Chelsea Owens

Born and raised in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, Chelsea Owens was an instantaneous creative visionary. Her early years consisted of collaborative mural paintings, theater, design, photography, and illustration. She attended art programs at the Corcoran School of Art and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; followed by an artist residency abroad in France. She graduated from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco with a BFA in Production Design and worked in the film/ tv/ theater/ & commercial industry’s art department in LA and SF while collaborating as an art director for many events and installations; including Burning Man Art Festival.
In her early twenties, Chelsea moved to Europe and resided near Milan, Italy; focusing exclusively on oil painting for the next decade. She returned to California to raise a family and continued to paint and exhibit internationally. Her artworks have been featured at such places as Art Basel in Switzerland and Carousel de La Louvre Museum. She began teaching art to children of all ages and hosted “art retreats” for adults.
After 20 some years, Chelsea came back to the one place she has ever truly called home: The Bay Area. Emerging in a community of creatives post ...

Corcoran School of Art
UMass Amherst Fine art
Abroad residency South of France & Paris 1998
BFA Academy of Art University, San Francisco, CA
Masters Painting Program AAU
Abroad residency Northern Italy

•Juried Group Exhibit: "Urban Tides; A San Francisco Story"
•Group Exhibit, "Abstract San Francisco", ARTFUSE Gallery, SF, CA April/May 2023
•Group Exhibit, "ClimateIsh", Third Space Gallery, SF, CA April 2023
•Group Exhibit, "Fashün", Third Space Gallery, SF, CA February 2023
•*Solo Exhibit, "Cobalt Blues" Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA: August 2022
• Solo Exhibit, “Revelations in Time”, San Francisco, CA 2020

• Group Exhibit, "100 Under a Grand", Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA 2017/2018

• Group Exhibit, "Abstract 8", Santa Barbara Tennis Club, CA 2018

•World of Interiors (Conde Naste) Magazine, Print, May 2017, "The Upside Down" oil painting from the series "Nocturnes/ A Blue Period" featured in the magazine's "Artistic Impressions" section

••Solo Exhibit, "Caldo & Umido", Pietra Santa, Italia,

(Tuscany), Italy; solo exhibit August 2016

•Milan, Italy; Affordable Art Fair, November 2015

•"Emotions of the World" Gallery; Lodi, Italia. August 2015 "Splashed & Luscious" solo exhibit

•SCOPE: Basel, Switzerland June 2015 Emotions of the world, Group Show

•"1st Thursday" Santa Barbara, CA May 2015 "Persona" solo exhibit @ Engel & Völkers

•"1st Thursday" Santa Barbara April 2015
April 2nd, Santa Barbara,CA , "P...