Indianapolis Island

About 20 feet in diameter, Indianapolis Island is a fully inhabitable experimental living structure that examines the daily needs of contemporary human beings. For the next four summers, the island will be occupied by one or two commissioned residents who are local art students. They will collaborate with Zittel by adapting and modifying the island’s structure according to their individual needs. This summer artists Jessica Dunn and Michael Runge will act as residents on the island to create an accompanying project titled Give and Take.

Read Zittel's statement on her project.

Andrea Zittel (b. 1965) lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1990, and a BFA with honors from San Diego State University. She has been the subject of one-person exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of Art at Altria and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada. Zittel has been included in numerous group shows at institutions such as Kunstmuseum Bonn in Germany, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C., the National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan, Van Abbemuseum in the Netherlands, the Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rome, Italy, and the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. She has received awards such as the AICA Award for Best Architecture or Design Show in 2007, the College Art Association Distinguished Body of Work Award in 2006, and the Lucelia Artist Award from the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2005. Zittel has been the subject of a number of monographic works, and has been included in numerous exhibition catalogues and other publications.

Slideshow: Andrea Zittel, A-Z Prototype for Pocket Property, 1999. © Andrea Zittel. Courtesy of the artist and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.