Wendy White holds a BFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Institutional exhibitions include EXPEDITION at The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (2021); Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art; Kushiro Art Museum; Hakodate Museum of Art; Sapporo Art Museum, Japan (2019); American Idyll at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2018); The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, curated by Franklin Sirmans and Jennifer Inacio, at Perez Art Museum, Miami (2018); The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan (2016); Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods, Beijing (2015); Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan (2015); Futbol: The Beautiful Game, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2014); and So Athletic, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin (2012).
White has had solo exhibitions at Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo; Leo Koenig Inc., New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Maruani Mercier, Brussels; Van Horn, Düsseldorf; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris; and Galeria Moriarty, Madrid. White is the recipient of a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts (2012) and a George Segal Painting Grant (2008). Her work was featured in Phaidon’s anthology Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting (2011). White’s first solo museum exhibition is forthcoming at Museum Goch, Germany in Summer 2021.
b. 1971, Deep River, CT, USA
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
2003 MFA Rutgers University
1993 BFA Savannah College of Art & Design
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Mark and Phil, Denny Dimin, NYC
Low Pressure, Museum Goch
2020 Suk it Kevin, New Release, NYC
☮️♡, COUNTY, Palm Beach
2019 Racetrack Playa, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
2018 Natural Light, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago
Rainbow Bridge, Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo; curated by Takashi Murakami
American Idyll, SCAD Museum of Art
Oil Slicks, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Loves, Gallery 1600, SCAD Atlanta
2017 Kelly Girl, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf
2016 Santa Cruz, Eric Firestone, NYC
2015 Skiing, Galerie Jérome Pauchant, Paris
Double Vanity, Sherrick & Paul, Nashville
12th Man, David Castillo, Miami
2014 El Campo, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf
2013 CURVA, M Building, Miami
Pick Up a Knock, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago
Wendy White, Maruani Noirhomme, Brussels
2012 Pix Vää, Leo Koenig, Inc., NYC
En Asfalto, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid
Radio Lampor, VAN HORN, Düsseldorf
2011 6 Years/6 Works, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga
2010 French Cuts, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago IL
Up w/Briquette, Leo Koenig, Inc., NYC
2009 Feel Rabid or Not, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid
2008 Autokennel, Leo Koenig, Inc., NYC
2006 Chunk Lite, Solomon Projects, Atlanta
Wendy White, Sixtyseven, NYC
SOLO PROJECTS
2020 Sea Foam (Convertible), The Armory Show, NYC (solo booth, Shulamit Nazarian)
2019 Free Beer Tomorrow, UNTITLED VIP Lounge, Miami Beach
Body Shop, CLEA RSKY, Brooklyn
Commission, Rocket Mortgage Field House, Cleveland; Detroit Pistons Practice Facility, Detroit
2018 Rainbow Bridge (Bifrost), site-specific painting, The Belt, Detroit
2017 Commission, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta
JEANS, Rawson Projects, NYC
2016 OVERRIDE | A Billboard Project, presented by EXPO Chicago, Chicago
No Pressure, site-specific installation, Drake One Fifty, Toronto
2015 What a Letdown, NADA Miami Beach, (solo booth, Rawson Projects)
Redidas®, Rawson Projects, NYC
2014 We, Incubate Festival Arts Program, Tilburg
Madrid Me Mata, Arts & Leisure, NYC (catalog)
2013 UNTITLED Miami Beach (solo booth, Kustera Projects)
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, NYC
2012 ARCO Madrid (solo booth, Galeria Moriarty)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Fade to Fade, Library Street Collective, Detroit
EXPEDITION, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
2020 Hold on Tight, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
2019 ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood, University at Albany Art Museum
Wide World of Sports, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Downtown Painting, Peter Freeman Inc., curated by Alex Katz
Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Art Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art, Obihiro;
Kushiro Art Museum, Hokkaido; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido; Sapporo Art Museum, Japan
The Celebration of Painting, Sophis Gallery, Seoul; curated by Christina Kang
Notebook, 56 Henry, NYC; curated by Joanne Greenbaum
Highs & Lows, Mast Books, NYC; curated by Justin Adian
2018 The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art, Pérez Art Museum, Miami; curated by Franklin Sirmans and Jennifer Ignacio
BURNT, Marlborough Contemporary, NYC; curated by Leo Fitzpatrick
The Strangeness Will Wear Off, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City; curated by Joseph Ian Henrikson and Todd von Ammon
Grafik, Harper's Books, East Hampton, NY; curated by Ryan McGinness
Xeriscape, Library Street Collective, Detroit
Focus III: I’ll see it when I believe it, Works in the private collection of Jack and Rebecca Drake,
Abroms Engel Institute for the Visual Arts, University of Alabama, Birmingham
2017 The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan
No burden as heavy, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Broken Language, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles
Man Alive, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Brussels
2016 Mount Analogue, Performance Ski, Aspen; curated by Neville Wakefield
Temporary Highs, bitforms, NYC; curated by Lindsay Howard
2015 Full of Peril and Weirdness: Painting as a Universalism, M Woods, Beijing
Painting is Not Doomed to Repeat Itself, Hollis Taggart, NYC; curated by John Yau
All Killer No Filler, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Outta Town Sh*t, Kravets & Wehby, NYC; curated by Nina Chanel Abney
Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection: A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift, The Museum of Fine Arts Gifu, Japan
Power Objects: The Rogers & Weisenbacher Collection, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Any Given Sunday, Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas Fayetteville
2014 Fútbol: The Beautiful Game, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; curated by Franklin Sirmans
Amerika, David Castillo Gallery, Miami
Thinking Through Painting, Royal Swedish Academy, Stockholm
Go With the Flow, The Hole, NYC
Frameshift, Denny Gallery, NYC
Metabolic Bodies, David Castillo, Miami
2013 The Digital Divide, Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; curated by Henning Strassburger
Seventh-Inning Stretch, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY; curated by Carlo McCormick
All Fucking Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach
XSTRACTION, The Hole, NYC
After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery, Art Production Fund, NYC
2012 Hue & Cry, Space S2, Sotheby’s, NYC; curated by Vladimir Restoin-Roitfeld (catalog)
Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester; curated by Dick Goody
2011 A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, NYC
Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
2010 Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca; curated by Barry Schwabsky and Carol Szymanski
Graphic Abstraction, SCAD Hong Kong
I’ll Let You Be in my Dreams if I Can Be in Yours, Fredericks & Freiser, NYC
Shape Language, Nicole Klagsbrun, NYC
Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha; curated by Hesse McGraw
Vivid: Female Currents in Painting, Schroeder Romero, NYC; curated by Janet Phelps
2009 Maximal Minimal, Primopiano, Lugano; curated by Nini Bonavoglia
Rattled by the Rush, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago
Mergers & Acquisitions, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2008 Pure Optic Ray, Fred, Leipzig
Insideout, Galeria Moriarty, Madrid
2007 Late Liberties, John Connelly Presents, NYC; curated by Augusto Arbizo
2006 Norf*kneasters Take Pluto, Pluto, Brooklyn; curated by Nicole Eisenman
Twist it Twice, Moti Hasson Gallery, NYC; curated by Franklin Evans
Twenty Eight Days, Wendy Cooper Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004 Too Few the Opportunities, So Many the Mistakes, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn; curated by Josh Smith (catalog)