ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Raised in Los Angeles and trained in New York, Andrew Rose earned his A.B. in Art History from Vassar College in 1993, and a dual-honors M.F.A./M.S. in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute in 2003.
For over 35 years, Andrew Rose has pursued an award-winning career as an artist, curator, educator, gallerist, journalist, and producer in the U.S., Europe, and Hawaii with Bruce Weber Studio, Catwalk Foundation, Florida Hospital - Orlando, Fundación Valparaiso, Hawaii State Art Museum, Honolulu Museum of Art, Martha Keats Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, New York - PS1, National Portrait Gallery - London, Nuuanu Gallery, Oakwood School, Pratt Institute, the Target Corporation, Vermont Studio Center, ViTA Art Center, and his eponymous Andrew Rose Gallery.
He has published in and received press for his work from publications including Artweek, Hana Hou!, Hawaii Luxury, Honolulu Magazine, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Honolulu Weekly, Innov8, Modern Luxury Hawaii, NYArts, and The Orlando Sentinel.
From 2006 - 2020, Rose was an instructor at the Honolulu Museum of Art, teaching hundreds of adults university-level coursework in painting, drawing, and professional practices both in the studio and on location. Between 2006 and 2010, he was Chair of Visual and Performing Arts at Island Pacific Academy on Oahu where he wrote and taught the Advanced Placement arts program. Having written curricula for students from ages 18 – 80, Rose continued to develop a wealth of real-world outdoor-based experience through independent instruction of students en plein air before taking a sabbatical from teaching in 2023.
From 2011 - 2016, after opening his contemporary art gallery in Honolulu and then joining the boards of various art and charitable institutions including the Hawaii State Art Museum, Rose pursued the daily business of being a professional artist while curating a museum-quality program of contemporary art with significant connections to the Hawaiian Islands. Through a variety of solo and group exhibitions with dozens of artists, he brought over $750,000 of new art to market.
In 2016, Rose returned to his studio practice with a commission for a permanent mural at the Florida Hospital - Orlando, where he worked for six months on a 45-foot scaffolding to paint a site-specific work for the lobby of the new $125-million dollar wing for women’s health, during which, Dale Dolejsi collaborated with him and they planted the seeds for R&D. Since the beginning of the SARS pandemic of 2020, Rose resumed plein air painting and teaching on Oahu. In 2026, Rose began offering courses at the ViTA Art Center in Ventura, California, where he opened his newest studio, and launched R&D, a decade-in-the-making artistic partnership.