David Ratcliff (born 1970 in

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) is a painter based in

. His work involves spray painting on collages using appropriated images.

Early life and education

He was born in Los Angeles,

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in 1970. Ratcliff studied at the

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in New York and attained a BFA in 1992.

Career

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

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in New York, and

Peres Projects Peres is a Portuguese, Galician, and Sephardic-Jewish surname. Its Spanish variant is Pérez. In the Hungarian language, it means litigant ("peres fél"). It is common in both forms Peres and Perez as well as Peretz among descendants of Sephar ...

in Berlin, and was included in the ''USA Today'' exhibition at the

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in London. His work is featured in several important collections including the

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Museum of Contemporary Art in Manchester (UK), and the

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. He is represented by

Team Gallery Team Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City, with an additional project space in Venice, Los Angeles, California. It was founded by José Freire and Lisa Ruyter in 1996. Team has represented such ...

in New York and

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in London. His artwork has been sold at

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and

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Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

2011 *Portraits, Team Gallery,

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, NY 2010 *Ghost Paintings, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen,

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*Bsckground,

Honor Fraser Honor Fraser (born 1973) is a Scottish art dealer in California and a former fashion model. She is the sister of Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat and chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat, and the granddaughter of British Commando Simon Fraser, 15th Lord ...

Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2009 *Maureen Paley,

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2008 *Defect's Mirror, Team Gallery, New York, NY 2007 *Tomio Koyama Gallery,

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*Cosmetic Surgery, Team Gallery, New York, NY *Bob Loblaw, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium 2005 *LISTE,

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Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

(under the auspices of Team Gallery, New York

Group exhibitions

2011 *The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, curated by

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, Brand New Gallery,

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2010 *Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan *David Ratcliff, Noriko Furunishi, Tomio Koyama Gallery,

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, Japan 2009 *The Night Goat Demands Reparations, curated by Adam Miller, Art Center College of Design,

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*Cave #1, curated by Bob Nickas, Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY *Light Motive, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiéve,

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*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

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, Galerie Christian Nagel,

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*Painting as Fact, Fact as Fiction, curated by Bob Nickas, de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland 2006 *The Gold Standard, curated by Bob Nickas and

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, PS1, New York, NY *The Monty Hall Problem, curated by

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, Los Angeles, CA *LAXed: New Painting from L.A., Peres Projects,

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*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

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and Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Turin Triennial,

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

Public collections

*Frank Cohen MOCA

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, UK *Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA, USA * Jumex Collection,

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*Saatchi Collection, London, UK

Personal life

He has a daughter.

References

External links

Saatchi Gallery
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ratcliff, David 1970 births Living people 20th-century American painters 20th-century American male artists American male painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Pratt Institute alumni