Walter Price to give Outten Visiting Artist Lecture

Walter Price. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner.

Artist Walter Price will discuss his creative process, artwork, and journey during Randolph’s 2026 Outten Visiting Artist Lecture.

Price—one of four artists featured in The Audacity of Paint, the College’s 114th Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art—will speak at the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College on Sunday, March 1.

His imagery flows between figuration and abstraction while focusing on the primacy of paint, and as he described it to The Brooklyn Rail in 2024, “the importance of a beautiful gesture, a beautiful mark, a beautiful glob of paint.”

Originally from Macon, Georgia, Price now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. 

He served four years in the U.S. Navy before enrolling in art school. He received a BA from the Art Institute of Washington in 2011 and an AA from Middle Georgia College in 2013. 

He has exhibited his work throughout the United States and Europe, including a self-titled solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in 2018 and Walter Price: Pearl Lines, featuring the first major monograph of his work, at the Camden Art Centre in London in 2021. 

Price has given the title Pearl Lines to the majority of his solo presentations, suggesting that each exhibition expands beyond the confines of its own time and place, becoming part of a larger body of work.

He has also had solo exhibitions at the Modern Institute, Glasgow (2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022); Greene Naftali, New York (2020, 2022, and 2025); Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin (2022); 14a, Hamburg (2023); and Modern Art, London (2024) and Paris (2025).

His work was included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate, London; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and High Museum of Art, Atlanta, among others. 

His Maier lecture will run from 2 to 4 p.m. and includes a reception. The event, supported by the Outten Endowed Visiting Artists Program, is free and open to the public. 

Visit www.maiermuseum.org for more information.