About

Andrea Burgay

Andrea Burgay is a visual artist from Syracuse, NY, currently living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Her work combines collage, sculpture and found materials to elevate the overlooked and the mundane via transformative physical processes. Through a process of adding and removing layers of handmade and collected materials she presents a physical manifestation of the passage of time, destruction and decay, with a sense of potential renewal.

Burgay’s national and international exhibitions include: Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art (Genoa, Italy), Galerie Zurcher (Paris, France), Retroavangarda Gallery (Warsaw, Poland), and Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de La Pasión (Valladolid, Spain). Exhibitions in the US include Denise Bibro Gallery (NY), BRIC Gallery (NY), and Concord Art Visual Arts Center (MA). Her awards and residencies, include The Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE, The Eileen S Kaminsky Family Foundation at MANA Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ, The Jentel Artist Residency Program in Banner, Wyoming, and a fellowship and solo exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn.

Burgay is also founder and editor of Cut Me Up, a participatory collage magazine and curatorial project. Each issue presents a curated selection of original mixed-media artworks, intended for readers to deconstruct, and transform into new artworks. 

Interview with Máximo Tuja for the Weird Show Podcast:

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Fictions, Kansas City Public Library, Kansas City, MO
2022 Everything Coming Together and Falling Apart, Roxbury Arts Group, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2019 Mining the Ruins: The Library, Gallery at Northwest Missouri State University, Maryville, MO
2016 Destroy Edit Transform, A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY 
2013 Becoming Ritual, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
2009 Hungry Ghosts, G-Train Salon/Urban Alchemist, Brooklyn, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue?, LIC-A Art Space, The Factory, Queens, NY, curator Ellen Hackl Fagan
Visual Poetry & Color, Ferrari Gallery, Dallas, TX, curator Cecil Touchon
The Librarian, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, curator Alan Goolman
Artists’ Book Month II: The World is a Scandal, BravinLee Programs, NY, NY, curator Karin Bravin
Los Raros: New Narratives of Contemporary Collage, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de La Pasión, Valladolid, Spain, curators Cless & Maximo Tuja (catalog)
it’s a small world, Hardy & Nance Studios, Houston, TX, curator Chasity Porter

2023
Pale Blue Dot, Elliott Hundley Studio, Los Angeles, CA, curator Elliott Hundley
Altered Logistics: Collage and Appropriation Art, Dowd Fine Arts Center, Cortland, NY, curators D. Dominick Lombardi and Maximo Tuja, presented by The Weird Show
Cut Me Up: Souvenir, Albany International Airport Gallery, Albany, NY, curator Kathy Greenwood
BOP!, The Dime/T.F. Projects, Chicago, IL, curated by Paloma Trecka & Ray Borchers
Amuse-Bouche, LeMieux Galleries, New Orleans, LA, curators Christy Wood & Ric Kasini Kadour
A 45 Year Love Affair With Art: The Doug + Laurie Kanyer Art Collection, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA, curator Rosie Saldana
Putting it Together 2, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, curator Alan Goolman
Hold Fast, (Two-person exhibition) Lodger Gallery, Kansas City, MO, curator Craig Auge
Unconnected Yet, Boston Bengal Bridge, Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata, India, curated by Todd Bartel, Daniela Esponda, Teri Henderson & Talin Megherian (catalog)
Traveled to Lorne Community Connect, Victoria, Australia  

2022
New Data-New Dada, Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney, VT, curator Tara Verheide
Small Works Showcase, Gibson Contemporary, virtual exhibition
The Sustainable Art Show, Materials for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY, curators Sara Reisman & John Kaiser
Red Means Go, Tomato Mouse, Brooklyn, NY, curators Zev Gustafson & Rebecca Bird
Putting it Together, The Lockwood Gallery, Kingston, NY, curator Alan Goolman
Spring 2022, Sharp Hands Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, curators Cheryl Chudyk & Kevin Sampsell
Corporeal Gestures, Portland State University, Portland, OR, curator Clive Knights (catalog)

2021
Full Circle, Virtual Exhibition, curator Christina Massey
A Little Undefined, Lodger Gallery at Agnes Arts, Kansas City, MO, curator Craig Auge
Neuroanatomy, Stone Valley Arts at Fox Hill, Poultney, VT, curator W. David Powell
Drawn to Paper, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, curator Susan Rostow

