Andrew S. Conklin

Homage to David Bowie - original celebrity realist still life portrait oil human

2025

Andrew S. Conklin is a figurative painter. He holds an MFA from the Academy of Art University, and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City with Harvey Dinnerstein and Ronald Sherr, receiving additional instruction from portraitist Aaron Shikler and painter and illustrator David Levine. Conklin's figurative paintings have been exhibited throughout the USA and have won him a number of major awards, including a Julius Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy Annual Exhibition, The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and grants from both the E.D. and George Sugarman Foundations. He has shown work at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, The Terra Museum of American Art, and at Fairfield University. Conklin has taught graduate students at the New York Academy of Art and undergraduates at Parsons School of Design in NYC and in Chicago at Harrington College of Design Harold Washington College Flashpoint Chicago and the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. The artist's work has been published in New American Paintings from Open Studios Press and he has authored articles for the Artists Magazine and other periodicals. His work is represented by Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago.