Bianca Pratorius was born in Cologne, Germany in 1969. She started her formal training at the Holzfachschule, Köln and subsequently moved to Miami where she attended International Fine Arts College. She now lives and works in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Moore Building, Miami Design District, Raw Pop Up - A Multi-sensory Experience, Miami, FL
2017 65 NW 24th St, I Am A Woman, Hear Me Roar, curated by Kathryn Mikesell & Ombretta Agro Andruff, Miami, FL
2016 &gallery, #FFFFFF, Miami, FL
2016 Gallery 2612, Can You Feel It, Miami, FL, June 9 - July 3
2016 Bossa Gallery, Unconditionally Beautiful, Miami, FL, May 12 - July 1
2016 &gallery, Furtherance, Miami, FL February 18 - March 31
2016 Laundromat Art Space, Art Wynwood, Miami, FL
2015 Miami's Independent Thinkers, Scope Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2015 Cancio Contemporary, Aqua Art Fair, Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL
2015 Laundromat Art Space, 100 Degrees in the Shade, a Survey of South Florida Art curated by Jane Hart Miami, FL
2015 Fat Village Project Space, Felt, Sew, Knot, Bound, Fort Lauderdale, FL
2015 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, The Lightness of Being: Abstracts Part I, Sarasota, FL
2015 Baker Museum, Florida Contemporary, Naples, FL
2015 East Tennessee State University, Positive/Negative, National Juried Exhibition juried by Dr. Mika Yoshitake
2014 Cheryl Hazan Gallery, The Red Show, New York, NY
2014 Miami's Independent Thinkers, Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, FL
2014 Cancio Contemporary, AAF NY, New York, NY
2014 Deering Estate, Wunderbar, Miami, FL
2014 Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, National Juried Exhibition juried by Catherine Clark, Novato, CA
2014 Cancio Contemporary, London Affordable Art Fair, London, UK
2014 Factory Art Gallery, New York Now!, NYC, New York
2014 Tempus Projects, In the Form of a Painting, Clearwater FL curated by Kurt Piazza
2014 Cancio Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong, March 2014
2014 Fat Village Projects, Running Free, curated by Luky Cancio and Bonney Goldstein, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2013 Miami's Independent Thinkers, Scope Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, Fl
2013 Cancio Contemporary, Aqua Art Fair, Art Basel Miami, Miami Beach, Fl
2013 Cancio Contemporary, Affordable Art Fair NYC, NYC, NY
2013 Swenson Gallery, Behind the Scenes, Miami, Fl
2013 Boca Raton Museum of Art, 62nd All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition, Boca Raton, Fl
2013 Audrey Love Gallery, Papering, curated by Ananda Demello, Miami, Fl
2013 Art and Culture Center of Hollywood 2013 Biennial, April 26th - May 26th, Hollywood, Fl
2012 Verge Art Fair, Tomorrow Stars, juried by Jason Ramos, Tristan Hummel, Daniel Aycock and Patrick Lichty
2012 Swenson Gallery, Scope Art Fair, Miami Fl
2012 Audrey Love Gallery, If a Tree falls...a chain reaction, Miami, Fl curated by Ananda Demello juried by Carol Jazzar
2012 Ground Arts, Forward. Rewind. Repeat, NYC
2012 Encaustic Works 2012, A Biennial Exhibition in Print, juried by Joanne Mattera
2012 Appleton Museum of Art 2012 Biennial: Florida Installation Art
2012 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Two Doors Down, Sarasota Fl
2011 Tempus Projects, Return to Sender, Tampa, Fl
2011 Audrey Love Gallery, Common Threads, Miami, Fl
2011 Graham Center Art Gallery, The Conversation Starts Here, Miami, FL
2011 Audrey Love Gallery, Impressed, SOFLA Printmaking Exhibition, Miami, FlJuried by Tom Virgin, Pavel Ouporov & Suzanne Scherer
2009 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, Fl
2007 [5] Art, Five + 5, Tampa, Fl
2006 C. Emerson Fine Art, Raise Up, St. Petersburg, Fl
2006 ADM Project Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 Gulf Coast Museum of Art, Largo, FL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Ground Arts, Hives, NYC, NY
2005 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Filmed Edifices, Sarasota, Fl
2002 Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
Real Estate Transactions Inc., Miami, FL
The Vue, Orlando, FL
Millenium Partners Collection on display at the Four Seasons Hotel, Miami, FL
Neiman Marcus Contemporary Art Collection on display in various locations around the country.
Vitality, Health and Wellness, Miami, FL
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alessandra Codinha, Ohne Titel, http://www.vogue.com/fashion-week/1067713/ohne-titel-spring-2015-rtw/ Vogue.com, September 2014
Nandini D' Souza Wolfe, Review, http://www.style.com/fashion-shows/spring-2015-ready-to-wear/ohne-titel Style.com, September 2014
John Coppola, At Boca Museum's "All Florida" show, The Art of Strangeness, Miami Herald, June 2013
Jami Nix Rahn, 2013 All Florida, Art South Florida, June 2013
Marty Fugate, Two Doors Down: Works by Jennifer Basile and Bianca Pratorius, Sarasota Herald Tribune, February 2012,
Marc Ormond, "Contemporary paintings on view at Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art",Pelican Press Online, November 2008
Lennie Bennett, "Have Mission", Largo Times, February 2005
Marc Ormond, "Bianca Pratorius: Recent paintings", Herald-Tribune, March 2005
Kevin Costello, "Pratorius paints the architecture of color", Herald-Tribune, September 2002
SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS
2014 1st Showcase Winner with "Zen", ArtSlant
2013 5th Showcase Juried Winner Installation category, ArtSlant
2013 featured in Saatchi newsletter, "Be bold. Oversized statement works".
2013 5th Showcase Winner with "Bale", ArtSlant
2013 Saatchi Online Sculpture Collection, "Object Lessons: New Sculpture", juried by Rebecca Wilson
2013 2nd Showcase Winner with "Hive", ArtSlant
2012 3rd Showcase Winner with "His and Hers", ArtSlant
2012 "Everything is Art" portfolio
2012 Grand Prize Winner summer competition, Groundarts, NYC
2012 "Artist of the Month", July 2012, www.theartlist.com
2012 Featured in "Where" guestbook