Working in a combination of oil, acrylic and watercolor paint, Blair Whiteford synthesizes painterly techniques and foundational motifs from across the Western canon to produce simultaneously ancient and futuristic compositions. By drawing from fields as diverse as French Poststructuralism, cybernetics, nuclear physics and contemporary American literature, Whiteford symbolically portrays rhizomatic connections between art, natural science, theology and organizations of power. Reassessing the American Postwar Ab-Ex movement, his fluid brushwork produces surfaces that teeter between figuration and abstraction as a comment on the human psyche and soul.

Blair Whiteford was born in 1990 in New York City, NY, where he still lives. He received his MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT (2019) and his BFA from Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL (2013).

Whiteford has mounted solo and two-person exhibitions at Pond Society in Shanghai, China (2023); Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2022); Jack Barrett in New York City, NY (2021); Union Pacific in London, UK (2019); and Gern en Regalia in New York City, NY (2017).

His recent group exhibitions include Made in the Dark at CLEARING in New York City, NY (2023); Papertrail at Matthew Brown in Los Angeles, CA (2023); PRESENT ’23: Building the Scantland Collection at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, OH (2023); ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-SIX BILLION STEPS TO THE SUN at CLEARING in New York City, NY (2022); Supermoon at CLEARING in Beverly Hills, CA (2022); and others.