Born in Evora (1975), lives and works in Lisbon

Manuel Caeiro has recently made a transformative shift from complex paintings of architectural spaces to increasingly abstract compositions that insert imagery from his previous work into the void. Planes and other geometric shapes are the subjects of these highly-refined pictures which imply man-made spaces, but without specific reference.

In his newest body of work, this imagery hangs in theair,suggesting an imaginary space, or a void. These compositions appear to focus on painter's spaces rather than architectural spaces, alternately resembling crowded rows of canvases, artist's loft storage with the room subtracted, or paintings falling like a tumbling house of cards. These works are allegories for the life of a painter, who must contend symbolically and physically with his or her own creations.

Caeiro's use of color planes resembles the vivid, monochrome geometric works of Minimalist sculptors like Donald Judd. Caeiro's interpretations, however, manipulate the plane, folding it upon itself and appropriating it. This bold move claims the Specific Object as fodder for painting. Caeiro's works make a powerful argument for the primacy of painting; other fields like architecture and sculpture are easily subsumed into imagery for the painter.

Caeiro has shown extensively in his native Portugal as well as Spain and Brazil, and has recently begun to gain recognition beyond the Portuguese and Spanish-speaking world. The work of this exciting mid-career painter has revelatory implications for the continued struggle between painting and sculpture, and beta pictoris is thrilled to introduce his work to a greater audience.

Like many contemporary painters, Manuel Caeiro questions painting starting from the repetition of forms. Each line insists on the achieving of an idea, and its multiplication, its sequence, generates the definitive rhythm. Manuel Caeiro works the modular detail as that which unleashes each new image, and he always does it starting from memory or recall of what is constructed, seeking a new order. Thus his strategy is that of unfolding or propagating a reality that is reconstructed and therefore fictitious, which is born out of the most traditional of mediums - painting - to the one that possesses the most historical charge and which at the same time to all appearances processes a weaker contemporary condition or at least one that is more questioned, with its mental state being a continuous reason for debate. (David Barro)

Solo exhibitions

2016

• ‘M I KADO‘, beta pictoris gallery, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

2014

• ‘Achieving Shadows’, Hunchentoot Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• ‘Briefing Room’, Galeria Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain

2013

• ‘Totem’, Galeria Lurixs, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• “Backstage of Light”, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal

2012

• ‘Amazing Transparent Emptyness’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ‘Manuel Caeiro - YELLOWMETRIX’, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
• ‘Amazing white emptiness’, Antigo Picadeiro do Colégio dos Nobres, Lisbon, Portugal
• ‘Amazing full emptyness’, Galeria Vilaseco&Hauser, Corunha, Spain

2011

• ‘Down side Up’, Galeria Baró, São Paulo, Brasil
• ‘33' de fama’, Palácio Pombal, Lisbon, Portugal ‘Arrufos e entulhos’, Galeria Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal
• ‘Domestic Viability’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ‘12 000 m2 dentro de um T0’, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal
• “HD”, Galeria Bacelos, Vigo, Spain

2010

• ‘Ordem e Progresso’, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• ‘Up Side Down’, Lurixs Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Manuel Caeiro, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal
• Belém Coffrage, Ermida Nª.Senhora da Conceição, Lisboa, Portugal
• MAM-RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

2009

• Downtown, Galeria Lurixs, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• Golden Mine, Galeria Trem, Faro, Portugal

2008

• Paredes Vacías, Galeria António Barnola, Barcelona, Spain

2007

• Podium, MCO Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal
• Welcome to my Loft, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal
• Reconstruyendo el Vacío, Galeria Cubo Azul, Léon, Espanha

2006

• Deconstruction and Rebuilding, Galeria J. M. Gomes Alves, Guimarães, Portugal

2005

• Às vezes apetece-me estar aqui, Fundação D. Luís I, Cascais, Portugal
• The Last Room, Galeria Évora-Arte, Évora, Portugal
• Casas da Caparica, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Sala do Veado, Lisboa, Portugal

2004

• Dream Houses – Inbox, Galeria Paços do Concelho, Torres Vedras, Portugal
• Dream Houses – Outside Door, Palácio da Galeria, Tavira, Portugal

2003

• Dream Houses, Galeria Ara, Lisboa, Portugal

2002

• Neighbourhood, Galeria Évora-Arte, Évora, Portugal

2001

• Cenas Domésticas, Galeria Ara, Lisboa, Portugal

1999

• Manuel Caeiro, Galeria Ara, Lisboa, Portugal

Group exhibitions

2015

• ARCO’15, Madrid, Spain
• SPArte’15, São Paulo, Brazil
• ArtLima’15, Lima, Peru
• ‘We are pleased to invite you’# 5, Galeria Carlos Carvalho,Lisbon, Portugal
• VOLTA Basel, Switzerland

2014

• SPArte’ 14, São Paulo, Brazil
• ARCO’ 14, Madrid, Spain
• ‘We are pleased to invite you’#4, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal

2013

• SPArte’13, São Paulo, Brazil
• ARTRIO’ 13, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• ‘We are pleased to invite you’#3, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
• ARCO’ 13, Madrid, Spain
• ‘LOS OJOS DE LAS VACAS’, Galeria Ponce+Robles, Madrid, Spain
• ‘13 Artistas, 13 obras e todas as demais’, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal
• ‘Casa Ocupada’, Casa da Cerca, Almada,Portugal
• VOLTA, Basel, Switzerland
• ‘INTERFERÊNCIA’, Galeria Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain
• ‘Great Man Die Twice’, Galeria Mário Sequeira, Comporta, Portugal

2012

• ‘We are pleased to invite you #2’, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea . Lisbon, Portugal
• 13 ARTISTAS + 13 OBRAS [e todas as demais], Galeria novaOgiva, Óbidos, Portugal
• Teleférico interactivo, Guimarães, Portugal.
• SPArte’12, São Paulo, Brasil
• ART BRUSSELS, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ARTRIO 12, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• ARCO12, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Madrid, Spain
• ‘Correspondência’, Museu de Arte PréHispánico Rufino Tamayo, Oaxaca Juárez, México

2011

• ‘The Enchanted Mountain’, Galeria Mario Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
• ‘We are pleased to invite you’, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea. Lisboa, Portugal
• Artistas solidários com Alzheimer Portugal, Centro Cultural de Cascais . Cascais, Portugal
• Dry and Wet, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Terceira Metade’, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
• ART BRUSSELS, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ART Amsterdam, Crown Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
• SCOPE BASEL, Crown Gallery, Brussels
• ARCO 11, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Madrid, Spain

2010

• Cabinet d’Amateur, Sala do Veado, Lisboa, Portugal
• Processo e Transfiguracao, Casa da Cerca, Almada, Portugal
• 3PT- Galeria FullArt, Sevilha, Spain
• ARCO 10, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Madrid, Spain
• VOLTA BASEL, Crown Gallery, Basel, Switserland
• ART BRUSSELS, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ART Amsterdam, Crown Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
• FIAT LUX- Macuf- Union Fenosa, Centro e Arte Contemporâneo, Corunha, Spain
• SCOPE MIAMI, Crown Gallery, Miami, USA

2009

• Opções e Futuros – Obras da colecção da fundação PLMJ, Museu da Cidade, Lisboa, Portugal
• Building rooms, Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Lisboa, Portugal
• ARCO ’09- Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Galeria Mário Sequeira . Madrid, Spain
• SPARTE ’09- Galeria Mário Sequeira . São Paulo, Brasil
• FAC ’09- Galeria Carlos Carvalho

2008

• Mostra Internacional Union Fenosa’10, MACUF-Museu de Arte Contemporâneo Union Fenosa, Corunha, Spain
• Parangolé – Fragmentos desde os anos 90, Brasil, Portugal e Spain
• À volta do papel, Centro de Arte Manuel de Brito, Algés, Portugal
• 5 Portuguese Artists, Michel Soskine, Madrid, Spain
• Arte Lisboa’08,Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal
• Galeria Mário Sequeira . Lisboa, Portugal
• Arte Santander’08
• XVII Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporâneo, Santander, Spain

2007

• Art Salamanca, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Salamanca, Spain
• Arte Lisboa’07, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal
• ARCO’07, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Madrid, Spain
• FORO SUR’07,Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Cáceres, Spain

2006

• Opções e Futuros, Aquisições Recentes – PLMJ, Lisboa, Portugal
• O Espelho de Ulisses 2, Centro de Arte de S. João da Madeira, S. João da Madeira, Portugal
• Surrounding Matta-Clark, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea . Lisboa, Portugal
• Wallpaper, StockHouse, Galeria MCO arte. Porto, Portugal
• Arte Lisboa’ 06, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea . Lisboa, Portugal
• Art Salamanca 06, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea . Salamanca, Spain

2005

• Outras Arquitecturas, Outros Artistas... Outras Alternativas, Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea, Lisboa, Portugal
• Prémio Ariane de Rothschild, Exposição de seleccionados, Palácio Galveias, Lisboa, Portugal
• Projecto X, Galeria Arte Contempo, Lisboa, Portugal
• Le Premier Dessin, (com José Lourenço e José Batista Marques), Galeria Ara, Lisboa, Portugal
• ARCO´05,Galeria Ara . Madrid, Spain
• Arte Lisboa’05,Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea . Lisboa, Portugal

2004

• Projecto ArtCup, Galeria Quadrum, Lisboa, Portugal
• As long as space endures (com Rui Macedo) Galeria Vértice, Oviedo, Spain
• ARCO´04,Galeria Ara . Madrid, Spain
• Arte Lisboa’04,Galeria Ara . Lisboa, Portugal

2003

• Artes Santander 2003,Galeria Ara . Santander, Spain

2002

• ARCO’02,Galeria Ara .Madrid,Spain
• Arte Lisboa’02,Galeria Ara . Lisboa, Portugal

2001

• ARCO’01,Galeria Ara . Madrid, Spain
• FAC’01,Galeria Ara . Lisboa, Spain

2000

• Galeria Trem (com José Lourenço e Rui Macedo), Faro, Portugal
• Galeria Mário Sequeira, Braga, Portugal
• Belo Horizonte, Brasil
• Minas Gerais, Brasil
• ARCO´00, Galeria Mário Sequeira . Madrid, Spain
• Marca Madeira,Galeria Mário Sequeira . Funchal, Portugal
• Art Cologne, Galeria Mário Sequeira . Cologne, Germany
• Belo Horizonte . Brasil
• Minas Gerais . Brasil
• FAC’00,,Galeria Ara . Lisboa, Portugal

1999

• Galeria Évora Arte, Évora, Portugal
• Prémio Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso, Amarante, Portugal
• Prémio Amadeu de Souza-Cardoso, Quinta das Cruzadas, Linhó, Sintra, Portugal
• Artistas com Timor, Armazém 7, Lisboa, Portugal
• IV Foro Atlântico de Arte Contemporânea, Galeria Ara. Pontevedra, Portugal
• Galeria Ara. Pontevedra, Portugal

1998

• Exposição de Finalistas da F.B.A.U.L., Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal

1997

• I Bienal do Alentejo, Nisa e Borba, Portugal
• VI Exposição de Artistas Alentejanos, Moita, Portugal
• III Exposição Internacional de Artes Plásticas, Moita, Portugal
• Bienal de Artes Plásticas, Vendas Novas
• Prémio Vespeira, Montijo, Portugal
• Prémio Nacional de Pintura Júlio Resende, Gondomar, Portugal
• Colectiva de Pintura, Galeria Barata, Lisboa, Portugal

1996

• Colectiva de Artes Plásticas, Casa do Alentejo, Lisboa, Portugal

1993

• Galeria Municipal de Montemor-o-Novo, Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal

1991

• Pintura/Desenho, Palácio D. Manuel, Évora, Portugal

Awards

2005

• 1º lugar do Prémio Vespeira (desenho) – “Dreamhouses#0”
• VIII Bienal de Artes Plásticas – “Cidade do Montijo”
• 1º lugar do 2º Prémio de Pintura Ariane de Rothschild, Lisboa

2003

• Prémio Municipal Jorge Colaço (Azulejaria), Lisboa

1997

• 1º Prémio, 5º Aniversário das Galerias Monumental, Lisboa
• Menção Honrosa, Prémio João Barata, Galeria Barata, Lisboa

Collections

• Barclays Bank
• Sociedade Nacional das Farmácias
• Tipografia Fernandes & Terceiro
• Eastécnica
• Fundação PLMJ
• Francisco Pimentel & Associados SADV
• Serralvarez Arquitectos
• Aires Mateus Arquitectos
• CGD/Culturgest
• CME, Lisboa
• Faculdade de Direito – Universidade Clássica de Lisboa
• Pinto da Fonseca
• Banque Privée Edmond de Rothschild Europe, Lisboa
• OPCA
• BES Vida
• Colecção Manuel de Brito
• Colecção AIP – Associação Industrial Portuguesa, Lisboa
• Câmara Municipal de Tavira
• Banco Mais, Lisboa
• Santander Totta, Lisboa
• Ana Luisa e Mariano Marcondes Ferraz, Brasil
• Álvaro Piquet Pessoa Carneiro, Brasil
• Bianca Latgè, Brasil
• Samuel Garson, Brasil
• Sebastiao Junior, Brasil

Bibliography

Monographs

• Manuel Caeiro – Casas da Caparica, Edição OPCA, Lisboa, 2005.
• Manuel Caeiro – Welcome to my Loft, Dardo ds/ Galeria Carlos Carvalho, Santiago de Compostela/ Lisboa 2007.
• Manuel Caeiro ; Ivo MARTINS et. al (textos de texts by), Manuel Caeiro Guimarães: CCVF Centro
• Cultural Vila Flor, 2010

Publications

• Carvalho, Carlos Neves, “Sinais do fazer e do fazer do tempo”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Julho 1999.
• Carvalho, Carlos Neves, “Na lonjura do Ser”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara (20.07.2001).
• Campino, Catarina, “Cenas Domésticas”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Julho 2001.
• Oliveira, Luisa Soares de, “Desenho de Projecto”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Dezembro, 2003.
• Vasconcelos, José Manuel de, “As paredes da tensão e do repouso”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Julho 1999.
• Ramos, Fátima, “Prefácio”, Manuel Caeiro, Casas da Caparica, Edição OPCA, 2005.
• Ferreira, Emilia, “Retratos de Almas em Fuga”, Manuel Caeiro, Casas da Caparica, Edição OPCA, 2005.
• Pinharanda, João Lima, “Lugar Construído”, Manuel Caeiro, Casas da Caparica, Edição OPCA, 2005.
• Oliveira, Luisa Soares de, “Noticias do Reino das Sombras”, Cascais, Fundação d. Luis I, Abril, 2005.
• “Manuel Caeiro na Galeria Évora Arte”, Évora, Galeria Évora Arte, Fevereiro, 2002.

