Will Boone

Will Boone (b. 1982, Houston, Texas) makes works whose graphic power is matched by their palpable physicality, generating content from an unlikely array of sources—including music subcultures and the visual vernaculars of cattle ranches and barrooms. His technical processes are informed in equal measure by the DIY ethos of punk and the precision of industrial manufacturing, and give rise to paintings, sculptures, and immersive installations. Boone pays particular attention to forms that emerge from social contexts with no clear association to art historical narratives. Taken as a whole, his work serves as a repository for archetypal, if fragmentary, expressions of contemporary life. Boone has been the subject of solo exhibitions at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles (2023); Karma, New York (2022); Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2019); and Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2014). His work is held in the collections of institutions such as the Fundación Baruch Spinoza, Barcelona; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami. Boone lives and works in Houston.