Cosmo Whyte
Cheaper to Keep Her, 2018. Charcoal and gold leaf on paper, 51 x 86 inches.
Kiss Mi Neck Back, 2017. Charcoal and gold leaf on paper, 52 x 51 inches
BIOGRAPHY
Born: Saint Andrew, Jamaica, 1982
Resides: Atlanta, Georgia
Education: Bennington College (B.F.A.), Maryland Institute College of Art (Post Baccalaureate), University of Michigan (M.F.A.)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 “Beneath Its Tongue the Fish Rolls the Hook to Sharpen Its Cadence,” Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta.
2018 “The Enigma of Arrival,” Mason-Scharfenstein Museum of Art, Demorest, Georgia.
2017 “Starting a Bush Fire,” Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Prospect 5,” New Orleans.
2019 “Life Through Extraordinary Mirrors” October Gallery, London.
“What’s Love Got to Do With It,” Drawing Center, New York.
“Intermittent Rivers,” 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba.
“The Sea Is History,” Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway.
“Home Is Not a Place,” Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Get Up Stand Up,” Summerset House, London.
2017 “Relational Undercurrents,” Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles.
2016 “Atlanta Biennale,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Georgia.
2014 “The Jamaica Biannual,” National Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2020 Smith, TK. “Cosmo Whyte: Mining the Body for Gold,” Art Papers (January).
2019 Weston, Charise. “Haunt,” Journal of Art (University of California, Irvine) (November).
2018 Thompson, Krista, “I Was Here. But I Disappear: Ivanhoe ‘Rhygin’ Martin and the Effect of Photographic Disappearance in Jamaica,” Art Journal (August).
2017 Thompson, Krista, and Huey Copeland. “Afrotropes and Other Things That Run,” October (Fall).
2015 Celis, Abigail. “Politics of Sound,” Afrikadaa (December).