Ingrid V. Wells enjoys using playful subject matter to address complex topics including resilience, compassion, joy and being. Her artwork has been shown in New York at the Untitled Space, PULSE Miami with Treat Gallery, internationally in South Korea at the CICA Museum, with Voss Gallery in San Francisco and online with PxP Contemporary.
Her work has been featured by The Jealous Curator, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, BUST Magazine, Create! Magazine and Teen Vogue, among others. Her oil painting was invited to be featured in El País representing the international women’s movement in 2019. Wells is a multiple-time grant recipient from the Center for Cultural Innovation.
She runs San Francisco Artists Studios, a multidisciplinary artist studio space in the Dogpatch district of San Francisco. There she facilitates programming including ongoing artist professional development series with Sample-Studios (Cork, Ireland) that began during the pandemic with grant funding from the Cork City Council Twinning Cities.
Wells directs TWIRL: A Decade of Artists Interviews, a 10 year annual interview project that began with 40 artists. The project focuses on studying artist resilience and the survival of artist communities despite unforeseen difficult circumstances. The project launched in February 2020.
Wells is happy to serve the Bay Area arts community in her role as the Fine Arts Division Assistant Director for California College of the Arts.
She was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors in October 2020 for her leadership in the arts, painting uplifting murals in the city's COVID overflow hospital space in the Presidio.
In May of 2022, Create! Magazine named Wells #7 on the list of Top 15 Emerging Artists to Follow on Social Media. You are welcome to visit her on social.
Her work was recently on display in southern California at Brea Gallery with the Pure, Unadulterated Joy exhibition, which was extended for three additional months due to popularity.
She earned her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and her BFA from Arizona State University. Her studio is located in Yelamu, also known as San Francisco, on the unceded territories of Ramaytush Ohlone peoples.
