Louis FratinoStudio nude, 2025gouache and pastel on paper51 × 32 cm
Biography
Born in Annapolis, MD, 1993Lives and works in Brooklyn, NYEducation2016Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting and Printmaking, Berlin2015BFA, Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD2014Ellen Battel Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Summer School of Art and Music, Norfolk, CTSolo Exhibitions2024Louis Fratino. Satura, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato2023In bed and abroad, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New YorkLouis Fratino, Litografia Bulla, Roma2022Louis Fratino: New Prints and Drawings, Ciaccia Levi, MilanDie bunten Tage, Galerie Neu, Berlin2021Louis Fratino: Growths of the earth, Ciaccia Levi, Paris2020Morning, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York2019Nudissima, Antoine Levi, ParisCome Softly To Me, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New York2018Night and Day, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NYHeirloom, Antoine Levi Gallery, Paris2017So I’ve got you, Thierry Goldberg, New YorkOwn, Only, Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint-Augustine, FL2016With everyone, Thierry Goldberg, New YorkREASONS: Works by Louis Fratino, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Group Exhibitions2025Intimate Tales, Monica De Cardenas, Milano2024Jon Serl: No straight lines, David Zwirner, New YorkSleep!, Kunsthal KAdE, AmersfoortFire Island: The Art of Liberation, Long Island Museum, Stony Brook, NYSignificant Other, Whatiftheworld, Cape TownDog Days of Summer, Timothy Taylor, New YorkStranieri Ovunque [Foreigners Everywhere], 2024 Venice Biennale, Venice30 Years of New Image Art, New Image Art Gallery, West Hollywood, CAComposition for the Left Hand, Kode, Rasmus Meyer, BergenSome Dogs Go To Dallas: A Selection of Artworks from the Collection of Pamela and David Hornik, Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX2023Petits Formats, ADZ Gallery, LisbonUnrequited Love, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New Yorkthe artist is a beast, Project Space On the Inside, Amsterdamintimate | A Group Exhibition, Robert Fontaine Gallery, Miami, FLI MET: Recent Painting Acquisitions, Mutina, Fiorano ModeneseBrave New World – 16 Painters for the 21st Century, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle2022Heroic Bodies, Rudolph Tegners Museum & Statuepark, DronningmølleA Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, ICA/Boston, Boston, MALove is the Devil: Studies after Francis Bacon, Marlborough, London2021Applied Anxiety, Allouche Benias Gallery, AthensThe Primitive Soul, Musée Zadkine, ParisLouis Fratino & Tony Feher, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., New YorkQueer/Dialogue, Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell, IAPalai Project, Palazzo Tamborino Cezzi, LecceEqual Affections, GRIMM Gallery, AmsterdamAny distance between us, RISD Museum, Providence, RIPresent Generations: Creating the Scantland Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OHand I will wear you in my heart of heart, The FLAG Art Foundation, New YorkDivine, Galerie Neu, BerlinQueer Out T/Here, Tong Art Advisory, New York2020Drawings 2020, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New YorkGood Pictures, Jeffrey Deitch, New YorkSpazio Assoluto, Galerie Antoine Levi, ParisMASS ORNAMENT: Pleasure, Play, and What Lies Beneath, South Etna Gallery, Montauk, NYHeaven and Hell, Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, CA2019Nicolas Party: Pastel, Flag Art Foundation, New YorkCreative Pride, The National Arts Club, New YorkFutures of Love, Magasins Généraux, PantinThem, PERROTIN, New YorkThey Gaze, James Fuentes Gallery, New YorkLiberté et Courage, Villa Romaine, Hyères2018O Youth and Beauty!, Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, NuoroINTIMACY, Yossi Milo Gallery, New YorkGlazed, Monya Rowe Gallery, New YorkInvincible Summer, Galerie Mikael Anderson, CopenhagenKURA (Summer Rhapsody), at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, MilanTriple: Alex Bradley Cohen, Louis Fratino, and Tschabalala Self, University Museum of Albany, Albany, NYDesign for Living, Foxy Production, New York, NYTouching Palms, Thierry Goldberg, Miami, FLOne long changing body, Carlier-Gebauer, BerlinLine and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm2017Matisse + Fratino, Cabinet Printemps, DüsseldorfPractice in Leisure, Galeria Mascota, Mexico CityEmbodiment: Louis Fratino, Cindy Ji Hye Kim, Danielle Orchard, Michael Stamm, D.C Moore Gallery, New YorkLife’s Rich Pageant, Jeff Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NYAnna Glantz, Anthony Cudahy, Louis Fratino, HARPY Gallery, Rutherford, NJThe Edge of Doom, HILDE, Los AngelesMommy, Monya Rowe Gallery, Saint Augustine, FLChase | Fratino | Lee, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York2016Sister Outsider, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NYTom Friedman (+The Birthday Show), 1969 Gallery, New YorkHuman Condition, Los Angeles Metropolitan Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA2015((between you and me)), Leake Studio, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD2014Diamonds and Doughnuts, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MALove Tap, Current Space, Baltimore, MDArt Crush, Platform Gallery, Baltimore, MDBibliography2024Collicelli Cagol, Stefano, editor. Louis Fratino. Satura. Centro Pecci | Mousse PublishingFratino, Louis. Louis Fratino. Edited by Jordan Weitzman, Magic Hour Press2022Alfred, Brian. Why I Make Art: Contemporary Artists' Stories About Life & Work. Atelier ÉditionsSelected Public CollectionsBaltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MDBlanton Museum at the University of Texas Austin, Austin, TXChristien Sveaas Art Foundation, OsloDes Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IAInstitute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MAInstitute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FLHammer Museum, Los Angeles, CALeslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New YorkMetropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkMorgan Library & Museum, New YorkMuseum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, ILMuseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CAMuseum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CAMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TXRISD Museum, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RISan Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CAWhitney Museum of American Art, New York