Reginald Sylvester II
REGINALD SYLVESTER II (b.Jacksonville, North Carolina 1987) lives and works in New York. Working predominantly in abstraction, Sylvester II makes large scale paintings and sculptures which often include found objects.
In March 2023, Sylvester II opened his second solo institutional exhibition in a North American museum, Green Gate at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. This followed Painter’s Refuge: A Way of Life which opened in 2022 at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture in Charlotte, NC.
Sylvester II’s work is held in public collections including Nasher Museum of Art, NC; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, NC; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Fl; ICA Miami, Fl; Ackland Art Museum, NC; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK; Spazio 1, Lugano, Switzerland; and Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy. Previous group exhibitions include Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now, curated by Dexter Wimberly at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (2022) and 100 Years, Gagosian and Jeffery Deitch, Miami, Fl (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include CUTS, Maximillian William, London (2022); Feelin’ Blue, The Arts Club, London (2022); With the End in Mind, Maximillian William, London (2021); NEMESIS, Maximillian William, London (2019); and The Rise and Fall of a People, Fondazione Stelline, Milan (2017). Sylvester is featured in Prime, London: Phaidon, 2022 a survey of contemporary art. Monographic publications by Sylvester include Painter’s Refuge: A Way of Life, New York and Charlotte: Pacific and the Harvey B. Gantt Center, 2022; With the End in Mind, London and New York: InOtherWords, Maximillian William and Natchez; NEMESIS, London: Maximillian William.
SELECTED WORKS
EXHIBITIONS
Modal Painting
Sam Gilliam, Frank Bowling, Reginald Sylvester II, John Hoyland & John Golding
12 April – 2 May 2021
London
PUBLICATIONS
PRESS
FORBES
‘Get Physical With Reginald Sylvester II At Gantt Center In Charlotte’ by Chadd Scott
ARTNEWS
Three Museums Acquire Seven Artworks through Expo Chicago’s Northern Trust Purchase Prize.
CULTURED
The Los Angeles Home of Lyndon and Janine Sherman Barrois Is Filled with Contemporary Art By Dominique Clayton
LUCY WRITERS PLATFORM
With the End in Mind by Reginald Sylvester II at Maximillian William, London
Reginald Sylvester II, Ben Bowling and Oscar Wollheim in conversation
On Thursday 18th March at 7pm (GMT), 3pm (EST), 12pm (PT), Curator Oscar Wollheim, Artist Reginald Sylvester II and Sir…
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