Reginald Sylvester II
Aug 29-Nov 9, 2024

ICA Chattanooga presents a solo exhibition of new work by Reginald Sylvester II.

Reginald  Sylvester II (American, b. 1987) lives and works in New York, and was born in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Working predominantly in abstraction, Sylvester II makes large scale paintings and sculptures which often include found objects.

Sylvester II’s debut West Coast solo exhibition, T-1000, opened in November 2023 at Roberts Projects Los Angeles. In March 2023, Sylvester II opened his second solo institutional exhibition in a North American museum, Green Gate, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, MO. This followed Painter's Refuge: A Way of Life, which opened in 2022 at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture in Charlotte, NC.

Sylvester II’s work is held in public collections including Nasher Museum of Art, NC; Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture, NC; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, MO; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Newark Museum of Art, NJ; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, Fl; ICA Miami, Fl; Ackland Art Museum, NC; Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK; Spazio 1, Lugano, Switzerland; and Fondazione Stelline, Milan, Italy.

Previous group exhibitions include Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now, curated by Dexter Wimberly at the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX (2022) and 100 Years, Gagosian and Jeffery Deitch, Miami, Fl (2022). Recent solo exhibitions include CUTS, Maximillian William, London (2022); Feelin’ Blue, The Arts Club, London (2022); With the End in Mind, Maximillian William, London (2021); NEMESIS, Maximillian William, London (2019); and The Rise and Fall of a People, Fondazione Stelline, Milan (2017). Sylvester is featured in Prime, London: Phaidon, 2022 a survey of contemporary art. Monographic publications include Painter’s Refuge: A Way of Life, New York and Charlotte: Pacific and the Harvey B. Gantt Center, 2022; With the End in Mind, London and New York: InOtherWords, Maximillian William and Natchez; NEMESIS, London: Maximillian William.