Chidy Wayne (Spain, 1981) initially started his professional career in the late 2000s as a fashion designer but soon his sketches and ability with pencils and watercolors made his commissions shift from clothes to drawings. Since then he has been pursuing a successful career as a commercial illustrator first and lately exhibits his most personal work in varios galleries across Europe.

Wayne is a Spanish Guinean multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona. Works in various media including painting, sculpture, illustration and music.

Seeking to create work that is aesthetic and conceptual, the superfluous is put aside so as to enter more deeply into the drawing, creating a minimalist and gestural work of art.

Chidy Wayne creates a personal code of signs and motifs of great symbolic significance and his drawings, the result of long philosophical reflection, are created using quick, bold strokes presenting such universal and timeless themes as existence, identity and internal conflict.

Wayne’s pieces are influenced by the artistic avant-garde as well as by ancestral and cultural elements, giving his drawings a certain primitive character, although urban art and contemporary forms are also present in his style.


Exhibitions


Dec 2023
ÁWET NYC presents Chidy Wayne
SOLO EXHIBITION
New York City, USA.

Nov 2023
Ross McCalla presents Chidy Wayne,
SOLO EXHIBITION.
Miami, USA.

Oct 2023
ART ON PAPER, SOLO
EXHIBITION. Grège Gallery.
Brussels, Belgium.

May 2023
WINDOWS TO THE WORLD,
SOLO EXHIBITION. Grège Gallery.
Brussels, Belgium.

May 2023
DUO SHOW w/ Miriam Dema.
Obra Art Gallery.
Barcelona, Spain.

March 2023
LUTTEURS, SOLO EXHIBITION.
DDESIN Paris.
Paris, France.

Dec 2022
EGO Y PUGNA, SOLO EXHIBITION.
Palacio de Anglona.
Madrid, Spain.

Nov 2022
EGO, SOLO EXHIBITION.
WE COLLECT GALLERY.
Barcelona, Spain.

Nov 2022
Group Exhibition.
Le Reservoir Galerie.
Paris, France.

Sept 2022
21.9 - 7.12, SOLO EXHIBITION.
ACX Music.
Barcelona, Spain

April 2022
MIRRORS, SOLO EXHIBITION.
Grège Gallery.
Antwerp, Belgium.

Nov 2021
Group Exhibition.
Boon Room Gallery.
Paris, France.


Clients

Banco Sabadell, El Corte Inglés, Esquire, Harvard University, Mango, Nike, Kinfolk, Rowse, The Macallan, VOGUE, Yoko Ono.


Contact

General Inquiries
info@chidywayne.com
Instagram

Grège Gallery, Brussels
info@gregegallery.com
+32 479127932 BE

Boon Room, Paris
info@boon-room.com
+33 (0)9 67498780 FR
 

© Chidy Wayne, 2023