{{Short description|American artist duo}} {{Infobox person | name = Andrea Robbins and Max Becher | image = | caption = | known_for = Photography<br>Video art | other_names = | occupation = Artist duo | movement = Contemporary art<br>Conceptual art | notable_works = | education = Andrea Robbins<br>Cooper Union School of Art<br>Hunter College<br>Max Becher<br>Cooper Union School of Art<br>Rutgers University | website = | children = | module = | title = }} '''Andrea Robbins''' (born 1963 in Boston, Massachusetts) and '''Max Becher''' (born 1964 in Düsseldorf) are U.S.-based visual artists. They have worked collaboratively since they met at the Cooper Union in New York in 1984. They married in 1988.

==Education== Andrea Robbins received her BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art and then attended Hunter College School of Art, both in New York City. Max Becher received his BFA from the Cooper Union School of Art, and his MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.

==Work== Robbins and Becher employ photography, video and other digital media to document what they term "the transportation of place," situations in which one place or culture strongly resembles another distant one. Their conception of place often includes such notions as location in time, positions of ideology and cultural identity. Past subjects of their work have included German colonial towns in Namibia; Germans who dress as Native Americans; descendants of freed American slaves in the Dominican Republic; a Brooklyn Hasidic headquarters building that has been copied and rebuilt around the world; the relocated London Bridge in Lake Havasu, Arizona; the replication of Venice at The Venetian, Las Vegas; and the enduring culture of African American cowboys.

==Exhibitions and reviews== The work of Robbins and Becher has been exhibited and collected by art museums such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,<ref>The New York Times [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/19/arts/photography-review-the-guggenheim-sounds-the-alarm-it-ain-t-necessarily-so.html?src=pm "The Guggenheim Sounds the Alarm: It Ain't Necessarily So"] Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> (New York, NY and Bilbao, Spain), the Whitney Museum of American Art,<ref>The Whitney Museum.[http://www.haberarts.com/ameffect.htm "The American Effect"] Accessed July 9, 2011</ref> (New York, NY), the Jewish Museum<ref>The Jewish Museum, New York. [http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=27 The Jewish Identity Project: New American Photography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001103019/http://www.thecjm.org/index.php?option=com_ccevents&scope=exbt&task=detail&oid=27 |date=2011-10-01 }} Accessed July 11, 2011</ref> (New York, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL.), the Museum of Contemporary Photography<ref>Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.[http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2003/01/the_transportat.php "Andrea Robbins & Max Becher: The Transportation of Place"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110910045026/http://www.mocp.org/exhibitions/2003/01/the_transportat.php |date=September 10, 2011 }} Accessed July 9, 2011</ref> (Chicago, IL), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (Barcelona, Spain),<ref>Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, List of artists from the MACBA collection</ref>Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris, France), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum Kunstpalast<ref>galerienvirtuell.de, [http://galerienvirtuell.de/kunst-report-Kuenstlerpaar-Andrea-Robbins-und-Max-Becher-in-Koeln-und-Duesseldorf,102.html "Künstlerpaar Andrea Robbins und Max Becher in Köln und Düsseldorf"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326201645/http://galerienvirtuell.de/kunst-report-Kuenstlerpaar-Andrea-Robbins-und-Max-Becher-in-Koeln-und-Duesseldorf%2C102.html |date=March 26, 2012 }} Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> (Düsseldorf, Germany), and the SK Stiftung Kultur (Cologne, Germany). Their work has been reviewed or featured in publications such as ''Artforum'',<ref>Artforum,[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_n1_v36/ai_20197602/ "Andrea Robbins & Max Becher - art exhibit at the Basilico Fine Arts, New York"] Accessed July 4, 2011</ref> ''Art in America'', ''Art News'', ''Blindspot Magazine'',<ref>Blind Spot Magazine Issue 6.[http://www.blindspot.com/store/page2.html?mag_id=6&artist_id=robbins_becher "Andrea Robbins & Max Becher:The Oregon Vortex"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111001072817/http://www.blindspot.com/store/page2.html?mag_id=6&artist_id=robbins_becher |date=2011-10-01 }} Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> ''October'', ''Art on Paper'', ''The New York Times'',<ref>New York Times.[https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/05/arts/art-in-review-andrea-robbins-and-max-becher.html "ART IN REVIEW; Andrea Robbins and Max Becher] Accessed July 4, 2011.</ref> ''The Washington Post'',<ref>The Washington Post.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/16/AR2006101601299.html "Illustrating That Looks Aren't Everything"] Accessed July 5, 2011</ref> ''Frankfurter Allgemeine'',<ref>Frankurter Allgemeine."Einmal Indianerhäuptling sein." Catrin Lorch, 2005</ref> ''Die Zeit'', ''Welt am Sonntag'', and many others.

