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Wendel A. White was born in Newark, New Jersey and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. He was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White is currently Distinguished Professor of Art at Stockton University, NJ.
White received a 2025 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. He has received various awards and fellowships including an honorary Doctor of Arts from Oakland University, MI; the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography; four artist fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Bunn Lectureship in Photography and grants from EnFoco, Center Santa Fe, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and various artist's residencies.
His work is represented in museum, public, and private collections including National Gallery of Art, DC; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; Mint Museum, NC; Duke University, NC; New Jersey State Museum, NJ; California Institute for Integral Studies, CA; Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts, IL; En Foco, NY; Rochester Institute of Technology, NY; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Haverford College, PA; University of Delaware, DE; University of Alabama, AL; and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NY.
White has served on the boards of directors for the Society for Photographic Education, New Jersey Council for the Humanities, Kodak Educational Advisory Council, NJ Save Outdoor Sculpture, the Atlantic City Historical Museum, New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, and the New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Foundation. He currently serves on the boards of the Atlantic City Free Library Foundation and The Print Center (Philadelphia).
Recent projects include Manifest: Thirteen Colonies; Red Summer; Schools for the Colored; Village of Peace: An African American Community in Israel; Small Towns, Black Lives; and others.
