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ANDIE

photograph by Jade Skye Hammer

ANDIE FLORES (b. 1990) (she/her) is a performance artist in Austin, Texas, who uses embarrassment as a medium for investigating hyper, almost obsessive, visibility in a racialized body across barriers of border, history, and capital. Her practice works to unsettle categorical, site-specific expectations of genres of performance (femininity, Latinidad, drag, citizenry) and aims to recontextualize the mechanisms required to do the work of the absurd. Flores creates experimental live performances that pair identity and comedic culture moments with over-exaggerated, often grotesque shapes and sounds. She is fascinated by the urgent task of world-building at the edge of the limits of art-making. 

Her work has been shown at Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Warehouse9 (Denmark), Roskilde Festival, Fusebox Festival, DORF, The Dallas Contemporary, Austin Sketch Fest, Bushwig (NYC), Presa House Gallery (San Antonio), The Museum of Human Achievement, Ivester Contemporary, MASS Gallery, Future Front Film Fest, Contrast Film Festival, Cagematch Project, and The Dallas Latino Cultural Center.  She debuted her first solo stage show, To Get There… You Must Undergo… A Radical Transformation at OUTsider Festival in February 2023 and performed a sold out run at Crashbox in November 2023. Her hybrid dissertation/stage show, What Have I Done?!?!?!: Failure, Art, and Accountability at the End Beginning End Beginning End of the World, sold out its debut at Fusebox Festival in April 2026. She is also a frequent collaborator with playwright Sam Mayer.

Flores is a recipient of the Frick Arts Foundation award, was voted Best Performance Artist in Concept Animals’ Community Favorites poll of December 2023, and named one of Remezcla's '40 Emerging Texas-Based Artists to Know' in 2020. She holds a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

🎟️ Upcoming: GERL GURL GORL! October 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 in Austin, Texas

Photo by Rachael Warriner