Press articles

• “Arte de Oviedo – Manuel Caeiro (pintura)”, in: www.guidelocio.com. Outubro 04.
• CAMPINO, Catarina, “Campino – Realty Check”, in: Arte Ibérica (n.º 50), Lisboa, Out./Nov. 01.
• CAMPINO, Catarina, “Cenas Domésticas”, in: Arte Ibérica (nº 50), Lisboa, Out./Nov 01.
• CORDEIRO, Mário Pires, “Investir em Arte no mês de Setembro”, in: Semanário Económico, Lisboa (14.09.2001).
• COSTILLA, Luís Feás, “Caeiro y Rui Macedo, mundos paralelos”, in: La voz de Asturias, Asturias(31.10.2004).
• “Downtown – Manuel Caeiro”, in: O Globo/Rio Show, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 24.04.2009.
• “Downtown – Manuel Caeiro”, in: Veja Rio/Exposições, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 29.04.2009.
• Espaço & Design, Lisboa, Outubro 2001.
• FALCÃO, Isabel, “Cultura Xis”, in: revista Xis, Lisboa, Outubro 2001.
• FERNANDES, Zélia, “Prisões de uma rotina deprimente”, in: Casa e Decoração, Lisboa, Setembro2000.
• LORENZANA, Pablo, “Caeiro y Rui Macedo inauguran en Vértice”, in: La voz de Asturias, Asturias (08.10.2004).
• “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Casa e Jardim, Lisboa, Setembro 1999.
• “Manuel Caeiro em Cenas Domésticas”, in: www.artlink.pt (26.09.2001).
• “Manuel Caeiro na Galeria Évora-Arte”, Évora, Galeria Évora-Arte, Fevereiro 2002.
• “Manuel Caeiro. Dreamhouses”, in: www.ubicarte.com, Outubro 04.
• Manuel Caeiro /Rui Macedo – Galeria Vértice, Nueva abstracción y pintura actual”, in: www.servicios. elcomerciodigital.com, Asturias (22.10.2004).
• MARTINS, Celso, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Expresso Cartaz, Lisboa (29.09.2001).
• MARTINS, Celso, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Arte Y Parte, Espanha, Setembro 2001.
• MARTINS,Celso, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Expresso – Actual, Lisboa (20.12.2003).
• MARTINS, Celso, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Expresso, Lisboa. (Março 05).
• “Neighbourhood”, in: www.artlink.pt, Fevereiro 02.
• “Nueva abstracción y pintura actual”, in: http://servicios.elcomerciodigital.com, Outubro 04.
• OLIVEIRA, Luísa Soares de,“Manuel Caeiro”, in: Público/Mil Folhas, Lisboa (13.10.01).
• OLIVEIRA, Luísa Soares de, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Público/Mil Folhas, Lisboa (16.02.2002).
• OLIVEIRA, Luísa Soares de, “Desenho de projecto”, Lisboa, Galeria Ara, Dezembro 2003.
• ROJAS, Mario, “Nueva Abstracción y pintura actual”, in: El Comercio, Asturias (14.10.2004).
• SOUSA, Rocha de, “Histórias de Paredes”, in: Jornal de Letras, Lisboa (11.08.1999).
• SOUSA, Rocha de, “Intercâmbios culturais”, in: Jornal de Letras, Lisboa (27.10.2004).
• SUÁREZ, Rubén, “Manuel Caeiro y Rui Macedo, la nueva pintura portuguesa”, in: La Nueva España, Asturias (15.10.2004).
• VAZ, Rodrigues, “Pintura de Manuel Caeiro”, in: Correio de Domingo, Lisboa (11.07.1999).
• VIEIRA, Sandra, “Manuel Caeiro”, in: Arte y Parte(n.º 48), Santander, Dezembro 03.
• GUERREIRO, Ana Santos, “ Manuel Caeiro: do Mundo, da Obra e da reversabilidade contaminadora”, Arte e Teoria, Revista do mestrado em teorias de arte da FBAUL, n.º 8, 2006, Lisboa.
• DERR, Sibylle M., “Architektur und Historie in Einklang mit Kunst”, Die Rheinpfalz, Speyerer Morgenpost Speyer, Alemanha, 26. 09. 2006.
• KONIG, Antj, “Auf der Suche Nach dem “Geist der Stadt””, Die Rheinpfalz, n.º 174, Speyer, Alemanha, 29 July 2006.
• Speyer-Aktuell.de, www.speyer- aktuell.de/cms1/, 11.08.2006.
• TAUBE, Von Dimitri, “Nach Ringtausch eine neue Liebe?”, Speyerer Morgenpost, Kultur, 29.08.2006.
• KONIG, Antje, “Filzfabrik mit Ffscherhutten”, Die Rheinpfalz, n.º. 191, Speyer, Alemanha, 18.08.2006.
• BARRO, David, “Fundido a negro o la pintura sin editar”, Revista DARDO, n.º 3 ( pág. 75), www.dardomagazine.com, Outubro a Janeiro 2006-2007.
• “Downtown – Manuel Caeiro”, O Globo/Rio Show, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 24.04.2009
• “Downtown – Manuel Caeiro”, Veja Rio/Exposições, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 29.04.2009

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Wim De Schamphelaere (1963) lives and works in Kontich, Belgium

www.schamf.com

As an engineer in biochemistry he started his professional career in different companies and was one of the co-fouders of a digital printing compagny. He was always interested in nature and cultures, and traveled regularly around the globe. Ten years ago, he stopped his professional career, he became a fulltime professional photographer.

I started with photography about ten years ago. Attracted by foreign cultures, I worked mainly on the African continent. Many times I returned to the same most remote villages and communities. Gradually, trust and mutual respect were growing. At the end, they admitted me in their daily life, and they accepted to be photographed on my way. I started to show my pictures only a few years later. (Wim De Schamphelaere)

He portrayed larger groups until whole villages wanted to participate at the realization of these stunning images. He made hundreds of single images resulting in a very detailed large scale picture in which the individuals as well as their environment are very detailed. This meticulous mounted photographs represent the reality, but are much more than only documentary : his involvement with his subjects is evident at first sight.

Working in this manner, whole villages were proud to participate in the creation of these stunning images.

I’m using the photographic techniques of today, not to change the image of the current reality, but just to reproduce a true image of this reality on a way that was impossible in the past. (Wim De Schamphelaere)

As an outsider in the art world he overwhelmed the public by showing his work the first time.
Last year, he went several times to Cuba, and he started there with shootings.

Solo exhibitions

2017

• Wim De Schamphelaere - Exchanging Looks, CC Maasmechelen, Maasmechelen, Belgium
• Wim De Schamphelaere - Exchanging Looks, L’ATELIERPHOTO, Nyon, Switserland
• Fotografiecircuit: Wim De Schamphelaere: Meeting Madagascar

2016

• ‘Wim De Schamphelaere - Exchanging Looks’, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
• ‘Wim De Schamphelaere, Meeting Madagascar’, Elcker-Ik Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium
• ‘Wim De Schamphelaere’, Hors les Murs, Divonne-les-Bains, France

2014

• ‘Madagascar Portraits’, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga, Lithuania
• ‘Village Portraits’, Mclemoi Gallery, Sydney, Australia

2013

• ‘Meeting Africa’, Ballarat Biennale, Ballarat Melbourne, Australia
• ‘Meeting Africa’, De Zwarte Panter, Antwerp, Belgium

2011

• ‘Village Portraits’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ‘Madagascar : Meet the People’, Africa Museum,Tervuren, Belgium

2009

• ‘Portraits de Villages’, CCAG, Antananarivo, Madagascar
• ‘Wim De schamphelaere’, Mc Bride Fine Art, Antwerp, Belgium

Group exhibitions

2016

• ‘Emphatic Images - Opening Show’, Crown Gallery Knokke, Knokke, Belgium

2015

• ‘Reunited’, Crown Gallery Knokke, Knokke, Belgium
• ‘Lara Ciarabellini, Zuzana Pustaiová, Wim De Schamphelaere’ VASA, Bratislava, Slovakia

2014

• ‘Village Portraits’, Foto Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• ‘Madagascar Portraits’, Nuit de la photo La Chaux-de-Fonds, Suisse
• ‘Village Portraits’ Head on photofestival, Sydney, Australia
• Bratislava Month of Photography 2014 (award winner), VASA, Bratislava, Slovakia

2013

• ‘Coup de Ville’, WARP, Sint Niklaas, Belgium

2012

• ‘Emphatic Images ’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Art Brussels, Crown Galley, Brussels
• Foto Fever Brussels, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2011

• ‘The Night of Culture’, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Art Brussels, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Foto Madrid, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Art Amsterdam, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Scope Basel, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2010

• Foto Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
• Canvascollectie / Collection RTBF, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium

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Leon Golub (1922 - 2004)

"Leon Golub started making art in the late 1940s, after serving in World War II as an army cartographer. Early in his career, Golub turned away from dominant abstract modes of painting, pervasive in the decades following the war, to create expressive figurative works that confront the dynamics of global power and its victims. His paintings consider the violence and torture in the shadows of governments (especially the U.S. government), out of view of the public and outside of the law. Golub’s method of painting, applying layers of oil and then scraping the surface with a meat cleaver, adds a traumatic and distressed presence to his works, augmenting the horrific acts depicted in the paintings."

"As a leader of Chicago’s figurative movement in the 1950s, Leon Golub has always rejected a detached, distanced approach to art, instead espousing expression and confrontation. Described as an existential and activist painter, Golub gained recognition for his large-scale, politically charged, highly topical works that directly address issues of war, racism, sexism, and power."

For Golub abuse of power is both an ancient and a contemporary condition, always present in the world, and the ability of such power to corrupt those who hold it chips away at humanity. Both the victims and the orchestrators of torture and suffering reside outside of ethical boundaries, in a place where social contracts of dignity lie in ruin. Golub portrays a horrible world of degradation, where humans have more in common with objects than subjects, where the right to freedom is flagrantly abandoned. (The Broad)

Solo exhibitions

2016

• National Portrait Gallery, ‘Leon Golub: Portraits of Power’, London, England

2015

• Museo Tamayo, ‘Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue’, Mexico City, Mexico (travelling exhibition)
• Serpentine Gallery, ‘Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue’, London, England (travelling exhibition)
• Hauser & Wirth, ‘Leon Golub. Riot’, New York, USA

2014

• Barbara Gross Galerie, ‘Leon Golub: Danse Macabre’, Munich, Germany
• Printworks Gallery, ‘Leon Golub & Nancy Spero’, Chicago, USA

2013

• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, ‘Leon Golub: Mercenaries II and Napalm Gates’, London, England

2011

• Het Domein, ‘Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion? ‘, Sittard, Holland (Travelling exhibition)
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Palacio de Velázquez, ‘Leon Golub’, Madrid, Spain

2010

• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, ‘Leon Golub: Late Drawings’, London, England
• Christine König Gallery, ‘Adieu! A Tribute to Nancy Spero and Leon Golub’, Vienna, Austria
• The Drawing Center, ‘Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion? ‘, New York, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, ‘Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion?’, Evanston, USA (Travelling exhibition)

2008

• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Did It! ‘, New York, USA

2006

• Darthea Speyer, ‘Leon Golub, Homage’, Paris, France
• GRIFFIN, ‘Leon Golub’, Santa Monica, USA
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Leon Golub. We Love Our Leader’, New York, USA
• Wako Works of Art, ‘Leon Golub’, Tokyo, Japan

2004

• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Graeco-Roman Colossi 1959 – 1964 + Erotica, etc. 2000-2003’, New York, USA

2003

• Chicago Cultural Center, ‘Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings’, Chicago, USA
• Christine König Galerie, ‘Leon Golub / Nancy Spero’, Vienna, Austria
• Griffin Contemporary, Leon Golub’, Venice, USA
• Rhona Hoffman Gallery, ‘Recent Paintings’, Chicago, USA

2002

• Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
• Crown Gallery, ‘New Paintings’, Brussels, Belgium
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, ‘Leon Golub’, Paris, France
• Printworks, Chicago, USA

2001

• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
• Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Lima, Peru
• Leon Golub and Nancy Spero Prints 1950 – 2001, The Print Center, Philadelphia, USA

2000/2001

• Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – retrospective exhibition traveling to: South London Gallery, London, England ; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo, USA ; The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

2000

• S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Gent, Belgium
• Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• Christine Konig Galerie, TRANS+KAPUTT, Vienna, Austria
• “The Fighting Is A Dance Too, Leon Golub/Nancy Spero,” Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, USA

1999/2000

• “Leon Golub, While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings, 1994--Present,” Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania (traveling exhibition), USA
• “Partisans,” installation for “To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive,” American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, ”International Center of Photography Midtown, New York (traveling exhibition), USA
• “Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, George Moore,” La Sala Nacional de Exposiciones, Parque Cuscatlan, San Salvador, El Salvador. Traveling to Instituto de Artes Graficos de Oaxaca, Mexico

1999

• Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA
• “Leon Golub, George McNeil,” Hopper House Art Center, Nyack, New York, USA
• Luckman Fine Arts Complex, California State University, Los Angeles, USA

1998

• “Image Violence II,” European Workshop of Arts and Culture Hellerau, Dresden (Installation), Germany
• Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
• Stefania Miscetti Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

1997

• Crown Gallery, ’Leon Golub’, Brussels, Belgium
• “Leon Golub • Nancy Spero - Contemporaries,” The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

1996

• “Leon Golub • Nancy Spero,” Hiroshima Art Prize retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
• “Sanguinary,” Installation, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
• “Snake Eyes: 1995 & Sphinx & Other Enigma: 1952-56,” Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
• “Image Violence”, Installation, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, Canada
• “Gigantomachies: 1965 - 1969,” New York Kunsthalle, New York, USA
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
• Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Nano Museum (traveling), Part 1, Part 2

1995

• “Violence Zone: The Weimar Installation,” Orangerie Schloß Belvedere, Weimar, Germany
• “Update,” installation for exhibition, “Nancy Spero and Leon Golub” Residenzgalerie, Salzburg, Austria
• “Notes In Time: Leon Golub/Nancy Spero,” installation, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Cantonsville, USA
• “Leon Golub - New Work,” Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, USA

1994/1995

• "War and Memory," Leon Golub/Nancy Spero retrospective exhibition 1950's-1994, American Center, Paris, France
• List Visual Arts Center, M.I.T., Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada

1994

• Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
• Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• "Leon Golub/ Nancy Spero," Printworks, Chicago, USA
• "Leon Golub/ Nancy Spero," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA

1993

• "Violence Report/Prisoners," installation, Kunsthalle Barmen/von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, and Kunstverein Ulm/Ulmer Museum, Germany
• "Golub/Spero, 1960's/70's" and "Golub/Spero, 1990's/50's" (consecutive exhibitions), Josh Baer Gallery, New York
• "Works on Paper," Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, USA

1992/1993

• Retrospective Exhibition, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden; Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden ; and Kunstverein München, Germany
• "Public Violence," Installation, Malmö Konsthall (Gymnasium), Malmö, Sweden

1992

• "Political Portraits," The College of Saint Rose, Albany, New York, USA
• "Patriots," Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
• "Leon Golub Paintings 1987-92" Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (traveling to The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Akron Art Museum, 1993)
• "An Incident," Musée D'Art Contemporaine de Montréal, Quebec, Canada (installation for "Pour la Suite du Monde")
• Galerie Littmann, Basel, Switserland
• "Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: Works on Paper," Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria

1991

• "WorldWide," Grand Lobby installation, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA (traveling to Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania; University of California, San Diego; Chicago Cultural Center; Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
• "Leon Golub/Nancy Spero," UWM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, USA
• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England

1990

• Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
• Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, USA

1989

• The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
• Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA

1988

• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
• The Saatchi Collection, London, England
• "Retrospective," Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt, Germany
• "The First Series (Lithographs 1946-56)," Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University (traveling to Little Rock Art Center, Arkansas, USA 1989; Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago, USA 1990)

1987

• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
• Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switserland (traveled to Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany)
• "Leon Golub/Nancy Spero," The Orchard Gallery, Derry, N. Ireland (traveled to The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 1988)

1986

• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
• "Leon Golub/Nancy Spero," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, USA

1985

• Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Printworks, Chicago, USA
• "Prints," Stanford University Museum of Art, Stanford, USA
• "Currents," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

1984

• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France
• "Golub," Retrospective Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (traveling in 1985 to La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

1983

• Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, USA
• "Matrix/Berkeley 58," University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• "Leon Golub: Mercenaries, Interrogations and Other Works," Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston (traveling to Portland Center for Visual Arts; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio; Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut at Storrs; Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York USA

1982

• Susan Caldwell, Inc., New York, USA
• Institute of Contemporary Art, London, USA
• "Vietnam War," Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Tweed Arts Group, Plainfield, USA

1981

• "Leon Golub/Nancy Spero," Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, USA

1979

• Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

1978

• Colgate University, Colgate, New York, USA
• State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA

1976

• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA
• San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA

1975

• New York Cultural Center, Retrospective Exhibition, New York, USA

1974

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Retrospective Exhibition, Chicago, USA

1973

• Musee de L'Abbaye Saint Croix, Sable d'Olonne, France

1970/1971

• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
• Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France

1970

• Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

1966

• University of Chicago, retrospective exhibition, Chicago, USA

1964

• Galerie Iris Clert; Galerie Europe, Paris, France
• Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA

1963

• Gallery A, Melbourne

1959/1963

• Alan Frumkin Gallery, New York, USA

1962

• Galerie Iris Clert, Paris, France
• Hanover Gallery, London, England

1960

• Centre Culturel Americain, Paris, France

1958

• "Leon Golub/Nancy Spero," Indiana University, USA

1957

• Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England

1956

• Pomona College, Pomona, California, USA
• Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, USA

1955/1964

• Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago, USA

1954

• Artists Gallery, New York, USA

1952

• Wittenborn & Co., New York, USA

1951

• Purdue University, Indiana, USA

1950

• Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, USA

Group exhibitions

2017

• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s’, New York, USA

2016

• Smart Museum of Art, ‘Monster Roster: Existentialist Art in Postwar Chicago’, Chicago, USA
• Sonoma Museum of Art, ‘Inside Magnolia Editions: Innovation and Collaboration’, Santa Rosa, USA

2015

• Galeries Nationales, Grand Palais, ‘Picasso Mania’, Paris, France

2014

• Andrew Roth Gallery, ‘COPIED’, New York, USA
• Musée international de la Croix-Rouge
• et du Croissant-Rouge, ‘Trop Humain’, Geneva, Switzerland
• Tate Modern, ‘A Chronicle of Interventions’, London, England

2012

• Aurel Scheibler, ‘Leon Golub | David Schutter | Michael Wutz’, Berlin, Germany

2011/2012

• John Michael Kohler Arts Center, ‘Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts (Shared Memory) ‘, Sheboygan

