Stanley Whitney has been exploring the possibilities of color since the mid-­‐1970s. His recent paintingstake the form of saturated fields of color that are delineated in three to five horizontal bands and fill a square canvas. Whitney’s multicolored works exhibit a masterful pictorial balance with an underlying tension; conflict and resolution between colors and forms simmer within each painting. Taking his cues from early Minimalism, Color Field painters, jazz music and his favorite historical artists – Titian, Munch, Velázquez, and Cézanne among them – Whitney is as much an exponent of the process-­‐based, spatially-­‐ gridded square in art as Josef Albers, Agnes Martin, Alma Thomas, and Carl Andre.

Stanley Whitney was born in Philadelphia in 1946 and lives and works in New York City and Parma, 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 at Temple University. Select solo exhibitions include 'Focus – Stanley Whitney' at the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, USA (2016) and ‘Dance the Orange' at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA (2015). Whitney has also been included in many prominent group shows, such as 'Inherent Structure', Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, USA (2018);‘Nero su Bianco’ at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (2015); ‘Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract’, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, TX, USA (2014); ‘Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s’, Cheim & Read, New York, NY, USA (2013); and ‘Utopia Station’ at the 50th Venice Biennale (2003). He has received numerous honors including the Robert De Niro Sr. Prize in Painting (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1996), and was elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2017). Whitney’s work is included in public collections around the world, including the Guggenheim Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The National Gallery of Canada, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Albright-­‐Knox Art Gallery.

Among his exhibitions stands out his participation in 2017 in documenta14 in Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany.