“About Face: Irish Portraits”, Dacia Gallery, New York, New York


“Painting and Clay: Abstracted Languages” with Richard and Sylvia Tello Trumbull, BeFree Gallery, La Jolla, California


“Cow Tuesday”, Bantry Library for West Cork Festival, Bantry, Ireland



Los San Patricios, solo exhibition, The Embassy of Mexico, Dublin, Ireland

Irish Portraits and Landscapes, solo exhibition, Bantry House, Bantry, Ireland

The Landscapes of West Cork, solo exhibition, The Time Travelers' Antiquarian Book Shop, Cork, Ireland

BY HAND: ESOTERIC TEXTS , solo exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, New York

Portraits from Film, Theatre and Literature, solo exhibition, North Coast Repertory Theatre Gallery, Solana Beach, California

From Page to Stage : Jewish Literary Figures in Film, solo exhibition, Gotthelf Gallery, Jewish Community Center, La Jolla, California

Efflorescence, group exhibition, Dacia Gallery, New York, New York

RATAJKOWSKI REVEALED, solo exhibition, CJ Gallery, San Diego

PLACE, TEXT, CONTEXT, solo exhibition, University of California San Diego, Faculty Club Gallery, La Jolla

JOHN DAVID RATAJKOWSKI, solo exhibition, CJ Gallery, San Diego

Turner Arts Center, group exhibition, Portumna, Ireland

SONATAS FOR THE EYE, solo exhibition, Blue Leaf Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

Blue Leaf Gallery, group exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Studio 202, with Natalia Witkowska, San Diego

NATION WITHIN NATIONS: ROMANY PHOTOCOLLAGE, solo exhibition, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, with accompanying symposium GYPSY CULTURE AND HISTORY through a grant from the California Council for the Humanities




JOHN DAVID RATAJKOWSKI, solo exhibition, University Art Gallery, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Invited Artist, Osiek International Plener Exhibition, Torun, Poland

TPS Gallery, solo exhibition, Bydgoszcz, Poland

Triennial of Art, invited artist, Sofia, Bulgaria

Dom Polonia, solo exhibition, artist-in-residence, Krakow, Poland

Galeria Express, Warsaw, Poland

Wystawa Ilustracji Ksiazkowych, Olsztyn, Poland (Illustrations of American blues musicians for Polish publication One Hundred Blues Portraits)

Stratford Gallery. Del Mar, California

International Press Club Gallery, solo exhibition, Warsaw, Poland



UC San Diego Faculty Club Exhibition, February 2020 - Just before the shutdown.




AWARDS

California Council for the Humanities Art exhibition and accompanying symposium on Gypsy History and Culture

California Arts Council and The National Endowment for the Arts Artist-in- Residence / Artist Serving Special Constituents

Artist-in-Residence, Dom Polonia, Krakow, Poland

Invited Artist, Triennial of Art, Sofia, Bulgaria

Invited Artist, Osiek International Plener Exhibition, Torun, Poland