2010

• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Resurrectine’, New York, USA
• Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico Art Museum, ‘Tamarind Touchstones: Fabulous at Fifty’, Albuquerque, USA

2009

• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘BLACK&WHITEWORKS’, New York,USA

2008

• American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, ‘Close Encounters: Facing the Future’, Washington, USA
• BCAM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Transformation: Phase I’, Los Angeles, USA
• Maccarone, Pretty Ugly, New York, USA
• Martos Gallery, ‘Love Love Love’, New York, USA
• P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ‘That Was Then This is Now’, Long Island City, USA
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper’, New York, USA

2007

• Brooke Alexander Editions, ‘Most Humans Do Not Know Better’, New York, USA
• Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, ‘In Someone Else’s Skin’, Annandale-on-Hudson NY
• Dinter Fine Art, ‘death & love in MODERN TIMES’, New York, USA
• Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, ‘Humor Lines’, Lynchburg VA
• The Maryland Institute College of Art, ‘Black Panther: Rank and File’, Baltimore, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Rhona Hoffman Gallery, ‘Commemorating 30 Years 1980 – 1990: Part Two’, Chicago, USA
• Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, ‘Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Part Two’, Sarasota, USA
• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Black Panther: Rank and File’, Winston-Salem, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Austin Museum of Art, ‘The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984’, Austin, USA (Travelling exhibition)

2006

• The National Newark Building, ‘Newark Between Us’, Newark, USA
• Hebrew Union College, Jewish Institute of Religion Museum, ‘The Eye of the Collector: The Jewish Vision of Sigmund R. Balka’, New York, USA
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, ‘Black Panther: Rank and File’, San Francisco, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Grey Art Gallery, ‘The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984’, New York, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Andy Warhol Museum, ‘The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984’, Pittsburgh, USA (Travelling exhibition)

2005

• Diverse Works, ‘Contemporary Erotic Drawing’, Houston, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, ‘Contemporary Erotic Drawing’, Ridgefield, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Toward the Future—Through the Eyes of the Artists’, Hiroshima, Japan
• Jack Shainman Gallery, ‘The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe’, New York, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Centre International d’Exposition de Larouche, ‘The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe’, Larouche, Canada (Travelling exhibition)
• ABC No Rio; Al-Hallaj Gallery; Beit Ha’omanim (simultaneous exhibition), ‘Three Cities Against the Wall’, New York NY; Ramallah, Israel; Tel Aviv, Israel
• Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, ‘The Disasters of War: From Goya to Golub’, Middletown, USA

2004

• ARTIUM, ‘Laocoon Devoured: Art and Political Violence’, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
• Tufts University Gallery, ‘Overt/Covert: Works by Elliott Erwitt, Leon Golub, Andre Kertesz, Juhan Kuus, Gilles Peress and Yoram Wolberger’, Medford, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘WAR! Protest in America, 1965 – 2004’, New York, USA
• Van Brunt Gallery, ‘amBUSH! ‘, New York, USA
• Deitch Projects, ‘The Freedom Salon’, New York, USA
• Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, ‘AT WAR’, Barcelona, Spain
• Galerie St. Etienne, ‘Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art’, New York, USA
• Seraphin Gallery, ‘Paintings and Drawings – Part I’, Philadelphia, USA
• Lawrence Art Gallery, ‘Paintings and Drawings – Part II’, Rosemont, USA

2003

• Nielson Gallery, ‘Artists Without Borders’, Boston, USA
• Chelsea Art Museum, ‘Anxiety’, New York USA
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Ameri©an Dre@m’, New York, USA
• Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, ‘Painting Explosion: 1958-1963, Part I’, Austin, USA

2002

• Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany, ‘Leon Golub / Nancy Spero’, Munich, Germany
• The RISD Museum, ‘Crisis Response’, Providence, USA
• Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, ‘Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards’, New York, USA
• Palazzo Reale, ‘New York Renaissance: Masterworks from the Whitney Museum of American Art’, Milan, Italy
• Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, ‘Do it’, San Angel, Mexico

2001

• Brooklyn Museum of Art, ‘Vital Forms’, Brooklyn, USA(Travelling exhibition)
• Modern Chinese Art Foundation, ‘Re-Configuration: Works on Paper’, Gent, Belgium
• Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, ‘Strike! Printmakers as Social Critics’, Portland USA
• Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, ‘Cool and Collected: Recent Contemporary Acquisitions’, Greensboro, USA
• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, ‘Out of the Fifties & Into the Sixties: 6 Figurative Expressionists’, New York USA
• Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, ‘Confrontations’, New Brunswick, USA

2000

• Museum of Modern Art, ‘Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960- 2001’, New York, USA
• Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, ‘The
• Pacific Northwest College of Art, ‘Carnival in the Eye of the Storm War/Art/ New Technologies: Kosov@’, Portland, USA
• Kwangju Biennale 2000, Art and Human Rights Section, Kwangju, Korea
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Chicago Loop: Imagist Art 1949-1979’, Stamford, USA
• The Fabric Workshop, ‘Threads of Dissent’, Philadelphia, USA, (Travelling exhibition)

1999

• International Center of Photography Midtown, ‘To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive’, New York USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Contemporary Art Museum, ‘To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive’, Houston, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, ‘Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965’, Seattle, USA
• Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, ‘Threads of Dissent’, Boston, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Art Gallery of Western Australia, ‘Torn Apart’, Perth, Australia
• Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits’, Vancouver, Canada
• Espai D’art Contemprani de Castello, ‘A Sangre y Fuego. Representations of Violence in Contemporary Art’, Valencia, Spain
• Mass MOCA, ‘Speak Art’ (billboard), North Adams, USA
• Elaine Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, ‘Looking Forward, Looking Back’, Detroit, USA
• Exit Art, ‘The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture 1982-2000’, New York, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century: Art and Culture Part II, 1950-2000’, New York, USA
• Hecksher Museum, ‘Millenium Messages (Time Capsules) ‘, Huntington, USA (Smithsonian Institution travelling exhibition through 2003)

1998

• Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, ‘The Waking Dream: Psychological Realism in Contemporary Art’, New Rochelle, USA
• Berkeley Art Museum, The University of California, ‘Matrix/Berkeley: 20 Years’, Berkeley, USA
• Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, ‘Extensions: Aspects of the Figure’, West Hartford, USA
• Instituto di Storia dell’Arte, ‘Presence of the Greek Myth’, Palermo, Italy
• John Hansard Gallery, The University of Southhampton, ‘Critical Interventions: Evil’, Southampton, England
• Bibliotheque National de France, ‘Regard Noir’, Paris, France

1997

• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Views from Abroad-European Perspectives on American Art 3’, New York USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection’, Chicago, USA
• Independent Curators Incorporated, ‘do it, 1997-2000’, New York, USA
• Printworks, ‘A Game of Chance’, Chicago, USA
• Exit Art, ‘Auto-Portait: The Calligraphy of Power’, New York, USA
• Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, ‘Trends in Post-War Art’, Chicago, USA

1996

• James Graham & Sons, ‘Portraits’, New York, USA
• Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, ’20/20: The Visionary Legacy of Doris Chanin Freedman’, Reading PA, USA
• Milwaukee Art Museum, ‘Milwaukee Art Museum Auction’, Milwaukee, USA
• The Museum of Modern Art, ‘Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95’, New York, USA
• Koplin Gallery, ‘Figure Heads & Red Herrings’, Los Angeles, USA
• Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on the Hudson, ‘Who Do You Think You Are? ‘, New York, USA
• The X-Art Foundation, ‘Blast Art Benefit’, New York, USA
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Withdrawing’, New York, USA
• Edward Thorp Gallery, ‘Epitaphs’, New York, USA
• ACA Galleries, ‘Voices of Conscience’, New York, USA
• The Newark Museum, ‘Art with Conscience’, Newark, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art’, New York, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• National Gallery, ‘Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art’, Washington, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Alexandros Soutzos Museum, ‘Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art’, Athens, Greece (Travelling exhibition)
• Museu d’Art Contemporani, ‘Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art’, Barcelona, Spain (Travelling exhibition)
• Kunstmuseum, ‘Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art’, Bonn, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Art in Chicago 1945-1995’, Chicago, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘In the Shadow of Storms: Art of the Postwar Era’, Chicago USA
• Krasdale Gallery, ‘The Art of Justice: Part II’, White Plains, USA
• Kent Gallery, ‘Golub, Kitaj, Petlin’, New York, USA
• Printworks, ‘Self Portraits, 1996’, Chicago, USA
• Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, ‘Secondary Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995’, Chicago, USA
• Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘Face Value: American Portraits’, Columbus, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Tampa Museum of Art, ‘Face Value: American Portraits’, Tampa USA (Travelling exhibition)

1995

• The Puffin Room, The Puffin Foundation, ‘Justice/Injustice: Art Against Death’, New York, USA
• Lehman College Art Gallery, ‘The Art of Justice, Part II’, Bronx, USA
• Burchfield-Penny Art Center, ‘Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 1975-1995’, Buffalo, USA
• The Parrish Art Museum, ‘Face Value: American Portraits’, Southampton NY (Travelling exhibition)
• ‘Art on Billboards’ Raanana, Israel
• Uffizi Gallery, ‘Risarcimento: Artisti contemporanei gli Uffizi’, Florence, Italy
• Sherry Frumkin Gallery, ‘Remember Yugosliavia’, Santa Monica, USA
• Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, ‘Sniper’s Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard’, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
• Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, ’4 × 1 im Albertium’, Dresden, Germany
• Ramapo College Art Galleries, ‘Ironworks: Directions in Contemporary Cast Iron Sculptures’, Mahwah, USA
• Bergamot Station Arts Center, ‘Murder’, Santa Monica, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Thread Waxing Space, ‘Murder’, New York, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Visual Arts Gallery, Purchase College, State University of New York, ‘Death Penalty: Death of Culture’, Purchase NY
• Milwaukee Art Museum, ’25 Americans: Painting in the 90s’, Milwaukee, USA
• Kunsthalle, ‘Glaube Hoffnung Liebe Tod’, Vienna, Austria
• Stiftung für Konkrete Kunst, ‘Stones and Voices’, Revtlingen, Germany

1994

• Jersey City Museum, ‘States of Loss’, Jersey City, USA
• Kunsthalle, Basel, ‘Welt-Moral’, Basel, Switzerland
• Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, University of California at Los Angeles, ‘The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties (from the Eli Broad Family Foundation) ‘, Los Angeles, USA
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Black Male: Representation of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’, New York USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, ‘Black Male: Representation of Masculinity in Contemporary American Art’, Los Angeles USA (Travelling exhibition)
• National Museum of Fine Arts, ‘As Seen By Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War’, Hanoi, Vietnam (Travelling exhibition)
• Fine Arts Museum, ‘As Seen By Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War’, Ho Chi Minh Trail, Vietnam (Travelling exhibition)
• Fine Arts Center, ‘As Seen By Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War’, Da Nang, Vietnam (Travelling exhibition)
• Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, ’30 Years in the Present Tense’, Ridgefield, USA
• Duke University Museum of Art, ‘Soho in Duke V/Living in Knowledge: an exhibition about questions not asked’, Durham, USA
• Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art’, Cleveland, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Jacksonville Art Museum, ‘Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art’, Jacksonville, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Phoenix Art Museum, ‘Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art’, Phoenix, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• The College of Wooster Art Museum, ‘Prints from Solo Impressions Inc’, Wooster OH
• ‘La Verite Toute Nue’, Cluis, France
• Galerie de L’Ecole Beaux Arts de Lorient, ‘Le Temps du Dessin’, Rennes, France

1993

• National Colloquim Art Exhibition, Ohio Wesleyan University, ‘Visible Outrage’, Delaware, USA
• Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, ‘Twenty- Five Years: Anniversary Retrospective’, Cleveland, USA
• Kunsthalle, ‘The Broken Mirror’, Vienna, Austria (Travelling exhibition)
• Deichtorhallen, ‘The Broken Mirror’, Hamburg, Germany (Travelling exhibition)
• The Corcoran Museum of Art, ‘The 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting’, Washington USA
• Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, ‘On Paper: The Figure in 20th Century American Art’, New York, USA
• Vancouver Art Gallery, ‘Vancouver Collects’, Vancouver, Canada
• Iere Triennial des Ameriques, ‘Presence en Europe 1945-92’, Maubeuge, France
• Alternative Museum, ‘Artists of Conscience’, New York, USA
• Ohio Wesleyan University, ‘Waging War, Waging Peace’, Delaware, USA

1992

• Andalusian Pavillion, Expo ’92, Monasterio de Santa Clara, ‘Americas’, Moguer, Spain
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Parallel Visions: Modern Artists & Outsider Art’, Los Angeles, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ‘Parallel Visions: Modern Artists & Outsider Art’, Madrid, Spain (Travelling exhibition)
• Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Parallel Visions: Modern Artists & Outsider Art’, Basel, Switzerland (Travelling exhibition)
• Setagaya Art Museum, ‘Parallel Visions: Modern Artists & Outsider Art’, Tokyo, Japan (Travelling exhibition)
• B4A Gallery, ‘JFK: Myth and Denial’, New York, USA
• The Maryland Institute College of Art, ‘Beyond Glory’, Baltimore, USA
• Art Institute of Chicago, ‘From America’s Studio (125th Anniversary Exhibition)‘, Chicago, USA
• The Gallery Three Zero, ‘People’, New York, USA
• The Gallery Three Zero, ‘Apocalypse & Resurrection’ (Benefit exhibition for AMFAR), New York, USA

1991

• The Irish Museum of Art, ‘Inheritance & Transformation’, Dublin, Ireland
• The Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties’, Philadelphia, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Newport Harbor Art Museum, ‘Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties’, Newport Beach, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• John Weber Art Gallery, New York, USA
• The Weatherspoon Gallery, ‘The Critical Image’, Greensboro, USA
• Boston University Art Gallery, ‘As Seen by Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War’, Boston, USA
• San Jose Museum of Art, ‘Compassion & Protest: Recent Social & Political Art from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection’, San Jose, USA
• School 33 Art Center, ‘News as Muse’, Baltimore, USA
• Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, USA
• Palo Alto Cultural Center, ‘Responsive Witness’, Pao Alto, USA
• Aldrich Gallery of Contemporary Art, ‘The Art of Advocacy’, Ridgefield, USA
• The New York Academy of Art, ‘Expressive Drawings – European & American Art Through the 20th Century’, New York, USA
• The Alternative Museum, ’16 Years of Social & Political Commentary’, New York, USA
• Renee Fotouhi Fine Art East, ‘JFK in Memoriam: Myth and Denial’, East Hampton, USA
• The Print Club, ‘Crossing Over, Changing Places’, Philadelphia, USA
• Paula Cooper Gallery, ‘Benefit Exhibition for ACT-UP’, New York, USA

1990

• Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, ‘The Decade Show’, New York, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Toward the Future’, Chicago, USA
• Centre International D’Art Contemporain de Montreal, ‘Goya A Beijing’ Quebec, Canada
• Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, ‘The Price of Power’, Cleveland, USA
• Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, ‘Images of Death in Contemporary Art’, Milwaukee, USA
• Stadische Kunsthalle, ’1968-Concrete Utopia in Art and Society’, Dusseldorf, Germany
• City Gallery, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, ‘Issues of Humanity’, New York, USA
• Walters Hall Gallery, Rutgers University, ‘Printed in America’, New Brunswick, USA
• Webo Gallery, ‘Happiness is a Warm Gun’, New York, USA

1989

• Kunstverein, ‘Prospect 89’, Frankfurt, Germany
• Holman Art Gallery, Trenton State College, ‘The Holocaust in Contemporary Art’, Trenton, USA
• Walker Art Center, ‘First Impressions’, Minneapolis, USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, ‘First Impressions’, Purchase USA (Travelling exhibition)
• Center National des Arts Plastiques, ‘Estampes et Revolution 200 Ans Apres’, Paris, France
• Arkansas State University Museum, ‘Art and the Law’, Little Rock, USA
• UMV Museum, ‘L’Heritage Visuel de France’, Milwaukee, USA
• Whatcom Museum of History and Art, ‘A Different War’, Bellingham, USA
• Madison Art Center, ‘Coming of Age’, Madison, USA
• Lesbian and Gay Community Center, ‘The Center Show (Wall Installation) ‘, New York, USA
• Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, ‘Art and the Invisible’, New Brunswick, USA
• Asian American Arts Centre at Blum Helman Warehouse, ‘China: June 4, 1989’, New York, USA
• Greg Kucera Gallery, ‘Taboo’, Seattle, USA
• Cave Canem, ‘Helms Degenerate Art Show’, New York, USA
• Olin Arts Center, Bates College and Maine Coast Artists, ‘The Vinalhaven Press: The First Five Years’, Rockport, USA
• International Exhibition, Artists Against Racism, ‘Fear of Others / La Peur des Autres’, Vancouver, Canada

