About
Andrew Binkley is an interdisciplinary artist whose work reflects on the stages we go through towards awakening and letting go. Through uncovering the relationship of arising and passing away, as well as our own relationship with impermanence, Binkley’s work invites us to examine our personal and universal stages of transformation, as well as offering a shift towards acceptance and appreciation.
Andrew Binkley is an American artist based on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. He attended the Kansas City Art Institute, but left to live throughout China, which eventually led to his ordaining as a Buddhist monk in Thailand for several years. Since leaving monastic life, Binkley has devoted himself to the practice of art and exhibited internationally with the Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts (Taiwan), the Downtown Film Festival (Los Angeles), the Queens Museum of Art (New York), Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art (China), and the Honolulu Biennial (Hawaii). He has exhibited site-specific public works in a wide range of venues. These include an ancient castle in England, a WWII air-raid shelter in Poland, a subway station in Tokyo, a former tennis court at the Honolulu Museum of Art, a mountain in the hi-desert of Joshua Tree National Park, as well as the streets of Seattle with 4Culture + the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Binkley was the recipient of the 2009 Cynthia Eyre Award nominated by Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator of the New Museum, New York and presented by Honolulu Academy of Arts as well as receiving the 2010 Best of Show award by Carol McCusker PhD, Curator of Photography at the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego. His artworks and written articles have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Interior Design, and ZOOM Magazine including its cover for the Sept/Oct 2009 edition. Binkley has presented lectures at UCLA, Fudan University, Shanghai, and The University of Hawaii at Manoa where he was invited to be an artist-in-residence. His work also extends to a number of collaborative projects such as with artist Nanci Amaka as the art collective “Stargaze”, as well as with musician Christopher Willits on his video+sound performances and album cover together with Ryuichi Sakamoto and Ghostly International. Binkley’s works may be found within the collections of Shanghai Zendai MoMA, The Buhl Foundation, and Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts.