Dundee, Scotland, 1955. Lives and works in London, England
Education
1978-80 MA Cultural Studies Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England
1975-78 BA (Hons) Fine Art Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, England
1973-75 Foundation Course Watford College of Art, Hertfordshire, England
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Woven Things, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, England
2024 Transparent Things, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2023 I-Cons and Ex-Cons, Kestle Barton, England
2022 Colour is, Compton Verney, England
2022 David Batchelor | Alfredo Volpi, Cecilia Brunson Projects, England
2022 Disco Mecanique, Salisbury Cathedral, England
2020 New Work, Waddington Custot, Londond, England
2019 My Own Private Bauhaus, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2018 Psychogeometry 2 (curated by David Thomas), Site Eight Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Psychogeometry, Matt’s Gallery, London, England
2017 Chromatology, Ab-Anbar Gallery, Tehran, Iran
2016 Reef, Handel Street Projects, London, England
2016 Glowsticks, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2015 Monochrome Archive 1997-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2015 Flatlands Remix, Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2014 Chromolocomotion, Terrace Wires Commission, St Pancras Station, London, England
2014 David Batchelor:Concretos, New Art Centre, Wiltshire; Salisbury, England
2013 Wall to Wall (curated by João Bandeira), Centro Universitário Maria Antonia, São Paulo, Brazil
2013 Flatlands, Fruitmarket Gallery, Endiburgh, Scotland; Spike Island, Bristol, England
2012 Magic Hour, GEM, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2012 Brighton-Palermo ReMix, Brighton Festival, Brighton, England
2012 Slugfest, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
2012 Magic Pavement , Pavement Gallery, Manchester, England
2011 2D3D, Karsten Schubert, London, England
2010 Chromophilia, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2008 The Backlights, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2007 Unplugged, Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Unplugged (Remix) Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
2007 David Batchelor & Nikolai Suetin, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Festival Remix (Christmas Lights Commission), South Bank Centre, London, England
2006 Candela V & VI, Ingleby Gallery (off-site) Old Royal High School, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Candela 7/450 (For the Death Star), Victorian Palmhouse, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland
2006 Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
2005 Ten Silhouettes, Gloucester Road Undergound Station, London, England
2004 Shiny Dirty, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
2003 Spectrum of Hackney Road, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
2002 Barrier, 38 Langham Street, London, England
2001 Shiny Dirty, Habitat, London, England
2000 Electric Colour Tower, Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, England
2000 Apocalypstick, Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
1998 Monochromobiles, The Economist Plaza, London, England
1997 Shelf-Like, Frame-Like, Note-Like, Byam Shaw School of Art, London, England
1997 Polymonochromes, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
1996 Polymonochrome Drawings, Soho House, London, England
1995 Serial Color, Curtain Road Arts, London, England
Group Exhibitions
2025 Lo tienes que ver — La autonomía del color en el arte abstracto, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2024 Positions, part three (Curated by John Slyce), Alma Pearl, London, UK
