Artist Statement
I studied painting and architecture in art school, two mediums that seemed to contradict each other. Painting was about instinct and touch — the rush of making something immediate and alive. Architecture was the opposite: precision, physics, systems stacked inside systems. I loved learning to think in these two languages and I didn’t want to choose between them.
That tension — between wildness and order, chaos and structure — is still at the heart of my work. Across film, performance, and theater, I often bring together things that don’t usually belong in the same room: artists from wildly different backgrounds, genres or mediums that clash, stories pulled from different centuries. I’m interested in the friction that emerges when forms and ideas collide, and in what new possibilities can be built from that collision. At its core, my work is about creating events where contrasts don’t resolve but resonate, revealing unexpected meanings.
Biography
Andrew Ondrejcak is an artist working in the intersection of film, fine art and performance.
Born and raised in Mississippi, Andrew studied architecture and painting at Savannah College of Art and Design and, later, playwriting at Brooklyn College under Mac Wellman and Vito Acconci. His work with experimental theater led him to a career in art direction and production design in the fashion industry where he became known for bold, large-scale environmental installations. He has been the creative director of special projects for Hermés, Vivienne Westwood, Phillip Lim, New York and Shanghai Fashion Weeks, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Vogue Italia, among others.
He has collaborated on short films and music videos with Tilda Swinton, James Franco, Isabel Sandoval, Shepherd Fairey, Rufus Wainwright, Darren Criss and choreographer Kyle Abraham. His recent film Screen Test: Isabel screened on all of the Jumbotrons in Times Square as part Midnight Moment, a public art project which commissions works from contemporary artists.
Andrew’s theatrical works have been presented at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; REDCAT, Los Angeles; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels; Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans; deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp; Holland Festival, Amsterdam; The Kampnagel, Hamburg; and in New York at The Kitchen, BAM Harvey Theater, The Public Theater in Under the Radar Festival and the Guggenheim Museum’s Works in Process as curated by Robert Wilson.
In 2010, he reperformed the work of Marina Abramovic´ in “The Artist is Present” at MoMA.
Artist Residencies include MacDowell Colony (2020, 2025), Watermill Center (2018, 2016), Josef and Anni Albers Foundation’s Thread in Senegal (2017), Yaddo (2016), the Park Avenue Armory (2015-2016), Baryshnikov Arts Center (2013) and NYC's Governor's Island (2013).
Andrew was a freelance lecturer at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 2003-2013.
Contact
Management: Linden Entertainment
Trent Hubbard
Advertising & Commercial: 11th House Agency
Marissa Dutton
Feature Films: UTA
Jordan Gorelick
Carolyn Sivitz
Studio Inquiries
studio@andrewondrejcak.com