Andrea Geyer was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1971. She studied at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld and the Braunschweig University of Art in Germany, before graduating in 2000 from the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York. Geyer’s work has recently been the subject of exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin (2018), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2017), Goethe Universität Frankfurt (2017), New Foundation Seattle (2015–16), Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville (2015), and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (2014). She has participated in Documenta, São Paulo Biennial, Taipei Biennial, and the Whitney Biennial. Geyer is the recipient of a Creative Time Global Residency (2012–13) and a Museum of Modern Arts Research Fellowship (2011–12), among other awards. She has been a professor at the New School’s Parsons School of Design in New York since 2009. Geyer lives and works in New York.