Alteronce Gumby is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film.
Alteronce’s work has been exhibited at galleries such as Nicola Vassell Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, Gladstone Gallery and Camden Arts Centre. His work was exhibited in his first museum solo show titled Dark Matter at Allentown Art Museum. In his recent solo exhibition, The Color of Everything at Nicola Vassell, lessons from Monet’s Water Lilies and NASA’s James Webb telescope commingle meaningfully. Through Gumby’s fluorescent and chromatic spectrum of iridescent color, the artist engages the viewer and expands the notions through which we perceive form and color, the subjectivity of identity and the materiality of earth and cosmic space. Alteronce is currently in production for his first documentary feature, COLOR exploring the many facets to its abundant spectrum experienced around the world.
Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards such as the Austrian American Foundation/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), and as the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris.
Education
2014-2016 M.F.A., Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2013 BFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 ASS, Art Practice, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Solo Shows
Allentown Art Museum: Dark Matter
November 2022; Allentown, PA
Nicola Vassell Gallery: The Color of Everything
September 2022; New York, NY
Koki Arts: It Was All A Dream
April 2022; Tokyo, Japan
Bode Projects: Zone Maco Art Fair, Solo-Booth
February 2022; Mexico City, MX
Art-in-Buildings: On Earth as It Is in Heaven
October 2021; New York, NY
Bode Projects: Cross Colours
September 2021; Berlin, GR
Charles Moffett & False Flag: Somewhere Under the Rainbow/ The Sky is Blue and What am I
March 2021; New York, NY
Parrasch/ Heijnen Gallery: My Favorite Color is a Rainbow
October 2020; Los Angeles, CA
Long Gallery; When the Nightmare Comes- I Believe
June 2020; New York, NY
Parrasch/ Heijnen Gallery: Catching the Holy Ghost
February 2019; Los Angeles, CA
Long Gallery: Reading Rainbows
September 2017; New York, NY
Fondation des Etats Unis: Black(ness) is Beautiful
April 2017; Paris, FR
6B.ASE: One Way Ticket Across The Universe
October 2016; Bronx, NY
Mildred I. Washington Gallery: Alteronce Gumby; Since 1985
October 2015; Poughkeepsie, NY
Selected Group Shows
Lehmann Maupin; SpaceRace
January 2024; South Kensington, LDN
Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Sounds of Blackness
March 2023; Manila, PH
Gavlak Gallery; Think Pinker
February 2023; Los Angeles, CA
Gagosian, Jeffrey Deitch; The Hundred Years
November 2022; Miami. FL
Phillips; House of Crowns
December 2021; New York, NY
Welancora Gallery; Red
June 2021; Brooklyn, NY
Hauser & Wirth; There’s There There
May 2021; Southampton, NY
Abattoir Gallery; The Dead Don’t Die
May 2021; Cleveland, OH
False Flag; Abstraction in the Black Diaspora
October 2020; New York, NY
Fridmen Gallery; Young Artists: One
June 2020; New York, NY
Latchkey Gallery; A muffled sound underwater
February 2020; New York, NY
Feirman Gallery; Red Telephone
January 2020; New York, NY
Yale School of Architecture Gallery; Pleasure Garden
January 2020; New Haven, CT
Gladstone Gallery; Abstract, Representational, and so forth
June 2019; New York, NY
Phillips; American African American
January 2019; New York, NY
Jean-Paul Najar Foundation; The Monochrome Revisited
October 2018; United Arab Emirates
Pizzuti Collection; For Freedom
September 2018; Columbus, OH
Ltd Los Angeles; I’ll Go There, But I Won’t Stay
September 2018; Los Angeles, CA
Hammond Harkins Galleries; Northern Suns
August 2018; Columbus, OH
American University Museum; Things Unseen
June 2018; Washington D.C.
Rental Gallery; Color People curated by Rashid Johnson
July 2017; East Hampton, NY
Hammond Harkins Galleries; I Dream in Color
March 2017; Columbus, OH
6B.ASE: Group Show
December 2016; Bronx, NY
Camden Arts Centre: London Summer Intensive; Works in Progress
August 2016; London, UK
Hammond Harkins Gallery: Surfaces
July 2016; Columbus, OH
Infinity Room Gallery; Sunrise/ Sunset Group Exhibition
March 2016; Los Angeles, CA
Media
Pace Gallery, Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness..
Young, Gifted, and Black: Artist Talk featuring Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby x Bode Projects, Zona Maco Mexico Art Fair
Cultured Mag, Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently
Friends of Nana Studio Visit: Alteronce Gumby
Publications
Elephant, Artist Explorer Alteronce Gumby Takes Us on a Cosmic Journey of ‘Color’
Creative Independent, A conversation on discovering what excites you
Surface Mag, Alteronce Gumby Takes a Close Look at His Forever Muse, and Other News
W Magazine, Alteronce Gumby Sees The Color in Everything
i-D Vice, Alteronce Gumby's paintings are a vehicle for cosmic exploration
Alteronce Gumby’s Cosmic Meditations on Color, History, and Lightness
The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Alteronce Gumby
The Brooklyn Rail, Alteronce Gumby with Carrie Moyer
Artnet News, ‘My Imagination Ran Wild’: Alteronce Gumby on How His Expansive Style….
Dazed, Alteronce Gumby’s cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour
Le Mile Pop Magazine, Artist Talk: Alteronce Gumby
Frieze, Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstractions
Sugarcane Mag Alteronce Gumby: Somewhere Under The Rainbow…
Cultured Mag, Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently
Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits…
Hyperallergic, What It Means To Dream Avante-Garde
BOMB Magazine One Piece: There's a bright side somewhere by Alteronce Gumby
Awards & Fellowships
New American Paintings #123 MFA Annual 2016
Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, October 2016
The AAF/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, August 2015
Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship 2015
Residencies
Fondation des Etats-Unis
Paris, FR; September 2016
London Summer Intensive
London, UK; August 2016
Dumfries House Residency
Cumcock, Ayrshire, Scotland; June 2015
Summer Academy; The Non-Human
Salzburg, Austria; August 2015