The Paula Cooper Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Wayne Gonzales. The exhibition consists of new paintings and will be on view beginning October 30, 2009 at 521 West 21st Street.

Wayne Gonzales was born in New Orleans in 1957 and started exhibiting in the mid-1990s. His work has been shown in various international venues including P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; the Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Dôle; and the Consortium, Dijon, France. Gonzales is represented in public and private collections in the United States and Europe, most notably the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston and the Neuberger Museum of Art. Gonzales lives and works in New York.