2020 
The Red Wood, virtual exhibition, curator Julia Westerbeke
International Collage Art Exhibition 3rd Edition, Retroavangarda Gallery Warsaw, Poland, curator Anna Kłos
Schwitters’ Army, MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland

2019
We Still Make, Imagine and Read Books 2, Space 776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Nari Kim
Copyright Bandits, Collapse Gallery, Wenatchee, WA
Unfoldingobject, Concord Visual Arts Center, Concord, MA, curator Todd Bartel (catalog)
International Collage Art Exhibition, Retroavangarda Gallery Warsaw, Poland, curator Anna Kłos
Collage Now, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, NY 
Strictly Sedimentary, Studio Place Arts Gallery, Barre, VT  

2018 
Overlap, Prime Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, curators Maria Kosdan & Walter John Rodriguez
Allow Me To Reintroduce Myself, The Cigar Factory, Queens, NY, curators Krista Scenna & Carolina Peñafiel
Dissent: Explorations of the Subconscious, Long Island University, Resnick Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 
Contemporary Landscapes, Roxbury Arts Group, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
Works On/Of Paper, BrickRed Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Introductions 2018, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator by Enrico Gomez

2017 
Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Truth, BRIC House, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Reuse, Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY
Mythology, Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
McNeese National Works On Paper, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, curator Gia Hamilton (catalog)
Wrap Around 12: Andrea Burgay, Juan Hinojosa, Jill Slaymaker, Arena at Suite 806, New York, NY, curator Renée Riccardo

2016 
Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator JoAnne McFarland
Collections, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY 
We Still Make, Imagine and Read Books, Space 776 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curator Nari Kim
Made In NY 2016, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY

2015 
Works On/With Paper, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY 
Out of Place, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, curators Fanny Allié & Etty Yaniv
Makexchanges, Northside Festival, Brooklyn, NY, curators Caitlin Crews
Face Plant, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY
Something/Nothing, Vertigo Art Space, Denver, CO, curator by Peter Yumi

2014 
Rock, Paper, Scissor, Greene County Council on the Arts Catskill Gallery, Catskill, NY  
Arshile Gorky and a selection of contemporary drawings, Outlet, Brooklyn, NY, curator Jason Andrew
Brooklyn Collage Collective Episode #1, Brooklyn Fireproof, Brooklyn, NY
Other Worlds, Skylight Gallery. New York, NY, curator by Jill Slaymaker

2013 
Cocktails and Dreams, Part II, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY
SIP Fellowship Show, Blackburn 20/20, New York, NY
Homeward Found, The Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY
Botanic Revelries, two-person show with Ava Hassinger, Local Project, Queens, NY,
Expose: New Orleans, Exagere Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Juxtaposition: The Madness of Collage, Next Gallery, Denver, CO, curator Peter Yumi
After Effects: NYFA Hurricane Sandy Exhibition, Chashama, New York, NY

2012 
Salon Zurcher: 7 NY Galleries, Galerie Zürcher, Paris, France
Strange Glue: Collage at 100, Thompson Gallery, Weston, MA, curator Todd Bartel (catalog)
Shake In/Shake Out, Flux Factory, Long Island City, NY
Cut Up, STOREFRONT Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY         
Plein Air, Airplane, Brooklyn, NY
The Project Collective, Dekalb Market, Brooklyn, NY, curators Caitlin Crews & Ava Hassinger
Spring Benefit, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
The Bricoleurs, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curators Christian Fuller & Risa Shoup (catalog)

2011 
Sculpture Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Project Collective Presents, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY, curators Caitlin Crews & Ava Hassinger

2006 
Cabin Comforts, Secret Project Robot, Brooklyn, NY
Primal Future Expo, Morgan Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
Lucio Pozzi Curates Young Artists, Unimedia Modern Contemporary Art, Genoa, Italy

