Andres Valencia

Andres Valencia was born in 2011 in San Diego, California; the birth year and general location are corroborated across multiple sources, but no source confirms an exact day or month of birth, so none is given here. He began painting around age five. He had no formal art school training. His early development came through California public school visual and performing arts programs, where teachers identified his talent, combined with self-directed study that included watching instructional videos and reading art history, with named influences including RETNA and George Condo.

His large, saturated, Cubist-influenced figurative portraits, worked in oil, oil stick, and acrylic, drew comparisons to Picasso, George Condo, and Francisco Goya. In 2021, at around age ten, he became the youngest artist reported to present a solo booth at Art Miami, selling out a presentation of seventeen paintings. In 2022, Chase Contemporary presented a solo exhibition of his work, titled No Rules, in New York; specific attendance and sale figures for that show are not independently confirmed. That same year, on June 21, 2022, his painting Ms. Cube made his international auction debut at Phillips Hong Kong, selling for HKD 1,260,000 (about USD 160,503), more than triple its high estimate.

Reports from 2025 referenced a planned presentation of his work at Museo Jumex in Mexico City, though this is not independently confirmed as a permanent collection holding. In 2026, at age fourteen, the Nassau County Museum of Art in Roslyn Harbor, New York presented Profiles in Color: The Paintings of Andres Valencia, his first solo museum exhibition in the tri-state region, running March 21 to July 12, 2026. He continues to live and work in California, represented by Chase Contemporary.

Coverage of Valencia has run heavily toward profile pieces rather than formal criticism, with features in Forbes, Artnet News, My Modern Met, Hypebeast, Vivant Magazine, NBC San Diego, and Long Island Press emphasizing his age alongside his visual debts to Picasso, George Condo, and Francisco Goya. The Nassau County Museum of Art frames his portraits as bold and expressive, language consistent with the broader press treatment of his work as prodigious rather than as the subject of sustained art-historical analysis. No verified verbatim assessment from a named critic at a major outlet was available for this profile. The record to date is dominated by human-interest and market coverage rather than critical scholarship.

Valencia's public market rests on a single confirmed auction result. Ms. Cube sold for HKD 1,260,000 (about USD 160,503) at Phillips Hong Kong on June 21, 2022, well above its HKD 200,000 to 400,000 estimate, and it remains his auction record as of this writing. Most of his sales to date have taken place through his primary gallery, Chase Contemporary, and through art fair presentations such as Art Miami, rather than at auction. A reported USD 230,000 sale at a charity gala in Capri, Italy, was a benefit event rather than a public auction result and is not comparable to an auction record. With only one public auction sale on record, there is not yet enough repeat-sale data to establish a price trend, and any single future auction result could move his benchmark substantially.

Valencia's market is very young: he was born in 2011, had his first solo gallery show in 2022, and has a single confirmed public auction result from that same year. There is no catalogue raisonne, and authentication currently depends on direct verification through Chase Contemporary rather than an established scholarly record. Collectors should treat the Ms. Cube result as a single data point rather than an established price trend, weigh gallery and fair sales separately from auction results, and recognize that his exceptionally early career stage, he was fourteen at the time of his first solo museum exhibition, means both the market and the critical record are still forming.