David Batchelor is one of the most celebrated and influential British artists of his generation. For thirty years, he has been concerned with our experience of colour within the modern urban environment, and with historical conceptions of colour within Western culture. His work ranges from painting, drawing and photography to sculpture and large-scale installations. 

Batchelor’s work is held in public and private collections including Tate, London; the Arts Council Collection, UK; The Saatchi Gallery, London, UBS Art Collection and MAC, Santiago, Chile. He has exhibited worldwide including at the MoMA, New York; Hayward Gallery, London; Royal Academy of Arts, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Tate Liverpool; Gagosian, London; White Cube, London; Lisson Gallery, London; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK; Hauser & Wirth, Zurich; Canopy Collections, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul and Biennal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 2022, he had his first museum retrospective in the UK at Compton Verney, entitled David Batchelor: Colour Is.