Andrea Canepa is a visual artist that grew up on the coast of Peru and is currently based in Berlin. She works primarily with installation, sculpture, textiles and performance. She studied Fine Arts in Lima (PE) and Valencia (ES) and received her MFA in Visual Arts and Multimedia from the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. She has received grants from the German Art Fund Foundation, the Senate for Culture and Europe in Berlin, Endesa Foundation (ES), and awards including the ARCO Community of Madrid Prize for Young Artists and the Generaciones Prize (ES). She has participated in a number of residencies including Gasworks (UK), Jan Van Eyck Academie (NL), Cité des Arts (FR), Bauhaus Masters’ Houses (DE), MATADERO (ES), Tokyo Wonder Site (JP), Beta Local (PR) and was a 2018-2019 recipient of the Spanish Academy in Rome Fellowship (IT). She’s had solo shows at the MSU Broad Museum in Michigan, De Appel in Amsterdam, the Peruvian-American Cultural Institute - ICPNA in Lima, Domus Artium Museum in Salamanca, the Museum of Teruel and Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona. Her works are part of collections such as CA2M, IVAM, Museo de Teruel (ES), MSU Broad Museum (US) and of foundations such as Endesa, Montemadrid, DKV and Inelcom (ES), Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (DE) and MASM (PE).