==Books== * "Portraits,"<ref>University of Maryland Baltimore County, [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1890761117 "Portraits"] Accessed July 4, 2011.</ref> with essays by Maurice Berger, and Andrea Robbins and Max Becher, 2008, Publisher, University of Maryland Baltimore County, MA. {{ISBN|978-1-890761-11-0}} * "The Transportation of Place,"<ref>Aperture Press, [http://www.aperture.org/books/book-categories/landscape/andrea-robbins-and-max-becher-the-transportation-of-place.html "The Transportation of Place"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929085200/http://www.aperture.org/books/book-categories/landscape/andrea-robbins-and-max-becher-the-transportation-of-place.html |date=September 29, 2011 }} Accessed July 4, 2011.</ref> with essays by Lucy Lippard and Maurice Berger, 2006. Publisher: Aperture Press, New York. {{ISBN|978-1-59711-010-5}} * "Brooklyn Abroad." with essays by Nora Alter and Rupert Pfab, May 2006. Publisher Sonnabend Gallery and Museum Kunstpalast. * "Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law,"<ref>Light Work, [http://lightwork.org/store/cs98.html "Contact sheet 98: Andrea Robbins and Max Becher: German Indians and Bavarian by Law"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323132856/http://lightwork.org/store/cs98.html |date=March 23, 2012 }} Accessed July 9, 2011</ref> with essays by Gary Hesse and Jolene Rickard, 1998. Publisher: Light Work, Syracuse, NY. {{ISSN|1064-640X}} * "Andrea Robbins and Max Becher,"<ref>Kanaal Art Foundation and de Vleeshal, [http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?inventory_id=14727 "Andrea Robbins and Max Becher"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111009083920/http://www.specificobject.com/objects/info.cfm?inventory_id=14727 |date=October 9, 2011 }} Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> with essays by Benjamin Buchloh, Catherine de Zegher, Everlyn Nicodemus, and Luc Lang, 1994. Publisher: Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk and de Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands ASIN: B001QC688Y

==Residencies and awards== * Artist-in-Residence, The Altos de Chavón Cultural Center Foundation, La Romana, Dominican Republic (affiliated with Parsons School of Design, New York) summer 1999 * Grant Recipient Artists-in-Residence, Light Work Foundation,<ref>Light Work Foundation, [http://www.lightwork.org/about/chronology.html "Light Work Chronology"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213954/http://www.lightwork.org/about/chronology.html |date=July 21, 2011 }} Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> winter 1995 * Leopold Godowsky, Jr. Color Photography Award,<ref>Photographic Resource Center at Boston University [http://www.lightwork.org/about/chronology.html"Godowsky Award] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721213954/http://www.lightwork.org/about/chronology.html |date=July 21, 2011 }} Accessed July 10, 2011</ref> 2005 * Cooper Union President's Citation for Art,<ref>Cooper Union President's Citation for Ar, [http://cooper.edu/news-events/commencement/honorees/ "PRESIDENT'S CITATION: ART"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121063803/http://cooper.edu/news-events/commencement/honorees/ |date=November 21, 2010 }} Accessed July 9, 2011</ref> 2011

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==External links== * {{official website |robbinsbecher.com}} * [http://www.artnet.com/Galleries/Artists_detail.asp?G=&gid=139120&which=&aid=2178&ViewArtistBy=online&rta=http://www.artnet.com Robbins/Becher at Sonnabend Gallery] * [http://www.artnet.com/artists/andrea-robbins-and-max-becher/ Robbins/Becher at Artnet]

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