Andrea Vargas is a multidisciplinary Swedish-Chilean artist with a career spanning from fashion to the film industry before stepping into the art world. She studied both in Sweden and UK, graduating with an MA in Fine Art.
Andrea’s art is driven by experiment and process. In her work, she opts to use diverse everyday materials. Her playful approach to making pushes the boundaries of our perception of space, developing work rich in references and at the same time utterly unconventional, resulting in unique and surprisingly forms.
She lives and works in London.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONSÂ
2024 108, Art Hub Studios Gallery, London, UK
2024 Leamington Open Exhibition 2024, Shortlisted, Royal Pump Rooms, UK
2021 Fresh Start, Muswell Hill Gallery, London UK
2019 Where What, The Sedici Group at gASP, Portsmouth, UK
2018 Read between the lines RBTL,The Corn Store, London, UKÂ
2018 FLUX Exhibition, Cookhouse, Chelsea Collage of Arts, London, UK
2018 Timeless Fragments, Palazzo Granafei-Nervegna of XVI century, Brindisi,Italy
2017 Rewild, Ugly Duck, Tanner Street London, UK
2017 Visionary Art show, Palazzo Vernazza Castromediano, Lecce, Italy
2017 MA and other postgraduates show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
2017 5% show, Willesden Green Gallery, London, UK
2016 LPS Members Summer Show, London, UK
2016 Money Talks Leontia Galley, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
2016 Blind Drawing, Brunåkra Gallery, Simrishamn, Sweden
2016 Open Studio, High Wycombe, UK
2015 MA final show, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK
2015 Arte a Cascano, Terracina, Italy
2015 MA summer show, Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK
2014 MA drawing show, Bucks New University, High Wycombe, UK
2014 Beautiful Waste exhibition, Herman Miller, London, UK
2014 MA work in progress show, Bucks New University, High Wycombe, UK
ART RESIDENCIES
2017 Brunåkra Art residency and solo show, Simrishamn, Sweden
2015 Arte a Cascano residency and group show, Terracina, Italy
AWARDS
Recipient of Best Visionary Artist award 2017, Palazzo Vernazza Castromediano, Lecce, Italy
Publication on VisionaryArtShow.live
Publication on PrimoPianoSpecialProject.com
Public Art Installation awarded by the mayor and burgesses of the London Borough of Brent
RELATED ACTIVITIES
2023 -2021 Crew on Feature Film
2019 Art Consultant
2018 Art Consultant
2017 Art Curator
2016 Art Teacher
EDUCATION
2022 Raindance Film Training Centre, London, UK
2015-2017 MA Fine Art & Design, Buckingham New University, UK
2011-2013 London Academy of Art, London, UK
2010 -2011 Interior Design, Kensington and Chelsea College, London
2000 MSc Organisational Behaviour, Lunds University, Sweden
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SEDICI memberÂ
Anglo Swedish Society member