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Wayne Gonzales was born in 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Gonzales' paintings are made with meticulous technique and use a rigorous formal structure to explore the relationship between photography and collective memory. His works start from images from newspapers, magazines, the internet, his personal photographs or those of icons of American modernism such as Walker Evans and Charles Sheeler. Read the full biography

Wayne Gonzales was born in 1957 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
Gonzales' paintings are made with meticulous technique and use a rigorous formal structure to explore the relationship between photography and collective memory. His works start from images from newspapers, magazines, the internet, his personal photographs or those of icons of American modernism such as Walker Evans and Charles Sheeler. As in a post-production work, Gonzales approaches the composition of his paintings using digital technology to edit and manipulate the source images. While the genesis of his paintings has commonalities with the photography-based political works of Gerhard Richter and Andy Warhol, Gonzales insists on the need to shift the perception of photographic truth. Using a distinctive hatching technique, based on chiaroscuro effects, Gonzales models the form through different densities of interlocking brushstroke lines to create seductive effects of light and shadow. Gonzales' works also question the accuracy and reliability associated with reportage and formal documentation.
In March 2019 Stephen Friedman Gallery hosted Gonzales' fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. Other notable solo exhibitions include: 'Wayne Gonzales', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2019); 'Woman in the Garden', May 68 Gallery, New York (2017); 'Wayne Gonzales', Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans (2016); Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2015); Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2013); 'Wayne Gonzales: Works on Paper', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2012); 'Light to Dark/Dark to Light', New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana (2011) and 'Wayne Gonzales', CAC Malága, Malága, Spain (2011); 'Wayne Gonzales', Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (2010); 'Wayne Gonzales: Free and Clear: Online Project Room', Dinter Fine Art, New York (2008) and 'Judge – Vincent Katz and Wayne Gonzales', Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (2008).
Gonzales' works are included in major international collections including Dallas Museum of Art, Texas; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Microsoft Art Collection, Washington DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Palm Springs Art Museum, California and many others.
Today he lives and works in New York.