Biography
Andrea Reising is a multi-media artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
She completed undergraduate studies in Visual arts and Writing at
Columbia University. In 2000, Reising began Drunken Buffalo Arts,
an independent publisher of art, music and writing.
Reising studied guitar and voice at the Wisconsin Conservatory
of Music. She performs as a singer-songwriter, and has produced
three albums, “My Achilles Heel” 2004, “Underbelly” 2002, and
“Rodeo Queen” 2000.
In fall of 1998, Reising independently published her first poetry
collection. Columbia University published a second collection,
entitled “Gadfly Wiles,” in Spring 2000. “Open City” literary journal
published an excerpt of “Gadfly Wiles” in Fall 2000.
Reising has exhibited photographs, painting and installations in
New York and Milwaukee. In 2002, she was nominated by Columbia
University for the Mortimer Hayes-Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. In
the spring of 2008, Reising won the C40 International Award for
Sustainability in Design.
Her recent multimedia project entitled “The Self Generation
Corporation” involves research and development of products and
technologies to create a self-sustaining energy consumer. Reising
will complete her Fine Arts Masters from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn,
NY in May 2009.