Wendy White makes work permeated by iconography, text, and sports brands, which she metabolizes and employs as archetypes of a personal pictorial code. Her works deal with historical periods in American culture, the urban environment, and questions of boundaries within society, both physical and philosophical. Fluorescent hues animated by paintbrush and spraygun are juxtaposed with 3D forms, abutting and overlapping, thereby expanding and escaping classical painting dynamics.
White was the subject of a solo exhibition entitled Low Pressure at Museum Goch, Germany in 2021. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions at Gaa Gallery, New York, NY and Provincetown, MA; Kaikai Kiki, Tokyo; lange + pult, Zürich; Leo Koenig Inc., New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; COUNTY, Palm Beach; Maruani Noirhomme, Brussels; VAN HORN, Düsseldorf; Denny Dimin Gallery, New York; David Castillo, Miami; Eric Firestone Gallery, New York; Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Jérôme Pauchant, Paris; Sherrick & Paul, Nashville; and Galeria Moriarty, Madrid.
Institutional exhibitions include Low Pressure at Museum Goch, Germany; The World’s Game: Fútbol and Contemporary Art at Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL and LACMA, Los Angeles, CA; Full of Peril and Weirdness, M Woods, Beijing, China; Globe as a Palette: Contemporary Art from the Taguchi Collection, Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art; The Art Show: Art of the New Millenium in Taguchi Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Japan; Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection at The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan; American Idyll at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; EXPEDITION at The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VA; and So Athletic, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, among others.
Wendy White is the recipient of the Teiger Mentorship in the Arts at Cornell University, a Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts and a George Segal Painting Grant. Her work was featured in Phaidon’s anthology Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting and has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, Art in America, New York Magazine, The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Artnet, Time Out New York, Modern Painters, ArtNews and BOMB, among others. She has delivered artist lectures at art schools and institutions in the US and abroad, including Bard College, Pratt University, The School of Visual Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MASS Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Royal Institute of the Arts (Stockholm, SE), Cranbrook Academy, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, ArtEZ Institute of the Arts (Arnhem, NL) and Kansas City Art Institute, among others.
Permanent collections include Detroit Institute of the Arts; The High Museum, Atlanta; RISD Art Museum, Providence; Museum Goch, Germany; Kranzberg Art Foundation, St. Louis; Saks Fifth Avenue; Taguchi Art Collection, Tokyo; UK Art Museum, Lexington; Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta; Savannah College of Art & Design, Lacoste and Savannah; UBS Art Collection; Progressive Art Collection; The Shinola Hotel, Detroit and ARCO Foundation, Madrid.