Stanley Whitney

Stanley Whitney was born in Philadelphia, PA, in 1946 and lives and works in Bridgehampton, New York, and Solignano, Italy. He holds a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute as well as an MFA from Yale University and is currently Professor emeritus of painting and drawing at Tyler School of Art, Temple University.

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 in 2022. That same year, a solo exhibition was held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, coinciding with the unveiling of the permanent installation of his stained-glass windows for the BMA’s Ruth R. Marder Centre for Matisse Studies. In 2017, he presented a solo exhibition at the 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 Biennale (2003).

He has won prizes including the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize in Painting (2011), the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award (2010) and awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996). Whitney’s work is included in public collections around the world, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Long Museum, Shanghai; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.