Cheyney Thompson

Cheyney Thompson (Baton Rouge, Louisiana,1975) lives and works in New York. Exploring the history, practice, and circulation of painting as his subject, Cheyney Thompson methodically deconstructs how a work is created, revealing historically established perspective systems, subject matters, color codes, and post-studio circulation within a socio-economic context. Thompson frequently uses strict sets of principles in his work, using rules-based systems as generative tools to minimise the subjectivity of creative decisions. Various investigative methods have been employed, ranging from mathematical theories and complex algorithms to economic formulas and numerical color system, leading to an interplay between the formal characteristics of the work and an awareness of its production process.

Cheyney Thompson has been the subject of multiple solo exhibitions such as Intervals at Lisson Gallery in China (2023), Intervals and Displacements at Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York (2022), Several Bellonas at Lisson Gallery in New York (2022), L’écorché at Campoli Presti in Paris(2021), To these Arcs, Those Colors Measure This Touch, That Time at Ordet in Milan (2020), Toolpaths for Bellona at Galerie Bucholz in Berlin (2021), Cheyney Thompson, organised by Campoli Presti at Villa di Geggiano in Siena (2021), Toolpaths for Bellona at Campoli Presti in London (2021), Toolpaths for Bellona at Campoli Presti in Paris (2021), Galerie Bucholz in Berlin (2018).

His work has been featured in several group shows, most recently in 2022 at Andrew Kreps Gallery at Songwon Art Center in Seoul, South Korea( The Cumulative Effect) and also at Shirn Kunsthalle in Frankfurt (2022).Prior to this Tainted Love / Club Edit at Villa Arson in Nice (2019), Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965-2018 at the Whitney Museum in New York (2019), Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence at MAXXI in Rome (2018), Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at the Whitney Museum in New York (2015) and Une Histoire. Art, architecture et design des annees 80 à aujourd'hui at Centre Pompidou in Paris (2014).
His work is part of collections such as Centre Pompidou, Paris; MoMA, New York; SFMOMA, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.