Shaqúelle Whyte (b. 2000, Wolverhampton) lives and works in London. He received a BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Fine Art (2022) and an MA at the Royal College of Art (2023). Whyte is currently presenting Winter Remembers April, his second solo exhibition with the gallery. Whyte had his first solo exhibition in April 2024 at Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Yute, you’re gonna be fine. Following this, Tate Britain presented a live conversation between the artist and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe. He is currently included in Roots in the Sky at HOME Manchester, curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, and will have a solo exhibition at White Cube, Hong Kong in early 2026, and his first institutional solo exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery in April 2026. Other recent group shows include Being There, No 1 Royal Crescent, Bath (2024); Swimming, curated by Russell Tovey, GRIMM, Amsterdam (2024); Two x Two for AIDS and Art, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX (2024); and Present Tense, Hauser & Wirth, Somerset (2024).
At Frieze London 2025 his work was selected for The Contemporary Art Society’s Frieze Collections Fund, establishing an acquisition by Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. At Frieze London 2024, his work was selected for acquisition by the Arts Council Collection. Other public collections include The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, made possible with the support of The Contemporary Art Society; and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.