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Last year, 14-year-old artist Andres Valencia was particularly busy—more so than the average teenager. In April 2025, the young prodigy released his very own art book with a Big Five publisher, and, a few months later, launched a limited-edition print collection with the renowned Mourlot Editions. This is already impressive enough, but this March, Valencia is about to meet yet another milestone that many artists dream about for decades: his very own solo exhibition.
Slated to open at the Nassau County Museum of Art on March 21, Profiles in Color gathers several of Valencia’s Cubist-inspired works. These large-scale portraits vibrate with bold color palettes, illustrative brush strokes, and geometric forms, transforming human subjects into abstract, splintered caricatures. At first glance, these distorted compositions bear a resemblance to those by Pablo Picasso and even Amedeo Modigliani, but Valencia maintains a more playful, intuitive approach, resulting in something a little more buoyant rather than moody. That distinction—and tension—is part of Valencia’s appeal, which has exploded in recent years in the art market and beyond.
“I have imagined this moment, but didn’t know it would arrive this soon,” the San Diego-based artist said of Profiles in Color. “The Nassau County Museum is the perfect place for my solo exhibition. It’s very exciting.”
Valencia’s upcoming exhibition may evoke Cubism most strongly, but the teen cites myriad sources of inspiration. Aside from Picasso and Modigliani, Valencia gravitates toward artists such as Gerhard Richter, Vincent van Gogh, Francis Bacon, and Michelangelo, as well as Raphael Mazzucco and Salvador Dalí, both of whom his father has collected. In fact, this at-home collection was what originally drew Valencia to painting when he was only 5 years old.
“I want people to know that art and expression has no age limit. Young and old people can be creative,” the young artist noted in a recent interview with Hypebeast. “I express myself with paint and I want people to enjoy and be inspired also.”
Valencia first emerged on the artistic scene in 2021 at Art Miami, where he became the youngest artist in the fair’s history to exhibit his work. In the years since then, he has accumulated some 285,000 followers on Instagram; been collected by celebrities like Eva Longoria, Sofía Vergara, and soccer star Sergio Ramos; showcased his talents on Jimmy Kimmel Live; and generated thousands of dollars in auction sales at Phillips. He has, in turn, wielded that fame for charitable causes, donating more than $1 million worth of art to UNICEF and amfAR, among others.
Profiles in Color: The Paintings of Andres Valencia will open on March 21 at the Nassau County Museum of Art, and be on view through July 12, 2026.
This spring, 14-year-old art prodigy Andres Valencia will open his first solo exhibition, Profiles in Color, at the Nassau County Museum of Art.
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The young artist first began painting Cubist-inspired works at only 5 years old, and has since risen to incredible fame.
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Since his art world debut at Art Miami in 2021, Andres Valencia has published a book, generated thousands of dollars in auction sales, and even caught the eye of celebrity collectors.
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