Andrée Bober is the founding director and curator of Landmarks, the public art program of The University of Texas at Austin. She inaugurated the program with a long-term loan of twenty-eight sculptures from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2008. Since then, Bober has commissioned major works by artists Michael Ray Charles, Ann Hamilton, Sarah Oppenheimer, Eamon Ore-Giron, José Parlá, Nancy Rubins, Jennifer Steinkamp, and James Turrell, among others.

Bober also created Landmarks Video in 2010, an ongoing series of video art. With co-curator Kanitra Fletcher, she presented the exhibitions Ways of Being (2020) and Kara Walker: The Fact of Fiction (2020).

Prior to Austin, Bober led the Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati through the successful completion of its Zaha Hadid-designed facility. As deputy and then acting director, she curated the exhibitions SPRAWL (2002) and Susan Unterberg: A Retrospective (2004).

Bober studied art history and museology at The University of Texas at Austin, practiced painting conservation in Vienna, Austria, and earned a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Columbia University in New York. Her recent publications include The Collections: The University of Texas at Austin (2016) and Landmarks (2018), Sarah Oppenheimer: C-010106 (2024), and Adeline de Monseignat: Motherhood in Four Acts (forthcoming).

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