Andrew Kuo (born 1977, Queens, New York) lives and works in New York City. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Kuo is known for a multidisciplinary practice spanning painting, drawing, and research-based image-making, engaging with systems of information, abstraction, and emotional registers embedded in contemporary culture.
Kuo’s work is driven by processes of accumulation and translation. Drawing on digital imagery, personal archives, and art-historical references, he reworks source material through intuitive and formal decision-making. His paintings are characterized by layered surfaces, gestural mark making, and a tension between structure and improvisation, allowing meaning to unfold gradually through extended looking.
Over the course of his career, Kuo has maintained a sustained presence within institutional and public contexts. He has realized major public projects with Public Art Fund and has held solo exhibitions at institutions including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. His work has been presented in museum exhibitions at venues such as the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, and has been featured in academic and international contexts, including the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice. Kuo’s work has received extensive critical attention in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, Artforum, W Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal.