2005 
Emerging Artists in the New, New York Art World, SVA Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES and AWARDS:
2019 The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, WY
2018 Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Residency at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2016 Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency, Nebraska City, NE
2015 A.I.R. Fellowship, Brooklyn, NY 
2015 Pajama Factory Residency, Williamsport, PA 
2013 New York Foundation for the Arts Hurricane Sandy Relief Grant
2012 Alliance for Young Artist and Writers Residency Program and Artist Stipend, New York, NY
2012 The Wassaic Project, Fellowship Award, Wassaic, NY
2012 Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Fellowship, New York, NY
2012 SPARC: Seniors Partnering with Artists Citywide: Residency with Queens Council on the Arts, NY
2011 Contemporary Artist Center, Merit Fellowship Award; Woodside, NY
2005 Final Thesis Award, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS/WORKSHOPS:
2024 The Concept of Ma, conversation with Katie Blake, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, June 15, 2024.
2023 Workshop, Collage Artists of America, Los Angeles, CA, October 14, 2023.
2023 Five Years of Cut Me Up Magazine, panel host, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, June 11, 2023.
2023 Presentation, Collage Artists of America, Los Angeles, CA, May 19, 2023.
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, March 7, 2023.
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, March 21, 2022.
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, New York Film Academy, Los Angeles, CA, April 7, 2021.
2020 Visiting Artist Lecture, Kenyon College, Gambien, OH, Nov 12, 2020.
2019 Mining the Ruins: The Library, lecture, Northwestern Missouri State University, Maryville, MI, Oct 14, 2019.
2019 Art and The Book, Volume 2, Archive Montreal, presenter, Montréal, Québec, Oct 4, 2019. 
2019 Unfoldingobject, panelist, Concord Visual Arts Center, Concord, MA, June 26, 2019.
2018 Andrea Burgay: Collage Art, presentation and workshop, Materials for the Arts, Queens, NY, July 19, 2018.
2018 Beyond the Exhibition: Strategies for Showing, Sharing, & Selling Collage Outside of Gallery Context, panelist, Kolaj Fest, New Orleans, July 13, 2018.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS/EXHIBITIONS JURIED:
2024 Contemporary Collage Magazine Awards 2024, juror, October 2024
2022 Cut Me Up Magazine Issue 10: Reconnect, curator, January 2023
2022 Todo y Nada, Vayo Collage Gallery, juror, April 2022
2020 Breakdown, curator, Distance Gallery, June 2020, (catalog available here)
2019 Cut Me Up Magazine Issue 2: Inside Out, curator, January 2019
2018 Cut Me Up Magazine, founder and editor
2016 Object Relations, workshop and exhibition, Ground Floor Gallery/A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, June 2016

