunct in photography and studio art at the Art Institute of California, San Diego and at the University of California, San Diego.
EDUCATION
2007-2010 University of California Irvine - Studio Art, Master of Fine Art
1987-1991 University of Stirling, Scotland- Film & Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (Hons)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 The Studios of Key West [Key West, USA] Changing Rooms (Key West) with students of Key West High School Gay Straight Alliance
2015 Lemonade Stand Gallery [Key West, USA]
2014 Space4Art [San Diego, USA], At the End of the Day
2012 San Diego Museum of Art [San Diego, USA] The Quilt Conversation
2009 Agitprop [San Diego, USA] Second Thoughts From Normal Heights
2007 Street Level Photoworks [Glasgow, SCT] Beyond the Surface
2006 Highways Performance Space & Gallery [Los Angeles, USA] Tomorrowland
4 Design Gallery [San Diego, USA] Changing Rooms
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2018 LA Art Show [Los Angeles, USA] Round Hole Square Peg 3
2016 Lemonade Stand Gallery [Key West, USA] Small Works Juried Show
2014 Lemonade Stand Gallery [Key West, USA] Small Works Juried Show
2013 Carnitas Gallery [Los Angeles, USA] LAisBurning
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library [La Jolla, USA] (Honorary Mention)
2012 The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library [La Jolla, USA] Juried Exhibition
There Goes the Neighborhood [San Diego, USA]
Space4Art [San Diego, USA] Oroborous, Session I of EXPLOSIVE TIME
Magnet [San Francisco, USA] Younger Than Jesus / Older Than AIDS
2011 Subtext [San Diego/USA] Naked (third prize)
Art San Diego/Contemporary Art Fair, Art Lab/Agitprop [San Diego, USA] Artist in Context II
The Athenaeum Music & Arts Library [La Jolla, USA] 20th Annual Juried Exhibition
2010 Mastodon Mesa [Los Angeles, USA] Private Investigation
Cal State Long Beach [Long Beach, USA] GLAMFA 2010
Next Wall Gallery [Houston, USA] Gift of Gift of, 2010
Kunsthalle LA Gallery [Los Angeles, USA] Perform! Now! 2
LAX ART [Los Angeles, USA] Nine Stories
Leslie Lohman [New York, USA] Second Great LGBT Photo Show
SOMArts Gallery, [San Francisco, USA] Chronotopia
UC Irvine, Room Gallery [Irvine, USA] MFA Exhibition
Darin Klein & Friends/Amy Adler Studio [Los Angeles, USA], Queer Pile-up!
Laguna Beach Art Museum [Laguna Beach, USA] OsScene 2010
2009 Tight Space [Santa Ana, USA] Welcome To The Neighborhood
UC Irvine, University Art Gallery [Irvine, USA] Betamax
Cal State Long Beach [Long Beach, USA] GLAMFA 2009
The Harwood Art Center [Albuquerque, USA] Crossing 2009
2nd City Council Art Gallery & Performance Space [Long Beach, USA]
75th Crocker-Kingsley: Northern California Biennial [Sacramento, USA]
2007 Advocate & Gochis Galleries [Los Angeles, USA] Androgyny
Peninsula Museum of Art [San Francisco, USA] Evidence of Things Unseen
2006 Dom Fotografie [Slovakia]
estudiotres [Chicago, USA] Beyond the Surface
Limbo Gallery [San Diego, USA] Beyond the Surface
San Diego Art Institute [San Diego, USA] Southern California Regional Exhibition
2005 San Diego Art Institute [San Diego, USA] Juried Exhibition
2004 San Diego Art Institute [San Diego, USA] Juror’s Choice
San Diego Art Institute [San Diego, USA] 47th Annual International Juried Exhibition
SCREENINGS
1993 KPBS [San Diego, USA]
17th Annual Atlanta Film & Video Festival [Atlanta, USA]
AIDS Film Festival [Amsterdam, NLD]
West Hollywood Public Access, Channel 36 [Los Angeles, USA]
San Diego Media Access Coalition [San Diego, USA]
1992 The Flame [San Diego, USA]
Joyce Beers Community Center [San Diego, USA]
Scottish National Film Theatre [Glasgow, SCT]
Washington Film & Video Festival [Washington DC, USA]
Pittsburgh Film & Video Festival [Pittsburgh, USA]
1991 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, [Edinburgh, UK]
Amsterdam Film & Video Festival [Amsterdam, NLD]
GLMC Film & Video Festival [Los Angeles, USA]
Peril & Pleasure Festival [London, UK]
