Careers, Life, and Yale presents: Overcoming Adversity through Magical Art

Dominic Chambers (b. 1993) is a New Haven-based painter who was born and raised in St. Louis. The artist received his BFA from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and his MFA from Yale University School of Art. Chambers creates vibrant paintings that simultaneously engage art historical models, such as color field painting and gestural abstraction, and contemporary concerns around race, identity, and the necessity for leisure and reflection. Interested in how art can function as a mode for understanding, recontextualizing, or renegotiating one's relationship with the world, the artist sees painting as a critical and intellectual endeavor, as much as an aesthetic one. His recent solo exhibitions include What Makes the Earth Shake (2022) at the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art; Progress of the Soul (2021) at Luce Gallery in Turin, Italy; and Like the Shapes of Clouds on Water (2020) at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center. Chambers’ work is in the collections of the Green Family Foundation in Dallas, TX; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami. He is the recipient of the Robert Reed Drawing Scholarship, the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, and the Varsity Art XVIII Award and has completed residencies at the New York Studio Residency Program and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. Chambers is represented by Lehmann Maupin.