2024 Summer Exhibition (Curated by Cornelia Parker), Royal Academy, London, UK
2023 Light: Works from the Tate Collection, The National Art Centre, Japan
2023 Colours in the Air (with Richard Deacon), Handel Street Projects, England
2023 Modern and Contemporary, Waddington Custot, England
2022 Hello MONO-HA!, White Conduit Projects, Inglaterra
2022 Chromophilia (curated by Tanya Barson), Hauser and Wirth, Switzerland
2022 Art is the Antidote, Museum Voorlinden, Netherlands
2021 Colour Space, Galleria Mucciaccia, Rome, Italy.
2021 House Share, Firstsite, Colchester, England.
2018 PRISM (curated by Chris Clarke and Fiona Kearney), Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2018 The Everyday and the Extraordinary, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2018 The Monochrome: New Beginnings, JPNF Museum, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2018 Criminal Ornamentation (curated by Yinka Shonibare), Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, UK
2018 Great Artists | Great Teachers, The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth, UK
2018 Una Cierta Oscuridad (curated by Alexandra Laudo), CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2018 The Everyday and Extraordinary, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
2018 Sette Opere per la Misericordia (curated by Mario Codognato), Capella del Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples, Italy
2018 Monochrome: Empty & Full (curated by David Sequeira), Victorian College of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Ingleby Gallery Presents, Fitzrovia Chapel, London, England
2017 Totem: Spirit Beings & Sacred Objects, Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2017 Art of the Postcard, Handel Street Projects, London, England
2017 Roesler Hotel: Purity is a Myth, (curated by Michael Asbury), Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 Between Poles and Tides, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2017 Seven Works for Mercy, Italian Cultural Institute, London, England
2017 colour is, Waddington Custot, London, England
2017 A Certain Kind of Light, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, England
2016 5 Years at Heddon Street, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, Londres, Inglaterra
2016 Three Triptychs (curated by Mario Codognato), Galleria d’arte contemporanea a Napoli, Naples, Italy
2016 Night in the Museum, The Gas Hall, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England
2016 NEON: The Charged Line, Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England
2016 Seeing Round Corners, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England
2016 Light Show, CorpArtes, Santiago, Chile
2016 FOUND, The Foundling Museum, London, England
2015 Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London, England
2015 In Light of the Monochrome, Dye House Gallery, Bradford, England
2015 Trial/Error/Art, The Holden Gallery, University of Manchester, Manchester, England
2015 Sprayed, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
2015 Light Show International Tour, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, New Zealand; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE; Benaki Museum’s, Pireos St Annexe, Athens, Greece
2015 Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2014 Colour on Paper, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 50 Years On: The Centre of Contemporary Cultural Studies, MAC Birmingham, England
2014 Black and White (curated by Cornelia Parker), Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, England
2014 Somewhat Abstract, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England
2014 Uniquo, Galeria Carbono, São Paulo, Brazil
2014 Shelf Show, Galerie Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 Abstract Drawing (curated by Richard Deacon), The Drawing Room, London, England
2013 Why Painting Now?, Vienna, Austria
2013 White, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2013 Touching Colour, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, England
2013 Fragile?, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, Italy
2013 Tell me whom you haunt: Marcel Duchamp and the contemporary readymade, London, England
2013 Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2012 Illuminated – QUAD Gallery, Derby, England
2012 Luz na Cidade, Centro Cultural Justiça Federal, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2012 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, England
2012 The Curator’s Egg Altera Pars, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
2012 Phantom Limb, LiMAC, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Lima, Lima, Peru
2011 Gravity’s Rainbow, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2011 Lumiere, various venues, Durham, England
2011 Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
2011 The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England
2011 A Painting Show, Autocentre, Berlin, Germany
2010 Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London, England
2010 Fast Forward – Arte Contemporânea Britânica no Brasil, Espaço David Ford, Centro Britânico Brasileiro, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 Biennale für Internationale Lichtkunst, Unna, Germany
2010 FIAT LUX, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural de La Coruña, Spain
2010 Open Light in Private Spaces: Biennale fur Internationale Lichtkunst, multiple venues, Unna, Germany
2010 The Gathering, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
2010 Party, New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2009 Almost Nothing, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
2009 Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, England
2009 Repeat Please, Stedelijk Museum’s, Hertogenbosch, Holland
2009 Presque Rein III, Laure Genillard Gallery, London, England
2009 Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
2009 The Sculpture Show, V22, London, England
2009 Kaleidoscopic Revolver, Hanjiyun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2009 Better than Grey, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, London, England
2009 A Twilight Art, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
2009 London Calling, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2008 Sculpture from the Scrapyard, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