1990 Lookout Film & Video Festival [New York, USA]
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2011 San Diego Art Institute The Fab & Furious Queer Circus of Dastardly Delights
2009 UC Irvine Visiting Artist Lecture Series,Pushing the Lens:
Conceptual Practices in Photography
2006 Limbo Gallery [San Diego, USA] Beyond the Surface
COLLECTIONS
2011 University of Indiana, Bloomington
2010 Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
PUBLICATIONS/SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2017 Mascular Magazine, Issue No. 20
2015 Mascular Magazine, Issue No. 13
2015 Headmaster, Art Magazine No. 7
2014 San Diego Writer's Ink's 2014 anthology, A Year in Ink, Vol. 7
2013 Circle Circle Dot Dot [San Diego, USA] MORP/A Haunting in San Diego
2012 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves [Los Angeles, USA], ‘Zine V
Advocate.com, Artist Spotlight
San Diego Writer’s Ink [San Diego, USA], Reading/Book launch
The Frozen Moment: Contemporary Writers on the Choices that Change Our Lives
2011 Double Break [San Diego, USA], Reading and ‘Zine/Book launch
San Diego Writer’s Ink [San Diego, USA] Tom Spanbauer & Friends
So Say We All, [San Diego, USA] VAMP
Arts Columnist LGBT Weekly
21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves [Los Angeles, USA], ‘Zine III
2010 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves, [Los Angeles, USA] ‘Zine I
So Say We All, [San Diego, CA] VAMP
Laguna Beach Art Museum [Laguna Beach, USA] Artist Lecture
2009 Cal State Long Beach [Long Beach, USA] Panelist - GLAMFA Fine Arts Panel Discussion
Sea and Space [Los Angeles, USA] Panelist - Artists and Writers Panel
UCI Women’s Studies/Modern Pleasures/Art, Activism, and Technology [Irvine, USA]
Visiting Lecturer
San Diego CityBeat Newspaper [San Diego, USA] Stop Settling Down by Seth Combs
Gay & Lesbian Times (issue1128) [San Diego, USA] Questioning Homonormatiivity by Rick Braatz.
GLAMFA [Long Beach, USA] Catalogue
Crossing, look both ways [Albuquerque, USA] Catalogue
2007 Fototip Magazine [Prague, CZE] Profile Article
Gay & Lesbian Times [San Diego, USA] Monogamy or Monotony? by Andrew Printer
2006 Buzz Magazine [Palm Springs, USA] Touch Me, the Photography of Andrew Printer by Scott Brassart
San Diego CityBeat Newspaper [San Diego, USA] Shifting Identity: Exploring Gay Culture’s Past
and Present by Vi White
Gay & Lesbian Times [San Diego, USA] Surface: Reclaiming the Gay Male Identity from our
image obsessed culture by Rob Williams
2005 – 2009 Gay & Lesbian Times[San Diego, USA] - Freelance Contributor of Monthly Photo
Column - Portrait of a Community
1992 The San Diego Review [San Diego, USA]
1991 Our World News [San Diego, USA] Television Arts Anchor
1990 Outweek, No 68, Lookout Baby, Here I Come, by Martha Gever
GRANTS AND RECOGNITIONS
2016 Florida Keys Council of the Arts
Anne McKee Artists Fund grant recipient
2014 The Studios of Key West, Writes of Spring, Runner Up
2013 San Diego Press Club Award
2012 San Diego Press Club Award, First Place, Reviews: Arts & Entertainment
San Diego Press Club Award, Second Place, Arts & Entertainment Reporting
2010 University of California Irvine, Exhibition Grant
2009 Associated Graduated Students, University of California, Irvine, Project Grant
Medici Scholar, University of California Irvine, Project Grant
University of California Irvine, Travel Grant
2008 University of California Irvine, Research Grant
University of California Irvine, Exhibition Grant
2007 University of California Irvine, University Grant
2006 Dom Fotografie, Slovakia, Reviewers Choice - Portfolio Review
Dom Fotografie Summer School, Slovakia, Scholarship
2004 Prague Summer Program, Czech Republic, Scholarship
1993 17th Annual Atlanta Film & Video Festival, Honorable Mention - Best AIDS Advocacy Video
1991 Scottish Film Council, Production Award
TEACHING
2013 Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Diego
2012 Adjunct Faculty, the Art Institute of California, San Diego