Biography

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


Also

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


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