Summer Wheat (b. 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) is known for her vibrant paintings, multifaceted sculptures, and immersive installations that weave together the history of art and craft,materiality, figuration, and abstraction. Each series engages individual and collective human experiences drawn from historical and contemporary sources that are mediated through a variety of references―Egyptian pictography, Native American art, medieval tapestries, eighteenth-century etchings, modernist abstractions and comic book illustrations. Recent solo exhibitions include the Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (Kansas City, MO); KMAC Museum (Louisville, KY); Shulamit Nazarian (Los Angeles, CA); among others. Wheat’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX); de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA); Peréz Art Museum (Miami, FL); The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA); The Mint Museum, (Charlotte, NC;) and the Speed Art Museum in (Louisville, KY).
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