1988

• Museum of Modern Art, ‘Committed to Print’, New York, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection’, New York, USA
• Exit Art, ‘The Social Club’, New York, USA
• Milwaukee Art Institute, ’1888/1988: Centennial Exhibition; 1988 The World of Art Today’, Milwaukee, USA
• Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Center, ‘Heroics: A Critical View’, Alberta, Canada
• Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, ‘Representing Vietnam 1965-1973’, New York, USA
• Curt Marcus Gallery, ‘Works on Paper’, New York, USA
• Artspace, ‘Rites/Rights’, Peterborough, Canada
• Queen’s Museum, ‘Classical Myth and Imagery in Contemporary Art’, Flushing, USA
• City Without Walls, ‘Uhuru: African and American Art Against Apartheid’, Newark, USA
• Brendan Walter Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, ‘A Bid for Human Rights (Auction for South African Council of Churches’, Los Angeles, USA
• Kent Fine Art, ‘Altered States’, New York, USA
• Otis/Parsons Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, ‘Agit Pop’, Los Angeles, USA
• Randolph Street Gallery, ‘The Whole World is Still Watching’, Chicago, USA
• Group Material, DIA Art Foundation, ‘Democracy: Politics and Election’, New York, USA
• The Print Club, ‘All the News That’s Fit to Print’, Philadelphia, USA
• Embassy Cultural House, London, ‘The Body and Society’, Ontario, Canada
• Vinalhaven Press, ‘Prints as Protest’, New York, USA

1987

• Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
• Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt, Germany
• White Columns, ‘Resistance’, New York, USA
• Fashion Moda, ‘Art Against Apartheid’, New York, USA
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Avant-Garde in the Eighties’, Los Angeles, USA
• University of Illinois, ‘Tragic and the Timeless Today’, Chicago IL
• International Monetary Fund, ‘International Art Show for the End of the World’, Washington, USA
• Grey Art Gallery, New York University, ‘Morality Ties’, New York, USA
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Art Against AIDS’, New York, USA
• Group Material, Temple University, ‘Constitution’, Philadelphia, USA
• US Federal Reserve Board, ‘Artists Who Teach’, Washington, USA
• American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘39th Annual Purchase Exhibition’, New York, USA
• Drew University, ‘Working Drawings’, Madison, USA
• Bard College, ‘Process and Project’, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
• Scott Hanson Gallery, ‘Dealer’s Choice: On Behalf of Artist Against AIDS’, New York, USA
• Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, ‘The Atelier Project’, Purchase, USA
• Schreiber/Cutler, Inc., ‘Crime and Punishment’, New York, USA
• Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Center for the Arts, ‘Romance’, Charlotte, USA
• Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, ‘The 100 Days of Contemporary Art in Montreal’, Quebec, Canada
• PPOW Gallery, All The News That’s Fit to Print, New York, USA
• Group Material, White Columns, ‘Anti-Baudrillard’, New York, USA
• Exit Art, ‘Concrete Crisis, Urban Images of the 80’s’, New York, USA

1986

• Rutgers University, ‘The Bridge and Tunnel Crowd: Rutgers School of Painting’ New Brunswick, USA
• Cento Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, ‘Momento Mori’, Mexico City, Mexico
• Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘State of Art’, London, England
• Telluride Institute, ‘Re-Inventing Politics: Political Art Now’, Telluride, USA
• Center for Idea Art, ‘Image Wars’, Denver, USA
• The Morris Museum, ‘The Potent Image’, Morristown, USA
• One Penn Plaza, ‘Short Stories’, New York, USA
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘New Paintings’, New York, USA
• American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘38th Annual Purchase Exhibition’, New York, USA
• The Freedman Gallery, Albright College, ‘The First Decade’, Reading, USA
• Kent Fine Art, ‘American Myths’, New York, USA
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘The Law & Order Show’, New York, USA
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, ‘Painting and Sculpture Today’, Indianapolis, USA
• The Art Institute of Chicago, ‘75th American Exhibition’, Chicago, USA
• New York Studio School, ‘Narration Drawing’, New York, USA
• Museo del Chopo, ‘En Camino’, Mexico City, Mexico
• One Penn Plaza, ‘Monumental Space Variations’, New York, USA
• University Center Gallery, Adelphi University, ‘The Engaged Image: Social Consciousness in Contemporary Art’, Garden City, USA
• Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, ‘Ironies of Freedom: Violent America’, Hempstead, USA
• Hugh Piney Gallery, ‘Is There Synchronicity’, New York, USA
• Museum of Art, ‘An American Renaissance’, Fort Lauderdale, USA

1985

• Royal Festival Hall, ‘The Other America’, London, England
• Royal Festival Hall, ‘Artists Against Apartheid’, London, England
• City Gallery, ‘ABC No Rio Benefit Exhibition’, New York, USA
• Joe Fawbush Editions, ‘Works on Paper’, New York, USA
• American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, ‘37th Annual Hassam and Speicher Fund Exhibition’, New York, USA
• Ronald Feldman Gallery, ‘Fashion Moda Benefit Exhibition’, New York, USA
• Arizona Sanctuary Defense Fund Exhibit and Auction, Tucson,, USA
• Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, ‘The Political Landscape’, New Brunswick, USA
• Midtown Art Center, ‘Propaganda, Too! ‘, Houston, USA
• Larry Gagosian Gallery, ‘Actual Size’, Los Angeles, USA
• McIntosh Drysdale Gallery, ‘Celebration 1977-1985’, Washington, USA
• The Harcus Gallery, ‘Figuration Today: Major Paintings’, Boston, USA
• Paul Robeson Cultural Center, Pennsylvania State University, ‘Art Against Apartheid’, Pennsylvania, USA
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, ‘Save Life on Earth’, Travelling from Budapest, Hungary through Europe, Japan and Australia
• Alternative Museum, ‘Disinformation’, New York, USA
• Seattle Art Museum, ‘State of War: New European and American Painting’, Seattle, USA
• PS 1, ‘El Arte Narrativo y Pintura Mexicana’, New York, USA
• Russell Senate Office Building, ‘West 85: Art & the Law’, Washington, USA
• PADD, Judson Church Gallery, ‘State of Mind, State of the Union’, New York, USA
• Art City, ‘Male Sexuality: Expressions’, New York, USA
• Michael Katz Gallery, ‘The Show Room’, New York, USA
• La Villette, ‘Nouvelle Biennale de Paris’, Paris, France
• Payne Gallery, Moravian College, ‘Contemporary Narrative Painting’, Bethlehem, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Americana’, New York, USA
• LA louver, ‘American/European Painting and Sculpture 1985’, Los Angeles USA
• Barbara Gladstone Gallery, ‘Social Studies’, New York, USA

1984

• Judson Church, ‘Artists Call Against American Intervention in Central America’, New York, USA
• Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College Center, ‘Art as Social Conscience’, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA
• Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, ’1+1=2’, New York, USA
• Queensborough Community College, ‘Art and Politics’, Queens, USA
• Cash Gallery, New York, USA
• Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, ‘Beauties and Beasts’ New York, USA
• Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS 1, ‘The New Portrait’, Long Island City, USA
• Tower Gallery, ‘Body Politic’, New York, USA
• Ohio University, ‘Chicago Cross Sections’ Athens, USA
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘Biennial III, The Human Condition’, San Francisco, USA
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, ‘Content: A Contemporary Focus’, Washington, USA
• ROSC ’84, ‘The Poetry of Vision’, Dublin, Ireland
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Alternative Spaces: A History in Chicago’, Chicago, USA
• Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, ‘Confrontations’, Seattle, USA
• Studio Museum in Harlem, ‘Tradition and Conflict: Images of a Turbulent Decade: 1963-1973’, New York, USA
• Museo Tamayo, ‘La Narrativa Internacional de Hoy’, Mexico City, Mexico
• Henry Street Settlement,, ‘Art Against Apartheid’, New York, USA
• Ted Greenwald Gallery, ‘Artists’ Weapons’, New York, USA
• ABC No Rio, ‘Vote/Veto’, New York, USA

1983

• Protech McNeil Gallery, ‘Big Paintings’, New York, USA
• Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Brave New Works: Recent American Painting and Drawing’, Boston, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art, ’1983 Biennial’, New York, USA
• Whitney Museum of American Art at Federal Hill National Memorial, ‘Portraits on a Human Scale’, New York, USA
• Center Gallery, Bucknell University, ‘Faces Since the Fifties-A Generation of American Portraiture’, Lewisburg, USA
• State University of New York at Stony Brook, ‘The War Show’, Stony Brook, USA
• Institute for Art and Urban Resources at PS 1, ‘It Was a Time for Anger’, Long Island City, USA
• Institute for Art and Urban Resources at PS 1, ‘Art Couples: Leon Golub & Nancy Spero’, Long Island City, USA
• Queensborough Community College, ‘Walls of the Seventies’, Queens, USA
• Carnegie Mellon Institute, ‘New York Painting Today’, Pittsburgh, USA
• Protech McNeil Gallery, ‘Portraits for the 80’s’, New York, USA
• Contemporary Arts Center, ‘Sex and Violence’, New Orleans, USA
• Nexus Gallery, ‘What Artists Have to Say About Nuclear War’, Atlanta, USA
• 714 South Dearborn, ‘Chicago Artists: Continuity and Change’, Chicago, USA
• Danceteria, ‘Resistance Festival for Nicaraguan Artists’, New York, USA
• University of Vermont, Artists for Nuclear Disarmament , Burlington, USA
• Artists’ Choice Museum Exhibition at Marisa del Re, ‘Bodies and Souls’, New York, USA
• Signet Arts, ‘Drawings and Heads of State’, St. Louis, USA
• Harborside Industrial Center, ‘Terminal New York Exhibit’, Brooklyn, USA
• American Academy of Arts and Letters, ‘Hassam & Speicher Fund Purchase Exhibition’, New York USA
• Tweed Arts Group, ‘Peace on Earth: Pastorals and Politics’, Plainfield, USA
• Newcastle Polytechnic Gallery, ‘New Work New York: Newcastle Salutes New York’, Newcastle, England

1982

• Rutgers University, ‘Realism & Realities: The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960’, New Brunswick, USA
• Marilyn Pearl Gallery, ‘American Figurative Expressionism 1950-1960’, New York, USA
• Aldrich Museum, ‘Homo Sapiens’, Ridgefield, USA
• Randolph Street Gallery, ‘Mixing Art and Politics’, Chicago, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Selections from the Dennis Adrian Collection’, Chicago, USA
• Indianapolis Museum of Art, ‘Painting and Sculpture Today’, Indianapolis, USA
• Parsons School of Design, ‘Dangerous Works’, New York, USA
• Henry Street Settlement, ‘Beyond Aesthetics’, New York, USA
• Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, ‘Atomic Salon’, New York, USA
• Taller Latinoamericano, ‘Luchar!’, New York, USA
• Dayton Art Institute, ‘New Portraits: Behind Faces’, Dayton, USA
• Art Galaxy, ‘Four Artists’, New York, USA
• Gowanus Memorial Award, ‘The Monument Redefined’, New York, USA
• Catherine Street Artists Project, ‘Angry Art’, New York, USA
• Galerie France Morin, ‘Photographies d’Artistes’, Montreal, Canada

1981

• Illinois Arts Council Gallery, ‘20th Century Prints’, Chicago, USA
• Hallwalls, ‘Figures: Forms and Expressions’, Buffalo, USA
• International Running Center, ‘Running’, New York, USA
• Art Museum of Southwest Texas /Corpus Christi, University of South Dakota, ‘Figure in American Art’, Midland TX / Vermillion, USA
• Institute for Art and Urban Resources at PS 1, ‘Heads’, Long Island City, USA
• Chrysler Museum, ‘Crimes of Compassion’, Norfolk, USA
• Bard College, Annandale-on- ‘Realism’, Hudson, USA

1980

• Chrysler Museum, ‘American Figurative Painting 1950-1980’, Norfolk, USA
• Wright State University, ‘Art of Conscience, The Last Decade’, Dayton, USA
• Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, ‘Art and the Law’, Minneapolis, USA
• Contemporary Art Workshops, ‘30th Anniversary Exhibit’, Chicago, USA
• Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, ‘Mavericks (Aspects of the Seventies) ‘, Waltham, USA
• Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, ‘The George Irwin Collection’, Champaign, USA

1979

• National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, ‘Koffler Foundation Collection’, Washington, USA
• State University College at Potsdam, ‘Political Comment in Contemporary Art’, Potsdam, USA
• City College of New York, ‘Harlem Renaissance Exhibit III’, New York, USA
• Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Centennial Exhibition’ Chicago, USA

1978

• N.A.M.E. Gallery, Collection for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
• University of Michigan, ‘Chicago: The City and It’s Artists’, Ann Arbor, USA
• Eagleton Institute, Rutgers University, ‘Conference on Human Rights’, New Brunswick, USA

1977

• Cayman Gallery, ‘Memorial to Orlando Letelier’, New York, USA
• Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, ‘Recent Portraits’, Chicago, USA
• 55 Mercer Street, ‘Invitational’, New York, USA
• Centre Georges Pompidou (Centre Beaubourg), ‘Paris-New York’, Paris, France

1976

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ‘Visions: Distinguished Alumni Exhibition, 1945 to Present’, Chicago, USA
• Grey Art Gallery, New York University, ‘Project to Rebuild’, New York, USA
• 41st International Eucharistic Congress, ‘Exhibition of Liturgical Art’, Philadelphia, USA
• Westbeth Galleries, ‘A Decade of American Political Posters: 1965-1975’, New York, USA
• National Academy of Design, ‘150th Annual’, New York NY
• University of Texas, ‘The Michener Collection: American Painting of the 20th Century’, Austin, USA

1975

• Onnasch Gallery, ‘Artists for Amnesty’, New York NY

1974

• Pratt Graphic Center Gallery, ‘Continuing Graphic Protest… and the Grand Tradition’, New York NY
• ‘Viva Chile’, Paris, France

1973

• Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, ‘Graphics Exhibition’, Chicago, USA
• Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, USA
• Bergman Gallery, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
• American Academy of Arts and Letters, National Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
• Fine Arts Center, New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA

1972

• New York Cultural Center, ‘Collage of Indignation’, New York, USA
• Woburn Abbey, ‘Bertrand Russell Centenary Year Exhibition’, Woburn Park, England
• Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Chicago Imagist Art’, Chicago, USA
• ‘International Art Manifesto for the Defense of Political Prisoners’, Berkeley, USA

1971

• Kent State University and Blossom, ‘Blossom-Kent Festival’, Kent, USA

1970

• Virginia Museum, ‘American Painting’, Richmond, USA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, ‘Peace Exhibition’, Philadelphia, USA
• Judson Memorial Church, ‘Flag Show’, New York, USA

1969

• New York State Council on the Arts, ‘Critic’s Choice’, New York, USA
• Avigion Arts Festival, ‘L’oeil Eccoute’, Avignon, France
• II Bienial International del Deporte en las Bellas Arte’, Madrid, Spain

1968

• Feigen Gallery, ‘Mayor Richard Daley’, Chicago, USA
• Colgate University, ’10 Downtown’, New York, USA
• Nihon Gallery, ‘Art and Liberation’, Tokyo, Japan
• Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘The Obsessive Image, 1960-68’, London, England
• Illinois Music Festival, ‘The Native’s Return’, Ravena, USa

1967

• Smithsonian Institute, ‘Sources for Tomorrow’, Washington, USA
• New York University, ‘Collage of Indignation’, New York, USA
• University of Washington, ‘Drawings by 13 Americans’, Seattle, USA
• Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
• Musee d’Art Moderne, ‘Le Monde en Question’, Paris, France

1966

• Virgina Museum, ‘American Painting’, Richmond, USA
• Los Angeles Peace Tower, Los Angeles, USA
• Musee des Augustins, ‘USA: Art Vivant’, Toulouse, France
• Public Education Association, Cordier-Ekstrom Gallery, ’7 Decades of Modern Art’, New York, USA

1965

• Museo Civico, ‘II Presente Contestato’, Bologna, Italy
• American Federation of Arts, ‘Mythologigues Quotidiennes’, New York, USA
• Pennsylvania Academy, ‘161st Annual’, Philadelphia, USA
• University of Illinois, ‘American Exhibition’, Urbana, USA

1964

• Musee d’Art Moderne, ‘Mythologigues Quotidiennes’, Paris, France
• Fine Arts Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, New York, USA
• Documenta III, Kassel, Germany
• University of Kentucky, ‘Graphics 1963’, Lexington, USA
• Pennsylvania Academy, ‘160th Annual’, Philadelphia, USA
• Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA

1963

• University of Nebraska, ‘American Exhibition’, Lincoln, USA
• University of Illinois, ‘American Exhibition’, Urbana, USA
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ‘New Directions’, San Francisco, USA
• Tate Gallery, Beaverbrook Art Gallery, ‘Dunn International’, New Brunswick, Canada
• Woburn Abbey, ‘Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation Exhibition’, Woburn Park, England
• Abbey St. Pierre, ‘Forum’, Ghent, Belgium
• Musee d’Art Moderne, ‘Realities Nouvelles’, Paris, France

1962

• Museum of Modern Art, ‘The Figure’, New York, USA
• Galerie Iris Clert, ‘La Piccolo Bienale’, Venice, Italy
• University of Iowa, ‘Six Decades of the Figure in American Painting’, Iowa City, USA
• San Paolo Biennele, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• Art Institute of Chicago, ‘65th American Exhibition’, Chicago, USA
• Galerie du Dragon, ‘Huit Artistes de Chicago’, Paris, France

1961

• Academy of Fine Arts, ‘Second Annual Biennial’, Mexico City, Mexico
• American Federation of Arts, ‘Larry Aldrich Collection’, New York, USA
• University of Nebraska, ‘American Exhibition’, Lincoln, USA
• University of Illinois, ‘American Exhibition’, Urbana, USA
• American Federation of Arts, ‘Private Worlds’, New York, USA

1960

• University of Nebraska, ‘American Exhibition’, Lincoln, USA

1959

• Museum of Modern Art, ‘New Images of Man’, New York, USA
• Baltimore Museum of Art, ‘Museum Director’s Choice’, Baltimore, USA
• Art Institute of Chicago, ‘63rd American Exhibition’, Chicago, USA

1958

• Arts Club, ‘Surrealist and Dada Sculpture’, Chicago, USA

1957

• University of Nebraska, ‘American Exhibition’, Lincoln, USA
• University of Illinois, ‘American Exhibition’, Urbana, USA

1956

• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Annual Exhibition’, New York, USA

1955

• Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Annual Exhibition’, New York, USA

1954

• Walker Arts Center, ‘Expressionism, 1900-1950’, Minneapolis, USA
• Art Institute of Chicago, ‘61st American Exhibition’, Chicago, USA
• Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, USA
• Guggenheim Museum, ‘Younger American Painters’, New York, USA

1953

• Salzburg, Vienna, ‘International Exhibition of Modern Graphics’, Linz, Austria

1948

• Roosevelt College, ‘Exhibition Momentum’, Chicago, USA

1947

• School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ‘First Veterans Annual’, Chicago, USA

close

José María Mellado (1966) lives and works in Madrid, Spain.