2008 Conversations, Kettle’s Yard Museum & Art Gallery, Cambridge, England
2008 The Color Chart, MoMA, New York, USA
2008 1st Folkestone Triennial – Tales of time and space, Folkestone, England
2007 Passion Complex – Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
2007 Art Car Boot Fair 2007, London, England
2007 Front Room / Killing Room, David Risley Gallery, London, England
2007 Rummage: Sculptors’ Drawings, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, England
2007 Light, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, England
2007 David Batchelor & Nikolai Suetin, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2007 Echo Room, Alcala 31 (organized in collaboration with the British Council), Madrid, Spain
2007 Shifting Ground, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England
2007 Abstraction: Extracting from the World, Millenium Galleries, Sheffield, England
2006 A noir, E blanc, I rouge, u vert, o bleu – Farben, Kunstmuseum Magdeburg – Germany
2006 off-site projects at the Palm House, Botanic Gardens and Old School, Edinburgh
2006 Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, England
2006 Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, England
2006 Multiplication, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
2006 Materical World – Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2006 Backdrop, Bloomberg Space, London, England
2005 Radiance, Off-site projects in the Merchants’ Quarter, Glasgow, Scotland
2005 Double Meaning, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2005 Contrabandistas de Imagenes, Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
2005 Untitled, Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2005 David Batchelor e Joao Paulo Feliciano, curadoria de Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil
2005 The Art of White, The Lowry, Salford, England
2005 Tall Stories, MOT, London, England
2005 Colour my World, Riflemaker, London, England
2004 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Sodium and Asphalt, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
2004 Chromosexuals, Galleri Bouhlou, Bergen, Norway
2004 Some Versions of Light, The Telephone Repeater Station, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England
2004 One Night Stand, PEARL at El Montan Motor Hotel, México
2003 In Good Form: Recent Sculpture from the Arts Council Collection, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England
2003 Embargo, Aubery Square, London, England
2003 Primary Colours, City Gallery, Leicester, England
2003 Days Like These – Tate Triennial of Contemporary British Art, Tate Gallery, London, England
2002 Furori Uso, Ferrotel, Pescara, Italy
2002 Colour Love, Johnson County Community College, Kansas, USA
2002 New Religious Art, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, England
2002 Henry Peacock Gallery, London, England
2001 Ruby, PEARL, London, England
2001 The Magic Hour: Art and Las Vegas, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
2001 Another Britannia, Tecla Sala, Barcelona touring to Foundacion Marcelino Botin, Santander, Spain
2001 Amidst Concrete, Clay and General Decay, Konstfack Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Perfidy, Monastere de la Tourette, France and Kettles Yard, Cambridge, England
2000 British Art Show 5, Edinburgh, Southampton, Cardiff and Birmingham, England
2000 Fact and Value, Charlotttenberg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 Give and Take, Jerwood Space, London, England
1999 NINENINENINETYNINE, Wilkinson Gallery, London, England
1999 Postmark – An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, USA
1999 Limit Less, curated by Matthew Higgs, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
1999 East Wing, Courtauld Institute, London, England
1998 Then and Now, Lisson Gallery, London, England
1998 One Wheel on my Monochromobile, Limited Edition for Camden Arts Centre, London, England
1997 East International, The Sainsbury Centre / Norwich School of Art, Norwich, England
1996 Station Transformation, Central Bus Station, Tel Aviv, Israel
1996 Abstractions, Byam Shaw, Concourse Gallery, London, England
1993 Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
1991 Approaches to Realism, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool; Goldsmiths Gallery, London, England
1990 Rotation, Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Commissions
2019 King’s Xmas, Temporary site specific installation, Granary Square, England
2018 Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain, Site specific sculpture, Eddington, England
2018 Homage to Doctor Mirabilis, Site specific sculpture, Westgate Centre, England
2017 Sixty Minute Spectrum, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2017 P-A-R-A-D-E, Summer in the Square, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, England
2015 Lyric Hammersmith, London, England
2014 Chromolocomotion, comissioned by Terrace Wires, ST. Pancras International Station, London, England
2010 Spectrum on the Hill, site specific installation, Haman the Hill, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Big Rock Candy Fountain, site specific installation, Archway Tower, London, England
2009 Spectrum of 1st Street, site specific installation, 1011 1st Street, Washington D.C., USA
2009 Walldella, Dundee, site specific installation, McManus Galleries, Dundee, Scotland
2008 Hong Kong Fesdalla, site specific installation, The British Council, Hong Kong, China
2005 Against Nature, site specific installation, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
2004 Treasury Magic Hour, site specific installation, The Treasury, London, England
2004 West Wing Spectrum, site specific installation, St Bart’s Hospital, London, England
2003 Evergreen, site specific outdoor work, More London, Tower Bridge, London, England
2001 Electric Colour Picture, edition of 75 three-dimensional works, The Multiple Store, London, England
1999 Chromodesks, site specific installation, Pier Trust, London, England
1999 Quick Change Room, site specific installation, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Collections
Aberdeen Art Gallery, Scotland
British Council, England
Government Art Collection, England
Leeds City Art Gallery, England
The Saatchi Gallery, England
TATE, England