Summer Wheat
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BIO
Summer Wheat (b. 1977, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA and received her BA from the University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK. Wheat was awarded the Northern Trust Purchase Prize from EXPO Chicago in 2019, the New York NADA Artadia Award in 2016, and completed the Triangle Arts Association International Residency Program in 2010. She is known for her vibrant paintings, multifaceted sculptures, and immersive installations that weave together the history of materiality, figuration, and abstraction in both fine art and craft milieus. Each series engages individual and collective human experiences drawn from historical and contemporary sources, including themes of labor, leisure, commerce, and class.
Solo and group exhibitions of her work have been organized at the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; KMAC Museum, Louisville, KY; Fondazione Mudima, Milan, Italy; Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA; SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; Zidoun Bossuyt, Luxembourg; Braverman, Tel Aviv, Israel; Dirimart, Istanbul, Turkey; Smack Mellon, New York, NY; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; El Espacio 23, Miami, FL; and Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, OK. Additionally, Summer Wheat is working with International Architects Atelier to transform the Beaux-Arts Conservatory on the property of the Kansas City Museum into a light-filled sacred space titled “JewelHouse”, set to open in 2026. Wheat lives and works in New York.
