Rafaël Rozendaal is a Dutch-Brazilian artist who currently lives in New York. His work is regularly exhibited, not only in Europe and the U.S. but also in Asia and South America. He has worked with institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Kunstverein Frankfurt, TSCA Gallery Tokyo, Seoul Art Fair, Media Art Institute and the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He is a regular speaker on digital art topics and his work is discussed in international publications such as Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Flash Art and Interview.
Rozendaal is also the founder of the exhibition concept Bring Your Own Beamer, an evening where artists bring their own projectors to display their digital work. Since 2010 there have been over 100 BYOB exhibitions, including one at the Venice Biennale.
Rozendaal’s work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the following venues:
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Kunstverein Frankfurt, (DE), Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki (JP), New Museum, New York (NY, USA), Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul (KOR), Hammer Museum Los Angeles (USA), Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL), MOTI Museum Breda (NL), Times Square Midnight Moments New York (NY, USA), Telfair Museum, Savannah (GA, USA), Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (FR), With Project Space, New York (NY, USA).
Rozendaal is also the founder of the exhibition concept Bring Your Own Beamer, an evening where artists bring their own projectors to display their digital work. Since 2010 there have been over 100 BYOB exhibitions, including one at the Venice Biennale.
Rozendaal’s work has been exhibited, amongst others, at the following venues:
Centre Pompidou, Paris (FR), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (NL), Kunstverein Frankfurt, (DE), Kawasaki City Museum, Kawasaki (JP), New Museum, New York (NY, USA), Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul (KOR), Hammer Museum Los Angeles (USA), Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL), MOTI Museum Breda (NL), Times Square Midnight Moments New York (NY, USA), Telfair Museum, Savannah (GA, USA), Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (FR), With Project Space, New York (NY, USA).
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Video about the Abstract Browsing series, initiative by Textiellab, Tilburg
About
De Keuze van... Margitte Verwoerdt
Rafaël Rozendaal is an artist of the digital age. He creates websites in a unique way that constantly show new constellations of abstract forms. If you play them side by side, it offers very surprising combinations. He sees the internet as a medium with unique features. In addition to these videos, he also makes beautiful lenticular prints of abstract color fields.
Margitte Verwoerdt (kunsthistorica, zelfstandig adviseur en curator)
Publication in NRC for Amsterdam ART
Film museum EYE presents an impressive visual installation with work by Rafaël Rozendaal, one of the greatest internet artists of the moment. (...) Websites with playful, moving and colorful images exhibit on the internet, his digital exhibition space. Some of his sites offer the visitor an almost meditative or psychedelic experience. According to Guldemond, the work of the internet artist is more topical than ever "His work relates to the growing digitization. He shapes a world that we hardly understand. "
Eric Wendel for Amsterdam ART
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In museum collection:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Museum Voorlinden
Textielmuseum
LAM
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
CV
CV Rafaël Rozendaal
Education
Art Academy Maastricht, grad. 2002
Exhibitions (selection)
2019
Discrete Objects, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
Double Pressure, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)
Stadstriënnale Hasselt/Genk, Screen it, Hasselt
Nervous, PostmastersROMA, Rome (solo)
A Semblance of the Indefinite, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College
Don’t do too much, Postmasters Gallery, New York (solo)
Art Rotterdam 2019, Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
Trouble in paradise, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Healing Light, LUMC, Leiden
Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2018
Out of Office - treasures from corporate collections, Museum Singer Laren, Laren
Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Measurements, Société, Brussels
Haiku, Material, Zürich
De Meest Eigentijdse Schilderijen Tentoonstelling, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht,
Double Vision, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
From ZERO to 2018, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Color & Abstraction, Textielmuseum Tilburg
GENEROSITY, Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (solo)
ART Rotterdam Projections with Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
Portraits, Steve Turner, LA (solo)
2017
An evening at EYE Museum, multi-channel video installation, Amsterdam (solo)
Anti Social, Postmasters, New York (solo)
Convenient, Takuro Someya, Tokyo (solo)
Human / Digital: A symbiotic love affair | Digital Art from the Hugo Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
Sleepmode: The Art of the Screensaver, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2016
Complex Computational Compositions, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
Insomnia, Bonniers Konsthall Gallery, Stockholm
Digital Abstractions, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
BYOB, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Abstract Browsing, Steve Turner Gallery, LA. (solo)
Art Dubai 2016, with Upstream Gallery, Dubai
U.A.E Somewhere, Takuro Someya, Tokyo (solo)
Kenpoku Festival, Ibaraki, Japan
Doing & Knots, Ballin Art Hall, Estonia
Dialogue with Something Invisible, Artium, Japan
New Gameplay, Nam June Paik art Center, Seoul
2015
Transformer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Shifting Optics II, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Soft Focus, MU, Eindhoven (solo)
Haiku at Postmasters, NY (solo)
Times Square Midnight moment, February
On And On, Carl Kostyál, Isbrytaren, Stockholm (solo)
L’art et le Numérique en Résonance, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR
Mankind/Machinekind, Krinzinger Projecte, Vienna
2014
Almost Nothing, Hardly Anything, Steve Turner Contemporary, LA (solo)
Shifting Optics, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Selected Websites, Hammer Museum, LA
External Memory, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
Seoul Art Square, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Liquid Crystal, curated by Michael Connor, Honor Fraser Gallery, LA
Looking at Something, Telfair Museum, Savannah
Illumination, G8 Gallery, Tokyo
2013
Paddles On!, curated by Lindsay Howard, Phillips, New York
BYOB Mobile, Printed Matter, New York
Being in the wired world, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Cold Void, KK Outlet, Los Angeles
6 websites, arranged by Mark Brown, Salon94 Bowery, New York
Book Machine, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Node Festival, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany
#FutureMyth, 319 Scholes, New York
Brand Innovations, Carroll/Fletcher, London
Notes on a new nature, Art et Amicitae, Amsterdam
2012 Mythology Online, Science Museum, Moscow
Without Hesitation, Tokyo, Japan
Everything Always Everywhere, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (solo)
Bright Lights After Armageddon, curated by Mark Brown, New York
AND Festival, curated by Ruth McCullough, UK
Seoul Square, curated by Lauren Cornell and the New Museum, Seoul, Korea
BYOB MOCA LA, curated by Mike D, MOCA Geffen, LA
Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
Dotcom, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
Nova, Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo
Everything Dies, curated by Vlado Velkov, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany (solo)
In and Out, Tetem, The Netherlands (solo)
DLD Conference, curated by Johannes Fricke & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Germany
2011
BYOB: Games, curated by Paul Slocum, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
New Information, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm (solo)
In Motion, curated by Jiminie Ha, With Project Space, NYC (solo)
Extimacy, curated by Pier Giorgio De Pinto, CACT, Lugano, Switzerland BYOB Amsterdam, W139 (curator)
BYOB Tokyo, curated by Yosuke Kurita, Tokyo
The Shift, curated by Tim Voss, W139, Amsterdam (solo)
BYOB Venezia, Venice Biennial, Venezia (curator)
To Walk The Night, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan (solo)
File Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Rhizome at the Armory, curated by Lauren Cornell, New York
BYOB Paris, curated by Nicolas Maigret, Paris
BYOB London, curated by Kernel, London
