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 the 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 over the years.

In collaboration with his partner Susan Scafati, Coolquitt most recently created DUSTY, an exhibition space within his studio, in 2022 and opened its inaugural show that 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 staged a temporary exhibition version of Andy’s Place for The Autotopographers at the Kohler Museum in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.

During 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. In 2012, a 167-page monograph was published by 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, NY; attainable excellence at AMOA-Arthouse in Austin, TX; and somebody place at Lisa Cooley in NYC.