Andrew Venell (b. Lake Forest, IL, 1979) is a multimedia artist based in San Francisco, California. His new media, hypertext, collage and experiential artworks address his ongoing interests in urbanism, surveillance, food advertising, safety instructions, shopping malls, televised disasters, flaneurie, overenthusiastic child models, technological glitches, video games, attractive dystopias, airplanes, the spectacle and the aesthetics of decay.

Andrew works as a freelance designer and art instructor.

Education

M.F.A., New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute
B.A., Art Semiotics, Brown University (Honors)

Awards & Honors

• Artist in Residence, KALA Art Institute, Berkeley, CA (2007)
• Capstone Award for Distinction in Creative Writing, Brown University, Providence, RI (2001)

Selected Exhibitions

2009

• DKE Toys Custom Yoka Show at Designer Con, Los Angeles, CA
• Left to Chance, Firehouse 13 Gallery, Providence, RI, curated by Alexandra Chemla
• Faculty Art Show, ASUC Art Studio Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
• “HTML Color Codes,” Rhizome.org at The New Museum, curated by Carolyn Kane

2007

• “Artists Go Lightly,” Temporary Autonomous Museum, San Francisco, CA
• “Psychedelia,” Futuresonic 2007, London, UK
• “The Pushpin Show,” ASUC Art Studio Gallery, University of California, Berkeley
• “Americans in Peril,” Gold Robot Records, Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2005

• “Observatori 05 Festival of Artistic Investigation,” Museo de las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain
• “Netopticon,” No-Org.net, Jerusalem, Israel

2004

• “Solutions for Modern Living,” Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
• “Live Disasters,” San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA

2003

• “3rd St. Inside and Out,” SWELL Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

2002

• “Crowd Pleasers,” SWELL Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
• “Crowd Pleasers,” The Kuvataideakatemia, Helsinki, Finland
• “Digital Commons,” Version 02 Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
• “Net.Art Open,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Teaching

• Workshop, School of Education, University of San Francisco (Fall 2008)
• Instructor, ASUC Art Studio, University of California at Berkeley (2004-Present)
• Adjunct Instructor, The Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Online Division (2005-2008)
• Instructor, Berkeley Language Center, University of California at Berkeley (2005)
• Instructor, Berkeley Youth Radio, Berkeley, CA (2005)
• Graduate Teaching Assistant, San Francisco Art Institute (2003-2004)

Publications

• “Nature As A Text: Complexity theory and the Modernist eye in Maggie Leininger’s ‘Text/ile,’” The Present Group, Issue 7, 2008
• San Francisco Art Institute Catalog, 2005-2006
• “Worlds In Collision,” Carlos Villa and Andrew Venell, Asia Pacific: Perspectives, Special Issue:
  Philippine Studies and the Centennial of the Diaspora:  Vol. VI, May 2006
• “Observatori 05 Festival of Artistic Investigation,” Exhibition catalog
• “The Mall of the Future: An Exercise in E-Metafiction,” Mike Gianelloni, Word Circuits, December 2003
• “Version02, Festival Cultura Digitale Radicale,” Neural.it, April 2002

Also

Please contact for pricing and exhibition information. Many works are available as archival prints through the Burning House Shop.

