David D. Fratkin           
                                                       285 Bleecker St       .                             
                                                       New York, N.Y. 10014 
                                                       212 255 6898
                                                       davidfratkin@earthlink.net
                 
                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                             
 Solo Exhibitions
2014 Apparitions on a Greyhound Bus, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2006    The Painting Center, NewYork, N.Y.
2003   The Painting Center, New York N.Y.                                                                                                                                                                                                           2000   The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.                                                                                                                                                                                                                   1998   The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.                                                                                                                                                                                    1995   The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.
 Group ExhIbitions
2018 TOYS, curated by Asha Ganpat, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, New Jersey
2018 Annual Juried Show, Karen Wilkin, curator, Bowery Gallery, New York, New York
2018 Art from the Boroughs, Denise Bibro Gallery, New York, New York
2017 Paper Plus, Watson-Mcrae Gallery, Sanibel Island, Fla.
2016-17 Painting Is Not A Good Idea, HallSpace, Boston, Mass.
2016 Playing with Toys, Shaw Jewelry Gallery, Northeast Harbor, Maine
2015 Ulterior Motif, The Painting Center, New York, New York
2012  New York New York, Watson Macrae Gallery, Sanibel, FL
2012  What Only Paint Can Do, Triangle Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2012  Mic Check,  Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2011 Studio School Alumni Exhibit,  N.Y. Studio School, New York, N.Y.
2011 Grey Matter,  The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.                                      2011 Toys, Middlesex County College, Edison, New Jersey
2011 It’s All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y
2011 Postcards from the Edge, CRG Gallery, New York., N.Y.
2010 Small Works, The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.
2010 Food, Glorious Food,  Atlantic Gallery, New York, N.Y.
2010  It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2009  It’s a Wonderful Life, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2008   What’s in a Face, Selena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2008   The 183RD Annual Invitational,  National Academy Museum, NewYork,N.Y.
2008  Peace, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
2007 Painters of New York and California, Elder Gallery, Charlotte, N. C.
2007  What’s in a Face, Brik Gallery, Catskill, N.Y.
2003  The Big Abstract Show, Denise Gale, curator, The Painting Center, New York,  N.Y.                                                                                                                                      2001  The Sacred and Profane, Don Davis, curator, Monmouth University, Long Branch, New Jersey                                                                                                          1999  Gallery Artists,  Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1999  A Welcome Exchange, Mark O’Grady, curator, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2011 It’s All Good, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y
1998  American Abstract Painting, Marilyn Schliefe, curator, Artes Actual, Barcelona, Spain                                                                                                            1997  Points of Contact, Karen Wilkin and Michael Chisolm, curators, Shirley Fiterman Gallery, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, N.Y.
1997  Selections, Collection of law firm Willkie, Farr, and Gallagher, New York, N.Y.                                                                                                                                    1992  Trees, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
1992  Acquisitions,  CIMA Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia                                                          1985  Painters Choose Painters, Bill Giersbach,curator,  55 Mercer Gallery, New York, N.Y.
  
 Residencies
1997  Triangle Artists’ Workshop, Monroe, New York
 Curating
2012  New York New York, Watson Macrae Gallery, Sanibel, FL
2008  What’s in a Face,  Selena Gallery, Long Island University, Brooklyn, N.Y 
2007  What’s in a Face, Brik Gallery, Catskill, N.Y.
2000  Spring Show, The Painting Center, New York, N.Y. 
1997  Selections,  The Painting Center, New York, N.Y. 
  1995  Winter Show,   The Painting Center, New York, N.Y                                                                             
1993  Inaugural Show, The Painting Center, New York, N.Y.
                                                                 
  Education
New York Studio School, New York, N.Y.  1972-3, 1974-5                        
 
 Bibliography
2018 Dancing with the Prophets, New York Review of Books Daily
2017 Uncanny Christmas, New York Review of Books Daily
2016 Spinning paint into gold at HallSpace, by Cate McQuaid, Boston Globe, December 30, 2016
2016 Review, Painting Is Not A Good Idea, Artscope Magazine, December, 2016
Greyhound Abstraction and Lyrical Expressionism, Hyperallergic, October 22, 2014
183RD Annual Invitational Exhibit, Catalog, National Academy Museum, 2008
Walentini, Joseph, editor, Abstract Art Online,  Summer 2003, review The Big Abstract Show
Walentini, Joseph, editor, Abstract Art Online, Spring 2003, Featured Exhibit
Fratkin, David, The James White Review, volume 16, number 2, Spring 1999, Playing With Dolls
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, mini review David Fratkin, May 11, 1998
Smith, Lockwood, Zingmagazine, volume2, Winter 1998, Points of Contact,   review
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, mini review Points of Contact, August 4, 1997
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, mini review David Fratkin, September 18, 1995
Goings on About Town, The New Yorker, mini review David Fratkin, January, 17, 1994