Walter Price

Walter PRICE

Born in 1989, he lives and works in Brooklyn.

Walter Price’s paintings and drawings tread the line between figuration and abstraction, creating interior worlds that hover on the brink of legibility. His works are studded with sparse symbols suggestive of both personal and cultural experiences—a chair, a palm tree, a Georgia peach, a brick wall, —their identities recognizable yet, but never fully comprehended, decoupled from their mainstream signifiers. His work is apart from the classic representation of African-American people.

He served in the U.S. Navy en route to art school, where he honed his own idiosyncratic pictorial language. Solo exhibitions took place at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2024); Camden Art Centre, London (2021); Aspen Art Museum (2019); MoMA PS1, NY (2018); and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (2018). His work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial, and is in the permanent collections of the MoMA, New York; the Whitney museum; Tate, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Studio Museum in Harlem; MOCA, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Aïshti Foundation, Lebanon; and Rollins Museum of Art, Orlando, among others.

The Modern Institute (Glasgow)

David Zwirner (New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Hong Kong)

Greene Naftali (New York)