Biography

Born in Kalamazoo, currently living in Detroit, Andrea Eckert is a mixed media artist, educator and mother of three. She received her BFA in Studio Art in 2002 from Michigan State University and MFA in Painting from Kendall College of Art and Design in 2008. Eckert has exhibited regionally and nationally for the past decade, and has instructed painting and printmaking at various institutions throughout the state. Eckert co-founded and directed, Holding House, an arts non-profit pairing service organizations with Detroit artists from 2013-2019.



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EDUCATION

BFA Studio Art

Michigan State University

2003


MFA Painting/Printmaking 

Kendall College of Art and Design

2008


TEACHING/PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024- Oakland Community College Art Faculty 

2022-2025 Rosedale Park Improvement Association Board of Directors

2013-2020 Founder/Director, Holding House, Detroit, MI

2018 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program Fellow 

2011-2021 College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI

2016-2018 Crosshatch Center for Art and Ecology Board Member 

2015 Detroit Public Library, Detroit, MI
2008-2011 Jackson College, Jackson, MI
2007-2008 Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids, MI


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 Too Much, Not Enough, Andrea Eckert/Nathan Tonning, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

2013 AZULE Art Residency Exhibition, Hot Springs Community Center, Hot Springs, NC

2013 Cleave, Corktown Studio, Detroit, MI
2012 Clip & Ventilate, Starkweather Art Center, Romeo, MI
2011 Windblown, CultureWorks Art Center, Holland, MI
                              Van Single Art Center, Byron Center, MI
2010 RECITATE, Jackson College, Faculty Exhibition

2006 Archetypes, Studio71South, Grand Rapids, MI
2003 Vertical Landscape, Creole Gallery, Lansing, MI


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021  The Salad Days, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI

2019  Power Couples, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI

2017 The Lounge of Saturn, Popps Packing, Hamtramck, MI

            PrintNow, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI

2016 Edition 16, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

           Detroit Sequential, Rotland Press, Detroit, MI

           Michigan State University Alumni Exhibition, E.Lansing, MI

2015

       Edition 15, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit, MI

       Windsor Printmaking Forum, Invitational, Windsor, ON

2014

       Mid-American Print Council, Group Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

      PRINTSHOW(Curator), Holding House, Detroit, MI

      A Bright Spot on a Cloudy Day, Ocelot Print Shop, Detroit, MI

2013

      Corktown Studio Invitational Exhibition, Detroit, MI

      OH+5, Regional Exhibition, Dairy Barn Art Center, Athens, OH

     Overt and Ulterior Taxonomies, (Curator) Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI

      BROTKATZE - COLLABORATIONS IV – Kunststück, Berlin 

2012
      Michigan Fine Arts Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center MI
      MACAA Members Exhibition, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

2010
    Balance, Woman’s Caucus for Art, Dudestadt Center, University of Michigan
    Water Street Coffee Joint, Kalamazoo, MI
    Bloom+Process, Byrneboehm Gallery, Grand Rapids,MI
    The Fiction Project, Brooklyn Public Library, NY2009
    Unidentified, Desotorow Gallery, Savannah, GA
    Raw, Lake Cumberland Art Center, KY

2008
    From Our Perspective, Oakland Community College, Detroit, MI
    26th Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham,MI
    Found Object Art, Gallery RFD, Swainsboro, GA
    Jackson Community College Faculty Exhibition, Jackson, MI
    Wet, Somerset County Arts Council, Somerset, KY

2006
      MSU/Kendall College Graduate Candidate Collective, E.Lansing, MI
      Bits and Pieces, Lowell Area Arts Council, Lowell, MI
      GALEX40, Annual National Competition, Galesburg, IL
      Fun PIGS on Parade, Free Radicals Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI
      Art Battle V, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI  
2005
    The Buddy System, 555 Gallery, Detroit, MI
      Dancing Crane Gallery, Group Exhibition, Lansing, MI
    Chat Rouge, All-Women Competition, Lansing, MI
2004
      Outside Circle Collective, Detroit, MI
      23rd Annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, BBAC, Birmingham ,MI
      Art-In-The-Park, City of Lansing, Lansing, MI
2003
    Art Overseas, Michigan StateUniversity Fine Art Library, E.Lansing, MI
    All Regional Competition, Lansing Center for the Arts, Lansing, MI
    Annual Undergraduate Competition, Michigan State University, E.Lansing, MI
2002
    Otherwise Gallery, Two-person Exhibition, Lansing, MI
    Annual Undergraduate Competition, Michigan State University, E.Lansing,MI


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016     To Touch the Sky With Two Arms: Kim Harty and Brian Caponi 

2016     Turnover a Spread: Book Arts Group Exhibition: Holding House, Detroit, MI

2015     PRINTSHOW Mid-American Print Conference: Holding House, Detroit, MI


PUBLICATIONS

Making Art Accessible for Detroit Neighborhoods, Michigan State University, College of Arts & Letters, Deans Report 2017

The Rapid and Persistent Issues of Detroit's Art Gallery Scene, ModelD, August 2016

Detroit Sequential, Rotland Press, 2016

Artist Books that Break with Traditional Binding, Hyperallergic, February 2016

PRINTSHOW, KnightArts Blog, September 2014 

Stage and Canvas, Detroit Metro Times, 2013 

Studio Visit Magazine Volume Nineteen, 2013



                           


  

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