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Louis Fratino
Louis Fratino (born 1993) is an American visual artist.
Fratino graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015.[citation needed] Fratino was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin, 2015–2016 and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014.
In 2018, Fratino worked in Paris during his first solo exhibition, Heirloom, at Galerie Antoine Levi. Inspired by Picasso, Matisse, and other Modernists, he began working in soft pastel on raw linen. In 2020, he took up printmaking, working with printmaker Gregory Burnet to create a series of large copperplate etchings. In 2024, Fratino was included in the 60th Venice Biennale. In 2026, David Zwirner Gallery began representing Fratino.
Art critic Roberta Smith wrote of Fratino's paintings, "Seemingly painted mostly in the same interior, they are also hot with the pleasure of lying-around-the-house domesticity, of shared privacy. And they are hot too with painterly attention and erudition—inviting a similar scrutiny from the viewer." Antwaun Sargent, writing in The New York Times, grouped Fratino with other gay figure artists committed to depicting "the mostly unseen interior lives" of their subjects. Writer Durga Chew-Bose highlighted Fratino's attention to domestic details and his debt to Cubist still life.
Louis Fratino
Louis Fratino (born 1993) is an American visual artist.
Fratino graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD in 2015.[citation needed] Fratino was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship in Painting, Berlin, 2015–2016 and a Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship, Norfolk, CT in 2014.
In 2018, Fratino worked in Paris during his first solo exhibition, Heirloom, at Galerie Antoine Levi. Inspired by Picasso, Matisse, and other Modernists, he began working in soft pastel on raw linen. In 2020, he took up printmaking, working with printmaker Gregory Burnet to create a series of large copperplate etchings. In 2024, Fratino was included in the 60th Venice Biennale. In 2026, David Zwirner Gallery began representing Fratino.
Art critic Roberta Smith wrote of Fratino's paintings, "Seemingly painted mostly in the same interior, they are also hot with the pleasure of lying-around-the-house domesticity, of shared privacy. And they are hot too with painterly attention and erudition—inviting a similar scrutiny from the viewer." Antwaun Sargent, writing in The New York Times, grouped Fratino with other gay figure artists committed to depicting "the mostly unseen interior lives" of their subjects. Writer Durga Chew-Bose highlighted Fratino's attention to domestic details and his debt to Cubist still life.