Andrew Berardini is a writer out of Los Angeles. 

A contributor to Artforum since 2006, he is the author of Relics (2015) and Colors (2023), a literary atlas of 110 shades of color, shifting through memory, sensation, and art history. 

He co-curated Kris Lemsalu’s Estonian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale, orchestrated Bruce Nauman’s first-ever skywriting, performed as the Public Writer at Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective, and has organized exhibitions at MOCA, Palais de Tokyo, and Castello di Rivoli. 

His writing has appeared in Mousse, Purple, and BOMB, as well as for SFMOMA, the Whitney Biennial, and documenta 14. 

Berardini is Co-founder & Editor-in-Chief of Art Bae Agenda, a longtime faculty member at the Mountain School of Arts, and a recipient of the Creative Capital / Warhol Grant for Art Writers. 

His collected writings about Los Angeles are forthcoming in the next year. He works in an expanded field of artistic practice, and has composed through exhibitions, love letters, posters, pamphlets, performances, and songs. Often disabled by illness, he bends meaning into poetic reverie—language as tender, strange, and alive. 

A decently exhaustive list of all his dubious accomplisments is available here.