Andre Stitt

André Stitt
André Stitt, Baltic Art Centre, Gateshead, 2005
Born	1958 Belfast, Northern Ireland
Alma mater	Belfast College of Art
Known for	Painting/Contemporary Art
Website	www.andrestitt.com

André Stitt (born 1958 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an artist currently based in Cardiff, Wales, where he is a Professor of Fine Art at the Cardiff School of Art & Design.

Stitt's family moved from Belfast in the 1960s and spent his early life in Seymour Hill, where he attended Dunmurry High School before going to Art College. From 1980-1999 he lived and worked in London, presenting his work increasingly internationally throughout the eighties.

He is currently a Professor of Fine Art/Painting at the Cardiff School of Art & Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University,. He is chair of CFAR (the Centre for Fine Art Research) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Art and of the Higher Education Academy.

Working almost exclusively in live and interdisciplinary art from 1976–2000, Stitt gained an international reputation for cutting edge, provocative and politically challenging work. His artistic concern is prevailingly that of communities and their dissolution, often relating to trauma, conflict and art as a redemptive proposition. He often relates this back to the city of Belfast and the 'Troubles' it was going through during his upbringing. His live performance and installation works have been presented at major museums, galleries and sites specific throughout the world.

His work has been included in group exhibitions among others at MoMA PS1, New York City (2000), Venice Biennale (2005), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom (2005), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2008), Galerie Suvi Lehtinen, Berlin (2011), and at the John Moore's Painting Prize Exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (2012), and the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Visual Arts Exhibition (2012).