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, New-York, of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New-York, of the Pinault Collection, Paris, of the FRAC, France, of the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, of the Portland Museum of Art, Oregon and of the New York Public Library.

Blake Rayne has done severals solo exhibitions including Finissage: Hal Foster & Blake Rayne in Conversation at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2026); Reserves at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2025); Cave Painting Today, A Certain Lack of Coherence, Porto (2025); Archives I: Blake Rayne at Emanuela Campoli, Paris (2024); Bad Maps at Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto (2023); Blake Rayne at 1301PE, Los Angeles (2022); Brother Ass at Central Fine, Miami (2019); Cabin of the Accused, Survey Exhibition at Blaffer Art Museum, Houston (2016); Solo Exhibition at Campoli Presti, Paris (2016); Peaceful Photographers at Campoli Presti, London and Paris (2015); Warmilk at Mendes Wood, São Paolo (2014); Blake Rayne at 1301PE, Los Angeles (2013); Wild Country at Campoli Presti, London (2012); Blake Rayne at Formalist Sidewalk PoetryClub, Miami (2011).

His work has been featured in various group exhibitions such as Sequence 10: one work, one or two weeks at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2025); Glitch at 1301PE, Los Angeles (2024); Madness of the Day at Treignac Project, Treignac (2024); L’atelier du sud at Fondation Vincent Van Gogh Arles, 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); What's New? Recent Acquisitions at New York Public Library, New-York (2017); Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner at Whitney Museum, New-York (2015); Collatéral (with Liz Deschenes, Sam Lewitt, Scott Lyall, Sean Paul, Eileen Quinlan, Nora Schultz, Cheyney Thompson) at Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (2009); Establishing Shot, curated by Christian Rattemeyer at Artists Space, New-York (2004).