Andrew McNiven is a Scots/Irish artist and academic. Born in Edinburgh in 1963, he studied fine art at Goldsmiths' College in London, graduating in 1987, a contemporary of many of the artists who rose to international prominence during the 1990s. He received his MA from Goldsmiths' in 1995 and completed an AHRC-funded, practice-led PhD at Northumbria University in 2010. Since 1990 his work has been shown internationally by amongst others: the Lisson Gallery; the Whitechapel Gallery; the Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh. Formerly a lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art, from 2010-2025 he was Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, Germany. He is a trustee of Stills in Edinburgh.