Wells Chandler: Artist, Writer, and Curator

Wells Chandler (American, b. 1985) lives and works in Bronx, NY. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. Chandler was a 2015 Queer Art Mentorship fellow paired with the inimitable Angela Dufresne. From 2016-17 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. Recent solo exhibitions include Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris, France) + (Brussels, Belgium), Soloway (Brooklyn, NY), and Diablo Rosso (Panama City, PA). Recent group exhibitions include NADA East Broadway (New York, NY), Uncle Brother (Hancock, NY), International Objects (Brooklyn, NY), Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago, IL), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), Olympia (New York, NY),The Pensacola Museum of Art (FL), and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY). He has exhibited at art fairs in Mexico City, Paris, Belgium, Cologne, Madrid, Copenhagen, London, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Palm Springs. His work has been written about by Roxane Gay, Art Forum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, TimeOut, Modern Painters, Maake Magazine, Two Coats of Paint and AEQAI.

Chandler is a curator and was a Soloway gallery member from 2021-2024. He was appointed the Spring 2023 Tieger Mentor of the Arts at Cornell. Believing in queer mentorship for socially and economically oppressed communities, he taught primarily at public institutions for over a decade. Chandler regularly contributes art reviews, poetry and essays to The Electric Pencil, an alternative art journal founded by The Wood Ox Mystery School. His work is included in numerous public and private collections. His next solo show will be in the Fall of 2025 with ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL) marking his third solo exhibition with the gallery in Chicago. Chandler is represented by ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL) and Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris, France) + (Brussels, Belgium).

For more about their work, visit Wells Chandler's website.

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