Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby graduated from Yale University’s MFA program in 2016, where he was awarded the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship and the Austrian American Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts. He earned his BFA from Hunter College, New York, NY in 2013. Gumby was a 2019 artist-in-residence at the Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida. In 2017, he completed a residency as the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholar at the Fondation des États-Unis in Paris, France.
Gumby’s work focuses on the abstract representation of the self, subverting the traditional understanding of light and color through nuanced application of tonal changes directly with his fingers and hands in an exploration of the history of monochromatic painting, color theory, astrophysics, and the origins of the universe.
The artist’s recent solo and two-person exhibitions include Alteronce Gumby | Charles Ross, parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA (2024), Dark Matter, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (2022); The Color of Everything, Nicola Vassell, New York, NY (2022); It was all A Dream, Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan (2022); My Favorite Color is a Rainbow, parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA (2020); Catching the Holy Ghost, parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA (2019; and Black(ness) is Beautiful, the Fondation des États-Unis, Paris, France (2017). Group exhibitions include: Social Abstraction, curated by Antwuan Sargent, Gagosian, Beverly Hills, CA (2024); 100 Years, Gagosian x Deitch, Miami, FL (2022); and For Freedoms, Columbus Museum of Art, The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, Ohio (2018).
Gumby’s work is held in the collections of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; and Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee.
Alteronce Gumby lives and works in the Bronx, New York. He is represented by Nicola Vassell, New York, NY, and parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles, CA.
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2023
Freedman, Max. “On Discovering What Excites You.” The Creative Independent, May 25, 2023.
Wozniak, Stephen. “The Color Condition: Alteronce Gumby Makes Dark Matter Among Rising Rainbows.” White Hot Magazine, May 2023.
2022
Saye, Nadia. “Alteronce Gumby’s Cosmic Mediations on Color, History, and Lightness.” Surface, 8 February 2022.
2021
Dinsdale, Emily. “Alteronce Gumby’s cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour.” Dazed. September 7, 2021.
Malone, Ian. “The Atomic, Cosmic Art of Alteronce Gumby.” Vogue. March 18, 2021.
White, Katie. “Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits, and Why Seeing Great Art is Like Reading a Book.” Artnet News. February 25, 2021.
“Seeing Color: How Alteronce Gumby Explores Identity through Painting and Glass Art.” A3 Magazine, p. 88-93. print.
Dodson, Jewels. “The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Alteronce Gumby.” Artsy, 2021.
Moyer, Carrie. “Alteronce Gumby with Carry Moyer.” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2021.
Trouillot, Terence. “Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstraction.” Frieze, 23 April 2021.
2020
“20 Painters Who Are Shaping the New Decade.” Daily Collector, January 20, 2020
Cohen, Alina. “11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting.” Artsy, January 6, 2020.
Moore, Charles. “Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently.” Cultured Magazine, 22 September 2020.
Rodney, Seph. “What Does It Mean to Exhibit “Black Excellence?” Hyperallergic, 2 April 2020.
2019
“7 Impressive Emerging Artist to Watch from the Frieze Week Fairs in London.” Artnet News, October 4, 2019
2018
Cohen, Alina. “What Makes a Monochrome Painting Good.” Artsy, March 2018
2017
Cadet-Diaby, Fatima. “Interview: Alteronce Gumby.” Citeunie, February 18, 2017
”One Piece: There’s a bright side somewhere by Alteronce Gumby.” BOMB, 2017.
2016
Tonguette, Peter. “Artist’s Use of Color, Texture in Clay Stands Out.” The Columbus Dispatch, Sunday, August 14, 2016 pg. f7