Andrew Berardini

Andrew Berardini is a writer living in Los Angeles, known for essays that blur the line between criticism and poetry—which sometimes land, unexpectedly, in fiction. His work has appeared in Artforum, Frieze, LA Weekly, and Mousse, and he is a founding editor of Bay Art Agenda. His texts often read like love letters—to beauty, broken language, and the sun-drunk melancholy of Los Angeles. He's been faculty at the Banff Centre numerous times and at the Mountain School of Arts for over 15 years.

With lyric intellect and slantwise humor, he writes not to explain art, but to trace its edges—luminous, wayward, messy, and alive. Berardini has curated exhibitions internationally, including at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Castello di Rivoli in Turin, and the Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Widely regarded for his lyrical voice and critical insight, he is one of the most distinctive art writers of his generation.