Today
	Shared furtherfield review - HTML Color Codes. — 6:36am via Delicious
Yesterday
	Listened to 3 songs. — 11:33pm via Last.fm Broadcast and The Focus Group – ritual / looking in of Montreal – The Past is a Grotesque Animal Sex Pistols – Holidays In The Sun
March 8th
	Listened to 2 songs. — 1:22am via Last.fm Girls – Curls Wilco – I'm Always in Love
	Shared East of Eden . — 7:44am via GoodReads
March 7th
	Shared Yoshi Sodeoka. — 11:48pm via Delicious
March 6th
	Listened to 2 songs. — 1:07am via Last.fm Television – See No Evil Television – Venus
March 4th
	Shared Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod. — 11:09pm via Delicious
	Listened to Sam Shepard: You Can Lead a Horse to Water - The Moth. — 7:57pm via Last.fm
March 1st
	Listened to 3 songs. — 1:40am via Last.fm M. Ward – Eyes on the Prize NPR – #152 Planet Money: Small Business, Big Debts In Haiti The Moth – Peter Aguero: The Entertainer
February 28th
	Listened to 4 songs. — 4:16am via Last.fm Garbagebin – Not Too Bad Pavement – Frontwards Pavement – Lions (Linden) Pavement – Shoot The Singer (1 Sick Ver..
February 26th
	Listened to 23 songs. — 12:55am via Last.fm Bat for Lashes – Daniel Bat for Lashes – Glass Bat for Lashes – Good Love Bat for Lashes – Moon And Moon Bat for Lashes – Peace Of Mind Bat for Lashes – Pearl's Dream Bat for Lashes – Siren Song Bat for Lashes – Sleep Alone Bat for Lashes – The Big Sleep Bat for Lashes – Travelling Woman Bat for Lashes – Two Planets The Zinnias – Barley The Zinnias – Bed The Zinnias – Country The Zinnias – Fabergé The Zinnias – Faberge The Zinnias – Helium The Zinnias – Kings The Zinnias – Leeches The Zinnias – Midnight Slows The Zinnias – Otters The Zinnias – Paul Bunyan The Zinnias – Screech
February 25th
	Listened to 14 songs. — 2:25am via Last.fm Blake Babies – Nirvana Broadcast and The Focus Group – Let It Begin / Oh Joy Broadcast – The Little Bell Guided by Voices – Striped White Jets Joy Division – Sound of Music Katie the Pest – Sober Metric – Calculation Theme New Buffalo – Come Back R.E.M. – Letter Never Sent Sex Pistols – Pretty Vacant Sex Pistols – Submission Silver Jews – Aloysius, Bluegrass Drummer The Psychedelic Furs – Get a Room (live) Xiu Xiu – Tonite & Today (Remixed by grouper)
February 24th
	Listened to 13 songs. — 2:39am via Last.fm Bear in Heaven – Casual Goodbye Bear in Heaven – Deafening Love Bear in Heaven – Drug a Wheel Bear in Heaven – Dust Cloud Bear in Heaven – Fake Out Bear in Heaven – Ultimate Satisfaction Goblin – Markos (alternate version) Junior Boys – When No One Cares Mates of State – Clean Out Public Image Ltd. – Public Image Solex – Oh Blimey! The Fall – Hey Student The Flaming Lips – The Ego's Last Stand
	Every night Jim sat at the kitchen table unharmed, quietly resenting his various insurance policies. [AndNeverWell] — 8:00am via Twitter
February 23rd
	Listened to 18 songs. — 1:47am via Last.fm Joanna Newsom – '81 Joanna Newsom – Autumn Joanna Newsom – Baby Birch Joanna Newsom – Does Not Suffice Joanna Newsom – Easy Joanna Newsom – Esme Joanna Newsom – Go Long Joanna Newsom – Good Intentions Paving Co. Joanna Newsom – Have One On Me Joanna Newsom – In California Joanna Newsom – Jackrabbits Joanna Newsom – Kingfisher Joanna Newsom – No Provenance Joanna Newsom – Occident Joanna Newsom – On a Good Day Joanna Newsom – Ribbon Bows Joanna Newsom – Soft As Chalk Joanna Newsom – You and Me, Bess
February 22nd
	Listened to 14 songs. — 4:18am via Last.fm Belle and Sebastian – I Love My Car Bonny Billy & The Picket Line – Hemlocks and Primroses Dinosaur Jr. – On the Way Dum Dum Girls – Jail la la Elliott Smith – Thirteen Four Tet – She Just Likes to Fight jj – Light My Bloody Valentine – No More Sorry Otis Redding – Pain In My Heart The Fiery Furnaces – Straight Street (East Village Radio 2004) The Temper Trap – Love Lost Xiu Xiu – Cute Pee Pee (Bonus) Xiu Xiu – The Ropes Have Pulled Tight (Bonus) Yeasayer – Worms
February 20th
	Listened to 4 songs. — 2:39am via Last.fm Andrew Bird – Ten-You-Us The Cure – A Thousand Hours The Cure – Catch The Cure – Torture
February 19th