José Maria Mellado is one of the most fascinating digital landscape photographers, and interested in the evolution of the relation between nature and the human footprint. He photographs places, that are often now becoming unaffected, giving a perverse and ambiguous appearance, indefinable, yet attractive and seductive.

He masters the digital technology and uses it to achieve the scenery that he literally wishes : an optical enhanced image. He transforms his images, of course, but with a certain understanding. He doesn’t add disparate elements from nature to his images, but artificially underlines present visual elements by subtly adjusting light and tonality.

His interventions approximate the edge of the perception, so his photographs are sublime images. The romantic painters from the 19th century (Caspar David Friedrich …) combined disparate elements from nature in their paintings to produce their sublime images : the Romantic Sublime, with its emphasis on rendering exalted, spiritual landscapes. Mellado is developing a new different conception, his images are only made possible digitally, they are as real and powerful to us as anything the Romantics ever produced. Mellado proves that photography can really be “the new painting” and that he is a poet of the digital sublime who uses enhanced techniques to express his art.

His interventions are deliberated with the purpose of guiding the spectator’s reading, so his photographs are emphatic images. This emphasis is useful to dramatise apparently insubstantial visions. He looks more to express motives and contrast, not only in light and tonality, but also in the significant components of the image, so ruined, abandoned or lacking use are descriptions closer to his themes than the classical romantic idea of ‘ruin’, interpreted as the monument’s deterioration.

His images are sublime, seductive, emphatic, surprising, sometimes disturbing ..., but not documentary or anecdotal.

He received many awards , his work is represented in many important museum and private collections.

Solo exhibitions

2016

• “Closer”, Museo de Cádiz , Cádiz
• “Mirar a los ojos”, Galería Enlace, Lima, Perú
• LimaPhoto 2016, Galería Enlace, Lima, Perú
• “Elección Personal” , FBO Madrid
• “Closer”, CajaGranada Fundación , Granada.

2015

• “Closer / De cerca”, Centro Andaluz de la Fotografía, Almería
• Art Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, Colonia
• Selección, Galería Luz Botero. Panamá

2014

• “The Thought that Counts”, Elipsis Gallery
• “Selección”, Spain Art OpenHouse. Salamanca
• “La fotografía en la colección del Parlamento de Extremadura”
• Palacio de Camarena. Cáceres
• Art Cologne, Galerie Boisserée, Colonia
• Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Boisserée, Colonia
• “Cambiando Vidas”, Galería Luz Botero

2013

• Bienal del Sur en Panamá
• “Encuentro y Diálogo” Colecc. Artes Visuales. Parlam. y Gob. de Extremadura
• Art Cologne, Galerie Boisserée
• “Encuentro y Diálogo”MEIAC, Badajoz
• Art Karlsruhe, Galerie Boisserée, Colonia
• “In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present”
• ALTANA Art Foundation. Bad Homburg

2012

• ‘Enigmatic Landscapes’, Elipsis Gallery. Istambul, Turkey
• ‘José Maria Mellado, Photographie’, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany

2011

• “Jose Maria Mellado – Landscapes”. Galerie Sandrine Mons. Nice, France

2010

• ‘Landscape. The Eternal Return’, Galeria Tomas March, Valencia, Spain
• Boisserée Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2009

• “Landscape. The Eternal Return”. Centro Cultural, Tomás y Valiente. Fuenlabrada
• “Landscape. The Eternal Return” . Fundación Metrópoli. Alcobendas
• “Wide Angles – Landscapes Through a Lens”, Global Art Source. Zürich, Switserland
• “Fotografias”. Crown Gallery. Brussels, Belgium
• “Landscape. The Eternal Return” . Biblioteca Miguel Delibes. Collado Villalba
• “Fotografías”. Caja Mágica. Blanca Berlín Gallery
• “Islandia”. Full Art Gallery. Sevilla
• “Landscape. The Eternal Return” . Iglesia de Santa Lucía. Sevilla
• “Landscape. The Eternal Return” . Centro Cultural José Saramago. Leganés
• “Fotografias”. Galeria Pinacoteca de La Aduana. Colombia
• “El Silencio y la Luz” . Museo de Arte del Tolima (MAT). Colombia
• ‘El Silencio y la Luz’, Fototeca de Cuba
• “El Silencio y la Luz”. Universidad de Magdalene. Colombia

2008

• “Landscape. The Eternal Return”. Centro Municipal de las Artes. Alcorcon
• "Islandia/Iceland/Island”. New works” . Ana Vilaseco Gallery, A Coruña
• “Silence and Light” Fotología 6. Club Nogal Gallery- Bogotá, Colombia
• “Ron con Hielo”. Blanca Berlín Gallery, Madrid

2007

• Photo Miami. María Llanos Gallery
• “El Silencio y la Luz”, Medellín, Colombia
• “ El silencio y la luz”. Centro Arte Moderno Almería
• “En Tránsito”. Llucià Homs Gallery
• “Iceland”. Estiarte Gallery

2006

• “Fotografías”. María Llanos Gallery
• “noXido”. Bodegas Osborne, Malpica de Tajo.

2005

• “noXido”. Tomás March Gallery. Valencia
• “Catedrales de Metal”. 4 17 Gallery. Madrid
• “La Huella Humana en el Paisaje”. Fundación Bancaja Castellón

2003

• “Miradas desde el AVE”. María Llanos Gallery. Cáceres

2002

• “El Reportaje Estético”. Sala Diafragma. Córdoba
• Exposición en Posada del Potro. Córdoba

2001

• “Instantes”. Auditorio Maestro Padilla. Almería
• “Instantes”. Centro Cultural Galileo. Madrid

2000

• Día del Niño. Amnistía Internacional. Ateneo de Madrid
• Otoño Fotográfico 1999. “Paisaje y Paisanaje” C.C. Luis Gonzaga. Madrid

1999

• “Paisaje y Paisanaje”. Auditorio Maestro Padilla. Almería

1998

• “Homo Urbanus III”. Real Sociedad Fotográfica
• “Homo Urbanus II”. Liceo de Ourense

1997

• “Homo Urbanus”. Sala de Cultura Unicaja de Málaga
• “Homo Urbanus”. Sala de Cultura Unicaja. Almería

1996

• “Metrópolis” en Agrupación Fotográfica de Guadalajara
• “Guadalajara y sus gentes”. Agrupación Fotográfica de Guadalajara
• ‘Metropolis’, Madrid

Selected group exhibitions

2017

• “Una Historia Posible – Colección de Fotografía Alcobendas” – Avilés (Asturias)

2016

• The emotion of Photography Colección Alcobendas (Pamplona - Navarra)
• Creation of the Contemporary Landscape , DKV Centro de Arte de Alcobendas (Madrid)

2015

• Lima Photo Enlace Arte Contemporáneo Gallery (Perú)

2014

• Bienal del Sur en Panamá
• “Encuentro y Diálogo”,Colecciones de artes visuales del Parlamento y del Gobierno de Extremadura
• Santa Cruz Museum, Toledo, Spain
• Art Cologne , Galerie Boisserée
• “Encuentro y Diálogo”, Colecciones de artes visuales del Parlamento y del Gobierno de Extremadura
• MEIAC, Badajoz
• Art Karlsruhe. Galerie Boisserée
• “In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present”, ALTANA Art Foundation. Bad Homburg.

2013

• Bienal del Sur en Panamá
• “Encuentro y Diálogo” , Colecciones de artes visuales del Parlamento y del Gobierno de Extremadura , Museo de Santa Cruz, Toledo
• Art Cologne. Galerie Boisserée
• “Encuentro y Diálogo” Colecciones de artes visuales del Parlamento y del Gobierno de Extremadura , MEIAC , Badajoz
• Art Karlsruhe. Galerie Boisserée

2012

• Contemporary Istambul , Elipsis Gallery, Istanbul
• “La Tierra Más Hermosa. Cuba
• ”Casa de América. Madrid
• Art Brussels., Crown Gallery, Brussels
• Art Cologne., Galerie Boisserée, Cologne
• “La Tierra Más Hermosa. Cuba”, Museo Nacional Bellas Artes. La Havana
• “Urbscapes, Espacios de Hibridación” , Art Center Plataforma Revólver, Lisboa
• ‘Emphatic Images’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ‘Mundos Propios’, Fundacion Valentin De Madariaga, Sevilla, Spain
• “In the limelight of the Infinite. Romanticism and the Present“, ALTANA Art Foundation, Bad Homburg, Germany

2011

• ‘La travesía de una Colección. Los Bragales’, Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain
• ‘La Tierra Mas Hermosa, Cuba’, Museo Nacional de las Artes, Havana, Cuba
• "Urbscapes, Espacios de Hibridacion". Centro de las Artes, Alcorcón, Spain
• "Urbscapes: Espacios de Hibridación". Sala EFTI, Madrid , Spain
• “Urbscapes, Espacios de Hibridación” Art Center Plataforma Revólver, Lisbon, Portugal
• Scope Basel. Crown Gallery, Basel, Switserland
• Art Amsterdam, Crown Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
• MadridFoto, Crown Gallery, Madrid Spain
• Art Brussels, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Art Cologne, Boisserée Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2010

• “Human Territories”, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• “Madrid, Oh Cielos”, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
• “Urbscapes, Espacios de Hibridacion, Universidad Politecnica, Valencia, Spain
• ARCO 10, Tomas March Gallery, Valencia, Spain
• Next, Chicago, Galeria Full Ar, USA
• ART BRUSSELS, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• ART AMSTERDAM, Crown Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
• SCOPE MIAMI, Crown Gallery, Miami, USA

2009

• Collection II. Tea Tenerife, Spain
• MadridFoto 09. Fernando Pradilla and Blanca Berlín Galleries. Madrid, Spain
• “17 Milagroso. Babalú Ayé”. Casa de América. Madrid, Spain
• “Objetivo 18 - 28. IES Puerta Bonita. 10 Años Mirando”
• Círculo de Bellas Artes. Madrid, Spain
• ARCO 09. Tomás March and LLucià Homs Galleries.Madrid, Spain
• Scope Miami, Crown Gallery, Miami, USA

2008

• Photo Miami. Full Art Gallery, Miami, USA
• “El Espacio Compartido”. Fuenlabrada
• XV years of the “Géneros y Tendencias” Collection
• Ayuntamiento de Alcobendas
• Arte Lisboa 08. María LLanos Gallery. Lisboa
• Art. Valencia. Tomás March and María LLanos Galleries
• “Estampa 08”. Galería Blanca Berlín. Madrid
• “Nuevas Historias”. Spanish Contemorary Photography. Kulturhuset, Stockholm
• “YOUniverse”. III Bienal Internacional de Arte
• Contemporáneo (BIACS). La Cartuja. Sevilla (Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
• “Espacio - Tiempo”. Full Art Gallery. Sevilla
• “Inicial 08”. Iniciarte Collection. Junta de Andalucía. Sevilla
• Lenguajes de Papel”. CIRCA XX Collection. Pilar Citoler
• ArteSantander. María Llanos and Ana Vilaseco Galleries
• “La Nada”. Espacio Escala. Arte Cajasol Collection. Sevilla
• “Adquisiciones Recientes”. ARTIUM, Centro-MuseoVasco de Arte Contemporáneo. Bilbao
• “Janus. Photography’s Double Face”.Works from the Permanent Collection. Reina Sofia NationalMuseum. Madrid, Spain
• “Babylon”. BAC! Festival de Arte Contemporáneo.Barcelona, Spain
• “Babylon”. AVA Gallery. Madrid
• Forosur. Cáceres. Tomás March and María Llanos Galleries
• Art Salamanca. Tomás March and María Llanos Galleries
• Valencia Art. Tomás March and Maria Llanos Galleries
• A.R.C.O. Madrid. Tomás March Gallery and Fundación Unicaja

2007

• Arte Lisboa. María Llanos Gallery
• FoRoSur. Tomás March and María Llanos Gallerie
• Foto. Estiarte and Tomás March Galleries
• Arte Santander. María Llanos Gallery
• Valencia.Art. Tomás March Gallery
• A.R.C.O. Estiarte, Llucià Homs and Tomás March Galleries

2006

• Exposición Colectiva. Estiarte Gallery. Madrid
• Bienal de Arte Contemporáneo. Centro Municipal delas Artes de Alcorcón
• Art Salamanca 2006. Tomás March y Maria Llanos Gallery
• Valencia Art. Tomás March y Maria Llanos Gallery
• ArtBasel. Tomás March Gallery
• Arte Santander. María Llanos Gallery
• Arte Lisboa. María Llanos Gallery
• A.R.C.O. Tomás March Gallery

2005

• Arte Lisboa. María Llanos Gallery
• Art Salamanca 05. Tomás March and María Llanos Gallery
• DFOTO. Tomás March Gallery
• VALENCIA.ART. Tomás March Gallery
• A.R.C.O. María Llanos Gallery
• Arte Lisboa. María Llanos Gallery. Lisboa
• Art Salamanca. María Llanos and Tomás March Gallery
• Arte Santander. María Llanos Gallery

Selected awards

• Premios Iniciarte 2008 a la Actividad Artística de Creación Contemporánea en Andalucía. Candidate nominated.
• Premios Lux. 2005 y 2006. Seis Lux oro y 2 Lux plata Certamen Fotográfico “Desde la Muralla”. Lugo
• 2ª Premio Salón de Otoño de la Asociación Española de Pintores y Escultores. Premio de Honor. 2004
• Premio ABC de Pintura y Fotografía. 2º Premio en 2004, accésit en 2003 y Mención de Honor en 2002
• Purificación García. Finalista 2003
• Certamen L’Oreal de Artes Plásticas. Finalista 2002 y 2003
• Certamen Internacional de Fotografía Contemporánea Valdepeñas. Mención de Honor 2003.
• XIII Certamen de Artes Plásticas de la UNED. Premio 2003
• XLII Certamen de Artes Plásticas Caja San Fernando. Premio 2003
• IX Concurso Internacional de Fotografía “Ciudad de Cieza”. Premio de Honor, 2003
• Premio Unicaja de Fotografía. Premio de Honor en 1998, 2º Premio en 2001 y Accésit en 1995 y 1996.
• V Certamen de Artes Plásticas “El Brocense”, Diputación de Cáceres. 1er Premio, 2002
• International CANON Digital Creators Contest. Honorary Mention, 2002
• V Premio Parque Nacional de Cabo de Gata. 1er Premio en 2001 y 2002
• Certamen Nacional de Fotografía de Tomelloso. Primer Premio, 2002
• Certamen de Fotografía Mapfre-Finisterre Seguros. 2º Premio, 2002 Cesar Augusto. 1er Premio, 2002
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Granada. Premio de Honor Alonso Cano, 2002
• XIV Concurso “Ciudad de Córdoba” Super Mezquita”. Premio de Honor, 2002
• XL Concurso Nacional “Abeja de Oro” de Guadalajara. Premio de Honor, 1996

Selected collections

• DKV Collection. Permanent Collection Denia (Alicante, Spain)
• ALTANA Art Collection. Bad Homburg
• Borusan Contemporary. Permanent Collection. Istanbul
• Colección Alcobendas
• Fundación Coca-Cola
• Sociedad Estatal Para Exposiciones Internacionales
• Reina Sofia National Museum. Permanent Collection.Madrid, España
• Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art. Permanent Collection. Sevilla
• TEA. Tenerife Espacio de las Artes. Colección II
• Chazen Museum of Arts. Wisconsin, USA
• Pilar Citoler’s “CIRCA XX” Collection. Córdoba
• ARTIUM. Vasconian Museum for Contemporary Art.Vitoria-Gasteiz
• Cantabria Government Contemporary Art Collection. Cantabria
• Madrid County Contemporary Art Collection. Madrid
• U.N.E.D. Contemporary Art Collection. Madrid
• Caja San Fernando Contemporary Art Collection.San Fernando (Cádiz)
• Fundación El Monte Art Collection. Huelva
• Cajasol Art Collection. Huelva
• Fundación Unicaja Ar Collection. Málaga
• “El Brocense” Contemporary Art Museum. Cáceres
• Extremadura Assembly Contemporary Art Collection. Cáceres
• Colección de Arte de la Asociación Española de Pintoresy Escultores. AEPE. Madrid
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Granada Collection.Granada

Selected publications

2012

• “From Heaven to Earth ”Sandrine Mons, Boisserée, Elipsis.

