WELLS CHANDLER (American, b. 1985) lives and works in Bronx, NY. He received his MFA from Yale University in 2011 where he was awarded the Ralph Mayer Prize for proficiency in materials and techniques. Chandler was a 2015 Queer Art Mentorship fellow paired with the inimitable Angela Dufresne. From 2016-17 he was a recipient of the Sharpe Walentas Studio Program. In 2025 he was a recipient of a BRIO from the Bronx Council on the Arts. Recent and upcoming 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. 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. Chandler was appointed the Spring 2023 Tieger Mentor of the Arts at Cornell. Chandler regularly contributes art reviews, poetry and essays to The Electric Pencil, an alternative art journal founded by The Wood Ox Mystery School. His work is included in numerous public and private collections.