(1955 - )
David Batchelor was born in Dundee, Scotland. He studied fine art at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, and cultural theory at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Birmingham University. He has exhibited extensively in the UK, Europe, the United States and Latin America. Works include a commission for the Platform for Art series for London Transport, for which Batchelor incorporated and painted recycled metal forms into the arched niches of Gloucester Road Underground station; and sculpture for the Xiamen International Sculpture Exhibition in China. In 2008 he participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Folkestone Triennial for which he exhibited a revolving globe constructed from colourful plastic sunglasses. He also exhibited his work in Colour Chart, a contemporary group show at MOMA, New York in 2008. His solo show Concretos was held at New Art Centre, Salisbury in 2014. A former Senior Tutor in Critical Theory at the Royal College of Art, London, Batchelor was previously AHRB Research Fellow from 2001 to 2004. Author of three books, Minimalism (1997), Chromophobia (2000) and Colour (2008) he also regularly contributes to journals such as Artscribe, Frieze and Artforum.