2011

• “Fotografía de Alta Calidad. CS5”Editorial Artual. Barcelona

2010

• “Fotografía de Alta Calidad. CS4”Editorial Artual. Barcelona

2008

• “Islandia/Iceland/Island”
• Ana Vilaseco Gallery
• “Landscape. The Eternal Return”
• Centro Municipal de las Artes de Alcorcón

2007

• “Silence and Light”. Centro de Arte Museo de Almería

2006

• “NOXIDO”. Fundación Osborne. Toledo

2005

• “Fotografía Digital de Alta Calidad”. 5ª Ed. Editorial Artual. Barcelona
• “La Fotografía Digital es Fácil”. Epson. BCN
• Periodical publications in the digital magazine “Fotocultura”

2004

• Espasa Photography Encyclopae. Editorial Espasa
• Royal Photographic Society History 100 Spanish Photographers. Editorial EXIT

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Nancy Spero (1926–2009) is a leading figure in the feminist art movement of the 1960s.

In her well-known ‘War paintings’ (1966 – 1970) in gouache and ink on paper, produced during the Vietnam years, she explored the atrocities of war as well as female sexuality, suffering, and heroism.

"I have deliberately attempted to distance my art from the Western emphasis on the subjective portrayal of individuality by using a hand-printing and collage technique utilizing zinc plates as an artist's tool instead of a brush or palette knife. Figures derived from various cultures co-exist in simultaneous time... The figures themselves could become hieroglyphs--extensions of a text denoting rites of passage, birth to old age, motion and gesture... Woman as activator or protagonist dancing in procession, elegiac or celebrator a continuous presence, engaged directly or glimpsed peripherally; the eye, as a moving camera, scans the re-imaging of women." (Nancy Spero)

In her later work, she will use her hand-printing and collage technique on handmade paper.

Nancy Spero was married to Leon Golub.

Solo exhibitions since 1987

2016

• Punta della Dogana di Mare, Venise - ITALIE

2015

• Slip of the Tongue, Punta della Dogana, Venice Biennale Venice, Italy
• Towards Liberation, VCUArts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, USA

2014

• The Sensory War 1914 – 2014, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, England
• In Camera, Le Cartel, Marseille, France

2013

• Nancy Spero: Towards Liberation, VCUarts Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA, USA
• Nancy Spero: Cri du Coeur, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, USA
• The Body, International Cantre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slowenia
• From Victimage to Liberation: Works from the 1980s & 1990s, Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, USA

2012

• Nancy Spero: The Rebirth, HELLERAU - European Center for the Arts, Dresden, Germany

2011

• Nancy Spero, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
• Works from the 1980s, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany

2010

• Nancy Spero Retrospective, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Woman in Motion, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

2009

• Un Coup de Dent, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA
• Nancy Spero,Woman as Protagonist, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
• Blue, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome, Italy

2008

• Nancy Spero. Dissidances, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain. Traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain
• Nancy Spero - Eylem Aladogan. 20 Years of the Barbara Gross Gallery, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• Spero Speaks, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Holland

2007

• Autour d`Antonin Artaud, FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
• The Paris Black Paintings, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France

2005

• Cri du Coeur, Galerie Lelong, New York, USA

2004

• Nancy Spero - Weighing the Heart Against a Feather of Truth, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2003

• Nancy Spero, Galerie Filomena Soares, Lisabon, Portugal
• OtherWorlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Baltic Mill Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England
• Poem to Isis, Banner installation, Art of the Ancient World, Egyptian Section, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
• The War Series, Galerie Lelong, New York. Traveled through 2004 to Galerie Lelong Paris, Paris, France

2002

• Azur, Galerie Lelong, New York, New York, USA
• Nancy Spero: A Continuous Present, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
• Nancy Spero: The First Language, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA

2001

• True Grit: Seven Female Visionaries Before Feminism, The Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, USA
• New Works, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• Codex Artaud, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Traveled through 2004 to several venues
• Nancy Spero and Leon Golub: Prints 1950 – 2001, The Print Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Sheela Does Ramapo, Berrie Center, Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, New Jersey, USA
• Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver , Canada

2000

• Black and the Red III, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Sheela Does Fredericksburg, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Pennsylvania, USA
• Sheela-Na-Gigs and Nancy Spero, Hiestand Galleries, School of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA

1998

• Black and the Red III, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France
• Nancy Spero, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Nancy Spero, inaugural exhibition and wall installation, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, England
• Nancy Spero NEUE ARBEITEN, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela

1997

• DOCUMENTA X, Kassel, Germany

1996

• Cycle in Time, New York Kunsthalle, New York, New York, USA
• Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
• Leon Golub • Nancy Spero - Contemporaries, The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
• Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Hiroshima Prize Retrospective Exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art , Hiroshima, Japan
• Black and the Red III , Sheela at Home, joint exhibition at P.P.O.W and Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA

1995

• Notes In Time: Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Cantonsville, Maryland, USA
• A Cycle in Time: Nancy Spero, Update Leon Golub, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
• Nancy Spero, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany

1994

• Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, New York
• War and Memory: Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Retrospective, The American Center, Paris France. Traveled through 1996 to MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
• Nancy Spero : The First Language and The Black and the Red, Malmö Konsthall , Malmö, Sweden
• Inside the Visible, Nancy Spero, Kunststiching Kanaal Art Foundation, Kortrijk, Belgium
• Nancy Spero/Leon Golub, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA

1993

• Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
• Nancy Spero, Greenville Country Museum of Art, Greenville, USA
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• Works On Paper: Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Olin Art Gallery, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, USA

1992

• Hieroglyphs, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA
• Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: Works on Paper, Traklhaus Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
• Nancy Spero, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany

1991

• Small works, Artaud Paintings, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
• Works on paper 1981-1991, Salzburger Kunstverein and Kunstlerhaus, Salzburg , Austria
• Nancy Spero in der Glyptothek: Arbeiten auf Papier 1981-1991, Glyptothek am Königsplatz, Munich
• Galeria Stefani Miscetti, Rome, Italy
• Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA

1990

• Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany travelling to Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany and Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem, Holland
• Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, England
• Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
• Gallery Hibell, Tokyo, Japan

1989

• S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Works from 1956-1962, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
• Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• Les Magiciens de la Terre, Le Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

1988

• Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
• War Paintings: 1966-1970, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, USA
• War Series 1966-1969, Artaud Paintings 1969-70, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA
• Barbara Gross Gallery, Munich , Germany
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Nancy Spero: War Series 1966-1969, Artaud Paintings: 1969-1970, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
• Prospect ‘89, Cupola Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
• The Artaud Series: 1969-1970, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York, USA
• The First Language, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California University Art Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

1987

• Retrospective, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England; Traveled to The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland; The Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
• Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
• Nancy Spero, Works Since 1950, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Mendel Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York, USA
• S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
• Sheela and the Dildo Dancer, Josh Baer Gallery, New York, New York, USA
• The Arts Gallery, Barnard College, New York, New York, USA

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Stijn Ank °1977 (BE)

www.stijnank.com

Ank’s body of work can be considered as an extensive research into the relationship between matter and void and the various ways in which contemporary sculpture can be defined in relation to its surrounding space.

He creates a mould with a variety of materials such as wood, aluminium, lead and rubber marking off the boundaries of a certain chosen space, which he then casts in plaster. During the casting process Ank mixes pigments with the liquid plaster, letting the material render their ultimate appearance. The works created by this process are both fragile and robust, delicate and solid, light as a feather and heavy as lead.

For Ank his works are not merely sculptures placed in space but 'stances' or 'subjects' that appear out of the space itself. They do not refer to any reality or to themselves as objects and define themselves on the basis of the relationships with both the viewer and the space thus continuously changing.

Solo exhibitions

2019

• Stijn Ank - Club Solo + Van Abbemuseum, Breda (NL) (March 17 - April 28)

2018

• ‘Stijn Ank - The Beauty I feel’ - Bastide Projects, Marseille (FR) (Sep 22 - Oct 27)

2017

• ‘Stijn Ank - Purity’ - Nunu Fine Art, Taipei (TW) (Aug 26 - Oct 14)
• ‘Stijn Ank - Unvoid’ - MoCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (TW) (Aug 4 - Sept 10). Curated by Huang Yi-Han
• ‘Stijn Ank - Fresco’ - Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin (DE) (Jan 21 - March 4)
• ‘Stijn Ank - Fresco’ - Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin (DE). Curated by Christoph Tannert (Jan 20 - March 26)

2015

• 'Unvoid' - Netwerk art Center, Aalst (BE) (Oct 4 - Nov 11)

2014

• 'Stijn Ank - Vector' - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU). Curated by Kevin Muhlen & Christine Walentiny (Feb 3 - April 27)
• 'Stijn Ank - diSTANCES' - Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin (DE) (Feb 1 - March 28)

2012

• 'Stijn Ank - Interval' - S.M.A.K. Ghent (BE). Curated by Thomas Caron (June 23 - Oct 28)

2011

• 'Stijn Ank' - CIAP art center, Hasselt (BE) (Dec 3 - Jan 15)

2007

• 'Stijn Ank' - CCHA Gallery, Hasselt (BE) (March 3- April 9)

2006

• 'Stijn Ank' - Galerie Jan Colle, Ghent (BE) (March 1 - April 10)

Group exhibitions

2018

• ‘Dialogues’ - Crown Gallery, Knokke (BE) (Aug 3 - Sep 30)
• ‘Infinity Appearances’ - Innoart, Hsinchu (TW) (April 15 - July 17)

2017

• ‘Drawing Ambience’ - deSingel, Antwerp (BE) (Oct 25 - Jan 14)
• ‘Endless’ - Cwart, Knokke (BE) (July 16 - Aug 20)

2016

• ‘The Extension of Medium' - Nunu Fine Art, Taipei (TW) (Dec 18 - Feb 5)
• 'Open Studios' - Künstlerhaus Bethaniën, Berlin (DE) (July 14, Nov 17)
• 'The Biennial of Painting' - Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE) (June 26 - Sep 25)

2015

• 'Queering Taste - Total Affirmation' – Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin (DE) (Sep 15 - Sep 20)
• '(re)view - CCHA Gallery, Hasselt (BE) (June 7 - June 28)

2014

• ‘Endless Column' - Markthalle, Basel (CH) (June 16 - June 21)

2013

• 'I could have lived here' - M-Museum, Leuven (BE) (June 8 - Aug 25)

2012

• 'Facade' - Netwerk art center, Aalst (BE) (Sept 22 - Nov 18)
• 'Efemeer' - Museum van Deinze en Leiestreek, Deinze (BE) (July 1 - Oct 7)

2011

• 'group 1' - Entrepot Fictief, Ghent (BE) (Oct 7 - Oct 31)
• 'Benefit Show & Auction' - Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (BE) (Aug 1 - Sept 3)
• 'Ename Actueel - Sediment' - Provincial Archeological Museum, Ename (BE). Curated by Hans Martens (Aug 27 – Oct 16)

2010

• ‘Public Private Painting’ - Provincial Museum of Modern Art - Mu.ZEE, Oostende (BE) (Oct 9 – Jan 9)
• 'Open Studio' - organized by Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle (BE) (July 11)
• ‘Group 5’ - Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE) (March 29 - May 16)
• ‘Chipka - Prototypes’ - Netwerk art Center, Aalst (BE) (Jan 13 - April 4)

2009

• ‘Folding’ - Witte Zaal Ghent (BE) (Sept 24 - Oct 31)

2007

• ‘La jeune création belge’ - La Pommerie, Saint Sétiers (FR) (Aug 1 - Aug 31)
• ‘Jamal’s Poets Cafe’ - Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE) (Jan 8 - March 21)
• ‘Antigone’ - National Theatre, Ghent (BE) (Jan 3 - March 16)

2006

• ‘Jette–Sur–Mer’ - Atelier 340 Museum, Brussels (BE) (June 10 - Sept 10)
• ‘A-parckunst’ - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (BE) (June 7 - June 19)

Books / Catalogues

2017

• Catalogue ‘BE24’ - Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE). Text by Jens Asthoff ISSN 0946-3585

2016

• Catalogue 'The Biennial of Painting' - Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen (BE)

2015

• Catalogue ‘Traces’ - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU). Text by Sam Steverlynck ISBN 978-99959-30-30-1

2014

• Book 'Stijn Ank - Vector’ - Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU). Text by Maureen Gontier. Graphic Design by Ward Heirwegh ISBN 978-99959-30-22-6

2013

• Catalogue 'I could have lived here' - M-Museum, Leuven (BE)

2012

• Book 'Stijn Ank - Interval’ - S.M.A.K, Ghent (BE). Text by Thomas Caron. Graphic Design by Ward Heirwegh ISBN 9789075679434

2011

• Catalogue 'Ename Actueel 2011 Sediment' - PAM, Ename (BE)

2010

• Catalogue 'PPP, Public Private Painting' - Mu.Zee, Oostende (BE)
• Catalogue 'Chipka’ - Netwerk, Aalst (BE)

2009

• Catalogue ‘Folding the landscape’ - Witte Zaal, Ghent (BE)

2006

• Catalogue ‘Mumures de sirènes’ - Atelier 340 museum, Brussels (BE)

Publications / texts (selection)

2018

• ‘Rundgang über Kunstmesse Art Brussels - Ein Ort für Entdeckungen’ - Monopol Magazine, April 20, Berlin (DE) - Text by Saskia Trebing

2017

• ‘Stijn Ank - Purity’ - Dfun, Sep 20, Taipei (TW) - Text by Ashley Chen
• ‘The pure origins of architecture’ - Deco, Sep, Taipei (TW) - Text by Tracy
• ‘Void & Solid’ - We People, Sep 12, Taipei (TW) - Text by Yu-Ling Chen
• ‘No Meaning, Feeling’ - Point, Sep 8, Taipei (TW) - Text by Gill Li
• ‘The sound of Purity: Belgian artist Stijn Ank’ - ARTouch, Sep 5, Taipei (TW) - Text by Yi-Hua Chen
• ‘Spatial aesthetics between the void and the solid’ - Kaiak, Aug, Taipei (TW) - Text by Lynn Chiu
• ‘Stijn Ank - Unvoid’ - China Times, Aug 7, Taipei (TW) - Text by Yi-Ching Lin
• ‘Stijn Ank - Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Galerie Michael Janssen’ - Artforum Magazine, May, New York (USA) - Text by Jens Asthoff
• ‘Farbe in Form’ - Der Tagesspiegel, March 4, Berlin (DE) - Text by Jens Müller
• ‘Stijn Ank: the artist is absent’ - Art Berlin, Jan, Berlin (DE) - Text by Saskia Wichert
• Transformations of Space’ - Catalogue text ‘BE24’ Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DE) - Text by Jens Asthoff
• ‘The Extension of Medium’ - Taipei Times, Dec 16, Taipei (TW) - Text by Dana Ter

2016

• ‘Yoknapatawpha, Biënnale van de Schilderkunst in de Leiestreek’ - Nieuwsblad, June 24, Brussel (BE) - Text by Eddy Lefevre

