Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

EDUCATION

 

2019              MFA, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

2016              BFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

2022-24       Assistant Professor, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

Re-Thinking Art

One-on-One

Summer Studios

Painting I

TDS Exchange Program Berlin

Sierra Summer: Making in the Mountains 

2023              Lecturer, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA

Beginning Painting

2020-23       Lecturer, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Basic Painting

2022-23       Teaching Assistant, Art Center College of Design, Berlin, Germany

TDS Exchange Program Berlin

2018-20        Private Art Instructor, Irvine, CA

2019                Teaching Associate, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Drawing I

Drawing II

2018               Teaching Associate, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Basic Painting 

2017                Teacher Assistant, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Color Theory

Advanced Figure Drawing

Basic Painting I

Art in Context

2009-13       Art Instructor/Manager, Little Artists, San Diego, CA

 

INVITED WORKSHOPS AND GUEST LECTURES 

 

2020             The Loss of the Artists Hand, Painting Workshop and Guest Lecture, Denison University, Columbus, OH  

 

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND RESIDENCIES

 

2024              Cow House Studios, Wexford, Ireland

2022               The Arctic Hideaway, Fleinvaer, Norway

Antoinette Adams Alum TA Berlin Trip, Pasadena, CA

2019               The Arctic Hideaway, Fleinvaer, Norway

Vermont Studio Center Residency, Johnson, VT

Brython Davis Fellowship, UCI, Irvine, CA

2018               Playa Summer Lake Residency, Summer Lake, OR

Dean’s Scholarship, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI, Irvine, CA

Research Travel Grant, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI, Irvine, CA

2017                Salmon Creek Farm, Albion, CA

2016.              Picture Berlin Residency, Berlin, Germany

2015.              Liegel Award, Fine Arts Department ACCD, Pasadena, CA

Art Center 100 Scholarship, ACCD, Pasadena, CA

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2019               Beneath the Sky, Google LAX BIN1, Los Angeles, CA

I Keep Calling the Elements She, Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA

Lidijia in the Buttermilks — Alabama Hills; Mono, Convict, June, UAG Gallery, Irvine, CA

2016.              Monsoon, Fine Art Small Gallery ACCD, Pasadena, CA

2015               CAVE HEAVENS, Fine Art Small Gallery ACCD, Pasadena, CA

 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2023               Berlain, Raeume, Berlin, Germany

2022               A Loop, A Triangle, and a Trapezoid, Bozomag, Los Angeles, CA

2020              Wild, Salt Fine Art, Laguna Beach, CA (moved online due to Covid-19)

Plants Are People Too, Artemisia Nursery, Los Angeles, CA (cancelled due to Covid-19)

2019               While Color Lights Up Your Face, Unit 5 @ Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA

The Shape of Content, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Now Trending, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA

Großkreisentfernung Mail Art Exhibition, tête, Berlin, Germany

GLAMFA, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

2018               COLOR VISION, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach, CA

Present Tense, Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA

Positive/Negative, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN

The Great Compromise, UAG Gallery, UC Irvine, Irvine, CA

Sustainability and Public Good, CAA MFA Exhibition, Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2017                Painting in the Abstract: Women Inspired by the Masters, Great Park Gallery, Irvine, CA

SoCal MFA Exhibition, Millard Sheets Art Center, Pomona, CA 

FAR Bazaar, Cerritos College, Cerritos, CA

2016 2016     Southern California Baja Biennale, San Diego Art Institute,

Ohrwurm, Meinblau Projektum, Berlin, Germany

Open Haus, Z/KU, Berlin, Germany

derive, tete, Berlin, Germany

Now Trending, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

 

2019               VoyageLA Staff, “Meet Andrea Welton,” VoyageLA, March 26, 2019, 

http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-andrea-welton-studio-art-irvine/

Evan Senn, “Seeing in Color at Huntington Beach Art Center,” Art and Cake LA, June 3, 2018, https://artandcakela.com/2018/06/03/seeing-in-color-at-huntington-beach-art-center/

2017               Dave Barton, “Great Park Gallery Highlights Local Female Abstract Painters in Exciting Exhibit,”

OC Weekly, September 14, 2017

2016               Jaymie Shearer, “Andrea Welton,” She Explores (blog), March 17, 2016,

http://www.she-explores.com/artistry/andrea-welton/

 

COLLECTIONS

 

Beth Rudin DeWoody, Los Angeles, CA

 

AUCTIONS/BENEFITS

 

2020                California Cool Art Auction 2020, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA

2019                 Silent Auction, Dinner with a Cause, Downtown Women’s Center, Los Angeles, CA