Education:

MFA studies, Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
BFA, American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL
Art Students League of New York
Certificate of Fine Art, National Academy School, New York, NY
Merit Scholarship
Attended New School University, New York, NY
Private study with painters Aaron Shikler and David Levine, New York, NY

Exhibitions:

2010

Art Sharks Benefit, John G. Shedd Aquarium, Chicago, IL

2009

Imagine, Harrington College of Design, Chicago, IL

2008

Artworks 5, G2, Art Institute of Chicago
Town and Country, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
National Small Oil Painting Exhibition, Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, KS

2007

Fall faculty exhibition, Harrington College of Design
National Arts Club Members Exhibition

2006
Take Home a Nude, Phillips de Pury & Co., New York, NY
The Unexpected, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
NOVA, (Orleans Street Gallery), Chicago, IL

2005
Solo Exhibition, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL
Continuum: Celebrating the 130th Anniversary of the Art Students League of New York
ACA Galleries, New York, NY
Third Annual Open Online Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Flowers and All Kinds of Notes, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Art & Medicine, Weiss Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

2004

Andrew S. Conklin: New York – Chicago, (Solo Exhibition), Lora D Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
First Group Show of the Season, Lora D Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ted Shen Memorial Grant Auction, Judy Saslow Gallery, Chicago, IL
Salon International 2004, Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art, San Antonio, TX
City Life, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Rock for Kids, Chicago Arts Club, Chicago, IL
Human, Illinois Institute of Art Gallery, Chicago, IL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2003

First Annual Online Exhibition, National Arts Club, New York, NY
Looted Iraqi Art Auction: Artists Respond, Gallery Mornea, Evanston, IL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Ars Amoratis—The Art of Love, Malovat Gallery, Chicago, IL
Book-Making (Art About Books), Hoorn–Ashby Gallery, New York, NY

2002

About Looking at Things, gescheidle gallery, Chicago, IL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

2001

The Discerning Eye, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
SnowGlobe Invitational, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
Face to Face: Self Portraits by Chicago Artists, Harold Washington Library
Suite Home Chicago Charity Auction (“Kite Kouch’) Chicago Theater, Chicago, IL
On Process: Studio Themes, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Two Artists from Tree Studios, Illini Union, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Fine Arts Building Artists, Fine Arts Building, Chicago, IL

1999

US Artists: The American Art Exposition and Sale, Philadelphia, PA
Figurative Paintings, Lyons Weir Gallery, Chicago, IL
Heads, MMC Gallery, Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Women and Men, (Solo Exhibition), Hoorn–Ashby Gallery, New York, NY

1998

US Artists: The American Art Exposition and Sale, Philadelphia, PA
American Drawing Biennial 6, Muscarelle Museum of Art, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
The Art of Representation, Observed Realities and Desired Effects on the Painted Surface, St Anselm College, Manchester, NH
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY

1997

Drawn from the Faculty: an Exhibition from the Faculty of the Graduate School of Figurative Art, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY
Show of Gallery Artists, Hoorn–Ashby Gallery, New York, NY
Take Home a Nude, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
Holiday Show, Hoorn-Ashby Gallery, New York, NY

1996

171st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

1994

A Renewal of Tradition, (Solo Exhibition), Center for Financial Studies,
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Flowers in February, Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY

1992

167th Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Century Collectors' Show, The Century Association, New York, NY

1991

Academy-Institute Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,
American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1989

Realism, Then and Now, Frank Caro Gallery, New York, NY

1986

161st Annual Exhibition, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
73rd Annual Exhibit, Allied Artists of America New York, NY

Selected Awards:

President’s Award, 2008 Annual Online Exhibition, National Arts Club, NY, NY
George Sugarman Foundation Grant, Novato, CA
Art Renewal Center (certified Living Master artist)
E. D. Foundation, New Jersey, Artist Grant
Julius Hallgarten Prize, National Academy Museum
The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grants, Montreal, Quebec

Publications:

2009

New American Paintings No. 83, Wellesley, MN: Open Studios Press
First _ish, Illustrators' Society of Harrington College Annual magazine
Conklin, Andrew S., "Style and Substance," Space Thresholds, Harrington
College of Design, Vol. 2
Marszalek, Norbert, “Interview with Andrew S. Conklin,” NeotericArt.com

2007

Conklin, Andrew S., "Standing in Corot’s Shadow," Linea, Art Students League,
Vol. 10, No. 2

2006

Linea, Art Students League, Vol. 10, No. 1

2005

American Art Collector Magazine, October issue

2002

Buck, Paula Closson, ed., West Branch No. 51, Bucknell University, Fall, cover art

2001

Zatorre, Robert J. and Peretz, Isabelle, ed., The Biological Origins of Music, New York Academy of Sciences, cover art

Shen, Ted, "House of Representatives," Reader, March 9, pp. 10-14

Newman, Christine, "Places in the Art," Chicago magazine, March issue

2000

New American Paintings No. 29, Wellesley, MN: Open Studios Press

Sundell, Ivy, Art Scene Chicago 2000, Evanston, IL: Crow Woods Press, pp. 30-31

1999

The Sciences magazine, November/December issue, illustration, p.5

Craven. Robert R., "The Art of Representation, St. Anselm College, "Art New England, April Issue

Conklin, Andrew S., "How To Get Started Painting on Copper," American Artist magazine, January issue

1997

Who's Who in American Art, 22nd Edition

1995

Reprint, "Figures in an Underground Landscape," Oil Highlights-Figures Magazine

1994

Myers-Payne, Amy, "Expanding on a Classic," The Artist's Magazine, November issue

1991

Conklin, Andrew S., "Figures in an Underground Landscape," American Artist magazine, December issue

1986

Eliasoph, Phillip, "Basically Speaking, Hastings Takes Academic Bow," Advocate and Greenwich Times, May 25

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