Cosmo Whyte
cosmo.whyte@gmail.com
www.cosmowhyte.com
EDUCATION
2015 MFA University of Michigan Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
2007 Post Baccalaureate Maryland Institute College of Art
2001 BFA Painting Bennington College
AWARDS
2026 Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2025 Harpo Foundation
2019 Art Matters
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2018 Avalon Humanities Endowed Professorship, Morehouse College, Atlanta GA
Working Artist Program Award, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia
2017 Hudgens Prize Finalist
Arbes Award
2016 Artadia Award
Southern Constellation Fellowship, Elsewhere Museum, NC
2015 Outstanding Student Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award, ISC, NJ
Ned Dybvig Memorial MFA Thesis Exhibition Award
Vermont Studio Residency Full Scholarship, VT
2014 Rackham International Travel Grant, University of Michigan
Smucker Wagstaff Grant, University of Michigan
2010 The Edge Artist Award, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 "The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone", The Arts Club Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2024 "The Sea Urchin Can’t Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World", Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2023 Hush Now Don’t Explain, Anat Ebgi Gallery, LA, CA, USA
2020 When They Aren’t Looking We Gather By The River, Anat Ebgi Gallery, LA, CA, USA
No Longer Yours, Lux Art Institute, Encinitas, CA, USA
2019 Beneath Its Tongue The Fish Rolls The Hook To Sharpen Its Cadence, MOCA GA, Atlanta, GA
2018 The Enigma of Arrival, The Mason-Scharfenstein Museum, Demorest GA
2017 Starting A Bush Fire, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Don’t Whistle In The House, Chastain Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2015 Wake the Town & Tell the People, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI
2010 High Tide, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 Dancing the Revolution: From Dancehall to Bad Bunny, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
2025 The Wave, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Black Gold: Stories Untold Fort Point, San Francisco, CA, USA
2024 LA TRIENAL, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY, USA
The Catalogue of Speculative Translations, Vol II: Fugitivities, Galerie, University of Montreal, Canada
Movements Towards Freedom, MCA Denver, Denver, CO, USA
The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY, USA
Revival: Digging into Yesterday, Planting into Tomorrow, 21C Museum, Cincinnati, OH, USA
2023 In-Discipline Blackness, Montresso Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco
The Alchemist, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA
2022 Forecast Form, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
OffSight, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY, USA
This Tender, Fragile Thing Jack Shainman Gallery, NY, USA
2021 Prospect 5: Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
Still Life! Mourning, Meaning Mending, 21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
This is America, Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany
2020 Prospect 5 Yesterday We Said Tomorrow, New Orleans, USA
The Beginning of Everything: An Exhibition of Drawings, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
2019 Life Through Extraordinary Mirrors, October Gallery, London, UK
What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Drawing Center, NYC
Intermittent Rivers, 13th Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba
The Sea is History, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway
Home is Not a Place, ANAT EBGI Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Get Up Stand Up, The Summerset House, London, UK
Of Drawings and Belonging, The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
2018 Core Sample: Open session 13, The Drawing Center, NYC
Arrivants: Art and Migration in the Anglophone Caribbean World, Barbados Historical Museum, Bridgetown, Barbados
Measured in Moments, Safe House Black History Museum, Greensboro, AL
Beyond Fashion, National Gallery West, Montego Bay, Jamaica
I Shall Return Again, National Gallery West, Montego Bay, Jamaica
2017 Hudgens Prize Finalist Exhibition, Hudgens Center – Duluth, GA
P.O.V., Swan Coach House Gallery – Atlanta, GA
Building A Ship From The Shipwreck, MOCA GA – Atlanta, GA
Selling the Shadow, C-Gallery, Milan, Italy
Open Scene, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Relational Undercurrents, Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA
Jamaica Jamaica, La Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France
2016 Selling the Shadow, Gallery Momo, Cape Town, South Africa
Beautiful Tangle, Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Biennale, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Musée On/Off, Musée L'ont Leux, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Wake the Town and Tell the People, Mana Contemporary, Newark NJ
Jamaican Routes, Punkt ø/Galleri F 15, Oslo, Norway
Masculinities, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2015 Rites, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
Young Talent, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
After-Afropolitan, The Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Jamaica Biannual, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
