Studio Practice


Abstract paintings
The sky is crying the world is on fire
2024-25
Oil, oil stick, acrylic on canvas
160x210cm


Feelings of angst, elation, honor and horror are expressed as quick, visual-epiphanies.

My current series of paintings continues an exploration of abstraction as a tool to record emotion, memory and the tension between control and instinct.

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La biche
La kassav au coco
2026
Acrylic on canvas
24x30cm


The focus of this series is poetic reflection, tenderness and the natural subtleties.

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Words
Octopus (Poem)
2026
Hand-painted animation


A selection of word-based pieces multi-layered in clarity, tension, voice and penmanship.

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Life
Untitled (Empire State Building apartment)
2018
Oil on linen
9x10in


Over the years, Andrew Agutos has painted a collection of still lifes and interiors simply to ‘remember where he’s been in life’.

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Cultural Projects



Kendrick Lamar
Grand National Tour 2025 Latin America

Car shop culture and American muscle for the Compton lyricist known as K.Dot.

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2Pac
Poetry Month

Tupac ‘And 2morrow’
2025
Acrylic on linen
46x38cm


A painted reinterpretation of poem And 2morrow written by Tupac Amaru Shakur.

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Tim Atlas
Enchanté


Tim Atlas ‘Enchanté’ Digital Cover
2025
Hand-painted animation


Enchanté - Singer-songwriter Tim Atlas releases his first full-length album.

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Nas
30 years of illmatic


NY State of Mind for Nas 
2024
Acrylic on canvas
46x33cm


Celebrating 30 years of one of rap's greatest albums, illmatic.

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21 Savage
american dream


Bootleg Flag for 21 Savage 
2024
Acrylic on linen
41x33cm


An emblematic triptych alongside the release of 21 Savage’s american dream.

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Fashion / Photo



81 Polaroids81 Polaroids by Andrew Agutos
2023
ISBN: 979-8-218-31788-1
Published by Museum & Co.


A selection from 7 years of Polaroid pictures arranged in powder blue-paged published piece.

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Fashion /
From Polaroid

A.A. (Kate Moss intervention)
2023
Oil stick, acrylic, enamel, gesso on found poster mounted on wooden panel
100x70cm


Derived from a career of in-house image-making for a variety of fashion brands, these works transform advertisements and utilize commercial photography as potent source material.

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Fashion models /
on set film photos

Adwoa Aboah
2026
Polaroid
Paris, France


Cigarette breaks, wardrobe changes—moments between Fashion Week runways, editorial shoots, etc.

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Polaroids /
people & places


Tom Sachs
2026
Polaroid
Paris, France


One-hitta-quitta’s of the everyday and the once in a lifetime.

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35mm photos /
outside


Takashi Murakami
2023
35mm photo
Le Bourget, France


Face to face with the iconic and the deeply personal plus a simple point-and-shoot in-between.

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In parallel: Fashion / Branding Design archive

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ANDREW AGUTOS accumulates images over time, building visual systems shaped by poetic language, where meaning shifts between recognition and abstraction.

Gathered through intuitive and unstructured methods, motifs and references are filtered from high-density metropolitan environments and ecosystems of image production, including iconography and fashion, operating within the frameworks of rap logic and internet culture. They are dissected across works and mediums, repurposed in altered snippets and connected between formats.

Poetic thinking is embedded as a mode of understanding and reflection, entering into a reciprocal relationship with image creation. At times the painting catalyzes a written response; at others, language redirects the image. This exchange reconfigures the legibility of the work.





CV
Born1989San Jose, California, United States
Living and working in Paris, France




Education
2012 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting / Drawing
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA




Solo Exhibitions 2026



2015



2013



2011
Solo Exhibition (upcoming)
art’otel London Hoxton
London, United Kingdom

Andrew Agutos (Mural)

Madrone Art Bar
San Francisco, CA

Dysfunctional
Phantom Galleries
San Jose, CA

Boutique
Bruce Galleries
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA




Group Exhibitions
2022











2019



2016



2014



2013


LIQUIDATION TOTALE
Ateliers Klandestin
Colombes, France

LUNE DE MIEL
Museum & Co.
Paris, France

Already Home
59 Rivoli
Paris, France

Tao Hua Tan Group Exhibition
Hefei-Kurume Friendship Art Museum
Hefei, China

Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series
Building Bridges Art Exchange
Santa Monica, CA

FRANKSOSA
The Seventh Letter
Los Angeles, CA

Artbox Project SJ (Mural)
Anno Domini
San Jose, CA




Screenings2026Alejandro’s Short Film Fest
DAYS Paris
Paris, France




Collections2025The Hip Hop Museum
The Bronx, NY




Residencies
2026



2023-2025


2021



2019
Artist in Residence (upcoming)
art’otel London Hoxton
London, United Kingdom

Le PRéàVIE
Le Pré-Saint-Gervais, France

Skopelos Foundation for the Arts
JOMAD & ANDREW (Mural)
Skopelos, Greece

Tao Hua Tan International Artist Retreat
Anhui Province, China




Bibliography2024



2023


2014
Foreword
Parade by Jomad

Museum & Co.

81 Polaroids by Andrew Agutos
Museum & Co.

Chapter 58: FRANKSOSA
Frank151




Experience
2010






2008-2011
Education Intern
Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay
de Young Museum
San Francisco, CA

Museum Experience Representative
San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose, CA




Brand Projects / Activations 2016



2015



2014



2014



2010
adidas Originals = Pharrell Pink Beach
Nice Kicks
Los Angeles, CA

DIMEPIECE #EMOCOLLECTION PARTY
The Standard Hotel
Los Angeles, CA

#DIMEPIECE8BDAY PARTY
The Underground Museum
Los Angeles, CA

Budweiser’s Made in America Tour
Fort Mason Center
San Francisco, CA

TRASHed Coachella 2010
POVevolving Gallery
Los Angeles, CA




Selected Collaborations21 Savage
adidas Originals
BCBGMAXAZRIAGROUP
Bombay Sapphire
Budweiser
Guess Jeans
kate spade new york
Kendall + Kylie
Kendrick Lamar
Nas
/Paradox/ Barbershop
Pharrell Williams
The Shakur Estate
Spalding Ball
Tim Atlas
Universal Music Group
Victoria’s Secret PINK





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