Andra Ursuta

Sculptor Andra Ursuţa fuses everyday items in unexpected ways, creating paradoxical sculptures and installations that reference art history with a wry, punkish sensibility. Ursuţa’s large-scale works combine traditional techniques with new technologies, such as 3D printing and scanning, and often depict the human body under extreme conditions. She is best known for her work exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale, a series of translucent glass vessels molded from her own scanned body parts and filled with detritus from her New York studio. Ursuţa’s sculptural installation at the New Museum, Alps (2016), featured an artificial landscape populated with anthropomorphic obelisks and indoor rock-climbing walls that referenced efforts to fortify national borders. Her work has been included in group exhibitions hosted by The Phillips Collection, the Rubell Family Collection, and MoMA PS1.