About Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby is an artist and local of New York City. His artistic practice includes painting, ceramics, installation, performance, and film.
His journey into the world of art began with a transformative visit to a Picasso museum in Barcelona in 2005. He then continued his education with drawing classes at the Art Students League in 2008 in New York City. Since then, he has honed his skills through drawing classes at the Art Students League in New York City, eventually earning his associate degree from Dutchess Community College and his BFA from Hunter College. Alongside his formal education, Gumby finds inspiration in the cosmos, occasionally observing with the Amateur Astronomers Association of New York City and participating as a member of the Planetary Society. Balancing his artistic pursuits, he also relishes long walks through the city and belongs to the dance floor on most weekends.
Alteronce’s work has been exhibited at renowned galleries such as Nicola Vassell Gallery, Hauser & Wirth, and Gagosian. Through a luminous and chromatic spectrum of iridescent colors, his art challenges viewers to expand their perceptions of form, color, identity, and the materiality of earth and cosmic space. Recently, he completed his first award-winning documentary feature, COLOR, in collaboration with writer and director John Campbell, exploring the rich and diverse facets of color as experienced around the world. Following his solo exhibition Prince of the Far Rainbow at Nicola Vassell Gallery, Alteronce is now focused on the production of his second feature film, COLOR in Nature and his forthcoming solo exhibition with Jeffrey Deitch in November, 2025.
Gumby graduated from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in Painting and Printmaking in 2016. He has won notable awards, such as the Austrian American Foundation / Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship. Gumby has also participated in numerous international artist residencies, such as the Rauschenberg Residency (2019), London Summer Intensive (2016), Summer Academy in Salzburg, Austria (2015), 6Base (2016), and was the 2016 recipient of the Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship at the Fondation des Étas-Unis in Paris. His work has been featured in publications such as ARTnews, Artnet, Artsy, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, Cultured, DAZED, Frieze, Surface & Vogue. Gumby has also curated exhibitions, such as his most recent exhibition, "Summer of Possibilities" with Bode Projects in Berlin, "To Dream Avante-Garde" at Hammond Harkins Galleries, and "A Muffled Sound Under Water" at Latchkey Gallery. Gumby published his first monograph, "Color Is A Beautiful Thing," with Charles Moffett & False Flag in 2021, outlining six years of his painting practice from 2014-2020.
Education
2014-2016 M.F.A., Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2013 BFA, Painting, Hunter College, New York, NY
2011 ASS, Art Practice, Dutchess Community College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Solo Shows
Jeffrey Deitch: (forthcoming)
November 2025; Los Angeles, CA
Susquehanna Art Museum: If Herr Street Could Talk (forthcoming)
November 2025; Harrisburg, PA
The Anderson Collection: (forthcoming)
September 2025; Stanford, CA
Nicola Vassell Gallery: Prince of the Far Rainbow
November 2024; New York, NY
Allentown Art Museum: Dark Matter
November 2022; Allentown, PA
Nicola Vassell Gallery: The Color of Everything
September 2022; New York, NY
KOKI Arts: It Was All A Dream
April 2022; Tokyo, Japan
Bode Projects: Zone Maco Art Fair, Solo-Booth
February 2022; Mexico City, MX
Art-in-Buildings: On Earth as It Is in Heaven
October 2021; New York, NY
Bode Projects: Cross Colours
September 2021; Berlin, GR
Charles Moffett & False Flag: Somewhere Under the Rainbow/ The Sky is Blue and What am I
March 2021; New York, NY
Parrasch/ Heijnen Gallery: My Favorite Color is a Rainbow
October 2020; Los Angeles, CA
Long Gallery; When the Nightmare Comes - I Believe
June 2020; New York, NY
Parrasch/ Heijnen Gallery: Catching the Holy Ghost
February 2019; Los Angeles, CA
Long Gallery: Reading Rainbows
September 2017; New York, NY
Fondation des Etats Unis: Black(ness) is Beautiful
