Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1946 and lives and works in New York and Solignano, Italy.

His works have been featured in exhibitions since the early seventies. In 2015 the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, presented his major solo exhibition ”Dance the Orange.” "The Italian Paintings", presented by the Buffalo AKG Art Museum was on view at Palazzo Tiepolo Passi as a collateral event at the 59th Biennale di Venezia, Venice in 2022. In 2022 a solo exhibiton was on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art in conjunction with the unveiling of the permenent installation of his stained-glass windows for the BMA’s Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, and in 2017 he presented a solo exhibition at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX. Whitney participated in documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017) and in “Utopia Station” at the 50th Venice Biennial (2003).

He has been included in group exhibitions at, among others Moderna Museet, Malmö (2019); Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio (2018); American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (2017); Camden Arts Centre, London (2016); Logan Center for the Arts, Chicago, and Contemporary Art Museum Houston (both 2014); Belvedere, Vienna (2012); The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (2008); Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach (2007); Art in General, New York (1998); Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania (1991); The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (1981); and Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (1976). He is the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship (1996) and Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2002) and won the first Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize in Painting (2011) and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award (2010).

A comprehensive survey exhibition of his work is currently on view at the Albright-Knox’s Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, NY (February 9 – May 26, 2024) and will then travel to the Walker Art Center (November 14, 2024 – March 16, 2025) and the ICA/Boston (April 17 – September 1, 2025).

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Installation view of Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Photo: Brenda Bieger, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

Rhythum and Blues, 2023, oil on linen, 152.4 x 152.4 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings", Collateral Event at the 59th-La Biennale di Venezia Presented by Future Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice, Italy 2022

Installation view "Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings", Collateral Event at the 59th-La Biennale di Venezia Presented by Future Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice, Italy 2022

Homeing I, 2021, oil on linen, 243.8 x 243.8 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings", Collateral Event at the 59th-La Biennale di Venezia Presented by Future Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice, Italy 2022

Beautiful Dreamer, 2020, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

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Artist Stanley Whitney in conversation with curator and writer Monika Szewczyk (documenta 14 et al.) at Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, April 28, 2018, during Gallery Weekend Berlin.

Extreme Times, 2020, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

Untitled, 2022, watercolor on lessebo paper, 50.2 x 62.9 cm, framed 60 x 72.5 cm

Untitled, 2022, gouache on paper, 55.9 x 76.2 cm, 22 x 30 in (framed 67 x 87 cm, 26 1/2 x 34 1/4 in)

Untitled, 2022, watercolor on Lessebo paper, 50.2 x 62.9 cm, 19 3/4 x 24 3/4 in (framed 60 x 72.5, 23 5/8 x 28 1/2 in)

Untitled, 2019, watercolour on paper, 49.5 x 62.2 cm

Installation "Dance with me Henri", Ruth R. Marder Center for Matisse Studies, Baltimore Museum of Art, Photography by Mitro Hood 2021

Monk & Munch 14, 2021, oil on linen, 71.1 x 88.9 cm

Red Top, 2021, oil on canvas, 183 x 183 cm

Untitled, 2018, gouache on paper, 55 x 75.5 cm

Stay Song 49, 2019, oil on on linen, 101.6 x 101.6 cm

Goya, 2019, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Paintings", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2018

Red, 2017, oil on linen, 244 x 244 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – documenta 14", Kassel 2017

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – documenta 14", Kassel 2017

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – documenta 14", Athens 2017

Purple Haze, 2017, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

Off Square, 2016, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

Light a New Wilderness, 2016, oil on linen, 244 x 244 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Here comes the sun", Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm 2016

Untitled, 2016, gouache on paper, 56 x 76 cm

Early Bird, 2016, oil on linen, 183 x 183 cm

Installation view "Focus: Stanley Whitney", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 2017

Untitled, 2013, graphite on paper, 56 x 76 cm

Traveling Light, 2016, oil on linen, 122 x 122 cm

Untitled, 2016, gouache on paper, 57 x 76 cm

Black Color, 2006, oil on linen, 135 x 125 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Dance the Orange", Studio Museum Harlem, New York 2015

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Dance the Orange", Studio Museum Harlem, New York 2015

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Dance the Orange", Studio Museum Harlem, New York 2015

Untitled, 2013, oil on linen, 31 x 31 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Dance the Orange", Studio Museum Harlem, New York 2015

Untitled, 2016, gouache on paper, 28 x 38.5 cm

Yellow, Noon, and Night, 2012, oil on linen, 152 x 152 cm

Installation view "Stanley Whitney – Yellow, Noon and Night", Galerie Nordenhake Berlin 2012

This Side of Blue, 2011, oil on linen, 244 x 244 cm

Violet Times, 2012, oil on linen, 152 x 152 cm