Bio

Dexter Wimberly is an American entrepreneur and curator based in Japan who has organized exhibitions in galleries and institutions around the world, including the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City; Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas; The Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte; KOKI Arts and STANDING PINE in Tokyo; BODE in Berlin; Lehmann Maupin in London; SECCI in Milan; Efie Gallery; and The Third Line in Dubai.

In 2023, Wimberly participated in Hauser & Wirth's International Curatorial Residency Symposium in Somerset, England. His exhibitions have been reviewed and featured in publications including The New York Times and Artforum and have received support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Kinkade Family Foundation. Wimberly has been profiled in Elle Decor and Artnet News. He is a Senior Critic at New York Academy of Art and the founder and director of the Hayama Artist Residency and The Kyoto Retreat in Japan.

Wimberly is the co-founder of Art World Conference and CreativeStudy. Prior to his curatorial career, he was the managing partner of the New York-based advertising and marketing agency August Bishop, representing a diverse array of clients including Adidas, The Coca-Cola Company, and HBO.

Wimberly’s recent exhibitions include The Shape of Things to Come at Efie Gallery in Dubai, UAE, October 11, 2025 - January 9, 2026; A Material Dance: Lucio Fontana and Alteronce Gumby at SECCI in Milan, Italy, October 3 - December 20, 2025; A Direct Response to Light: 21st Century Painting at ALEXANDER BERGGRUEN in new York City, March 5 - April 9, 2025; What is Possible, What is Promised at Galerie Isa in Mumbai, India, September 12 - October 28, 2024.

PAST EXHIBITIONS

A Superlative Palette: Contemporary Black Women Artists, at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, January 26 - August 25, 2024; Resonant Harmonies at STANDING PINE in Tokyo Japan, April 27 - May 25, 2024; Elevate the Object, at SECCI in Milan, Italy, May 9 - September 14, 2024; SpaceRace, at Lehmann Maupin in London, England, January 17 - March 2, 2024; Patrick Alston, Post-Traumatism: In Search of Freedom, at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, November 10, 2023 - May 12, 2024; Color Coded at BODE in Berlin, April 29 - May 28, 2023; SEEING STARS: Works from the Fischer/Shull Collection of Contemporary Art at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in Charlotte, NC, April 1 - September 24, 2023; Black Abstractionists: From Then ‘til Now, at The Green Family Art Foundation in Dallas, October 8, 2022 - January 29, 2023; and Billie Zangewa: Thread for a Web Begun at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) in San Francisco, October 20, 2021 - February 27, 2022.

Currently Reading

• The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King by Rich Cohen.

• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

• Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday

• Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall

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