Shaqúelle Whyte
Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton) lives and works in London. He received a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art (2022) and an MA at the Royal College of Art (2023). His first solo institutional exhibition, Shattered Dreams, is currently on view at Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Other recent solo exhibitions include Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2024; 2025) and White Cube, Hong Kong (2026). He is currently included in Everything Now All At Once, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC. Other recent group shows include Roots in the Sky, HOME Manchester, curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones (2025-6); Being There, No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath (2024); Swimming, curated by Russell Tovey, GRIMM, Amsterdam (2024); Two x Two for AIDS and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX (2024); and Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2024). In 2024 Tate Britain presented a live conversation between Whyte and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe.
At Frieze London 2025, a painting by Whyte was acquired for Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool via the Contemporary Art Society’s Frieze Collections Fund. At Frieze London 2024, his work was selected for acquisition by the Arts Council Collection. Other public collections include Wolverhampton Art Gallery; Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, FL; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC; and The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent.