Andres Valencia

The Cowboy, 2023
Oil pastels and acrylic paint on cotton canvas
60 in. x 36 in. / 152.4 cm. x 91.44 cm.
(framed: 66 in. x 42 in. /167.44 cm. x 106.68 cm.)
Signed on reverse by artist

Andres Valencia (b. 2011) is a California-based contemporary artist known for dramatic, colorful figurative paintings that are deeply influenced by Cubism. Valencia has been painting since he was five years old. He stands on a step ladder to create large-scale works with a mix of oil stick, and oil and acrylic paint, seeking to create bold colors and wildly imaginative fragmented facial compositions. Teachers involved in his California public school Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) program quickly identified his extraordinary talent. Surrounded by art at home, Valencia is inspired by Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, George Condo, and Salvador Dalí.

At the young age of eleven, he has had enormous success catching the attention of the press and art collectors from around the world. During Art Miami 2021, he was featured on Good Morning America and many other significant news outlets globally. Also at Art Miami 2021, where he became the youngest artist in history to have his own booth, his entire body of artworks sold out on opening night. His success continued in 2022, as every painting sold in one day at Art Palm Beach in March, and all works sold before the opening of his solo exhibition in New York in June. Profiles about Valencia have been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Times, NPR, Artnet News, Robb Report, and Smithsonian Magazine, among many other international publications. His auction debut featured the painting Ms. Cube at Phillips, Hong Kong, realizing a $160,000 sale price, over three times the high estimate. Another hit $230,000 at a charity gala in Capri, Italy. His works are in the private collections of Robbi and Bruce E. Toll, Jessica Goldman Srebnick, Sofía Vergara, Tommy Mottola, and Kim Tae-hyung (known as “V” in the group BTS). He has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity, donating works to raise money for amfAR, UNICEF, Box of Hope, and the Klitschko Foundation in Ukraine. To date, artworks that Valencia has donated to charitable causes have raised nearly USD$1 million.

“I just want the world to know my work,” Valencia said of his primary goal.

Courtesy of the artist (@andresvalenciaart)

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