David Batchelor (artist and writer)

David Batchelor ( born July 17, 1955 in Dundee, Scotland) is a Scottish artist and author.

Life

Batchelor studied in the years 1975-1978 Art at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham, England and then in the years 1988-1980 Cultural Theory at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University. He has published (2011) three books on color and was the author of several articles in journals such as Artscribe, Frieze and Artforum. In the years 2002 to 2005 Batchelor was a member of the Committee for Programme and Development at Tate Britain in London. Batchelor is now at the Royal College of Art in London in the Department of Contemporary Art Kuratur lecturer.

Batchelor used for his light installations ( lightbox) often items that he finds in London on the road as bulky or that were given by the industry to the scrap. These parts he transforms into frames, which then included neon lights, disposed of illuminated signs etc..

Exhibitions (selection)

• British Art Show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ( SNGMA ) in Edinburgh, Scotland
• Extreme Abstraction at the Albright Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York
• 2008: Color chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York
• 2008: Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, Kent, England
• 2010: Open Light in Private Spaces, in Unna during the Biennale for International Light Art in the Capital of Culture Ruhr 2010
• 2010: The Gathering, Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• 2011: The Shape of Things to Come. New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London

Publications

• 2010: Found Monochrome. Riding House, London.
• 2008: as a publisher: Colour. Whitechapel, London / MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts to the exhibition in New York and Liverpool, ISBN 978-0-262524810.
• 2000: Chromophobia. Reaktion Books, London ISBN 1-86189-074-5. 2004: German: Chromophobie: Fear of the color. 2nd edition. translated by Michael Huter, ISBN 3-85114-870-3.