Future Present Archeologies
Self-Editing
Gardens of Tomorrow
Eco Anxiety Büro
Some Form of Future Nature
Deluge
Gardens of Some Future
About
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Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance. Watercolor drawings are at the center of my practice and inform how I work in time and space. I am interested in how humans and non-humans, as well as organic and synthetic matter, collaborate and generate evolving forms and shifting aesthetics.
I view contamination as collaboration for survival, an inevitable condition of our entangled world. The central question I explore is not whether we can separate ourselves from plastics, hormones, and chemical residues, but rather how our bodies adapt with them. I examine how these forces edit landscapes and biology, while cultural pressures drive forms of self-editing through surgical procedures and everyday rituals. My works position themselves as artifacts of a “future present.” They become traces of how bodies and environments might mutate, survive, and even thrive through collaboration with contaminants.
I am interested in both bodily universality and local specificity. Each place carries its own DNA, and its materiality tells a distinct story: cigarettes in Berlin, dog feces in Jackson, Wyoming, microplastics and wildfires in Los Angeles. These encounters shape the evolution of my projects, grounding speculative mythologies in lived environments and bodily experiences.
Bio
Andrea Nhuch (b. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is a multidisciplinary visual artist focusing on sculpture, installation and performance. Nhuch studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena (MFA), Art Students League of New York, Ithaca College (B.S), and at the Fashion Institute of Technology (M.P.S). Nhuch has presented solo exhibitions including Co-Making Matters at Haus der Statistik in Berlin, Dream Farm Commons in Oakland, and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Her group exhibitions include Human Resources, The Box Gallery, and Track 16 in Los Angeles; the Bradbury Art Museum in Arkansas; the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Florida; and NADA with Locust Projects in Miami. She earned her MFA from ArtCenter College of Design, is active in immigration advocacy, and lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Nhuch has completed residencies at Uncommon Art Residency (Wyoming) and Co-Making Matters (Berlin), where she created an "Eco-Anxiety Büro" that engaged visitors in dealing with their co-existence with waste. In 2024, she attended Rosi Braidotti's Summer School, studying feminist philosophy and posthumanism, which informs her current practice of exploring the feminine beyond binary constraints. Her work received the Chucki Bradbury Art Purchase Award and is part of the Bradbury Art Museum's permanent collection. Her recent achievements include participating in the 2024 UCLA New Wight Biennial: Social Sediment, exhibiting at the Consulate General of Brazil in Los Angeles, and performing at Irrational Exhibits 13 at the Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles.