Austin Wells
New York, NY

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Work 2025

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Education & Profile
2020
BFA, Graphic Design
Purchase College, Purchase, NY

Austin Wells (he/him) is an artist and designer originally from Monticello, NY, and is now based in New York City. He holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Purchase College and has exhibited his work around New York State. Working from photos, his drawings and prints offer insight into the connection between place, artifact, memory and deterioration and their relationship with home.







Exhibitions, Fairs, & Publications
2021
now / present / current — Online Exhibition — Oranbeg Press
When Words Fail — Online Exhibition — Visionary Art Collective
Social Distance Gallery — Instagram — Online Thesis Exhibition

2020
BFA thesis exhibition — Purchase, NY
Handle With Care — 2021 Gallery, Purchase, NY
Zine Feast — Student Center, Purchase, NY
Submag Issue #72 — link

2019
Printfest — ICPNY, New York, NY
WPBID Art in Vacant Spaces — https://wpbid.com/content/art-public-places
Issue 1 Art fair — Purchase, NY
twenty.one — 1019a gallery, Purchase, NY
Art Among the Vines — Bashakill Vineyards, Wurtsboro, NY
Zine Feast — Student Center
Nature’s Beauty — 1019a gallery, Purchase, NY

2017
Art Among the Vines — Bashakill Vineyards, Wurstboro, NY

The Kitchen Table II
18.5" x 29.5"
color pencil drawings collaged on paper
2024-2025

Empty Trailers
18" x 24"
color pencil drawings collaged on paper
2024

Rotting on 17B
18" x 48"
color pencil drawing collaged on paper
2024Two Smokers
18" x 24"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024The Martyr
18" x 28"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Waiting
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Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Debris
11" x 17"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024The Kitchen Table I
18" x 24"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Self Portrait
9" x 12"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Boarded Up
18.5" x 40"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Weed Whacking
18" x 20"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Posted
13" x 19"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Lost Dog
18" x 24"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Jeff’s Old House
18" x 24"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Nana’s Surprise
18" x 20"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024House on Dillon Road
18" x 22"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Debris
9.5" x 11"
Color pencil drawing on collaged paper
2024Brown Shirt Quilt
60" x 80"
Found fabric appliqued on blanket
2024