CV
Education
2016-2018 Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, MA Painting (B)
1997-2001 HKU University of the Arts, BA Visual Art/ Painting, Utrecht (NL)
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Of Flesh and Stone | Gallery Vriend van Bavink | Amsterdam (NL)
2018 New Romantics | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | Antwerp (B)
2017 Offering | This Art Fair, Gallery Vriend van Bavink | Amsterdam (NL)
Where goes the night | Gallery Vriend van Bavink | Amsterdam (NL)
2014 Into the Hills then | Closed Gallery | Antwerp (B)
2011 The Switch | Ponyhof Gallery | Antwerp (B)
2010 White Lies | Oever 21, artist initiative | Antwerp (B)
2008 OBJECT | Atelier 5 | Bonn (D)
2007 Trust | Galerie S&S | Antwerp (B)
2005 Breath | Odeon theatre| Zwolle (NL)
Select Group Exhibitions:
2018 To Be Antwerp 2018 | Marc Lauwers A Living Gallery & Kavka | Antwerpen (B)
Showcase | Galerie Van Der Planken | Antwerpen (B)
6 voor 6 | Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Loods 6 | Amsterdam (NL)
Wondrous Pearls | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | curated by Spank Moons
2017 The Drawing Hub silent auction | The Drawing Hub | Berlin (D) | curated by Jan Philipp Fruehsorge
WATT arts festival, Pink TV | The MAS museum | Antwerp (B) | curated by Dawid Wojtalewicz
The Lost Posters exhibition | CC De Steiger | Meenen (B) | with: Christine Clincx, Louis de Cordier, Daniel Johnston, Maryam Najd, Joris Van de Moortel, Wouter van de Koot, Anke Verret… | curated by Lee Ranaldo & Jan
Van Woensel
SAP | Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp | Antwerp (B)
2016 Underground School of Contemporary Art | Mercado Post Office | Antwerp (B) curated by Jan van Woensel & Mynd
Belgium Performance Festival III | VUB | Brussels (B) | curated by Stefan Wouters
Setting the Scene | F44 (sic) | Antwerp (B) | organised by Wouter van de Koot
2015 Summer Salon | Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery | London (GB)
Let Grass Roots Grow | A-side B-side gallery | London (GB) curated by Ronan Bowes
2014 (In)Visible, The Shape Open Exhibition | Shape Gallery | London (GB)
A Comfortable Man | Wilton’s Music Hall | London (GB) | curated by MC Llamas
2013 Aquachrome | Manifest Gallery | Cincinnati (USA)
2012 Bhart #01 | Drukkerij D | Antwerp (B)
Beauty of an Ugly Truth | Gallery Vriend van Bavink | Amsterdam (NL)
curated by Gianni Hilgemann (Berlinartprojects)
Truc Troc 8th| Bozar, Palace of Fine Arts | Brussels (B)
2011 Pop Secret | Atelier Solarshop | Antwerp (B) | curated by Liv Vaisberg
(Ponyhof Gallery)
PAINT! | de Stadsgalerij | Amersfoort (NL) | curated by John Konijn
Truc Troc 7th| Bozar, Palace of Fine Arts | Brussels (B)
2010 Riffling Through My Drawers | WEI Art Space | Eindhoven (NL)
2009 Die Zeit of Drawing | Climate Gallery | Long Island, New York (US)
HIWAAR Expo 2060 | Site specific installations in Antwerp (B) | curated by Erik van In
2008 International Prize Hoppeland for Painting 2008 | Poperinge (B
2007 Royal Dutch Painting Prize 2007 | Gemeentemuseum | The Hague (NL)
2004 Young Talent Award | GAU | Utrecht (NL).
2001 The Live Room | Centraal Museum Utrecht | curated by Klaas Hoek
Awards / Nominations
2018 Winner of the Prize of Buggenhout, Artaward Pieter Vanneste for drawing and printmaking | Buggenhout (B)
2007 Nominated for the Dutch Royal Painting Prize 2007 (NL)
2001 Young Talent Award 2001 | PKU, Utrecht
Publications / Press
2018 Jan Stassijns | interview about ‘To Be Antwerp’ in Gazet van Antwerpen, 27/11/2018
Kunstzone magazine | centerfold publication of my work | no. 02 March 2018
2017 Edo Dijksterhuis | ‘De kunst van het weglaten’ | exhibition review in Het Parool, 29/09/2017 ****
2014 Catalogue ‘A Comfortable Man’| Cathal Smyth & MC Llamas, London.
2013 Karen Chambers | Aquachrome: Contemporary Watercolor | exhibition review on
AEQAI , 24/11/2013
2012 INDA 6 (International Drawing Annual) | Manifest Gallery & Drawing Center,
Cincinnati | USA.
2011 Ignasi Centelles | The Polymorphic Dreams of Wouter van de Koot | article on
Mutantinvasion, online magazine, 13/10/2011
Liv Vaisberg | Painted images and Photography: When painting relies on digital
Media (III) | article on Ponyhoffreshpaint blog, 06/09/2011
'WEI 2009-2010’| publication by cultural initiative WEI.nu | Eindhoven
Liv Vaisberg,’ Portraying Absence’ | article on Ponyhoffreshpaint blog,10/03/2011
2010 Rob Schonen, ‘Pittig met balpen, maf in potlood ’| exhibition review in Eindhovens Dagblad, 09/04/2010
2009 Catalogue ‘Die Zeit of Drawing’| Climate Gallery, New York
Pand 14| article in Het Parool | 10/10/2009