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Cosmo Whyte (born 1982) is a Jamaican-born American visual artist and educator. His is known for work in sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation art, which often address his Caribbean heritage and topics such as racism, colonialism, migration, and police brutality. Whyte lives in Los Angeles, California, and teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).




Early life and education


Cosmo Whyte was born in 1982, in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica. He started drawing at a young age. In 2001, he moved to the United States.
Whyte received a BFA degree in 2001 from Bennington College in Vermont; followed by study at a postbaccalaureate program at Maryland Institute College of Art; and a MFA degree in 2015 from the Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at University of Michigan.




Career


Whyte teaches in the School of the Arts and Architecture at the University of California, Los Angeles, since September 2022. He previously taught at Florida State University, and Morehouse College.
His solo exhibitions have included The Sea Urchin Can't Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World (2024) at Johnson Lowe Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia; Hush Now, Don't Explain (2023) at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles, California; and Beneath Its Tongue, The Fish Rolls The Hook To Sharpen Its Cadence (2019–2020) at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia.
He is s recipient of The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2019), and the Art Matters Award (2019) from the Art Matters Foundation.
Whyte's artwork is in museum collections, including at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia; the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia in Atlanta, Georgia; the National Gallery of Jamaica in Kingston, Jamaica; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami in Miami, Florida.




Exhibitions






= Solo exhibitions

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2019–2020, Beneath Its Tongue, The Fish Rolls The Hook To Sharpen Its Cadence, Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
2023, Hush Now, Don't Explain, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
2024, The Sea Urchin Can't Swim: Tales from the Edge of a World, Johnson Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.




= Group exhibitions

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2012, Outward Reach: 9 Jamaican Photography and New Media Artists, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., U.S.
2017, Jamaica National Biennial, National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
2020, 13th Havana Biennial, Matanzas, Cuba
2022, This Tender Fragile Thing, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City, New York




See also


List of Jamaican artists




References






External links


Official website

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