Wendel White received a 2009-2010 En Foco New Works
Photography Fellowship; a 2009 and 1993 Artist
Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the
Arts; a 2005 grant from the Graham Foundation for
Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and in 2003 he was
appointed a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation.
Wendel received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a MFA in Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. His work is represented in museum and corporate collections, exhibitions, and publications including: the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Haverford College; Johnson and Johnson; Chase Manhattan Bank; the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at University of Delaware; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
His current projects include; Schools for the Colored an extension of Small Towns, Black Lives and Village of Peace. During 2005 and 2006 he traveled to photograph in a community of African Americans living in Israel’s Negev desert. Images from Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel were recently included in Transition magazine (Vol. 97), published by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.
Wendel received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City and a MFA in Photography from the University of Texas at Austin. His work is represented in museum and corporate collections, exhibitions, and publications including: the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Photography; Haverford College; Johnson and Johnson; Chase Manhattan Bank; the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at University of Delaware; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
His current projects include; Schools for the Colored an extension of Small Towns, Black Lives and Village of Peace. During 2005 and 2006 he traveled to photograph in a community of African Americans living in Israel’s Negev desert. Images from Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel were recently included in Transition magazine (Vol. 97), published by the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.