Rojo Nova Festival, curated by David Quiles Guilló, Rio de Janeiro
DLD Conference, curated by Johannes Fricke, Munchen Germany
2010
Speedshow/PeepShow, Curated by Hitomi Hasegawa, Hong Kong
BYOB NYC, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (curator)
Bal Jaune Ricard, curated by Claire Staebler, Paris
BYOB Athens, curated by Angelo Plessas, Kunsthalle Athena
Thank You Very Much, Future Gallery, Berlin (solo)
Perfect Vacuum, curated by Johanna Bergmark, Galeri Pictura, Sweden
Speedshow, curated by Aram Bartholl, Amsterdam
Happy is a place, curated by Violeta Solís Horcasitas, Mexico City
Taipei Art Fair with TSCA, Taiwan
BYOB (bring your own beamer), Berlin (curated w Anne de Vries)
Yes For Sure, curated by Petra Heck, NIMk, Amsterdam (solo)
Binary Code View, The Agency, London
Broken Self, Spencer Brownstone gallery, New York (solo)
Volta art fair, New York (solo)
Kunsthalle Athena, curated by Marina Fokidis, Athens
Multiplex, curated by Vvork, Munich
Preferiría (si) Hacerlo, Bogota, Colombia
Texture Maps, curated by Eelco van der Lingen, Nest, The Hague
Circa art fair, Preteen gallery, Puerto Rico
Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity, Future Gallery, Berlin
Don’t worry, be happy!, curated by Gerben Willers, Mama, Rotterdam
I’m good, TSCA, Tokyo (solo)
2009
The Last Session, curated by Jan van Woensel, Amsterdam
AFK sculpture park (away from keyboard), curated by aids-3D, Berlin
Afficha Festival, curated by Roman Mazurenko, Moscow
Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Internet, curated by Miltos Manetas and Jan Aman, Venice
The New Easy, curated by Lars Eijssen, Art News, Berlin
Really Really Big, NP3, Groningen (solo)
Are you sure you are you?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC
101 art fair project room, curated by Kosuke Fujitaka, Tokyo
Straylight Cavern, Cell Project Space, London
The Real Thing, MU art foundation, curated by vvork, Eindhoven
2008
Love Delirium, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
FILE, São Paolo, Brasil
Rhizome commissions, New Museum, New York
Point of no Return, curated by Caroline Hancock, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
The Long Cigarette, 11, Amsterdam
Webcra.sh, curated by Jodi, Pictura, Dordrecht
2007
Flaming Log, Carmelitas Gallery, Barcelona (solo)
Dazed & Confused vs. Andy Warhol, curated by Jerome Sans, Baltic Mill, England
Piece by Piece, curated by Marti Peran, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
Existential Computing, Hayward Gallery, London
Much Better Than This, Horsecross, Perth
2006
Neen Evening, Amsterdam
Unlike the Rest, Liquid Room, Tokyo Japan
Neen Demo curated by Angelo Plessas, Benaki Museum, Athens
RAI art fair, GMVZ, Amsterdam
SMCS op 11, curated by Jelle Bouwhuis, Amsterdam (solo)
Superneen, Galleria Pack, Milan
ARCO with Galeria Dels Angels, Madrid, Spain
Inside Out, fondsbkvb, Amsterdam (solo)
2005
Loop of Neen, Loop Festival, Barcelona
Bienal de Valencia, curated by Franck Gautherot and Seung-duk Kim, Spain
Sonar Festival, Barcelona
Neen Season, Sketch, London (solo)
It Will Never be the Same, curated by Claude Closky, le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004
Neen Porn, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
It Will Never be the Same, quarantine, Amsterdam (solo)
New Masters of Universe, curated by Wonil Rhee, Moca Taipei, Taiwan
NeenToday, MU art foundation, eindhoven, the netherlands (curator) New Rafael, M+R Gallery, London (solo)
I am Very Very Sorry, gallery mvz, Amsterdam
2002
Afterneen, casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
Neen World, vilette numerique, Paris
WhitneyBiennial.com, New York
White Trash, electronic orphanage, Los Angeles (solo)
2001
Biennale.net, deitch projects, New York
irana Biennale, Tirana Albania
Lectures (selection)
Yale (New Haven)
DLD (Munich)
AIT (Tokyo)
Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris) NYU (New York)
Here (London)
Vivid (Sydney)
EYE Museum (Amsterdam)
Press (selection)
Time Magazine, Wall street Journal, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Interview, Wired, Purple, McSweeney’s, O Globo, Vice, Creators Project, Artview, Vogue
Education
Art Academy Maastricht, grad. 2002
Exhibitions (selection)
2019
Discrete Objects, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
Double Pressure, Centraal Museum, Utrecht (solo)
Stadstriënnale Hasselt/Genk, Screen it, Hasselt
Nervous, PostmastersROMA, Rome (solo)
A Semblance of the Indefinite, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College
