David Rathman received his BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MN). He has exhibited as such institutions as Larissa Goldston Gallery (NY), Contemporary Arts Museum (TX), Walker Art Center (MN), Arts Center of St. Petersburg (FL) and Mary Goldman Gallery (CA). His work is featured in fifteen public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), J. Paul Getty Museum (CA) and the Art Institute of Chicago (IL). Rathman's sparsely rendered watercolors appraise the introspective convictions associated with identity, as well as the popular icons and coping mechanisms towards which we inherently gravitate.

Says the artist, "Obviously, there are things I’m dealing with there; there’s aggression; it’s people being tested, contesting. It almost feels like I’m making pictures of the things that captivated me when I was a boy. I wanted to be an artist from day one, and so I incorporated the stuff I was into when I was eight years old: cars crashing, football players, boxing…" (2010)

Rathman is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery (NY). He lives and works in Minneapolis.

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