Born: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 1957
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
BA, 1985, University of New Orleans, Louisiana
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2021
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2019
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2017
Woman in the Garden, May 68, New York
2016
Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2015
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
The Monro Room, House of St. Barnabas, London, England
2013
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2012
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Pei Ling Chan Gallery, SCAD, Savannah, Georgia
2011
Light to Dark/Dark to Light, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (pamphlet)
CAC Malága, Spain (catalogue)
2010
Recent Paintings, Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2009
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2008
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Crowd Paintings, Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Crowd Paintings, Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Free and Clear, Online Project Room, Dinter Fine Art, New York (online)
2007
Judge – Vincent Katz and Wayne Gonzales, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2006
Project.3, Mason Gross Galleries, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
QED, Los Angeles
2005
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2004
Patrick de Brock, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2003
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono, Boston, Massachusetts
2002
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2001
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2000
Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
1998
Mary Boone Gallery (Small Gallery), New York
Derek Eller Gallery, New York
1997
Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York
Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York (two-person)
1995
Galerie Art & Public (Guest Room), Geneva, Switzerland
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2022
America. Between Dreams and Realities, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
2021
Stephen Friedman Gallery at The London House of Modernity, London, England (collaboration with Modernity, Stockholm, Sweden)
2020
Art in the Time of Empathy, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
2019
Notebook, 56 Henry, New York
2018
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York (catalogue)
Notable American Women, MX Gallery, New York
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia (touring) (catalogue)
2017
Prospect. 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect Triennial, New Orleans, Louisiana
Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2016
A Material Legacy: The Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Collection of Contemporary Art, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
2015
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
The Painter of Modern Life, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
2014
The Optical Unconscious, Gebert Stiftung für Kultur, Rapperswil, Switzerland
Another, Once Again, Many Times More, Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York
2013
Flash Back—November 22, 1963, Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts
LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York
Flash Back - November 22, 1963, Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts
2012
Painting as a Radical Form, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dark Matters, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC (catalogue)
2011
Three Artists: Julie Mehretu, Wayne Gonzales, and Julian Lethbridge, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California
All that Glisters, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Common Ground, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, Bridgehampton, New York
We Regret to Inform You There is Currently No Space or Place for Abstract Painting, Martos Gallery, New York
Ball Game, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2010
Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects & artists 2005-2010, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York
Big New Field: Artists in the Cowboyʼs Stadium Art Program, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Wait for me at the bottom of the pool, Martos Gallery, New York
ITEM, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, West Street, New York
Reprise, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2009
Cave Painting, organized by Bob Nickas, Gresham’s Ghost, New York
Infinitesimal Eternity, Yale University School of Art, New York
Transitions: Painting at the (other) end of art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (catalogue)
Blue, James Graham & Sons, New York
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Commentary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2008
Reflections, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Say Goodbye to... The Clifford Gallery at Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
White Room; Recent Acquisitions, gifts and works from various exhibitions 1985-2008 / from the collection of Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York
Empires and Environments, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Ithaca Collects, Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
Gray, Dinter Fine Art, New York
YOU SAID HE SAID SHE SAID, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2007
The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria and Wilkinson, London, England (touring)
Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
A Roll of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance, Marfa Ballroom, Marfa, Texas
People Take Pictures of Each Other, Lamontagne Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Remix – The Collection, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Resistance Is, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Neonoir, Howard House of Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
I drank the kool-aid: (The Experiment Requires That You Continue), Anna Kustera, New York
Judge: Wayne Gonzales and Vincent Katz, 465 W 23rd Street, New York
2006
The Gold Standard, organized Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty, P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts, Queens, New York
Adrian Piper, Eric Baudelaire, Josephine Meckseper, Wayne Gonzales, Elizabeth Dee, New York
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2005
The Last Generation, Apex Art, New York and Jousse Entreprise, Paris, France (touring)
Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum/Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Painted World, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York
The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York
Helga’s Art Collection, Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
The Art of Aggression: Iraqi Stories and Other Tales, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, Vancouver, Canada
2004
Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gehring Gallery, New York
Last one on is a soft Jimmy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Bill Adams, Wayne Gonzales, Cameron Martin: Paintings, KS Art, New York
Word of Mouth, A Selection: Part 1, Dinter Fine Art, New York
La Lettre Volée, F.R.A.C. Franche-Comté Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
The Freedom Salon, Deitch Projects, New York
Bush League, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
Painting (Wayne Gonzales, Roger Metto, Jason Middlebrook, Cristian Rieloff), Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden
2003
Parallax Views: Art and The JFK Assassination (Ant Farm & T.R. Uthco, Wayne Gonzales, Eric M. Jensen), Hallwals Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
150 artists make 150 T-Shirts, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York
Cartoon, Riva Gallery, New York
Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2002
The Presidential Suite, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
Gravity Over Time, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Subject Matters, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
2001
How is everything? Everything is going to be alright, Elizabeth Cherry Gallery, Tucson, Arizona
Fresh: Recent Acquisitions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Works on Paper From Acconci to Zittel,” Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Next Wave Prints v. 2.0, Elias Fine Art, Allston, Massachusetts
New Paintings, Wayne Gonzales, Jacqueline Humphries, Jonathan Lasker, Blake Rayne, Dan Walsh, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, Florida
2000
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
What’s So Funny About Color, Elias Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut and Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida (touring) (catalogue)
PICT: Digital Image Painting, Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, with R. Grosvenor, R. Lichtenstein, R. McBride and D. Walsh, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Hex Enduction Hour, Team Gallery, New York
(212) Staging Illusion, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Bit By Bit: Painting & Digital Culture, Numark Gallery, Washington
1999
Sweet & Sour, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Digital Sites, Numark Gallery, Washington
1998
Brite Magic, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
1997
Diamond Dogs, Team Gallery, New York
Super Body, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996
Face and Figure in Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
AbFab, Feature, New York
Mutate/Loving the New Flesh, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Supastore de Luxe, UP & Co., New York
1995
Three Paintings, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York
Collections! Galerie Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
1994
Dysfunction, U.S.A., Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Introductions ‘94, TERRAIN, San Francisco, California
Pain, Here, New York
1993
Wayne Gonzales, Robert Levine, Eric Magnuson, TRI Gallery, Los Angeles
NICAF, Yokohama, Japan
1992
Twisted Vision/Version, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York
1988
Louisiana Abstraction, Windows, New Orleans, Louisiana
1987
Louisiana Arts and Sciences Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
Publications
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2018
Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee; Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Everything Is Connected: Art and Conspiracy, The Met Breuer, New York
2015
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2012
Dark Matters, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC
2011
Wayne Gonzales, CAC Malága, Spain
2009
Transitions: Painting at the (other) end of art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2000
(212) Staging Illusion, Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York
Glee: Painting Now, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1996
Mutate/Loving the New Flesh, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, New York
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Microsoft Art Collection, Redmond, Washington
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York