ANDRES VALENCIA

Andres Valencia (b. 2011) is a California-based contemporary artist known for large, 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. His entire body of art works sold out on the opening night of Art Miami in 2021, becoming the youngest artist in history to have his own booth at Art Miami. His success continued in 2022, as every painting sold in one day at Art Palm Beach in March, 2022, and all works sold before the opening of his solo exhibition in New York in June. Profiles about Valencia have been released in The New York Times, Forbes, The Times, NPR, Artnet News, Robb Report, 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, and Box of Hope, and the Klitschko Foundation in Ukraine. To date, Valencia has donated over $750,000 to charity.

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