David Blandy has established his terrain through a series of investigations into cultural forces that inform and influence him. They range from his love of hip-hop and soul, to computer games and manga. With works that range from performance to video, reality to construct, Blandy uses references sampled from wide and disparate sources that inform his (and our own) individualist sense of self. His work has been shown at numerous institutions including Tate, London; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead; INIVA, London; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart; Spike Island, Bristol; Turner Contemporary, Margate; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Serpentine Gallery, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Modern Art Oxford; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. He is also one half of a collaborative practise with Larry Achiampong. Their recent work focuses on the writing of Frantz Fanon, and on race and identity in an age of avatars, video games, and DNA ancestry testing.