Stanley Whitney Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, b. 1946

Lives and works in New York and Parma.

He studied at Columbus College of Art and Design, at Kansas City Art Institute, and at Yale University. He has won prizes such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship.

Since the mid-1970s Whitney has explored the formal possibilities of colour. His current motif is the stacked composition of numerous saturated colour fields, delineated by horizontal bands running the length of a square-formatted canvas.

Whitney's works have been exhibited individually at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Lisson Gallery, London; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany; Albert Baronian, Brussels; Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome; among others. He has been included in many prominent group shows at the American Academy in Rome; Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, USA; the 50th Venice Biennale, and many more.

His work is included in public collections such as the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC.