Andy Coolquitt

Andy Coolquitt (b. 1964, Texas) currently lives in Austin. He is perhaps most widely known for Andy’s Place, which began as his master’s thesis project at University of Texas at Austin in 1994 and continues to the present day. Andy’s Place is a multifaceted entity, serving as a performance, studio, and domestic space for Coolquitt as well as hundreds of artists throughout the years. In collaboration with his partner Susan Scafati, Coolquitt most recently created DUSTY, an exhibition space within his studio in 2022, and opened the inaugural show in March. In 2020 he produced a wide ranging project titled “How A House Works” through the exhibition venue TestSite in Austin, TX. In 2018, he produced a temporary exhibition version of Andy’s Place for "The Autotopographers" at the Kohler Museum in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. In the summer of 2016, Coolquitt produced a multi-exhibition project titled "Studio Art...........Period Room" while in residence at Artpace in San Antonio, TX. In spring 2014 he was artist-in- residence at the Chianti Foundation in Marfa, TX, which culminated in the exhibition, "Multi-Marfa Room", at the Locker Plant in Marfa, TX. In 2012 the 167 page monograph was published by the University of Texas Press in conjunction with his mid-career survey organized by the Blaffer Museum in Houston, TX. Notable solo exhibitions have included "This Much" at Galerie Krinzinger in Vienna, Austria; "no I didn't go to any museums here I hate museums museums are just stores that charge you to come in there are lots of free museums here but they have names like real stores" at Maryam Nassir Zadeh in New York City, NY; "attainable excellence" at AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, TX; and "somebody place" at Lisa Cooley in NYC.