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). In April 2026 he will have his first institutional solo exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery. Other recent and upcoming solo exhibitions include Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2024; 2025) and White Cube, Hong Kong (2026). He is currently included in Roots in the Sky at HOME Manchester, curated by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, and Everything Now All At Once, Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC. 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). In 2024 Tate Britain presented a live conversation between the artist and art historian Alayo Akinkugbe.
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.