David Ratcliff

BIOGRAPHY

Born 1970 in Los Angeles, CA USA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA USA

Education

1992

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY USA

Solo exhibitions

2014

Painting With Stars, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Klan Paintings, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2012

The Spirits that Lend Strength Are Invisible, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

2011

Portraits and Ghosts, Team Gallery , New York, NY USA

2010

Ghost Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

background, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2009

Maureen Paley Gallery, London, England

2008

Defect’s Mirror, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2007

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Cosmetic Surgery, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Bob Loblaw, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2005

tasseled loafers, jerk-off (under the auspices of Team Gallery), LISTE, Basel, Switzerland

I find a Burberry scarf and matching coat with a whale embroidered on it (something a little kid might wear) and it’s covered with what looks like dried chocolate syrup crisscrossed over the front, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Group exhibitions

2015

Andrew Gbur, Jaya Howey, David Ratcliff, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

2013

Rien Faire et Laisser Rire, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2012

A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY USA

2011

The Unseen, curated by Adela Leibowitz, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA USA

It’s Great To Be In New Jersey, curated by Gardar Eide Einarsson, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA USA

The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2010

NEW YORK The Loudest, Gallery Koko, Tokyo, Japan

The Secret Knows, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Los Angeles, CA USA

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan (two-person exhibition with Noriko Furunishi)

2009

The Night Goat Demands Reparations (curated by Adam Miller), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA USA

Cave #1 (curated by Bob Nickas), Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY USA

Light Motive, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiéve, Paris, France

Dark Summer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2008

History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Genealogy of Wojnarowicz, PPOW, New York, USA

That was then…This is now, Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, NY USA

The Triumph of Painting: Which Reality?, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

The Hidden, Maureen Paley Gallery, London, UK

2007

Post-Rose: Artists in and out of the Hazard Park Complex (curated bySterling Ruby), Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany

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), Museum of Modern Art PS1, New York, NY USA

The Monty Hall Problem (curated by Slater Bradley), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA USA

LAXed: New Painting from L.A. , Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany

Loveless, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

I Love My Scene: Scene Two (curated by José Freire), Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY USA

The Pantagruel Syndrome (curated by Francesco Bonami and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, with catalogue), Turin Triennial, Turin, Italy

2005

5 X U, Team Gallery, New York, NY USA

Collections

Frank Cohen Museum of Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK

Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA USA

Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC USA