Andrew Hem illustrated for the Fort Worth Opera’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado. The story centers around Nanki-Poo and Yum-Yum, two young lovers struggling against the powers that be to become husband and wife. Fort Worth Opera’s version of the comedy remains true to the original, featuring some of the best-known Gilbert and Sullivan tunes, but with the fun twist of setting it in modern day Japan.

It shows May 14th, 22nd, 27th and June 4th, 2011. Tickets are available now.

Fort Worth Opera 1300 Gendy St., Fort Worth, TX

Andrew Hem is exhibiting in the Annual Summer Invitational Group Exhibition at Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York, NY. Other artists in the show include Alex McLeod, Becca Midwood, Lola, Marco Mazzoni, Nicoletta Ceccoli and Tran Nguyen, among others. It runs until Saturday, August 21st, 2010.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 6-8pm
Jonathan Levine Gallery 529 W. 20th St., 9th Fl., New York, NY

Andrew Hem was featured in Bang Art. The three-page feature, Anatomy of a City, ran in the May issue of the Italian magazine.

Andrew Hem illustrated for New Scientist magazine’s feature article Oxygen and Life.

Andrew Hem’s solo show One Leads to Another opens this Saturday, January 16th, 2010 at LeBasse Projects in Culver City, CA. The show is inspired by the history and tragedy of Andrew’s native Cambodia and the idea of what if, where one event can result in two significantly different outcomes. Andrew’s paintings imagine a Cambodia where the violent Khmer Rouge regime had never taken power and how the lives of it’s people would have been altered. The show runs until Saturday, February 13th, 2010.

Opening reception: Saturday, January 16th, 2010 7-10pm
LeBasse Projects 6023 Washington Blvd., Culver City CA

Andrew Hem contributed a piece to Thinkspace Gallery’s A Cry For Help in Los Angeles, CA. This benefit show features the work of over 100 artists with 20 percent of all proceeds going to Born Free USA, a non-profit organization that seeks to end the suffering of wild animals in captivity and encourage compassionate conservation globally. The show runs until Friday, February 5th, 2010.

Opening Reception: Friday, January 8th, 2010 7-11pm
Thinkspace Gallery 4210 Santa Monica Blvd., Los Angeles CA

Andrew Hem contributed a piece to Gallery 1988’s Lost Underground Art Show in Los Angeles, CA. The show was in commemoration of the sixth and final season of the hit tv series and boasted the gallery’s largest opening to date with fans of the show waiting in line overnight to enter the gallery. The show’s producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse were on hand to meet fans and sign autographs and even CNN showed up to cover the phenomenon. The show ran from December 15th to 24th, 2009.

Magnet Reps is happy to announce that Ana Bagayan, Andrew Hem, Bella Pilar, Emiliano Ponzi, Marguerite Sauvage, Nate Williams and Raquel Aparicio have artwork in Illusive 3 (Gestalten Verlag). The book features over 200 illustrators scouted from around the globe and includes everything from fashion illustration to figurative painting, material application and deconstruction and collage.

Andrew Hem illustrated for The Atantic’s special Fiction 2009 issue. His illustration accompanies Alexi Zentner’s short story, Furlough, which explores the new military family, in which it is often the wife and mother that leaves for war and the husband who stays behind to care for the family.

Andrew Hem is featured in Publikat’s new book, Beyond Illustration. Publikat invited 20 artists from around the world to contribute artwork and share their personal definitions of illustration. Kenichi Hoshine, Tomer Hanuka, Daniel Schussler and Os Gemeos are also featured. The book is available internationally through Stylefile mailorder.