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

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

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

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

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

Nov 2022
EGO, SOLO EXHIBITION. We Collect Gallery. Barcelona, Spain

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

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

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

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


Clients

Banco Sabadell, El Corte Inglés, Esquire, Hackett London, Harvard University, Heirloom, Les Izmoor, Mango, Nike, Kind Surf, Kinfolk, Rowse, The Macallan, Tropics, VOGUE, Yoko Ono.


Contact

General Inquiries
info@chidywayne.com
Instagram

Grège Gallery, Belgium
info@gregegallery.com
+32 479127932

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

Closer&Closer, USA
hello@closerandcloser.co
+1.323.426.4409

Chidy Wayne © 2023