Bio

Cosmo Whyte (b. 1982, St. Andrew, Jamaica) received a BFA from Bennington College, a post-baccalaureate at Maryland Institute College of Art, and a MFA from University of Michigan. Recent museum exhibitions include The Mother’s Tongue, Pressed to the Grinding Stone at The Arts Club of Chicago (2025), Beneath Its Tongue The Fish Rolls The Hook To Sharpen Its Cadence at MOCA Georgia (2020), and No Longers Yours at ICA San Diego (2020).

Whyte has exhibited in biennial/ triennial exhibitions including LA TRIENAL: Flow State (2024), Prospect.5 New Orleans (2022), 13th Havana Biennial, the Jamaica Biennial (2017, 2014), and the Atlanta Biennial (2016). His work has been included in exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio New York, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Somerset House, London, UK; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway; Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Netherlands, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Barbados Historical Museum, Barbados and the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.

Whyte’s work is in public museum collections including the High Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; International African American Museum, Charlotte, NC; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia; National Gallery of Jamaica; Pérez Art Museum Miami; and the Speed Museum, Louisville, KY. In 2022 he joined the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture as an assistant professor. Whyte lives and works between Montego Bay, Jamaica and Los Angeles, CA.