Country of Birth
USA
Auction Record
$504,000
Flower Market
Christie’s
2024
Louis Fratino
Louis Fratino is an American artist known for his intimate depictions of queer life, relationships and the everyday. Drawing on art-historical influences including Matisse, Picasso and Hockney, his paintings combine expressive colour with a distinctly personal approach to figurative art. A graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art, Fratino was included in the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024 and is based in Brooklyn, New York.
Collections
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
- Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
- RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Exhibitions
- Fratino and Matisse: To See This Light Again, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA, 2026
- La Scorza, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Satura, Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy, 2024–25
- Foreigners Everywhere, 60th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2024
- In Bed and Abroad, Sikkema Jenkins, New York, USA, 2023
- A Place for Me: Figurative Painting Now, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA, 2022
- Growths of the Earth, Ciaccia Levi, Paris, France, 2021