Summer Wheat (b. 1977, Oklahoma City) received her B.A. degree from the University of Central Oklahoma and M.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Wheat’s selected solo exhibitions include No Rain, No Flowers, Dirimart Pera, Istanbul (2025), Foragers, the Mint Museum, Charlotte (2021); Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (2020); Heavy Lifting, KMAC Contemporary Art Museum, Louisville (2019); Royal Jelly, Dirimart, Istanbul (2019); Inside the Garden, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn (2018); Full Circle (Curator: Nina Bozicnik), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (2017) and Pry the Lid Off, Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center, Oklahoma City (2016). Among her selected group exhibitions are Talk of the Town: A Dallas Museum of Art Pop Up Exhibition, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2023); America Will Be! Surveying the Contemporary Landscape, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas (2019); The Magnetic Fields, Gio Marconi, Milan (2019) and Expanding the Field of Abstraction, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2013–14). Wheat’s work is in numerous public and private collections, including the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; de Young Museum, San Francisco; Peréz Art Museum Miami, Miami; The Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington, Seattle; The Mint Museum, Charlotte and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville. Wheat is also the receiver of several awards and prizes including the Northern Trust Purchase Prize at EXPO Chicago (2019) and the New York NADA Artadia Award (2016). Summer Wheat lives and works in New York.
