David Batchelor

David Batchelor (b. 1955, Dundee, Scotland) is an artist and writer based in London. He studied fine art at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham, and cultural theory at Birmingham University. For over thirty years, Batchelor has been concerned with the experience of color within a modern urban environment and with historical conceptions of color within Western culture. His work comprises sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, animation, and textiles. Batchelor has exhibited worldwide, and his work is in the collections of a number of museums, including Tate, the British Council, Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Vorlinden Museum, UMAM São Paulo, and MAM Santiago. Batchelor has also written books and essays on color theory, including Chromophobia (2000); the anthology Colour (2008, editor); and The October Colouring-In Book (2015). He is currently preparing a new book, Chromocopia, to be published in 2026.