Artist Monograph

Andrea Fraser, American

American, born 1965

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Video	12	75%
Lithography	2	12.5%
Digital Art	1	6.3%
Film	1	6.3%

Department Distribution

Department	Works	Share
Media and Performance	13	81.3%
Drawings & Prints	3	18.8%

Production by Decade

2

1980s

11

1990s

2

2000s

1

2010s

Classification Types

Video — 12
Print — 3
Installation — 1

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1999	2
2006	2
2009	1
2011	10
2019	1

American Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 16 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
The Public Life of Art: The Museum Video Acc. 10.2011	1988-89	Video (color, sound)	13 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk Video Acc. 1321.1999	1989	Standard-definition video (color, sound)	29 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Purchase
May I Help You? Video Acc. 9.2011	1991	Standard-definition video (color, sound)	20 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Untitled from the Museum in Progress project The Message as Medium Print Acc. 514.2006.6	(newspaper published July 5, 1991)	Lithograph, offset printed	sheet (two-page spread): 18 1/2 x 24 13/16" (47 x 63 cm); composition: 15 3/4 x 20 3/4" (40 x 52.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Linda Barth Goldstein Fund
Welcome to the Wadsworth: A Museum Tour Video Acc. 1320.1999	1991	Standard-definition video (color, sound)	25 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Purchase
Das Ästhetische Feld (The Aesthetic Field) Video Acc. 8.2011	1993	Video (color, sound)	60 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Temporarily Possessed Video Acc. 7.2011	1995	Video (color, sound)	25 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Una Introducció a la Fundació Tàpies (An Introduction to The Antoni Tàpies Foundation) Video Acc. 6.2011	1995	Video (color, sound)	25 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Portraits of Artists Print Acc. 514.2006.19	(newspaper published February 20, 1996)	Lithograph, offset printed	sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	Linda Barth Goldstein Fund
Inaugural Speech Video Acc. 5.2011	1997	Video (color, sound)	27 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Eine Einführung In Das Sprengel Museum Hannover (An Introduction to the Sprengel Museum Hannover) Video Acc. 3.2011	1998	Video (color, sound)	20 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Reporting from São Paulo, I'm from the United States Video Acc. 4.2011	1998	Video (color, sound)	24 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Soldadera (Scenes from Un Banquete en Tetlapayac, a film by Olivier Debroise) Installation Acc. 2.2011	1998/2001	Two-channel video (color, sound; 5 min.), five page facsimile letter from Frances Flynn Paine to Mrs. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller	Screen (each): 108 x 144" (365.8 x 274.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 365.76 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Official Welcome Video Acc. 1.2011	2001/2003	Video (color, sound)	30 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
Orchard Document: May I Help You? Video Acc. 1645.2009	2005-2006	16mm film transferred to video (color, sound)	55:10 min. ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Media and Performance	Gift of The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art and Committee on Media and Performance Art Funds
2016 in Museums, Money, and Politics Print Acc. 728.2019	2018	Digital print	composition: 68 1/2 × 59 7/16" (174 × 151 cm); sheet: 74 3/16 × 59 7/8" (188.5 × 152.1 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Drawings & Prints	The Deborah Wye Endowment Fund