Wells Chandler

Wells Chandler
Well Chandler lives and works in The Bronx. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. Chandler was a 2015 Queer Art Mentorship fellow paired with the inimitable Angela Dufresne. From 2016-17 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. His work has been written about by Roxane Gay, Art Forum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, TimeOut, Modern Painters, Maake Magazine, and AEQAI. Chandler is a curator and was a Soloway gallery member from 2021-2024. He was appointed the Spring 2023 Teiger Mentor of the Arts at Cornell. Believing in queer mentorship for socially and economically oppressed communities, he taught primarily at public institutions for over a decade. Chandler is represented by ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL) and Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris, FR) + (Brussels, BE). 

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