C O R E Y W H Y T E
Growing up in both America and England, Corey Whyte sets his foundations on consumerism and cultural identity. Corey obscures the consumer experience and the Western influence on the world; he creates artefacts from the regurgitative culture we are swaddled by, together with an exploration and nomadic vigilance on the human condition, taking aim at society, capitalism and self.
Whyte’s approach to making is laced with iconoclastic language, whilst simultaneously allowing research to dictate his disruption through art process. The works are forced into existence; there is a struggle between artist, material and vision, birthing something unwillingly collaborative. It's a draining fight with material, time and the ever-changing identity of the work, where both artist and material have thoughts towards an outcome. Often traces of processes and disassociated materials, personal touches and finishing methods are applied to the visual experience, othering the work further.
b. 1993 - From Staffordshire, UK and Carmel, CA, USA
Lives and Works in London, UK
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Education:
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2017 - 2018: MA Fine Art - Chelsea College of Arts UAL
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2011 - 2014: BA Hons Fine Art - Staffordshire University
Collections:
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Stavanger Kunst Museum
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The Ingram Collection
Awards:
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The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Prize 2016
Solo Exhibitions:
2019:
Enter The Golden Quarter - Cole Projects, London
Group Exhibitions:
2025:
LAS Begins - LAS Gallery - 4th to 24th April
2023:
Blink - The Collection of Trond Mohn - Stavanger Kunst Museum, Norway
2021:
Dreamlands Part 1 - OHSH Projects, London, UK
2019:
Karen Tronel, London
Absinthe Part 2 – Spit and Sawdust, London, UK
Polaroid – After Projects, 163 Gallery, London, UK
2018:
Chelsea MA Summer Shows - Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
Summer Exhibition - The Concept Space, London, UK
&anOther angle - Maxilla Space, Acava, London, UK
Young Contemporary Talent From The Ingram Collection – The Lightbox, Surrey, UK
MA Interim Shows Part 2 – Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
MA Interim Shows Part 1 – Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
Open Studios – MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2017:
Pissing up a wall - MAFA Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
The Fridge - Pop up show in Seven Sisters, London, UK
PATH - Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
Creekside Open 2017 – A.P.T Gallery, London, UK
2016:
The Ingram Collection Young Contemporary Talent Prize - The Cello Factory, London, UK
The Dark Arts - Candid Arts Centre, London, UK
New Art West Midlands 2016 - MAC Birmingham, UK
New Art West Midlands 2016 - Waterhall Gallery at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2015:
New Art WM Annuale – Article Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Nottingham Castle Open 2014 – Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK (Dec - Jan)
2014:
Nottingham Castle Open 2014 – Nottingham Castle, Nottingham, UK (Dec - Jan)
Ex Factory – Olympus Engineering (Kules Residency), Stoke-on-Trent, UK
West Midlands Open 2014 - Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Degree Show – Cadman Gallery’s, Staffordshire University, UK