Louis Fratino was born in 1993 in Maryland and currently lives and works in New York. He received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. He recently had solo shows at Monya Rowe Gallery in Florida, Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York City and Platform Gallery in Baltimore, MD. His work was also recently included in group exhibitions at HILDE Gallery in Los Angeles, Harpy Gallery in New Jersey, and Thierry Goldberg Gallery in New York, NY. He also is currently in a four person show at D.C. Moore Gallery. He completed a Fulbright research Fellowship in Painting in Berlin, and has also concluded the Yale Norfolk Painting Fellowship at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music in Norfolk, CT. His work has also been featured in exhibitions at Maryland Institute of Art, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Current Space, and SessionSpace, among others. His work was recently covered by Roberta Smith in the New York Times.

Brian met up with Louis at his studio in Long Island City where they discussed his time growing up in Maryland, working small and scale shifts in painting, hia time working at the Guggenheim, striving for non-thinking time and much more.