Photo by Brea Youngblood
Chloe West was born and raised in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She received a BFA from the University of Wyoming in 2015, and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2017. West’s meticulously crafted oil paintings explore the American West as a site of sublime devotion, while confronting its vast and haunting past. She creates surreal self portraits and still lifes that delve into her personal history and the collective vision surrounding the frontier: with references ranging from the Western filmic canon to Medieval and biblical iconography. West utilizes these visual cultural languages to display herself as the subject and critic in deeply personal images that both portray and subvert these narratives. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo and group shows, most recently at Harper’s, New York, East Hampton, and Los Angeles (2025, 2024, 2023, and 2022); SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA (2025), The Armory Show, New York (2025, 2024), NADA New York and Miami (2024, 2023, 2022); Art Brussels, Belgium (2024); Galerie Mighela Shama, Geneva, Switzerland (2023 and 2022); and Morgan Presents, New York (2023 and 2022). Her work has appeared in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Colossal, and ArtMaze Magazine. West currently lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.