BIBLIOGRAPHY: 
“The Painterly and Poetic Collages of Andrea Burgay,” Palette Talk, November 21, 2024.
Contemporary Collage Magazine, Issue 3, November 2024.
Collé Issue No. 60, Revue Collé, August 21, 2024.
Spencer, Laura, “Collage artist Andrea Burgay repurposes discarded paperback books…”, KC studio, July 16, 2024.
daCunha, Xiao, “These are the 6 Kansas City art exhibits you need to explore this summer”, NPR in Kansas City, June 22, 2024.
Boucher, Brian, “Dozens of Precious Artists’ Books Come Together in a Blowout Summer Show,” artnet, June 13, 2024.
Burgay, Andrea, Irises, edition of 50, June 2024.
Los Raros/ Las Raras: New Narratives of Contemporary Collage, Sala Municipal de Exposiciones de La Pasión, Valladolid, Spain, exhibition catalog, June 2024.
“Andrea Burgay’s Regenerative Collage”, interview, Contemporary Collage Magazine, Issue 23, August 1, 2023.
Shome, Pratiksha, “Andrea Burgay’s Work in Putting it Together 2023 Exhibition, a Fusion of Fiction, Ruins and Reliquary”, Abir Pothi, May 18, 2023.
Blake, Katie, What Kind of Collage is That?, Alaska: Whatapageturner Press, 2023.
Bartel, Todd, Daniela Esponda, Teri Henderson & Talin Megherian, Unconnected Yet, Boston Bengal Bridge, Academy of Fine Arts Kolkata, India, exhibition catalog, December 31, 2022.
“Coming Together and Falling Apart at the Same Time,” interview with Todd Bartel, July 9, 2022.
POSIT: a journal of literature and art, Posit 30, Andrea Burgay, May 17, 2022.
Knights, Clive, Corporeal Gestures, Portland State University, Portland, OR, exhibition catalog, March 18, 2022.
Van Brunt, Carl, “Putting it Together,” The Lockwood Gallery website, March 2022.
Aaron Beebe/Niko Vartiainen, interview and feature, Plastikcomb Magazine 3.5, November 2021. 
Gibson, David, “The Actual Arranged, A Reliquary To Ruin, And Other Feats By Andrea Burgay,” The Other Side of the Desk, September 30, 2021.
Collage Care: Transforming Emotions and Life Experiences with Collage, Laurie Kanyer (Kanyer Publishing), foreword and published artwork, 2021.
The Weird Show Broadcast. “Andrea Burgay. Time, Decay and Hope.” Produced by Max-O-Matic. April 11, 2021.
Gibson, David, “The Making of Unmaking,” The Other Side of the Desk, April 10, 2021.
“Excavations, Projections and Depth”, Andrea Burgay and Clive Knights in Conversation,” two-part conversation, Kolaj Magazine Issues #28 and #29, 2020.
Max-o-matic, “Breakdown, An Online Exhibition Focused on Fragmentation and Rebuilding,” interview with The Weird Show, July 5, 2020.
“Mining the Ruins: Andrea Burgay”, Empty Mirror portfolio feature, May 29, 2020.
“The Lock Down Chronicles: Andrea Burgay,” The Weird Show, March 28, 2020.
“Andrea Burgay and Max-O-Matic Talk About Cut Me Up’s Latest Issue Which They Co-Curated,” The Weird Show, January 27, 2020.
Bealy, Allan, BLEND: A Cooperative Collage Project, Benzine Projects, January 2020.
Kadour, Ric Kasini, The Book As A Place of Collage, symposium catalog, October 2019.
Bartel, Todd, Unfoldingobject, Concord Center for Visual Art, Concord MA exhibition catalog, exhibition catalog, June 2019.
Max-o-matic, “Cut Me Up Magazine,” interview with The Weird Show, February 25, 2019.
Yaniv, Etty, “Sorting Through Chaos: Artist Interview,” Art Spiel, September 17, 2018. 
Hamilton, Gia, 30th McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, exhibition catalog, April 2017.
The Riveter Review, Issue 5, August 2016.
Riccardo, Renée, “Shortlist Curator Artist Feature,” BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry, March 2016.  
Noir, Bill, Mékanik Copulaire #6, March 2014. 
Perry, Elizabeth, “Artist Interview,” The 22 Magazine, February 2014. 
Mair, Moray, “Andrea Burgay Collages Are A Playful Exploration Into Human Decay,” Mutantspace, May 31, 2013.
Wolff, Rachel, “When Storm Is Collaborator,” Art News, April 22, 2013.
Tino, Anthony, “Artist Interview,” Recession Art Blog, March 2013.    
Soulez, Juliette, “La tête chercheuse de la galerie Zürcher : une mini foire off de galeries new-yorkaises Émergentes,” Blouin ArtInfo, October 18, 2012.
Bartel, Todd, Virtual Annex: Strange Glue, exhibition catalog, September 2012. Villasmil, Alejandra, “Artist of the Week,” Artishock, April 2, 2012.    
BRIC Rotunda Gallery, The Bricoleurs, exhibition catalog, January 2012.
Blumenthal, Carl, “Exhibits at Rotunda are a Mixed Bag", Brooklyn Daily Eagle, February 9, 2012.     
Sick of the Radio, March 31, 2011.
Brown Paper Bag, March 28, 2011.
Valdez, Aldrin, “Shortlist Curator Artist Feature”, BRIC Contemporary Artist Registry, 2011.  

COLLECTIONS:
The Kanyer Art Collection and Historical Archive of Collage, Curator Freya Gowrley, PhD., Bristol, UK
The Ontological Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Northern New England Museum of Contemporary Art, Burlington, VT
The Schwitters’ Army Collection of Collage Art at MERZ Gallery, Sanquhar, Scotland
Retroavangarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation, New Jersey, NJ

EDUCATION:
2005 BFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY