Blake Rayne

Blake Rayne (Lewes, DEL,1969) lives and works in New York.Blake Rayne’s work has been pivotal in the resurgence of conceptual painting over the last twenty years. He has used compositional systems as an organizing principle along with an inherent semantic play to create paintings. Employing diverse techniques, Rayne weaves personal, art historical, and formal narratives to explore the many contexts in which painting can be seen and understood. The goal is to simultaneously establish a pictorial order and to destroy it. His work tests how painting is responding to shifts in perceptual regimes, labour conditions, and temporal paradigms.His work is part of the public collections of the MoMA in New York, of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, of the Pinault Collection in Paris, of the FRAC in France, of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami in Miami, of the Portland Museum of Art in Oregon and of the New York Public Library.

Blake Rayne has done severals solo exhibitions including Bad Maps at Galeria Nuno Centeno in Porto (2023), DOGSKULLDOGS at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2018), Peaceful Photographers at Campoli Presti in London and Paris (2015), Warmilk at Mendes Wood in São Paolo (2014), On Fridays We Have Half Days at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2014), Blake Rayne at 1301PE in Los Angeles (2013), Wild Country at Campoli Presti in London (2012) and Blake Rayne at Formalist Sidewalk PoetryClub in Miami (2011).
His work has been presented in L’atelier du sud at Fondation Vincent Van Ghog Arles (2023);Shadowboxing It: Painting Peripheries at Central Fine, Miami Beach (2023); Weathering at Kai Matsumiya, New York (2023); Systema at Palais Carli, Marseille (2023);For the people of Paris at Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2022); Mostly early works by gallery artists (with Sam Lewitt, Milton Resnick, Pieter Schoolwerth, Blake Rayne, Eileen Quinlan, Jimmy Raskin, Raha Raissnia) at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York(2021); What's New? Recent Acquisitions at New York Public Library (2017); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at Whitney Museum (2015);Collatéral (with Liz Deschenes, Sam Lewitt, Scott Lyall, Sean Paul, Eileen Quinlan, Nora Schultz, Cheyney Thompson) at Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2009); and Establishing Shot, curated by Christian Rattemeyer at Artists Space, New York (2004).