2015

• ‘Absence is the Highest Form of Presence’ - Catalogue Text ‘Traces’ Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg (LU) - Text by Sam Steverlynck

2014

• 'Poésie de plâtre' - Le Jeudi, March 13 - March 19, Luxembourg (LU) - Text by Florence Bécanne
• 'Stijn Ank à la recherche de l'axe perdu' - Archiduc, March 6, Luxembourg (LU) - Text by France Clarinval
• 'Stijn Ank setzt mit Vector ein Zeichen' - Journal, Feb 26, Luxembourg (LU) - Text by Sven Wohl
• 'Into the immaterial' - Artfetch, Feb, Berlin (DE) - Text by Suvi Lehtinen
• 'Stijn Ank - diSTANCES' - Monopol Magazine, Feb, Berlin (DE)
• 'Stijn Ank - diSTANCES' - Text by Marc Belderbos

2012

• 'Stijn Ank: Folding' - Domus Magazine, December, Milan (IT), Text by Fabrizia Vecchione
• 'Artist Stijn Ank turns room angles into geometric sculptures' - Surface Magazine, July/Aug, New York (USA), Text by Rebecca Hart
• 'Stijn Ank - Interval' - Book Interview 'Stijn Ank - Interval' S.M.A.K., Ghent (BE), Interview by Thomas Caron
• 'Stijn Ank in de kunst nu-ruimte van het S.M.A.K.' - art nr. 99, Antwerp (BE), Text by Isabelle De Baets
• 'Inspirerende Leiebochten' - De Morgen 28/04/2012, Brussel (BE)

2011

• 'Stijn Ank in CIAP, Hasselt' - art nr.90, Antwerp (BE) - Text by Christine Vuegen
• 'Dwarsdoosnede van een jonge generatie' - art nr.86, Antwerp (BE) - Text by Inge Braeckman
• 'De keuze van Sam Steverlinck' - Kunstbeeld nr.10-2011, Diemen (NL)
• 'Sediment: de betere zomer-expo in Ename' - Knack nr.39-2011, Brussel (BE) - Text By Luc Lambrecht
• 'MDD zet jonge kunstenaars op de kaart' - De Morgen 31/08/2011, Brussel (BE)
• 'Stijn Ank, koorddanser tussen architectuur en sculptuur' - Waterschoenen, Aalst (BE) - Text by Gustaaf Vander Biest

2010

• 'Het eiland Chipka" - art, nr.72, Antwerp (BE)
• ‘Stijn Ank – Folding’ - Laa, Brussels (BE) - Text by Jean Stillemans

2009

• ‘Stijn Ank – Prototypes’ - PdB-printing, Ninove (BE) - Text by Thomas Claus

2007

• ‘La jeune création belge’ - Le Guide, nr.13, Limoges (FR)

2006

• ‘Stijn Ank’ - art, nr.4, Antwerp (BE) - Text by Anne-Marie Poels

Public collections

• MOCA - Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, Taiwan (TW)
• MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg (LU)
• S.M.A.K. the Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent (BE)

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Frank Van Der Salm (1964) lives and works in Rotterdam, Holland.

After studying Photography and Audio/Visual Design at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1992), his main focus has been the Urban Landscape in it’s broadest sense. Over the years early influences of the New Topographics have evolved into a diverse oeuvre about the control of landscape, lack of space, infrastructural issues and the pressure on time and space in contemporary metropolises, reflecting our ways of communication and it’s speed.

Now that the world has developed from separate cities with local activities to one world of (re)-presentation, that is photography, video, film, internet, games, news and entertainment, reality exists in the images that represent it. Focusing on the specific vs. the ordinary and the original vs. the copy, his work elaborates on this medium's dualistic position. Lately, attention has shifted to the new centers of economic power, resulting in projects next to but including the United States and Asia over the last couple of years. He's also working with architects like OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron and MVRDV and on infrastructural and cultural projects like the Atelier HSL. Working with professionals in other media has influenced increasing diversity in approaching the contemporary environment. Thus, 'The City' is created with an 'imaginery status' of reality, where 'real' images are remporary. This 'real' is part of Sim-City: a micro-cosmos of urban existence. The city and it's images are real and unreal at the same time. 

His photo works and videos are published widely and have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, among which the Biennale of Venice, Italy (2001), Haunch of Venison, Zürich, CH (2005), Akinci Gallery, Amsterdam, NL (2009), and the Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, NL. These works of art are collected around the World.

Solo exhibitions (selected)

2013

• ‘Timeport’, CBK Drenthe, Holland

2012

• Museum Schiedam ,’Timeport’ , Schiedam, Holland

2011

• ‘City of Bits’, Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain

2010

• ‘Stretched Territories’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2009

• Galeria Casado Santapau , Madrid, Spain
• ‘Spectrum’, Galerie Akinci , Amsterdam, Holland

2008

• Fries Museum, (catalogue), Leeuwarden, Holland

2007

• MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
• MKgalerie, Rotterdam, Holland
• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Galeria Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain

2005

• Haunch of Venison / Galerie Judin, Zürich, Switzerland
• Photo London, London, Great Britain
• Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Holland
• MKgalerie, (catalogue), Rotterdam, Holland

2004

• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• MKgalerie, Rotterdam, Holland

2003

• Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2002

• Paris Photo, Paris, France
• Jan Kesner Gallery, (catalogue), Los Angeles, United States

2001

• MKgalerie, (catalogue), Rotterdam, Holland
• Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal

2000

• Fries Museum, Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden, Holland
• MKexpositieruimte, Rotterdam, Holland

1999

• Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
• NFI, National Institute for Photography, Rotterdam, Holland

1998

• Pennings Gallery, (catalogue) , Eindhoven, Holland

1997

• Van Wijngaarden Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

1993

• De Boterhal Art-Centre, Hoorn, Holland
• Fotomania Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland

Group exhibitions (selection)

2015

• Being There (duo exhibition with Marcel Wesdorp), Galerie Helder, Den Haag, Holland

2014

• ‘Modern Times, 20th Century Photography’, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
• ‘Wenn wir dich nicht sehen, siehst du uns auch nicht’, Frankendael Foundation, Holland
• ‘Huizenzee 2’, Witteveen Art Centre, Holland
• ‘Summer in the City’, Cityscapes Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland

2013

• ‘Wonderkamers’, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, Holland
• ‘If Walls Could Speak’, Frankendael Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
• Westergasfabriek ‘We Like Art‘, Amsterdam, Holland

2012

• Kunsthal Rotterdam, ‘Sweet&Salt’, Rotterdam, Holland
• TENT Rotterdam, ‘The Traveller’, Rotterdam, Holland

2011

• Museum for Design, ‘Highrise – Idea & Reality’, Zurich, Switserland

2010

• Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, ‘Inside Out, Photography After Form’, Miami Beach, USA
• Three Shadows Photography Art Center, ‘We are the world’, Beijing, China
• DCC, ‘We are the world’, Shanghai, China
• Crown Gallery, ‘Human Territories’, Brussels, Belgium
• Guangdong Museum of Art, ‘We are the world’, Guangzhou, China

2009

• George Eastman House, ‘Nature as Artifice’, Rochester, USA
• Aperture Gallery, ‘Nature as Artifice’, New York, USA
• ‘Summer in the City’, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Kamer der Staten Generaal, Selection Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Den Haag, Holland

2008

• Pinakothek der Moderne, ‘Nature as Artifice’, München, Germany
• ‘The Unwanted Self’, University Galleries, (catalogue), Brighton, United Kingdom
• Kröller-Müller Museum, ‘Nature as Artifice’, (catalogue), Otterlo, Holland

2007

• Netherlands Photography Museum, “Las Palmas”, (catalogue), Rotterdam, Holland
• Spectacular City, NRW Forum, (catalogue), Dusseldorf, Germany
• Stedelijk Museum Delft, Contour, Dutch Contemporary Art, (catalogue), Delft, Holland
• Galerie De Zaal, (with Theo Jansen, Jaap vd Ende, a.o.), Delft, Holland
• Arco, MKgalerie, Madrid, Spain

2006

• Spectacular City (photographing the future), NAI, (catalogue), Rotterdam, Holland
• Netherlands Now, l’Ecole du Nord, Maison Europeènne de la Photographie, (catalogue), Paris, France
• Whisper Not!, Huis Marseille, (catalogue), Amsterdam, Holland
• Foresight, Augsburger Kunstverein, (catalogue), Augsburg, Germany

2005

• Art Cologne, Galerie Judin/Haunch of Venison , Cologne, Germany
• FIAC, Crown Gallery ; Paris, France
• Vlaams-Nederlands Huis de Buren, Halte Brussel, Atelier HSL Brussels, Belgium
• ArtForum Berlin, MKgalerie , Berlin, Germany
• ArtBrussels, Crown Gallery , Brussels, Belgium
• KW14, Constructed Moment, (Catalogue) , Den Bosch, Holland
• NAI, Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Holland
• PhotoLA, Jan Kesner Gallery , Los Angeles, USA
• The Ecstacy of Things, Museo di Fotografica Contemporaneo, Milan, Italy
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Rabobankcollectie (Catalogue), Den Haag, Holland
• Palmbeach Photography, Palmbeach, USA

2004

• Venice Biennial of Architecture, Metamorph (Catalogue), Venice, Italy
• Huis Marseille, Take Five (Catalogue), Amsterdam, Holland
• Fotomuseum Winterthur, Im Rausch Der Dinge (Catalogue), Winterthur, Switzerland
• Chateau d’Eau, Toulouse, France
• Atelier HSL, The Hague, Holland

2003

• Post-Nature, Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Arles, rencontre de la Photographie, Arles, France

2002

• PhotoLA, Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
• Witte de With, (catalogue), Rotterdam, Holland

2001

• On track, Atelier HSL, Ned. Architectuur Instituut , Rotterdam, NL
• Artforum Berlin, MKgalerie, Berlin, Germany
• Venice Biennial, (catalogue) , Venice, Italy
• The Peoples Art, Witte de With, (catalogue) , Porto, Portugal
• ArtBrussels, MKgalerie, Brussels, Belgium

2000

• PhotoLA, Jan Kesner Gallery,Los Angeles, United States
• L’Oeil du Nord, Institut Neerlandais, (catalogue) , Paris, France
• ArtForum Berlin, MKexpositieruimte, Berlin, Germany
• Paard van Troje, Fries Museum, (catalogue) , Leeuwarden, NL
• Kunstrai, MKexpositieruimte, Amsterdam, Holland
• Maastricht Art Fair, MKexpositieruimte,(catalogue) , Maastricht, Holland
• ARCO Artfair, MKexpositieruimte, (catalogue) , Madrid, Spain
• Paris Photo, Françoise Knabe Gallery, Germany , Paris, France

1999

• ArtForum Berlin, MKexpositieruimte, Berlin, Germany
• Kunstrai, MKexpositieruimte, Amsterdam, Holland
• ArtBrussels, MKexpositieruimte, Brussels, Belgium
• ArtFrankfurt, Françoise Knabe Gallery, Germany, Frankfurt, Germany
• St’Art, Françoise Knabe Gallery, Germany, Strasbourg, France
• MKexpositieruimte, Rotterdam, NL

1998

• Paris Photo, Pennings Gallery, Paris, France

1997

• Blonk Series, Leiden City & LAK Gallery, Leiden, Holland
• Fotografie Biennale V, (catalogue), Naarden, Holland

1996

• Fotomania Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland
• LAK Gallery, Leiden, Holland

1995

• Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Holland

1994

• LAK Gallery, Leiden, Holland

1992

• Fotografie Biennale III, de Sterrenwacht Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland

Publications & Reviews (selection)

2008

• Herinnering & Transformatie (Memory & Transformation), International Triënnale Apeldoorn, NAi Uitgevers, Rotterdam, NL
• Kunstbeeld, No. 9, by Sandra Jongenelen, Amsterdam, NL
• Kerb Journal, No. 16, Future Cities, by Nicola Dempsey, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, RMIT Melbourne, Australia
• Elsevier, Top 100 Dutch Artists, review by Riki Simons, May 10th, Amsterdam, NL
• Parool, ArtReview, Amsterdam, NL
• Leeuwarder Courant, ‘De Ontmenselijkte Stad’, review by Dirk Kuiken, April 4th, Leeuwarden, NL
• De Groene Amsterdammer, interview by Stefan Kuiper, March 27, Amsterdam, NL
• Dagblad van het Noorden, review by Illand Pietersma, March 21, Leeuwarden, NL
• NRC Next, review by Eddie Marsman, March 7, Rotterdam, NL
• Volkskrant, review by Lennard Dost, February 25, Amsterdam, NL
• NRC Handelsblad, review by Eddie Marsman, February 13, Rotterdam, NL
• P|f, Proffesional Photography, Review by Pieter van Leeuwen, Feb, Leeuwarden, NL
• Vrij Nederland, review by Kim Bos, February 16, Amsterdam, NL
• ‘De Avonden’, Live-interview by Wim Brands, Radio 6, February 4, Hilversum, NL
• Financieel Dagblad, review by Edo Dijksterhuis, February 2, Amsterdam, NL
• Omroep Friesland, live interview, January 19, Leeuwarden, NL
• NRC Handelsblad, Museum Selection, January 18, Rotterdam, NL
• Publication ‘Multiplicity’, Roma Publications and Colin Huizing Amsterdam, NL

2007

• Financieel Dagblad, Review by Edo Dijksterhuis, April 28, Amsterdam, NL
• Fikrun Wa Fann, no. 87, Publication Goethe Institut, Mohtadi Verlag, Köln, Germany
• Life Magazine, Photo Essay, nr. 25, december issue Beijing, China
• Modern China Express, Cover Image, Beijing, China
• Collect, Kunst & Antiek Journaal, Close Up, by Etienne Boileau, nov., Amsterdam, NL
• Museum Tijdschrift, Amsterdam, NL
• Cities From Zero, by Shumon Basar, London, Great Britain
• Photo Art, Photographie im 21. Jahrhundert, DuMont Verlag Cologne, Germany
• The Forum For Urban Design, Cities Conference 2007 Catalogue, New York, USA
• Debuut: Cahier Fotografie, nr. 1, Hogeschool St.Lukas, L. Decan, Brussels, Belgium
• NRC Handelsblad, review Rotterdam, NL
• “O El Lugar-Criatura”, review in El Mundo, El Cultural, july 19-25, Madrid, Spain
• “Cada Vez Más Alto”, review in ABC, Las Artes y las Letras, july Madrid, Spain
• “Eigenlijk Eigentijds”, 1982-2007, Collection National Bank Amsterdam, NL
• Gatsby Magazine, No. 0, Interview by Stefan Hottinger-Behmer, London, Great Britain
• Dutch Eyes, New History of Photography in The Netherlands Rotterdam, NL
• ‘Een Impressie van Schoonheid’, Rabobank Kunstcollectie IJsselmonde, NL
• Josep Lluís Mateo, “Opere e progetti” Barcelona, Spain
• Las Palmas, Cultuurpakhuis op de Kop van Zuid, (incl.cover) Rotterdam, NL

2006

• ARTE television, interview by Sabine Willkop (SWR) Germany/France
• Big Scale Grossform, Architectural Papers No.2, (by J.L.Matteo), ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• NRC-Next, CoverImage, december 7, Rotterdam, NL
• Dif-Bookazine, nov/dec Rotterdam, NL
• Sleek Magazine, Berlin, Germany
• Leporello Interpolis, commission by Interpolis/Hans Meijs Tilburg, NL
• Nai Bulletin No.2, Image Essay, november, by vdWal/Abhelakh Rotterdam, NL
• Llink Radio, 747, live interview by Pieter Hilhorst, september 25 Amsterdam, NL
• Amsterdam Weekly, october, by Marinus de Ruijter Amsterdam, NL
• De Technologiekrant, september 21 Diemen, NL
• Museum Tijdschrift, Futuristische Fantomen, sept/oct. Amsterdam, NL
• NRC, may 4, by Sandra Smallenburg Rotterdam, NL
• Elsevier, Amsterdam, NL
• Did Someone Say Participate?, An Atlas For Spacial Practice, MIT Press, by S. Basar/M. Miessen, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Le Monde 2 Magazine, No.110, march Paris, France
• NRC, march 29, by Arjen Ribbens Rotterdam, NL
• Damn Magazine, No.6, april/may Belgium
• European Photography Magazine (incl. CoverImage) Zürich, Switzerland
• Clear magazine New York, USA

