Walter Price

Walter Price (b. 1989) has come to be known for his richly vibrant paintings and drawings, which bypass strict allegiances to representational or abstract modes.

Price was born in Macon, Georgia, and served in the US Navy for four years before entering art school on the GI Bill. He received a BA from the Art Institute of Washington, Arlington, Virginia, in 2011 and an AA from Middle Georgia College, Cochran, in 2013.

The artist has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. In 2018, Price was the subject of a self-titled solo exhibition at MoMA PS1, New York. The same year, Walter Price: Pearl Lines was presented at the Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. In 2019, Walter Price: We passed like ships in the night was held at the Aspen Art Museum. The Camden Art Centre, London, presented Walter Price: Pearl Lines in 2021, which was accompanied by the first major monograph of the artist’s work. In the fall of 2024, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, opened the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work to date. Price has given the title Pearl Lines to the majority of his solo presentations, suggesting that each exhibition expands beyond the confines of its own time and place, becoming part of a larger body of work.

The artist has also had solo exhibitions at the Modern Institute, Glasgow (2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2020 and 2022); Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2022); 14a, Hamburg (2023); and Modern Art, London (2024).

Price has also been included in several notable group exhibitions, including Fictions, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); the 2019 Whitney Biennial; 100 Drawings from Now, The Drawing Center, New York (2020); and Black Melancholia, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2022). Also in 2022, paintings by Price were included in the exhibition Toni Morrison’s Black Book, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner, New York. His work will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition MONUMENTS (2025), co-organized by The Brick and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and curated by Hamza Walker, Kara Walker, and Bennett Simpson.

The artist has been granted several residencies throughout his career at the Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York (2017); Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Captiva, Florida (2018); Fürstenberg Contemporary, Donaueschingen, Germany (2019); and the Camden Art Center, London (2020).

A solo exhibition of Price’s work is currently on view at David Zwirner Los Angeles. This is the artist’s first presentation with the gallery since the announcement of his representation in early 2024.

Work by Price is held in prominent institutional collections worldwide, including the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Roberts Institute of Art, London; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Tate, United Kingdom; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

The artist lives and works in New York.