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, 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). She lives with her family in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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