Andrew Berardini

Andrew Berardini (born August 21, 1982) is an American writer, art critic, curator, and editor based in Los Angeles. Born in California and raised in a working-class family in Southern California, he is noted for a literary approach to art criticism that merges memoir, cultural commentary, and lyric essay. He describes himself as working "primarily between genres," creating what he calls "quasi-essayistic prose poems on art." Spike magazine characterized him as "the most elegant of all art critic cowboys [who] knows LA like the back of his hand."

Berardini has been a contributing writer to Artforum since 2006 and has written extensively for Mousse, Frieze, ArtReview, and LA Weekly. He has developed a substantial international curatorial practice, organizing exhibitions at major institutions including MOCA Los Angeles, Palais de Tokyo, and as co-curator of the Estonian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu.

He is the author of Danh Vo: Relics (2015) and Colors (2023). Writer Chris Kraus praised Berardini as "one of our leading art critics" and "an adept at seeing," noting how he "uses color itself as a springboard to an astonishing range of reflections on culture and history, ideology and childhood."