Kemar Keanu Wynter is showing a new painting in a group show titled “Nude”, at Psychic Readings Gallery in New York. The show will also feature works by Lin Qiqing, Anam Rani, Noel de Lesseps, Elise Rise, and Jeanie Yoo, and will be on view through December 6, 2025.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, through the National Endowment for the Arts Fund has acquired a major work by Kemar Keanu Wynter.
“I Fine Rest in the Curve of Your Embrace (Fatoot was Haleeb)”, 2024 was first exhibited in Wynter’s solo show “Rücken–” at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in 2024.
The gallery is very pleased that this piece has joined the VMFA’s great collection.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has work on view in a group show titled Waiting Room, curated by Good Black Art, at Creative Legion in Hudson, NY. The show is up through September 1, 2025.

Kemar Keanu Wynter is featured in Galerie as one of the publication’s emerging artists. From the article: “Galerie’s list of emerging artists shines a spotlight on the rising stars who are making waves around the world with their unique visions, mastery of materials, fascinating processes, and powerful messages.” Read the article online here.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has a painting included in To Dust You Shall Return, a group show at COMA in New South Whales, Australia. The show, looks at the folly of man and our underestimation of nature with inspiration taken from the dust storms that damaged the American and Canadian prairies in the 1930s, and biblical references to retribution and ritual. To Dust You Shall Return is up through December 14.

Phyllis Hollis interviews Kemar Keanu Wynter for her podcast Cerebral Women. Kemar discusses the first steps he took in the direction of becoming an artist, the materials in his studio, and the importance of food in his personal relationships.

Kemar Keanu Wynter’s solo show Rücken- is listed as an Artforum’s “Must-See Shows,” the editors’ selection of essential exhibitions worldwide. The exhibition is on view September 6 – October 19, 2024.

Kemar Keanu Wynter’s Fall 2024 solo show, Rücken-, was reviewed by Sara Roffino for Cultured Magazine.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has four artworks on view in Mama’s in the Kitchen, a group show at Anat Ebgi. According to the press release, the exhibition “focuses on the ways in which domestic labor and care can be radical acts in our hyper-capitalist modern culture, which typically undermines the significant role of the rituals of the home.” Mama’s in the Kitchen is on view through August 17, 2024.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has a painting included in Visible World, a group show of contemporary paintings at Halsey McKay Gallery’s East Hampton location. The exhibition is on view July 8 – 31, 2023.

Kemar Keanu Wynter’s solo show Heralds was reviewed by Isabella Rafky for Hyperallergic. Rafky considers the harmony Wynter has found mixing technique and heritage. Heralds is on view through Saturday June 17.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has produced two prints in conjunction with his solo show Heralds at Klaus Gallery. Semé: Lozengy I (2023) and Semé: Fusiliy I (2023) (both edition of 50) are now available on our website and at the gallery.

Kemar Keanu Wynter and Joy Curtis are both recipients of the 2023–24 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in DUMBO, Brooklyn, New York. The Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program awards rent-free private studio spaces to a jury-selected group of artists for one year.

Kemar Keanu Wynter’s 2023 solo show Heralds is listed as part of Artforum’s “Must-See Shows,” the editors’ selection of essential exhibitions worldwide. The exhibition is on view May 11 – June 17, 2023.

The Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery presentation at the Independent 2023 featuring Tamara Gonzales and Kemar Keanu Wynter was mentioned in the New York Times’ review of the art fair.

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery is excited to present new work by Tamara Gonzales and Kemar Keanu Wynter at the Independent 2023 in New York City.

Kemar Keanu Wynter is participating in “Artist Room 2023” at Encounter Gallery in Lisbon, PT. The “Artist Room” project was introduced in 2018 to provide artists the opportunity to present a focused solo installation of a specific series of recent work. The exhibition is on view March 24 through May 13, 2023.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has two works on paper included in Death of Beauty, the inaugural Los Angeles exhibition for Sargent’s Daughters’s new West Coast location. The group exhibition is on view February 14 – March 25, 2023.

Kemar Keanu Wynter’s Jerk Pork (2021) was acquired by Art Galleries at Black Studies, University of Texas. “Art Galleries at Black Studies at The University of Texas at Austin (AGBS) is a collecting institution whose mission is to acquire, preserve, interpret, exhibit, and otherwise make accessible modern and contemporary art and cultural materials from Africa and the African Diaspora for the benefit of a variety of audiences” (from AGBS website).

Kemar Keanu Wynter is an artist-in-resident at the The Macedonia Institute in Chatham, NY through the month of January, 2023.

Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery will be exhibiting artworks by Alex Dodge, Erika Ranee, Holly Coulis, Joy Curtis, and Kemar Keanu Wynter at NADA Miami 2022, booth 1.05.

Kemar Keanu Wynter is an artist-in-residency at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has work included in Books and Things, a group show at Helen J Gallery. The show opens September 10 and will be on view through October 22.

Kemar Keanu Wynter was invited to participate in Ox-Bow’s Summer Residency Program from May 30 – June 18, 2022.

Erika Ranee and Kemar Keanu Wynter both donated an artwork to the 2022 White Columns Benefit Auction​ and Exhibition. Their works are on view until the auction on June 1.

Kemar Keanu Wynter has been included in a group show, 𝗡𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆, at OTP Copenhagen. “Responding to, challenging and expanding Dorothy Iannone’s concept of “ecstatic unity” within a contemporary context, the exhibition surveys a variety of approaches to the combination of: hyper-sensory aesthetics, transcendental eroticism and autobiography.”

Kemar Keanu Wynter is participating in three residencies; FluxAtAROS, ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark (2021); AQB AIR, Art Quarter Budapest, Hungary (2021, current); and Flux Factory AIR, Long Island City, NY (2022, forthcoming).