David Spriggs (artist)

David Spriggs' installations are predominantly presented as large-scale immersive pieces, including the work Axis of Power commissioned and produced by the 9th Sharjah Biennial, or his work Gold, a stratum of chromatic strips in an installation formed from 168 precisely layered spray paintings to form a 36-foot-wide installation. For the work Gold, he spray-painted each layer by hand in order to create a composition of images reminiscent of the pediment that adorns the New York Stock Exchange.

Group presentations have included the Sharjah Biennial (2009) and Arts Council Montreal (2009). His work is in the permanent collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Quebec. In 1998 he was the recipient of the Calgary Immigrants of Distinction Arts Award.

He has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums such as the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Alberta (2008). His work has been presented in solo exhibitions at the UQAM Gallery, University of Quebec, Montreal (2010), Messum's Wiltshire in the UK, the Prague Bienniale 5 in the Czech Republic, the Louis Vuitton Gallery in Macau, and at Arsenal Contemporary Montreal.

Spriggs received a BFA in painting and sculpture from the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Vancouver (2000), and an MFA in sculpture from Concordia University, Montreal (2007).

David Spriggs (born August 24, 1978) is a Canadian-British installation artist known for his large-scale 3D ephemeral installations that layer transparent images, a technique he first began to use in 1999, to create the illusion of a three-dimensional landscape.

David Spriggs was born in 1978 in Manchester, England, and immigrated to Canada in 1992.