Don’t do too much, Postmasters Gallery, New York (solo)
Art Rotterdam 2019, Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
Trouble in paradise, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Healing Light, LUMC, Leiden
Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2018
Out of Office - treasures from corporate collections, Museum Singer Laren, Laren
Freedom of Movement, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Programmed: Rules, Codes and Choreographies in Art 1965 - 2018, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Measurements, Société, Brussels
Haiku, Material, Zürich
De Meest Eigentijdse Schilderijen Tentoonstelling, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht,
Double Vision, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
From ZERO to 2018, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Color & Abstraction, Textielmuseum Tilburg
GENEROSITY, Towada Art Center, Towada, Japan (solo)
ART Rotterdam Projections with Upstream Gallery, Rotterdam
Portraits, Steve Turner, LA (solo)
2017
An evening at EYE Museum, multi-channel video installation, Amsterdam (solo)
Anti Social, Postmasters, New York (solo)
Convenient, Takuro Someya, Tokyo (solo)
Human / Digital: A symbiotic love affair | Digital Art from the Hugo Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
Sleepmode: The Art of the Screensaver, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2016
Complex Computational Compositions, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (solo)
Insomnia, Bonniers Konsthall Gallery, Stockholm
Digital Abstractions, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
BYOB, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Abstract Browsing, Steve Turner Gallery, LA. (solo)
Art Dubai 2016, with Upstream Gallery, Dubai
U.A.E Somewhere, Takuro Someya, Tokyo (solo)
Kenpoku Festival, Ibaraki, Japan
Doing & Knots, Ballin Art Hall, Estonia
Dialogue with Something Invisible, Artium, Japan
New Gameplay, Nam June Paik art Center, Seoul
2015
Transformer, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Shifting Optics II, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Soft Focus, MU, Eindhoven (solo)
Haiku at Postmasters, NY (solo)
Times Square Midnight moment, February
On And On, Carl Kostyál, Isbrytaren, Stockholm (solo)
L’art et le Numérique en Résonance, La Maison Populaire, Montreuil, FR
Mankind/Machinekind, Krinzinger Projecte, Vienna
2014
Almost Nothing, Hardly Anything, Steve Turner Contemporary, LA (solo)
Shifting Optics, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Selected Websites, Hammer Museum, LA
External Memory, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)
Seoul Art Square, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Liquid Crystal, curated by Michael Connor, Honor Fraser Gallery, LA
Looking at Something, Telfair Museum, Savannah
Illumination, G8 Gallery, Tokyo
2013
Paddles On!, curated by Lindsay Howard, Phillips, New York
BYOB Mobile, Printed Matter, New York
Being in the wired world, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Cold Void, KK Outlet, Los Angeles
6 websites, arranged by Mark Brown, Salon94 Bowery, New York
Book Machine, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Node Festival, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany
#FutureMyth, 319 Scholes, New York
Brand Innovations, Carroll/Fletcher, London
Notes on a new nature, Art et Amicitae, Amsterdam
2012 Mythology Online, Science Museum, Moscow
Without Hesitation, Tokyo, Japan
Everything Always Everywhere, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles (solo)
Bright Lights After Armageddon, curated by Mark Brown, New York
AND Festival, curated by Ruth McCullough, UK
Seoul Square, curated by Lauren Cornell and the New Museum, Seoul, Korea
BYOB MOCA LA, curated by Mike D, MOCA Geffen, LA
Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
Dotcom, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
Nova, Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo
Everything Dies, curated by Vlado Velkov, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany (solo)
In and Out, Tetem, The Netherlands (solo)
DLD Conference, curated by Johannes Fricke & Hans Ulrich Obrist, Germany
2011
BYOB: Games, curated by Paul Slocum, Postmasters Gallery, NYC
New Information, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm (solo)
In Motion, curated by Jiminie Ha, With Project Space, NYC (solo)
Extimacy, curated by Pier Giorgio De Pinto, CACT, Lugano, Switzerland BYOB Amsterdam, W139 (curator)
