J A N   R A T T I A  

Caracas-born New York-based artist and educator exploring ideas around belonging, representation and otherness through contemporary photography and installation.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023  Interlogue, ClampArt, New York, NY

2021  Saber de Ti, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY 

2018  Landings, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Houston, TX

2017  Tease, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX 

2016  Tease, ClampArt, New York, NY

2013  Tease, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024  Echoes of Paradise, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY

             To Live in the Imagination, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

2022  Atlantic Ave ArtWalk, Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 

2021   Unfkd: MFA Thesis Exhibition, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 

2020  I Thought I Saw, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

             Unbound9!, Candela Gallery Richmond, VA

             Culture Place / Dallas Art Fair, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Dallas, TX

2019   Not Gay as in Happy, but Queer as in F*ck You, Alabama Song, Houston, TX 

            The Assembly, FotoFest International Houston, TX

2018  Observing the Invisible, Pop-up, Houston, TX 

             Contemporary Art Museum Houston Houston, TX

2017  Sotheby’s Auction: The Cantor Fitzgerald Fund/Hurricane Harvey Relief, Houston, TX 

           Texas Treasures, Vaughan Mason Houston, TX

            Art on Paper, Cindy Lisica Gallery New York, NY 

            Art City Austin, Cindy Lisica Gallery, Austin, TX

2016  Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA 

2015  #masculinity, LOW Museum, Atlanta, GA

             Art Papers, Atlanta, GA

             Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA

2014  Ballet X, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA 

2013  Summer Show, Santa Fine Art, Bethlehem, PA

             Dallas Art Fair, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Dallas, TX

             Curated Members Show, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA 

             Ballet X, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012   Art Miami, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Miami, FL 

             Camera Club NY Annual Show, New York, NY

             InterContinental New York Barclay, Special Installation, New York, NY

             Rita K. Hillman Gallery, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

CURATORIAL ENGAGEMENTS

2022  Please, Come In, Commons Café, Brooklyn, NY

2020  I Thought I Saw, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

2020  Artistic Convergence, Visual AIDS, New York, NY

2019  MFA Open Studios, ICP-Bard, Long Island City, NY

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

2024  To Live in the Imagination, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

2023  Interlogue I: Rituales, Jan Rattia and CLAMP, New York, NY

2013  Jan Rattia, Tease, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2012  Shift Vol. 7, Order Disorder, International Center of Photography, New York, NY

SELECT PRESS

2019  aint — bad, (August) 

2018  OutSmart Magazine (November) Arts + Culture TX (March) 

             L'Oeil de la Photographie (February)

             Houston CityBook (Winter)

2017   Spot Magazine, Houston Center for Photography (Spring)

             L'Oeil de la Photographie (June) 

             FreePress Houston (July)

             Magenta Mag/Magenta Foundation (Spring/Summer - Canada) 

2016   Les inRocKtables (July - France)

             Kaltblut, Bookclub #27 Tease by Jan Rattia ( May - Germany)

             Crave, Jan Rattia / Tease (April)

             Tetû, L'intimité des stripteaseurs en images (April - France)

SELECT COLLECTIONS

• The Bunnen Photography Collection at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
• Private Collections (available upon request)

AWARDS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS

2021   Excellence in Academic Achievement, School of Art, Pratt Institute

2019   International Center of Photography-Bard College Director's Fellowship 

2017   Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship – Houston Center for Photography

New Poetics Publishing, Electric Blanket: AIDS Projection Project (2023), Bronx Documentary Center, New England College, SPE 2020 Annual Conference, International Center for Photography, Houston Center for Photography, Georgia State University, Savannah College of Art & Design, Agnes Scott College and Kennesaw State University.

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Arts / Photography, with distinction       2021 

Pratt Institute – Brooklyn, NY
International Center of Photography/Bard College – New York, NY  (first year) 

General Studies in Photography One-Year Certificate Program        2012 

International Center of Photography – New York, NY 

B. A. in International Business      1999 

North Greenville University – Greenville, SC