Stanley Whitney Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, b. 1946

Stanley Whitney was born in Philadelphia in 1946. He lives and works between New York and Parma.

He studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Yale University. He has received awards such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters Art Award, as well as Guggenheim and Pollock-Krasner Fellowships.

Since the mid-1970s, Whitney has explored the formal possibilities of color. His current motif is the stacked composition of numerous saturated fields of color, delineated by horizontal bands that run the length of square-format canvases.

Whitney has held numerous solo exhibitions, including at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Lisson Gallery, London; Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin; Albert Baronian, Brussels; and Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome, among others. He has also participated in many group exhibitions, such as at the American Academy in Rome, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the 50th Venice Biennale, among others.

His works are part of public collections including 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 Institution, Washington, DC