Cullen Washington, Jr. (b. 1972) is an American abstract artist based in New York, with an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and a 2009 Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. His work is held by the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Saatchi collection. His non-representational practice explores order, chaos and creation, layering collage, printmaking and painting with tape, charcoal dust and chalkboard paint, often on a monumental scale.
Cullen Washington, Jr. (b. 1972, Alexandria, Louisiana, USA) is an American abstract artist based in New York. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University and an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. His non-representational practice investigates order, chaos, creation and other natural phenomena, bringing disparate visual elements together through layered processes that combine collage, printmaking and painting. Alongside canvas, acrylic, oil and charcoal, he works with unconventional materials such as tape, paper, charcoal dust, black chalkboard paint and copier toner, often on a monumental scale. Washington received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2009 and a Bartlett and Montague Travel Grant in 2008. He has taken part in residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2010), Yaddo (2011), the Studio Museum in Harlem (2013), the Fountainhead Residency (2016) and Amherst College (2016–17). His work has been exhibited at the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Saatchi Gallery in London and the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. In 2020 the University of Michigan Museum of Art presented the exhibition “Cullen Washington, Jr.: The Public Square”. His works are held in collections including the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Saatchi collection. TUMO Gallery presents his work as part of its selection of contemporary abstract painting.
