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Born in 1971, he is an artist and curator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He has been an exhibiting artist for over 10 years and has participated in numerous solo and group shows, including exhibitions in New York, London, Paris, Rome, and Chicago. Most recently, in a solo exhibition at the Lab Gallery at the Roger Smith Hotel in New York and in a group show, Multiple Strategies, curated by Matt Distel at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, as well as Obiettivo Pax, at the Museo della Fanteria, dall'Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, in Rome, Italy.
Recently, Wells was chosen as the featured project for the ~scopeMiami Art Fair for an international video art research project including over 100 contemporary artists.
Wells, attended the University of Illinios at Chicago from 1993-1997, specializing in painting and printmaking, studing painting under Kerry James Marshall, Phyllis Bramson and Julia Fish. Printmaking under Steve Campbell and Jack Lemon of Landfall Press. In 1996, Wells changed course and focused on Avant Garde Theory with Hanna Higgins and new media and video under Iņigo Manglano-Ovalle. After finishing at UIC Wells went on to assist interactive media artist Miroslaw Rogala through 1999.
In 1995, he co-founded IFAC in Chicago Illinois as an alternative exhibition and installation space for young and emerging artists. Before moving to New York City in 2000, through IFAC, he organized and curated numerous exhibitions, installations, performances and public works. Currently he is co-organizing a project called TransVoyeur for the 2006 Liverpool Biennial in addition to planning public art projects in Manhattan and Brooklyn.
His work and exhibitions have been written and reviewed upon by a number of national and international art and news publications to include: The New York Times, New York Arts, The Miami Herald, New Art Examiner, CNN, New City Magazine, Art Net, The Washington Post, The Chicago Reader and In These Times Magazine.
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