About

Andrew Berardini is a writer out of Los Angeles. His poems, essays, and criticism ease into each other, shaped by class, illness, and pleasure.

A contributor to Artforum since 2006 and Mousse since 2007, he is the author of Relics (2016), a memoir-once-removed on the work of Danh Võ, and Colors (2023), a literary atlas of 110 shades of color. Once the art critic for LA CityBeat and the LA Weekly, he has written for Purple, BOMB, Rolling Stone, and numerous other publications, as well as for SFMOMA, the Whitney Biennial, and documenta 14.

He co-curated Kris Lemsalu’s Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, orchestrated Bruce Nauman’s first-ever skywriting, performed as the Public Writer at Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective, and has organized exhibitions at MOCA, Los Angeles; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Castello di Rivoli, Turin.

Berardini is Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Art Bae Agenda and co-founded The Art Book Review. A longtime faculty member at the Mountain School of Arts, he led the Critical Art Writing Ensemble at the Banff Centre and was writer-in-residence at the Institute for Art and Olfaction. A past recipient of the Creative Capital / Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, he is currently a Clarendon and AHRC Scholar pursuing a DPhil in Fine Art at Oxford’s Ruskin School of Art. His collected writings about Los Angeles are forthcoming.

He composes through exhibitions, love letters, posters, pamphlets, performances, and songs. Often sick, he keeps his language tender, strange, and alive.