Ealy Mays, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ealy Mays

American artist

Date of Birth: 15-Jan-1959

Place of Birth: Wichita Falls, Texas, United States

Profession: painter

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Ealy Mays

  • Ealy Mays (born January 15, 1959) is a Paris-based African-American contemporary artist.
  • His work has been exhibited in Mexico's Galeria Clave, Paris’ Carrousel du Louvre, Mexico's annual JosĂ© Clemente Orozco Art competition, and New York's Guggenheim museum, to name a few.
  • Legendary painter Henry O.
  • Tanner was the first African American to exhibit at the Louvre in 1897.
  • Mays’ 2005 “Migration of the Superheroes” exhibition at the Carrousel du Louvre makes him one of the few African-American artists to date to follow Tanner's footsteps to the Louvre.Mays counts Jacob Lawrence, Jackson Pollock, Maxfield Parrish, Diego Rivera, JosĂ© Clemente Orozco, Rufino Tamayo, Herbert Gentry, Edward Clark (artist), and Franz Kline as mentors.
  • Residing in Paris for the last 15 years, he is a permanent recurring resident at the CitĂ© internationale des arts in Paris [1], and an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine.

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