Wikipedia / David Ratcliff
Wikipedia / David Ratcliff
David Ratcliff (born 1970 in Los Angeles.) is a painter based in Los Angeles. His work involves spray painting on collages using appropriated images.
Early life and education
David Ratcliff was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1970. He studied at the Pratt Institute in New York, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) degree in 1992.
Career
Ratcliff's early work featured spray-painted stencils that appeared to compete for space on the canvas. Over time, his style evolved to incorporate more complex and abstract compositions. His work has been exhibited at prominent commercial galleries such as Mary Boone Gallery in New York and Peres Projects in Berlin. Additionally, his pieces were part of the USA Today exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.
Ratcliff's art is included in several significant collections, including the Saatchi Gallery, Frank Cohen Museum of Contemporary Art in Manchester, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.. He is represented by Team Gallery in New York and Maureen Paley in London. His artwork has been sold at Phillips de Pury & Company and Sotheby's.
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2011
2010
Ghost Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Belgium
Bsckground, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, and CA
2009
2008
Defect's Mirror, Team Gallery, New York, and NY
2007
Cosmetic Surgery, Team Gallery, New York, and NY
Bob Loblaw, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, and Belgium
2005
LISTE, Basel, Switzerland (under the auspices of Team Gallery, and New York
Group exhibitions
2011
The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, curated by Andrew Berardini, Brand New Gallery, Milan, and Italy
2010
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, and Japan
David Ratcliff, Noriko Furunishi, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, and Japan
2009
The Night Goat Demands Reparations, curated by Adam Miller, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
Cave #1, curated by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY
Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2008
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York, NY
That was then... This is now PS1, New York, NY
The Hidden Maureen Paley, London, England
2007
Post-Rose: Artists in and out of the Hazard Park Complex, curated by Sterling Ruby, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland
2006
The Gold Standard, curated by Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty, PS1, New York, NY
The Monty Hall Problem, curated by Slater Bradley, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
LAXed: New Painting from L.A., Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Loveless, Team Gallery, New York, NY
I Love My Scene: Scene Two, curated by José Freire, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2005
The Pantagruel Syndrome, curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy
5 X U, Team Gallery, New York, NY
Public collections
Frank Cohen MOCA Manchester, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA
Saatchi Collection, London, UK
Personal life
He has a daughter.
See also
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