David Blatherwick

David Blatherwick (born 1960) is a Canadian artist and educator.

Education He received a Bachelor of Arts in design from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in 1984, a Master of Fine Arts from Université du Québec à Montréal in 1989, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine in 1990.

Career In 1986, he was part of the Hybrid Cultures exhibit at Oboro gallery that showed the affinities between the art movements of Mexico City and Montreal. His first solo exhibition was in Montréal in 1988, and he has since been included in numerous museum exhibitions, Taichung in Taiwan, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, and as part of group exhibitions at galleries including Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes Metamorphose et Clônage, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and in 2002 his work was included in the Biennale de Montreal. In 2002, he became a member of Arte y Desarrollo, a group of development and experimental artists whose activities are centralized in rural Dominican Republic. is held in numerous public and private collections, including Art Bank of Canada, Banque Nationale du Canada, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Art Mûr gallery, in Montreal, and the Robert McLaughlin Gallery of Oshawa in 2008. Its production was also included in many exhibitions and was immortalized in a catalog of the same name. Consistent throughout his entire oeuvre is a fascination with all forms of seething, rampant life, with organic shapes that bring to mind intestines, stomachs, molecules and viruses. C Magazine by Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts Raw vision by Outsider Archive The New York Times: Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions 2004 by Alan Riding, Susan Mermelstein, Roberta Smith