WELLS CHANDLER (American, b. 1985) lives and works in Bronx, NY. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 and was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. He was a 2015 Queer Art Mentorship fellow paired with Angela Dufresne, the recipient of the 2016-17 Sharpe Walentas Studio Program, and received a BRIO from the Bronx Council on the Arts in 2025. Upcoming and recent solo exhibitions include ANDREW RAFACZ (Chicago, IL), Galerie Eric Mouchet (Paris, France and Brussels, Belgium), Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA), Soloway, (Brooklyn, NY), and Diablo Rosso (Panama City, Panama). Group exhibitions include Spring Projects (Brooklyn, NY), The Fundação Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva (Lisbon, Portugal), Uncle Brother (Hancock, NY), International Objects (Brooklyn, NY), Goldfinch Gallery (Chicago, IL), Helena Anrather (New York, NY), Olympia (New York, NY), Dee Pre Art Gallery (Holland, MI), and Leslie Lohman Museum of Art (New York, NY). He has exhibited at art fairs in Chicago, Cologne, Copenhagen, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Miami, New York, Palm Springs, and Paris. Chandler was appointed the Tieger Mentor of the Arts at Cornell in 2023. He regularly contributes art reviews, poetry and essays to The Electric Pencil, an alternative art journal founded by The Wood Ox Mystery School. His work has been written about by Roxane Gay, Art Forum, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Huffington Post, TimeOut, Modern Painters, Maake Magazine, and AEQAI. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.