Future Present Archeologies
Self-Editing
Gardens of Tomorrow
Eco Anxiety Büro
Some Form of Future Nature
Deluge
Gardens of Some Future
Ceramics
About
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Statement
I am a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance, with ceramics at the center. My work begins with bodies in relation—human and non-human, organic and synthetic—their surfaces, adaptations, and capacity to absorb and record what surrounds them. I view contamination as collaboration. I am not concerned with whether bodies and environments can remain uncontaminated; I speculate about how they mutate, survive, and thrive through contact with plastics, hormones, chemical residues, and cultural pressures. Each place carries its own materials and invites an understanding of how the specific fits the universal—cigarettes in Berlin, dog feces in Jackson, Wyoming, microplastics and wildfires in Los Angeles. From these observations, I wonder whether new forms of beauty might emerge from the messy overlaps between the human and material worlds. I work from a curiosity of becoming—asking how forms shape-shift, bodies evolve, and new ways of surviving emerge.
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.