Wendy White was born in 1971 in Deep River, Connecticut. She studied fibers and was trained in fine art and textile design during her undergrad at Savannah College of Art & Design. Later, White studied painting at Mason Gross School of the Arts where she received her MFA.

“Painting as a singular discipline isn’t my thing,” explains White. The artist creates mixed-media works, incorporating awnings, disused store front signage, digitally manipulated photographs, and found objects into her acrylic and spray painted canvases to capture the exuberance of New York City, her subject and muse. It evokes an acute sense of nostalgia; luminous hues conjure bright, sun-drenched surf and skate culture and become a backdrop for longing and melancholy. She describes her work as “a hybrid experience: painting and sculpture smashed together with buildings and streets, how it feels walking around a massive city, urban ghosts, forgotten architecture, new signs.”

White’s works have been featured in group exhibitions at M Woods, Beijing; The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. 

She lives and works in New York City.