WHITNEY BEDFORD | 14 May - 21 June 2026

Whitney Bedford’s third solo exhibition with Miles McEnery Gallery opens Thursday 14 May, on view through Saturday 20 June 2026 at 511 West 22nd Street. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital catalogue featuring an essay by Aandrea Stang.

"The series title, Veduta, takes its name from the Italian term for paintings created primarily in the nineteenth century as souvenirs for wealthy individuals to help them remember their experiences on the Grand Tour and share them with others. Whitney has manipulated this tradition, employing images of historical European landscape paintings to anchor her series."

- Aandrea Stang in "The Veduta Paintings of Whitney Bedford"

"In Whitney’s Veduta series, the viewer shares interiors with trees, which she has said are a stand-in for people. The trees have moved indoors and, like us, are sheltered yet vulnerable. And like us, they gaze from indoors to the sea beyond."

- Aandrea Stang in "The Veduta Paintings of Whitney Bedford"

"She recreates familiar, traditional historical paintings, capturing the beautiful and romantic changing of the light. She replaces the realities of a Southern California sunset—smog-influenced on a far-from-pristine beach that is punctuated by storm drains—with renditions of colors and forms that pay homage to Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Klee, Vincent Van Gogh, Albert Goodwin, Frederic Edwin Church, William Bradford, Jan Stanislawski, Arkhip Kuindzhi, François-Louis Français, Milton Avery, and J.M.W. Turner."

- Aandrea Stang in "The Veduta Paintings of Whitney Bedford"

WHITNEY BEDFORD (b. 1976 in Baltimore, MD) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California in Los Angeles, CA.

Bedford has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Art: Concept, Paris, France; Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo, CA; Starkwhite Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Taymour Grahne Gallery, New York, NY and Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, among others.

Her work has been included in group exhibitions at international institutions including the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA; Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Quimper, France; Hôtel de Ville, Pont-Aven, France; The Jewish Museum, New York, NY; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA.

Her work is included in the collections of Eric Decelle, Brussels, Belgium; Francois Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Ginette Moulin and Guillaume Houzé Contemporary Art Collection, Paris, France; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico; Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA; Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH; Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL; Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, among others.

She is the recipient of awards including the Pollock Krasner Award; New York, NY, UCLA D’Arcy Hayman Award, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA; UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner, University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA; Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany; Karl-Hofer Gesellschaft Atelier, Künstlerwerkstatt Bahnhof Westend; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Studentship, Venice, Italy.

Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

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