In Retrospect: 40 years of the National Gallery of Jamaica National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Bottom Feeders and the Distant Self Slusser Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI
2013 Forward Arts Foundation Artist of the year Retrospective, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2012 Outward Reach: 9 Jamaican Photography and New Media Artists, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, DC
Talent Loves Company, Barbara Archer Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011 The African Continuum, United Nations Gallery, New York, NY
Emerging Artists of 2011, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
Home, Chastain Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Movers and Shakers, Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA
2010 The Jamaica Biannual, National Museum of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Open Season, Flanders Gallery, Raleigh, NC
Art Fresh, Mutual Life Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica
2009 Three Visions, Three Thoughts Southwest Art Center Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Small Works Show, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Summer Guest House, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Small Redux, Agnes Scott College’s Dalton Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2008 Pepper Pot, UNC Chapel Hill, Robert and Sallie Brown Gallery,Chapel Hill, NC
2007 ArteFeria: Rutas y Raices, CEFATI Gallery, Portobelo, Panama
Icosahedrons, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
RESIDENCIES
2022 Surf Point Artist Residency, Maine
2018 Carmago Foundation, France
2016 Elsewhere Museum, NC
2015 Vermont Studio Residency, VT
2007 Creative Currents Residency, Panama
FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Guest Artists Space Foundation & Yinka Shonibare Foundation
2018-2020 Open Sessions Award/Fellowship, Drawing Center, NYC
2016 Walthall Artist Fellowship, Atlanta, GA
PUBLICATIONS
2025 "The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone" Catalog, The Arts Club Chicago, IL
2024 LA TRIENAL Catalog, El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
Project A Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Pan-Africa”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Revival: Digging into Yesterday, Planting into Tomorrow, Catalog, 21C Museum, Cincinnati, OH,
Crafted Kinship: Inside Creative Practices of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers, Artisan Books, NY
2023 Others Shall Come- Curatorial Voices, AKAA Also Known As Africa, JBE Books, Paris France
Are We Free to Move About the World Catalog, Florida State University Museum of Fine Art, FL
In-Discipline Blackness Catalog, Montresso Art Foundation, Marrakesh, Morocco
2022 Forecast Form Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL
‘Here but Disappeared,’ Small Axe, Fall 2021
‘Annotating History,’ Grand Journal, June 2021
2019 Haunt, Journal of Art Issue 005 November, University of California, Irvine
Get Up Stand Up, Exhibition Catalogue, The Summerset House, London, England
The Sea is History, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway
2018 The Enigma of Arrival, Exhibition Catalogue, The Mason-Scharfenstein Museum
2017 I WAS HERE. BUT I DISAPEAR: Ivanhoe ‘Rhygin’ Martin and the Effect of Photographic Disappearance in Jamaica,” Art Journal
Afrotropes and Other Things That Run – A conversation with Heuy Copeland and Krista Thompson, OCTOBER, JSTOR
2016 Jamaican Routes, Exhibition Catalogue, Punkt ø/Galleri F 15, Norway
2015 Afrikadaa Politics of Sound (December)
Sculpture magazine (October)
Infinite Mile a journal of art and culture(s) in Detroit
Rites, Exhibition Catalogue, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA
WASH, Free Oxyn Press, Ann Arbor, MI
2014 The Jamaica Biannual 2014, Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery of Jamaica
2010 The Jamaica Biannual 2010, Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery of Jamaica
2008 Pepper Pot, Exhibition Catalogue, UNC Chapel Hill
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
2017 “(En)Lightning Talks Atlanta” Phi Beta Kappa Society, Woodruff Center, Atlanta
“Guess Who is Coming to Dinner” University of Alabama, Alabama
2014 “Shonibare in Context”, Henry Brown Bag Festival, Philadelphia
“Conversation Without Walls: Considering Contemporary Artistic Practices and the Distribution of "New" Black Creativity-Dancespace Project, New York
WORK / TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2023- Present Area Head of Painting, School of Arts and Architecture, Dept. of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2022- Present Assistant Professor, School of Arts and Architecture, Dept. of Art, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2020-2022 Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
2018-2020 Visual Arts Program Director, Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA
2016 MFA Mentor Low-Residency School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2012 - 2015 Teacher Assistant, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
2010 - 2012 Artist Assistant to Sculptor Basil Watson, Atlanta GA
2009 - 2012 Art Teacher, Cook Elementary, Atlanta, GA
2007 - 2008 Art Teacher, Vivian T. Thomas Academy (High School), Baltimore, MD