Episode 269

Photographed by: Maral Fard

Ep.269 Chidy Wayne (Spain, 1981) is a Spanish-Guinean artist working primarily in painting and sculpture.
His practice addresses fundamental questions such as identity and inner conflict through a gestural, material-based figuration that incorporates oils, acrylics, textured surfaces, and sculptures in wood, iron or plaster.

Influenced by both the artistic avant-garde and ancestral cultural elements, Wayne revisits the primitive through a contemporary language, building a repertoire of signs with timeless resonance.

His work establishes a dialogue between the rational and the instinctive, where matter becomes language and the energy of gesture acquires a spiritual dimension. Each piece confronts the viewer with their own human condition.

Wayne’s body of work inhabits the space between the archaic and the contemporary, the intimate and the collective. From this position, he consolidates a practice that connects the force of the ancestral with the forms of the present.

Artist https://chidywayne.com/

Southern Guild https://southernguild.com/artists/chidy-wayne

Grege Gallery https://www.gregegallery.com/artists/chidy-wayne

Francis Gallery https://francisgallery.com/exhibitions/ancestral-futures

Frieze 2026 https://www.thecut.com/article/frieze-new-york-2026-art-scene-report-people-watching.html

Imagicasa https://imagicasa.be/en/story/past-and-imagination-chidy-wayne-at-male-castle

Luxembourg Art Week https://luxembourgartweek.lu/en/programme/chidy-wayne-solid-ego-005

Art Paris https://www.artparis.com/fr/gallery/4204

Boon Paris https://boonparis.com/chidy-wayne

Sight Unseen https://www.sightunseen.com/2024/02/chidy-wayne-artist/

Creative Voyage https://creative.voyage/products/chidy-wayne-in-the-mirror?srsltid=AfmBOoq4pAl2IYXKeU_dEy2nwMNEatrMQteZkTChRRX153i4wMuc4n0G

Milk Decoration https://www.milkdecoration.com/los-angeles-le-peintre-chidy-wayne-expose-ses-oeuvres-neo-primitives-a-la-francis-gallery/