Since the early 1990s, Andrea Zittel has used the arena of her day-to-day life to develop and test prototypes for living structures and situations to illuminate how we attribute significance to chosen structures or ways of life and how arbitrary any choice of structure can be. Her work has been included in major group exhibitions including the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and the Whitney Biennial, and she has had solo exhibitions at SFMOMA, Carnegie Museum of Art, New Museum, and LACMA, among others.

Robert L. Lepper Lecture in Creative Inquiry