David Scanavino (b. 1978, Denver, Colorado) lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA Painting 2001) and the Yale University School of the Arts (MFA Painting 2003), Scanavino has shown widely in the past 15 years in New York, across the country, and internationally. He has had solo museum exhibitions including "Imperial Texture" at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT (2014), "Candy Crush" at the Pulitzer Foundation of Art in St. Louis, MO (2014), and “Repeater” at the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University in Houston, TX (2017). He has permanent public commissions installed in the Columbus Metropolitan Public Library in Columbus, Ohio and the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Scanavino has had multiple solo gallery exhibitions with Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery in New York, as well as solo and group exhibitions at Michael Benevento, Los Angeles; Marlborough Gallery Broome Street, New York; Team Gallery, New York; Bureau Gallery, New York; Marianne Boesky, New York; and Derek Eller Gallery, New York. His work has been reviewed in Art in America, ArtReview, The New York Times, and the New York Observer, along with numerous other publications, and is held in public collections including the RISD Museum, The Cleveland Clinic, The Progressive Art Collection, the The Pizzuti Collection and the Rice University Art Collection. Scanavino is a faculty member of the Rhode Island School of Design.