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 Archives I: Blake Rayne at Emanuela Campoli in Paris (2024); Blake Rayne: Sequence 9, One work, One or Two weeks at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2023); Bad Maps at Galeria Nuno Centeno in Porto (2023); Blake Rayne at 1301PE in Los Angeles (2022); Dog Ears at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2020); Brother Ass at Central Fine in Miami (2019); Cabin of the Accused, Survey Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum in Houston (2016); Solo Exhibition at Campoli Presti in Paris (2016); 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); Blake Rayne at Formalist Sidewalk PoetryClub in Miami (2011).

His work has been featured in various group exhibitions such as Glitch at 1301PE in Los Angeles (2024); Accrochage 2 and 2.1 at Miguel Abreu Gallery in New York (2024); L’atelier du sud at Fondation Vincent Van Ghog Arles in Arles (2023); Shadowboxing It: Painting Peripheries at Central Fine in Miami Beach (2023); Weathering at Kai Matsumiya in New York (2023); Systema at Palais Carli in Marseille (2023); For the people of Paris at Emanuela Campoli in 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 in New York (2021); What's New? Recent Acquisitions at New York Public Library in New York (2017); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at Whitney Museum in New York (2015); Collatéral (with Liz Deschenes, Sam Lewitt, Scott Lyall, Sean Paul, Eileen Quinlan, Nora Schultz, Cheyney Thompson) at Le Confort Moderne in Poitiers (2009); Establishing Shot, curated by Christian Rattemeyer at Artists Space in New York (2004).