Andrew S. Conklin, a native of Chicago, Illinois, is a figurative painter. He holds a BFA from the American Academy of Art, and a certificate in painting from the National Academy School in New York City. Conklin received additional instruction from portraitist Aaron Shikler and painter and illustrator David Levine.

Conklin's figurative paintings have been exhibited throughout the USA and have won him a number of major awards. He has shown work at the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, The Terra Museum of American Art, and at Fairfield University. In 1992, he received a Julius Hallgarten Prize at the National Academy Annual Exhibition.

A three-time recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant, Conklin has also won a John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Scholarship and an E.D. Foundation Grant. His portrait subjects include two United States District Court judges, W. Arthur Garrity, Jr. and A. David Mazzone. Other notable subjects include Dr. Theodore Ziolkowski, Dean of the Graduate School, Princeton University, and the Honorable Bruce Sundlun, Governor of Rhode Island.

Conklin has taught at the Graduate School of Figurative Art and Parsons School of Design in NYC. He is currently a visiting instructor at The New York Academy of Art and lecturer in Painting at Harold Washington College in Chicago. The artist's work has been published in New American Paintings, No. 29, from Open Studios Press, and Art Scene Chicago 2000, by Ivy Sundell. He is a member of the National Arts Club in New York and the Palette and Chisel Club in Chicago. Hoorn-Ashby Gallery and Portraits, Inc., both in New York City, as well as Lora D Art Gallery in Chicago, represent him.