Corey Whyte

Corey Whyte

Corey Whyte was born in Staffordshire in 1993 and has lived between Staffordshire and Carmel, California from an early age. He did his BA Fine Art at Staffordshire University graduating in 2014. Whyte was the recent recipient of The Ingram Collection’s Young Contemporary Talent Purchase Prize in November 2016, hosted at The Cello Factory in London.

Whyte observes on the capitalisation and cultural appropriation of important figures, stories, histories and celebrations from around the world; specifically, what we know now as seasonal holidays such as Christmas, Halloween, Easter and Valentine’s day. He takes products from these times and challenges them by pushing them even further, intervening, contributing and continuing this mass appropriation to creating something completely unidentifiable. Appropriating the appropriators.