April 2017; Paris, FR
6B.ASE: One Way Ticket Across The Universe
October 2016; Bronx, NY
Mildred I. Washington Gallery: Alteronce Gumby; Since 1985
October 2015; Poughkeepsie, NY
Selected Group Shows
SECCI Gallery; (forthcoming)
October 2025; Milan, ITA
Jeffrey Deitch; The Abstract Future
May 2025; Los Angeles, CA
Gagosian; Social Abstraction
July 2024; Beverly Hills, CA and Hong Kong
Lehmann Maupin; SpaceRace
January 2024; South Kensington, LDN
Metropolitan Museum of Manila; Sounds of Blackness
March 2023; Manila, PH
Gavlak Gallery; Think Pinker
February 2023; Los Angeles, CA
Gagosian, Jeffrey Deitch; The Hundred Years
November 2022; Miami. FL
Phillips; House of Crowns
December 2021; New York, NY
Welancora Gallery; Red
June 2021; Brooklyn, NY
Hauser & Wirth; There’s There There
May 2021; Southampton, NY
Abattoir Gallery; The Dead Don’t Die
May 2021; Cleveland, OH
False Flag; Abstraction in the Black Diaspora
October 2020; New York, NY
Fridmen Gallery; Young Artists: One
June 2020; New York, NY
Latchkey Gallery; A muffled sound underwater
February 2020; New York, NY
Feirman Gallery; Red Telephone
January 2020; New York, NY
Yale School of Architecture Gallery; Pleasure Garden
January 2020; New Haven, CT
Gladstone Gallery; Abstract, Representational, and so forth
June 2019; New York, NY
Phillips; American African American
January 2019; New York, NY
Jean-Paul Najar Foundation; The Monochrome Revisited
October 2018; United Arab Emirates
Pizzuti Collection; For Freedom
September 2018; Columbus, OH
Ltd Los Angeles; I’ll Go There, But I Won’t Stay
September 2018; Los Angeles, CA
Hammond Harkins Galleries; Northern Suns
August 2018; Columbus, OH
American University Museum; Things Unseen
June 2018; Washington D.C.
Rental Gallery; Color People curated by Rashid Johnson
July 2017; East Hampton, NY
Hammond Harkins Galleries; I Dream in Color
March 2017; Columbus, OH
6B.ASE: Group Show
December 2016; Bronx, NY
Camden Arts Centre: London Summer Intensive; Works in Progress
August 2016; London, UK
Hammond Harkins Gallery: Surfaces
July 2016; Columbus, OH
Infinity Room Gallery; Sunrise/ Sunset Group Exhibition
March 2016; Los Angeles, CA
Media
Richard J. Powell x Alteronce Gumby: A Powerful Talk on Abstraction and Meaning | Design District
Pace Gallery, Ad Reinhardt: Color Out of Darkness
Young, Gifted, and Black: Artist Talk featuring Alteronce Gumby
Alteronce Gumby x Bode Projects, Zona Maco Mexico Art Fair
Cultured Mag, Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently
Friends of Nana Studio Visit: Alteronce Gumby
Publications
Design District Miami, December 2024; Part of the Process with Richard J. Powell
Elephant, Artist Explorer Alteronce Gumby Takes Us on a Cosmic Journey of ‘Color’
Creative Independent, A conversation on discovering what excites you
Surface Mag, Alteronce Gumby Takes a Close Look at His Forever Muse, and Other News
W Magazine, Alteronce Gumby Sees The Color in Everything
i-D Vice, Alteronce Gumby's paintings are a vehicle for cosmic exploration
Alteronce Gumby’s Cosmic Meditations on Color, History, and Lightness
The Artsy Vanguard 2021: Alteronce Gumby
The Brooklyn Rail, Alteronce Gumby with Carrie Moyer
Artnet News, ‘My Imagination Ran Wild’: Alteronce Gumby on How His Expansive Style….
Dazed, Alteronce Gumby’s cosmic landscapes challenge the meaning of colour
Le Mile Pop Magazine, Artist Talk: Alteronce Gumby
Frieze, Alteronce Gumby on His Cosmic Abstractions
Sugarcane Mag Alteronce Gumby: Somewhere Under The Rainbow…
Cultured Mag, Painter Alteronce Gumby Sees Color Differently
Studio Visit: Artist Alteronce Gumby on His Weekly MoMA Visits…
Hyperallergic, What It Means To Dream Avante-Garde
BOMB Magazine One Piece: There's a bright side somewhere by Alteronce Gumby
Awards & Fellowships
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Awardee, August 2025
New American Paintings #123 MFA Annual 2016
Harriet Hale Woolley Scholarship, October 2016
The AAF/ Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, August 2015
Robert Reed Memorial Scholarship 2015
Residencies
Fondation des Etats-Unis
Paris, FR; September 2016
London Summer Intensive
London, UK; August 2016
Dumfries House Residency
Cumcock, Ayrshire, Scotland; June 2015
Summer Academy; The Non-Human
Salzburg, Austria; August 2015