Andrew Scott Ross

Director, School of Art & Art History
Phone: (813) 974-2360
Email: asr@usf.edu
Office: FAH 229

Andrew Scott Ross, an accomplished artist and educator, possesses over a decade of administrative experience at East Tennessee State University, where he held roles as the Foundations Coordinator and head of Drawing within the Department of Art and Design. As an administrator, Ross significantly impacted the program, transforming its first-year curriculum with courses that weave contemporary themes, critical inquiry, and programming that featured a roster of internationally recognized artists.

His visual art-based research centers on the language of museums; investigating the cultural dynamics surrounding object presentation and their underlying socio- and psycho-cultural frameworks. Ross's related installations, drawings, videos, and sculptures have been included in prestigious institutions globally, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, The Building for Contemporary Art in Geneva, Switzerland, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Ben Gurion Airport, and the Hunter Museum of American Art. His installation Century Zoo 10 was commissioned for the Southern Voices / Global Visions exhibit, organized by South Arts and ArtFields in 2023. In the summer of 2024, Ross' wax drawings will be a part of the Delta Triennial at the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts.

Ross has been honored with a series of significant awards. These include a Joan Mitchell Fellowship, a fellowship from the Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts at APSU, the South Arts Fellowship for the state of Tennessee, and a 2022 Current Art Fund grant through Tri-Star Arts funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation. His work has also been recognized in notable publications such as Artforum Magazine, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Sculpture Magazine, and Artsy.