Andrea Bergart, born in 1984 in Newton, MA earned an MFA in Painting from Boston University and a BA in Painting and Art History from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. Bergart makes paintings, drawings and public artworks ranging from murals on working cement trucks in Brooklyn to murals painted on basketball courts in Providence, RI, Conakry, Guinea and New York City. Bergart’s paintings reference diverse visual traditions including woven textiles, urban fashion, boundary lines on basketball courts and geometric abstraction. Her involvement in fashion and basketball inspire her to make art highlighting female and male professional basketball players and basketball culture. Bergart received a Fulbright Scholarship to Ghana, West Africa where she researched the bead and textile industries. She has participated in the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation artist residency in Senegal, Tilleard Projects residency in Lamu, Kenya, and received a US embassy grant to travel to the United Arab Emirates. Bergart's work has been exhibited in the US and the UK and has been included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Art in Embassies Exhibition at the U.S. Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa. Bergart currently lives and works in Queens, NY.