	Listened to 4 songs. — 11:42pm via Last.fm Jon Ronson – Jon Ronson On... Bad News Jon Ronson – Jon Ronson On... Being Fancy Merlin Mann – MacBreak 296: Macworld 2010: A Chat with Merlin Passion Pit – Swimming in the Flood
February 18th
	Listened to 7 songs. — 3:00am via Last.fm Goblin – Suspiria (Daemonia Re-Recording) M.I.A. – Come Around (feat. Timbaland) Merlin Mann – MacBreak 293: Macworld 2010: Rogue Amoeba The Cure – Screw The Fiery Furnaces – Quay Cur (East Village Radio 2004) The Magnetic Fields – Take Ecstasy With Me The Smiths – Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me
	Shared Point Omega: A Novel . — 9:07pm via GoodReads
	After searching far and wide, I think I've decided upon my Irish vagabond name: Backpack O'Privilege. [AndNeverWell] — 8:12pm via Twitter
February 17th
	Listened to 2 songs. — 12:49am via Last.fm The Knife – Colouring of Pigeons The Knife – The Height of Summer
February 16th
	Listened to 7 songs. — 4:13am via Last.fm Chicago Public Radio – #400: Stories Pitched By Our Parents Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Alison Ian Svenonius – They Live By Night Spoon – Don't Buy the Realistic The Magnetic Fields – Fido, Your Leash Is Too Long The Shins – Know Your Onion! Violent Femmes – American Music
February 15th
	Listened to 24 songs. — 4:45am via Last.fm Dinosaur Jr. – Get Me Dinosaur Jr. – Sure Not Over You Elliott Smith – Everything Means Nothing to Me Malachai – Snowflake Neutral Milk Hotel – Sinking Ship Nicki Minaj – High As A Knite Feat. Lil’ Wayne Smudge – Plug It Up The Flaming Lips – Gemini Syringes The Smiths – Death of a Disco Dancer The Stone Roses – Bye Bye Badman (The Lost Demos) Wetdog – Ethiopia Wetdog – fist face Wetdog – Long Long Time To Go Wetdog – Lower Leg Wetdog – NEW YEAR Wetdog – Night Comes Down Wetdog – Round Vox Wetdog – Snapper Wetdog – That Man Delivers Papers Wetdog – Tidy Up Your Bedroom Wetdog – trees fall Wetdog – Trehorne Beach Song Wetdog – WAITING LIST Wetdog – Women's Final
	Listened to 7 songs. — 6:41am via Last.fm Guided by Voices – Alone, Stinking, and Unafraid Guided by Voices – Choking Tara (Creamy version) Guided by Voices – Everybody Thinks I'm a Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) Ian Svenonius – AK-47 Ian Svenonius – Bag Inc. Ian Svenonius – If You Can't Beat 'Em, Bite 'Em Sophie Barthes – Cold Souls
February 13th
	Listened to 2 songs. — 9:44pm via Last.fm Elliott Smith – Chelsea Girls (Nico) 10.14.99 MaximumFun.Org – Donald Glover
	Listened to 15 songs. — 6:55am via Last.fm BARR – Greg Busdriver – I've Always Known Dinosaur Jr. – Can't We Move This Dinosaur Jr. – I'm Insane Dinosaur Jr. – I Know Yer Insane Dinosaur Jr. – Puke + Cry Ten in the Swear Jar – House Quake II Ten in the Swear Jar – In The Blue Trunk J.H. (Part 04) Ten in the Swear Jar – In the Blue Trunks, J.H. Ten in the Swear Jar – King Earth / Melons Ten in the Swear Jar – Sad Girl Ten in the Swear Jar – When You Write [Black Angels Version] Xiu Xiu – He Needs Me (Nina Simone) Xiu Xiu – Kangaroo (This Mortal Coil/Alex Chilton) Xiu Xiu – Saint Pedro Glue Stick
February 11th
	Listened to 5 songs. — 3:27am via Last.fm Au Revoir Simone – The Lucky One Ian Svenonius – Girls Like That Nat M. Wills – No News, or What Killed the Dog (1909) Sex Pistols – Liar The Fiery Furnaces – Winter
	Shared 5 books. — 10:14pm via GoodReads

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• furtherfield review - HTML Color Codes 12 hours ago
• artsblog » L'dentità multipla di Andrew Venell 2009/11/22
• HTML Color Codes 2009/09/30
• [netopticon report] 2009/06/19
• AVT 280- Intro to Digital Art: AMomentOfSilence.tv by Andrew Venell 2009/06/19
• Andrew Venell, American Multimedia Artist, San Francisco, CA | creatordb 2009/06/19
• The Irish Museum of Modern Art Net.Art Open 2002 2009/06/19
• Results for net-art01 2009/06/19
• BAY AREA ARTS CALENDAR - Fecal Face 2009/06/19
• FFFFOUND! | I’ll Be a Phallus Like a Motorbike (Collage Series) | Andrew Venell 2009/06/19
• app_v6n1_villa_venell.pdf (application/pdf Object) 2009/06/19
• Rhizome | Selections from: The Rhizome 50,000 Dollar Webpage 2009/06/19
• [netopticon] BuyOrBeware.com by Andrew Venell 2009/06/19
• Andrew Venell 2009/06/19
• Andrew Venell | minimalsites 2009/06/19