Meet The 11-Year-Old Painter Who Made $1.3 Million At Art Miami | Forbes

Andres Valencia's works sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars—and he’s not even a teenager. The tween artist talks to Forbes about his inspiration and his ambitious plans for the future.

Andres Valencia, who began painting when he was about five years old while standing on a step ladder to create large-scale works with a mix of oil stick, and oil and acrylic paint, is also a war history buff. The Commander (2022) is a nod to that fascination and a delightful play f a green uniform popping from a lavender backdrop.

Valencia took the art world by storm, quickly selling out a Chase Contemporary booth at Art Miami last December, where crowds gathered to watch him live paint with Caribbean-born American artist Bradley Theodore. Folks ducked under ropes and tried to clamber up a ladder to sneak a peek at the then-10-year-old virtuoso who sold paintings to celebrities such as Brooke Shields and Sofia Vergara to benefit the Perry J. Cohen Foundation (PJCF), which supports the arts, environmental, marine and wildlife education and preservation, as well as teenage entrepreneurship and boating safety education.

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