Andrea Fraser

UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture

Professor of Art at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research focuses on many aspects of the art world, including art museums, the contemporary art market and cultural philanthropy, as well as institutional governance and labor issues in the nonprofit arts sector. She has worked internationally in conceptual art, institutional critique, feminist performance art, exhibition-making and the psychology of art practice. She is also a certified group-relations consultant and an authority on the psychodynamics of groups and organizations, particularly those in cultural fields. Her books include “Museum Highlights: The Writings of Andrea Fraser” (2005), “2016 in Museums, Money and Politics” (2018), and “Andrea Fraser Collected Interviews 1990–2018” (2019). Fraser is the former board president of WAGE (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) and of Grex, the West Coast affiliate of the A. K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems. A survey exhibition of her work, "Art Must Hang" was on view at Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw 14.03 – 08.06.2025.