Darryl Ratcliff

Darryl Ratcliff is an award-winning artist and poet with a writing and curatorial practice based in Dallas, TX whose work engages communities and mobilizes social issues. Ratcliff builds complex, collaborative, durational cultural projects that help tell true community narratives, promote civic engagement, and increase community health. 

Ratcliff is the founder of Gossypion Investments, a startup company that is evolving the role of culture in society. Gossy focuses on real estate development, cultural investments, and cultural consulting.

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Darryl has worked with clients such as Nando’s, Headington Companies, Friday Health Plans, Octopus Energy, and UT Southwestern Medical Center.  

Ratcliff, alongside Fred Villanueva, is also the co-founder of Ash Studios, a Black and Latinx artist-run space and social sculpture in South Dallas since 2012. In 2016, Ash Studios received the D Magazine Award for Best Gallery or Art Space in the City of Dallas. 

Ratcliff is also an arts writer for The Dallas Morning News, covering the North Texas visual art scene. Ratcliff is a 2022 winner of the Rabkin Prize for visual arts journalism, a 2021-22 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 10 Fellow, and 2022 host of SOCAP Global, the world’s largest conference for impact investing. 

Additionally, Ratcliff has received artist awards from the Dallas Museum of Art, Nasher Sculpture Center, City of Dallas, and his work has been featured in Art Forum, Hyperallergic, FIELD Journal, Temporary Art Review, Buzzfeed, The New York Times, The Rachel Maddow Show, Art +Culture Magazine, The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine, and The Dallas Observer.