Austin Martin White (b. 1984, Detroit, Michigan)
Austin Martin White holds a BFA from The Cooper Union and earned an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College.
Working with a variety of mediums including rubber, acrylic, spray-paint, vinyl, 3m reflective fabric and screen mesh mediums, White creates paintings and works on paper that investigate representations of historical memory, drawing on archival research that addresses issues of identity, race and postcolonialism.
White’s work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Impulse, Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Flash Art, 032c, and The Observer, among others.
White has been included in group exhibitions at the Southampton Arts Center, New York (2025); Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester (2025); Jewish Museum, New York (2024). White has had solo exhibitions at Petzel, New York (2025 & 2023); Derek Eller Gallery, New York (2023); and Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany (2022).
Austin Martin White lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Austin Martin White squeezes art history though a screen. He makes collages of mythological scenes of massacres, idylls, and lamentations by expressing rubbery paint through sheets of coarse mesh. The result is both pixelated and tripelike."
—Travis Diehl, "What to See in Galleries in October," The New York Times, 2025
1984 Born in Detroit, Michigan
2011 Graduate Cooper Union, BFA
2014 Attends Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegen, Maine
2019 Graduates Bard College, MFA
2022 Solo exhibition Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
2023 Solo exhibition Familiar Dysphoria, Petzel, New York
Solo exhibition Lost in the Sauce, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
2024 Participates in first institutional presentation Overflow, Afterglow: New York in Chromatic Figuration at the Jewish Museum, New York
2025 Austin Martin White, the first standalone volume of the artist’s work published by Petzel, with essay by Johanna Fateman.
Solo exhibition Tracing Delusionships, Petzel, New York
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Tracing Delusionships, Petzel, 2025.
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Tracing Delusionships, Petzel, 2025.
Installation view, Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, Jewish Museum, New York, 2024
Installation view, Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, Jewish Museum, New York, 2024
Installation view, Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration, Jewish Museum, New York, 2024
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Familiar Dysphoria, Petzel, New York, 2023
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Familiar Dysphoria, Petzel, New York, 2023
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Familiar Dysphoria, Petzel, New York, 2023
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Lost in the Sauce, Derek Eller, New York, 2023
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
Installation view, Austin Martin White, Last Dance, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, 2022
