Andrea Bagdon is an interdisciplinary artist and educator based in the Twin Cities. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including at the College Art Association Conference in Chicago, the Fringe Bath Arts Festival in London, After/Time Gallery in Portland, and Project Gallery V in New York. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings (West Issue No. 156) and in the 2024 Biennial Edition of Women CineMakers Magazine.

Bagdon is the recipient of multiple grants and awards, including a 2024 Minnesota State Arts Board Creative Individuals Grant and a 2023 MRAC Flexible Support Grant for Ladylike, an experimental art project she co-founded. In 2022, she was an artist-in-residence at Signal Culture, leading to a new body of work showcased in a solo exhibition at Q. Underground Gallery in Minneapolis in November 2024.

She holds a BFA from Northern Arizona University and an MFA from Colorado State University. Currently, Bagdon serves as Fine Arts Department Chair and Advanced Placement art instructor at a college preparatory high school in the Twin Cities, and as a MFA Candidate Mentor at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

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My work reimagines domestic spaces as both subject and metaphor, intertwining tactile mediums with time-based media to transform familiar interiors into charged psychological landscapes. By interrogating cultural narratives and engaging with feminist and critical gender discourses, I challenge passive perceptions of identity, inviting viewers to reconsider how environments shape both individual and collective experiences. This interdisciplinary approach offers a dynamic perspective on the evolving discourse surrounding the feminine experience in contemporary society.