Background
He was born in Los Angeles, California in 1970.
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David Ratcliff
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He spray paints collages using appropriated images. His early work has been described as spray-painted stencils fighting for space on the canvas. This evolved into his more recent work as more complex and abstract.
Ratcliff’s work has been shown at prominent commercial galleries such as Mary Boone Gallery in New York, and Peres Projects in Berlin, and was included in the United States of America Today exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.
His work is featured in several important collections including the Saatchi Gallery, Frank Cohen Museum of Contemporary Art in Manchester (United Kingdom), and the Los Angeles County Museum of Artist 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"son Solo Exhibitions
2011
Portraits, Team Gallery, New York, New York
2010
Ghost Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Bsckground, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009
Maureen Paley, London, England
2008
Defect’s Mirror, Team Gallery, New York, New York
2007
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Cosmetic Surgery, Team Gallery, New York, New York
Bob Loblaw, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2005
LISTE, Basel, Switzerland (under the auspices of Team Gallery)Team Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2011
The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, curated by Andrew Berardini, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2010
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
David Ratcliff, Noriko Furunishi, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, 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, New York
Light Motive, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiéve, Paris, France
Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
2008
History Keeps Maine Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York, New York
That was then…This is now PS1, New York, New York
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, New York
The Monty Hall Problem, curated by Slater Bradley, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, California
LAXed: New Painting from Los Angeles, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Loveless, Team Gallery, New York, New York
I Love My Scene: Scene Two, curated by José Freire, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
2005
The Pantagruel Syndrome, curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy
5 X U, Team Gallery, New York, New York
Public collections
Frank Cohen Multimedia over Coax Alliance Manchester, United Kingdom
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, United States of America
Jumex Collection, Mexico City
Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom.
