Travis Pratt

Travis Pratt was raised in the midwest and studied Ceramics at The Kansas City Art Institute. The House and other structures of human habitation have been a consistent theme in his paintings since undergrad. The early houses were often bright, loose and strange, stilted, or in scary weather to evoke different emotional states. All of these were imagined and realized without reference. After moving to New York in 2010 he set his favorite subject aside for a period of intense material and conceptual experimentation. In May of 2011 an F5 tornado leveled a large swath of his hometown, Joplin Missouri. Upon his return to help with the cleanup efforts there, he was confronted by tragedy and by a new perspective of his old muse. He spent three years developing a body of work painted from photographs he took during this time - most depicting family homes affected by the storm. Now his works range from tightly rendered pictures painted from photos of personal experience to abstraction and imagined portraits, but the common armature from which all his interconnected ideas grow is drawing. The practice of mark making in an attempt to describe physical reality or imagined circumstance is tightly woven with his view of the world and essential to translating his particular existence into memory.

2015 The Joplin Paintings Part Two, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2014 The Joplin Paintings, The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO
2012 Work on Paper, Main Street Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Duquesne, The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2010 Travel Light, Avila University, Thornhill Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2009 Travis Pratt at The Late Show, The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008 Born on the Fourth of July, Avila University, Thornhill Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2008 House, The Late Show Gallery Kansas City, MO
2007 It's a Bit Messy but it's Home, The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2014 Beyond Bounds Electric, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art , Johnson County, Kansas
2013 Works on Paper, Heather James Fine Art, Palm Dessert, CA
2012 First Friday, The Main Street Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2011 Open Apartment with Chris Biddy, Dan Flanagan, and Travis Pratt, 313 Linden, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Works on Paper, Tompkins Projects West, Los Angeles, CA
2010 New Now: Building a Museum Collection, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County, KS
2009 Kansas City Flat Files, H&R Block Art Space, Kansas City, MO
2009 Asheer Akram, Jorge Calvo and Travis Pratt, The Late Show Gallery Kansas City, MO
2009 Charlotte Street Reclaim, Third Eye Productions, Kansas City, MO
2007 Kansas City Art Institute BFA Show, H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2007 Paintings and Pears: paintings by Darwin Arevalo and ceramic tiles and sculpture by Travis Pratt, The Late Show Gallery, Kansas City, MO