BYOB Tokyo, curated by Yosuke Kurita, Tokyo
The Shift, curated by Tim Voss, W139, Amsterdam (solo)
BYOB Venezia, Venice Biennial, Venezia (curator)
To Walk The Night, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan (solo)
File Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Rhizome at the Armory, curated by Lauren Cornell, New York
BYOB Paris, curated by Nicolas Maigret, Paris
BYOB London, curated by Kernel, London
Rojo Nova Festival, curated by David Quiles Guilló, Rio de Janeiro
DLD Conference, curated by Johannes Fricke, Munchen Germany
2010
Speedshow/PeepShow, Curated by Hitomi Hasegawa, Hong Kong
BYOB NYC, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (curator)
Bal Jaune Ricard, curated by Claire Staebler, Paris
BYOB Athens, curated by Angelo Plessas, Kunsthalle Athena
Thank You Very Much, Future Gallery, Berlin (solo)
Perfect Vacuum, curated by Johanna Bergmark, Galeri Pictura, Sweden
Speedshow, curated by Aram Bartholl, Amsterdam
Happy is a place, curated by Violeta Solís Horcasitas, Mexico City
Taipei Art Fair with TSCA, Taiwan
BYOB (bring your own beamer), Berlin (curated w Anne de Vries)
Yes For Sure, curated by Petra Heck, NIMk, Amsterdam (solo)
Binary Code View, The Agency, London
Broken Self, Spencer Brownstone gallery, New York (solo)
Volta art fair, New York (solo)
Kunsthalle Athena, curated by Marina Fokidis, Athens
Multiplex, curated by Vvork, Munich
Preferiría (si) Hacerlo, Bogota, Colombia
Texture Maps, curated by Eelco van der Lingen, Nest, The Hague
Circa art fair, Preteen gallery, Puerto Rico
Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity, Future Gallery, Berlin
Don’t worry, be happy!, curated by Gerben Willers, Mama, Rotterdam
I’m good, TSCA, Tokyo (solo)
2009
The Last Session, curated by Jan van Woensel, Amsterdam
AFK sculpture park (away from keyboard), curated by aids-3D, Berlin
Afficha Festival, curated by Roman Mazurenko, Moscow
Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Internet, curated by Miltos Manetas and Jan Aman, Venice
The New Easy, curated by Lars Eijssen, Art News, Berlin
Really Really Big, NP3, Groningen (solo)
Are you sure you are you?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC
101 art fair project room, curated by Kosuke Fujitaka, Tokyo
Straylight Cavern, Cell Project Space, London
The Real Thing, MU art foundation, curated by vvork, Eindhoven
2008
Love Delirium, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
FILE, São Paolo, Brasil
Rhizome commissions, New Museum, New York
Point of no Return, curated by Caroline Hancock, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
The Long Cigarette, 11, Amsterdam
Webcra.sh, curated by Jodi, Pictura, Dordrecht
2007
Flaming Log, Carmelitas Gallery, Barcelona (solo)
Dazed & Confused vs. Andy Warhol, curated by Jerome Sans, Baltic Mill, England
Piece by Piece, curated by Marti Peran, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
Existential Computing, Hayward Gallery, London
Much Better Than This, Horsecross, Perth
2006
Neen Evening, Amsterdam
Unlike the Rest, Liquid Room, Tokyo Japan
Neen Demo curated by Angelo Plessas, Benaki Museum, Athens
RAI art fair, GMVZ, Amsterdam
SMCS op 11, curated by Jelle Bouwhuis, Amsterdam (solo)
Superneen, Galleria Pack, Milan
ARCO with Galeria Dels Angels, Madrid, Spain
Inside Out, fondsbkvb, Amsterdam (solo)
2005
Loop of Neen, Loop Festival, Barcelona
Bienal de Valencia, curated by Franck Gautherot and Seung-duk Kim, Spain
Sonar Festival, Barcelona
Neen Season, Sketch, London (solo)
It Will Never be the Same, curated by Claude Closky, le Magasin, Grenoble, France
2004
Neen Porn, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
It Will Never be the Same, quarantine, Amsterdam (solo)
New Masters of Universe, curated by Wonil Rhee, Moca Taipei, Taiwan
NeenToday, MU art foundation, eindhoven, the netherlands (curator) New Rafael, M+R Gallery, London (solo)
I am Very Very Sorry, gallery mvz, Amsterdam
2002
Afterneen, casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
Neen World, vilette numerique, Paris
WhitneyBiennial.com, New York
White Trash, electronic orphanage, Los Angeles (solo)
2001
Biennale.net, deitch projects, New York
irana Biennale, Tirana Albania
Lectures (selection)
Yale (New Haven)
DLD (Munich)
AIT (Tokyo)
Ecole des Beaux Arts (Paris) NYU (New York)
Here (London)
Vivid (Sydney)
EYE Museum (Amsterdam)
Press (selection)
Time Magazine, Wall street Journal, Flash Art, Dazed & Confused, Interview, Wired, Purple, McSweeney’s, O Globo, Vice, Creators Project, Artview, Vogue