Andrew Sendor

Biography

Andrew Sendor is a visual artist who lives and works in New York. Sendor is most recognized for his extraordinary facility in representational painting that serves to illuminate his ongoing engagement with the power of the imagination. The artist introduces us to fictional characters in storylines whose genesis derives from a unique creative process: Sendor scripts, produces, directs, and documents performances recounting the life and times of his eccentric cast. Representing scenes from these psychologically charged, hallucinatory narratives, each meticulously rendered artwork surveys the materiality of images and the interrelated history of photorealism and evolution of photography. Sendor builds monochromatic compositions using acute pictorial focus along with disrupted visual motifs, and situates the works in artist’s frames whose physicality elevates the painted imagery — and which together comprise an idiosyncratic language of painting.

Notable Solo Exhibitions

Micro-Macro: Andrew Sendor and Ali Banisadr at Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Jacksonville (Jacksonville, 2019)

Andrew Sendor: Saturday’s Ascent at Sperone Westwater (New York, 2017)

Andrew Sendor: Saturday’s Descent at Beijing Art Now Gallery BANG (Beijing, 2018)

Based on a True Story at Caren Golden Fine Art (New York, 2009)

Between Life & Nowhere, at Mogadishni (Copenhagen, 2007)

Notable Group Exhibitions

Machines of Desire at Simon Lee Gallery, (London, 2022; Hong Kong, 2022)

Seen in the Mirror: Things from the Cartin Collection at David Zwirner (New York, 2021)

Really? curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody at Wilding Cran Gallery (Los Angeles, 2017)

Human at Specta Gallery (Copenhagen, 2011)

Phantasmania at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, 2007)

Public Collections Include

The CB Collection Roppongi (Tokyo)Hudson Valley MOCA (Peekskill)The Morgan Library & Museum (New York)Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (Jacksonville)Progressive Art Collection (Ohio)The Rubell Family Collection (Miami)Zabludowicz Art Trust (London)

Press

He has been featured in The Brooklyn Rail, New York Times, Bomb Magazine, The Huffington Post,Art in America and Time Out New York among others.