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, 

 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 

 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 

 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 

, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); the 2019 Whitney Biennial; 

, The Drawing Center, New York (2020); and 

, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2022). Also in 2022, paintings by Price were included in the exhibition 

, curated by Hilton Als, at David Zwirner, New York. His work will be featured in the forthcoming exhibition 

 (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.

Walter Price, 2024. Photo by Walter Price

A handsome suite of expressionistic, semi-abstract works on paper

The latest book from New York–based painter Walter Price (born 1989) brings together 34 recent works on paper that employ the same iconic imagery, intimate scale and dreamlike compositions of both abstraction and figuration that are found in his paintings.

Walter Price: The Story Was Full of Marvelous Happenings

Walter Price: The Story Was Full of Marvelous Happenings | Books

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