2005

• UPstreet magazine London, Great Britain
• TANK magazine London, Great Britain
• Volkskrant, november 16, by Merel Bem Amsterdam, NL
• NRC, april 1, Bookreview by Marianne Vermeijden Rotterdam, NL
• MuseumTijdschrift, ‘Constructed Moment’, review Amsterdam, NL
• NRC, april 13, by Bernard Hulsman, Rotterdam, NL
• ‘Constructed Moment’, review by Angelique Spaninks, Rotterdam, NL
• Vrij Nederland, ‘Een werkelijkheid zo rekbaar als elastiek’, review by Sacha Bronwasser, Amsterdam, NL
• Monography Presentation, february 12 Rotterdam, NL
• NRC, oktober 26, ‘Take Five’, review by Machteld Leij Rotterdam, NL

2004

• Kunstbeeld, no. 9, 2004, interview by Xandra de Jongh Rijswijk, NL
• Luca Magazine, Tokyo, Japan
• Volkskrant, january 21, “Fijn gepriegel met echt en niet-echt”, Artreview by Merel Bem, Amsterdam, NL
• Trouw, Rotterdam, NL
• NRC, januari 15 Rotterdam, NL
• Rotterdamsch Dagblad, januari 20, “De onwaarschijnlijke architektuur van Frank van der Salm”, Artreview by Sandra Smets Rotterdam, NL

2003

• “Bilder eines Reisenden”, Urte Schmidt, Berlin, Germany
• Madam, essay by Sabrina van der Ley Berlin, Germany
• “Constructions”, Urte Schmidt, Berlin, Germany
• L’Insensé Photo, photographic publication Paris, France
• Art-nl, review by Etienne Boileau Amsterdam, NL
• Istoé Gente, review by Paula Alzugaray Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Hermes, “Des Images Inhabitables”, by Philippe Venzano, Paris, France
• Vitruvius, march 29 Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Estado. Estadao.com by Maria Hirszman Sao Paulo, Brazil

2002

• Holanda Hoje, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• HP/De Tijd, november 15, Artreview by Inge Hardeman Amsterdam, NL
• Artreview/Artfoto, issue no.1, 2002 London, Great Britain
• Paris Photo Magazine, by Els Barents, no. 23: november/december Paris, France
• Foto, no. 11, by Maartje van den Heuvel Amsterdam, NL
• Volkskrant Magazine, no. 162, november 9, Artreview by Gert Jonkers Amsterdam, NL
• Le Journal des Arts, by Philippe Régnier Paris, France
• Le Journal des Arts, “Une generation de photographs dans un monde sans dogme”, by Frits Gierstberg Paris, France
• Free Eye Magazine, no. 1, november 3 Amsterdam, NL
• NRC Handelsblad, november 14, Artreview by Eddie Marsman Rotterdam, NL
• Hermès, Artreview Paris, France
• “Fotografen in Nederland”, an Anthology, by Wim van Sinderen, Uitg. Ludion/Fotomuseum Den Haag, NL
• Kunstforum 159, “the People’s Art”, april 2002 Germany
• Los Angeles Times Los Angeles, United States
• De Witte Raaf, by Alice Smits, january Brussels, Belgium
• Rotterdams Dagblad, january 8, Artreview by Sandra Smets Rotterdam, NL
• de Volkskrant, january 4, “de koestering van het kunstmatige”, Artreview by Anne van Driel Amsterdam, NL

2001

• NRC Handelsblad, january 4, Artreview by Hans de Hartog Jager, Rotterdam, NL
• NRC Handelsblad, november 23, Rotterdam, NL
• Boiler Magazine, by Ivanmaria Vele, Nicola Carignani, Artreview, july Italy
• TemaCeleste, issue 86, Milano, Italy
• Kunstbeeld, nr. 6, Robbert Roos, june, Rijswijk, NL
• Volkskrant, by Sacha Bronwasser, june 9, Amsterdam, NL
• Brabants Dagblad, Tilburg, NL
• Provinciale Zeeuwse Courant, Vlissingen, NL
• Parool, by Marina de Vries Amsterdam, NL
• NetParque, SAPO, may 25, Lisboa, Portugal
• Eindhovens Dagblad, Angelique Spaninks Eindhoven, NL
• CreativTV.net, spring 2001 France
• NRC Handelsblad, may 15, Rotterdam, NL
• Arte Y Parte, no 32, may 2001 Santander, Spain
• Photonews, Zeitung für Fotografie, no.2, february Hamburg, Germany
• Trouw, Stijntje Blankendaal, november 24, Amsterdam, NL

2000

• LOeil du Nord, double-publication French & Dutch Paris, France
• Radio 1, National Public Radio Hilversum, NL
• RTL 4, National Television Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• NOS journaal National Television, november 11 Hilversum, NL
• NRC Handelsblad, Interview by Sandra Heerma van Voss, March 21, Rotterdam, NL
• Leeuwarder Courant, Johanna Schuurman, Art Review, March 4, Leeuwarden, NL

1999

• Art Pick of the Week, Peter Frank, LA Weekly, August 13-19, Los Angeles, United States
• Playing with Style: Frank Van Der Salm, Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, Art Review, August 6, Los Angeles, United States
• Detour Magazine, August, Los Angeles, United States
• Art Talk, KCRW 89.9, July 19, Los Angeles, United States
• Best Bet, Westside Weekly Los Angeles Times, July 9, Los Angeles, United States
• Flaunt Magazine, June/July Los Angeles, United States
• Trouw, may 19, Amsterdam, NL
• Imagination of Landscape, Machteld Leij, Decorum, april, Leiden, NL
• Rotterdams Dagblad, Rotterdam, NL
• Delta, Mannus vd Laan, january 14, Delft, NL

1998

• Eindhovens Dagblad, Angelique Spaninks, Eindhoven, NL
• Pennings Portfolio Series, Eindhoven, NL

1997

• Outstanding Photography, De Volkskrant, december 31, Amsterdam, NL
• Leidsch Dagblad, Titia Fuchs, october 23, Leiden, NL

1996

• New visions on Landscape, Martijn Verhoeven, Decorum, october, Leiden, NL
• Camera Austria International, no.54, Graz, Austria

1994

• Interview Radio Rijnland, Leiden, NL

1993

• Fascinations Arts Calendar, Publisher Mart Spruijt, Amsterdam, NL
• Interview Radio Hoorn, Hoorn, NL

Awards & Grants

2001

• Maria Austria Award, Nomination, Amsterdam, NL
• 4th Werner Mantz Photography Prize, Nomination, Europe (B, D, F, GB, NL)

1999

• West Art of Now Award, Nomination, Amsterdam, NL
• Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, NL
• Project-Grant, Delft, NL
• Basis-Grant, Stiching Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL

1998

• Travel-Grant, Stichting Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL

1996

• Basis-Grant, Stichting Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
• Prix de Rome Photography Award, selection final 6, Amsterdam, NL

1994

• Starters-Grant, Stichting Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL
• Documentation-Grant, Delft, NL

1993

• MaaskantPrijs/MaaskantAward, Nomination, Rotterdam, NL

1992

• DrempelPrijs/DrempelAward, Nomination, Rotterdam, NL
• Starters-Grant, Stichting Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam, NL

Commissions

2006 – 2007

• Netherlands Photography Museum (NFM), Las Palmas Location, Rotterdam, NL

2006

• Interpolis (Assurance Company) Tilburg, NL

2005

• Herzog & de Meuron Architects, Forum, Barcelona, Basel, Switzerland

2004

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Rem Koolhaas New York, United States
• Seattle Public Library, Seattle

2002 - 2003

• Atelier HSL/SKOR, HSL-Zuid Photography Project Amsterdam, NL

2002

• Rijksgebouwendienst, Rijkswaterstaat Artproject Office Building “De Leidschen Poort” Leidschendam, NL

2000 - 2001

• Province of Zuid-Holland, Kunst-Delta-Drechtsteden Dordrecht e.o., NL

2000

• Institut Néerlandais, Paris - Capitale de la Photographie, La photographie en capitale, Paris, France

Other Artistic Activities

2008

• Curator of the MKgalerie/Art-Amsterdam exhibition Amsterdam, NL
• Lecture at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas, Brussels, Belgium
• Blauwe Kamer Magazine, no. 1, 2008, Image Editing Wageningen, NL

2007

• “Power Of Place”, Study with the Foundation BKVB, Amsterdam, United States
• Lecture at the ‘Get It Louder, (2007)’ symposium/exhibition, Beijing, China
• Curator of the Exhibition "Transposed & Illuminated", at Pictura Dordrecht, NL

2006

• Lecture at the NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, NL
• Lecture 'Image of Progress', at the "Cities from Zero" Symposium at the Association for Architecture ( Shumon Basar, Katharina Borsi) London, Great Britain
• ‘Collaboration’, Forum Discussion Tent/Expodium Rotterdam, NL

2003 - 2006

• Teacher at Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, NL

2005

• Jurymember Planet.nl Nature Photography AwardAmsterdam, NL

2004

• Lecture at Minerva Art Academy, Groningen, NL

2003

• Commissionmember Steenbergen Foundation Award/NFM Rotterdam, NL
• Lecture NAI Salon, March 17 Rotterdam, NL

2002

• Commissionmember Steenbergen Foundation Award/NFI Rotterdam, NL
• lecture Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States

2001

• Commissionmember Steenbergen Foundation Award? NFI Rotterdam, NL

1999

• lecture Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, United States
• lecture AAFV, Amsterdam, NL

1993 - 1994

• Lecture-series Institute of Architecture/Art Development, Maassluis, NL

1993

• Lecture Foto-Workshop, Maassluis, NL
• Joint-founder Colour-Darkroom 21, Rotterdam, NL

1992

• De Andere Kant/The Other Side, Co-Curator Exhibition and Publication, Rotterdam, NL

Collections

The Photoworks of Frank van der Salm are present in major private and public collections worldwide.

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Vitali Massimo (1944) lives and works in Lucca, Italy and Berlin, Germany.

He is well-known for his photographs of crowds, focusing on present-day leisure activities : the beach, the discotheque, mass tourism, ...

A typical feature of his oeuvre are the large, impersonal crowds in which details and individuals are recognizable anyway.

Through the bird’s-eye view and the wide-angle camera with which he works, he obtains photographs with a wide range of vision, but very detailed at the same time.

His work is represented in the world major museums, including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée d`Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Fondation Cartier pour l`art contemporain, Paris, Fonds national contemporain, Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, Centro per l`Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci.

Solo exhibitions

2016

• Landscape with Figures, Guidi@Shoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova, Italy
• Massimo Vitali, Crown Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
• Massimo Vitali, Ronchini Gallery, London, England

2015

• Massimo Vitali–New Prints,Hilger Next, Vienna, Austria

2014

• Studio La Citta', Verona ,Italy
• Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation, Porza , Switzerland

2013

• Galeria Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Between Normalities, Bonni Benrubi, New York, USA
• Massimo Vitali, Artloft Berlin, Germany

2012

• Arcadian Remains, Bonni Benrubi, New York, USA
• Fotografia Europea 2012 Reggio Emilia, Italy
• PhotoMed , Sanary sur Mer, France

2011

• Brancolini Grimaldi, London, England
• Barò Galeria, Sao Paolo, Brazil
• LOOK3, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

2010

• Galerie Du Jour, Paris, France
• M+B, Los Angeles, USA
• Galerie Ernst Hilger at Brot Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
• Centro de Arte Santa Monica, In/Out, Barcelona, Spain

2009

• Bonnie Benrubi, New York, USA
• Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
• Hilger Contemporary, Disturbances of Reality, Wien, Austria
• Foam, Amsterdam, Holland

2008

• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
• Bonnie Benrubi, New York, USA
• M+B, Los Angeles, USA
• Galerie Hafenrichter & Flugel, Nuremberg, Germany

2007

• Artcore Gallery, Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
• Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Old Concept, New Works, The Columns, Seoul, South Korea

2006

• Old Concept, New Works, Hilger Contemporary, Wien, Austria
• M+B, Los Angeles, USA
• Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
• Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Galleria Fabjbasaglia, Rimini, Italy

2005

• Bonni Benrubi Gallery,New York, USA
• Museum-Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
• La Fabrica Galeria, Madrid, Spain

2004

• Guidi&Schoen Arte Contemporanea, Genova, Italy
• Museum- Fundacion DBK, Bilbao, Spain
• Ernst Hilger Gallery, Wien, Austria
• Museum- PMMK, Oostende, Belgium
• Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Nextdoor. Artgalleria, Rome, Italy
• Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

2003

• Isabella Brancolini Arte Contemporanea, Firenze, Italy
• Cons-Arc, Chiasso, Switzerland
• La Cour d'Ecole, Cinemateque de Corse, Porto Vecchio, France
• La Cour d'Ecole, Cité Pietramarina, Ville di Pietrabugno, France

2002

• The Photographers' Gallery Print Room, London, England

2001

• Crown Gallery, Bruxelles, Belgium
• Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
• La Cour d'ecole, Centre Culturel Una Volta, Bastia, Corsica, France
• La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
• Serieuse Zaken, Amsterdam, Italy
• Gallery Hotel Art, Firenze, Italy

2000

• Arte e Personae, Firenze, Italy
• Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Hotel Des Arts, Toulon, Commission, France
• Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
• Espace Malraux, Chambery, Commission, France

1999

• Le Quartz, Brest, France
• Galerie du Jour Agnes b., Paris, France

1998

• Rencontres Internationales de la Photo, Arles, France
• Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
• Atheneum, Universitè de la Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1997

• Photographer's Gallery, London, England
• Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy

1995

• Galleria ConsArc, Chiasso, Switzerland

1995

• Historisches Archiv der Stadt, Koeln, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2016

• Panorama, Musée d’Art de la Province d’Hainaut, Charleroi, Belgium
• Extraordinary Visions, L’Italia ci guarda, MAXXI, Roma, Italy
• Faszination Fotografie, Eddl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Vienna, Austria
• Progetto Nova, Ex-Ceramiche Vaccari, Santo Stefano Magra, Italy

2015

• Antropia, Eduardo Secci Contemporary, Pietrasanta, Italy
• Com'è Viva la Città, Art & the City 1913-2014,Villa Omo e Como, Italy
• Watershed, New Hall Place, Bexley Heritage Trust, Bexley Greater London, England

2014

• De Rerum Natura, Studio La Citta', Verona, Italy
• Looking to learn / learning to look, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
• Toledo Contemporánea,Church of San Marcos, Madrid, Spain

2013

• Bird's-Eye View, Westport Arts Center, Westport, USA
• Looking to Learn/Learning to Look - 25 Years of Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
• Photomeetings, LuxembourgAtomic Love, Palais des Arts et du Festival, Dinard, France
• Reves de Venise, L'Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bourdeaux, France

2012

• L'insouciance La Maison Guerlain, Paris, France
• Summer Show BrancoliniGrimaldi, London, England
• Addio Anni '70. Arte a Milano 1969-1980 Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
• The Deep Element: Photography at the Beach Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
• Sense of Place - European Landscape Photography BOZAR Expo, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
• Shared Spaces Photo Espana, Royal Botanical Gardens, Madrid, Spain
• Shared Vision: The Sondra Gilman and Celso Gonzalez-Falla Collection of Photography Aperture, New York, USA
• Periphral Visions: Italian Photography in Context, 1950s - Present Hunter College, New York, USA
• Demonstrations - Making Normative Orders Frankfurt Kunstverein, Germany
• Sweet and SaltKunsthal, Rotterdam, Holland

2011

• Una Prospettiva Italiana, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy
• Panorama sur les 20 ans d'Une Collection, Centre Mediterraneen de la Photographie, Corsica, France

2010

• Detour, The Moleskine Notebook Experience, Bund 18, Shanghai, China
• Il Paesaggio Italiano in Fotografia, 1950-2000, CRAF, Pordenone, Italy
• Rites, Bass Museum, Miami, USA
• PastPresentFuture - Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Yapi Kredi Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey

2009

• Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. Life experiences in art from MUSAC Collection, Mcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary
• Kalidoscope d'Italie, Centre National de l'Audiovisuel, Dudelange, Luxembourg
• Dopo la Sicilia, Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, Milan, Italy
• PastPresentFuture - Highlights from the UniCredit Group Collection, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Wien, Austria
• Parrworld: The Collection of Martin Parr, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
• BAM, Photography Portfolio III, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
• Nature Nation, Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
• Waterland, Galerie Alexandre Cadain, Paris, France
• Italian Genius Now, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma - Macro Future, Rome, Italy
• TemperaturaEsterna, Palazzo della Provincia, Pordenone, Italy
• Mi Vida. From Heaven to Hell. Muecsarnok Budapest, Hungary

2008

• Dopo la Sicilia, Galleria del Credito Siciliano, Acireale, Sicily, Italy
• Lichtspuren - Fotografie aus der Sammlung, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
• Guess who is coming...MK Galerie, Rotterdam, Holland
• In the Photographic Image, the Columns, Seoul, South Korea
• Human/Nature: Recent European Landscape Photography, Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, USA
• Las Vegas Collects Contemporary, The Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• The Allure of Italy, The Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, USA
• Lucca Digital Photo Festival, Lucca, Italy

2007

• La Vida Privada. Coleccion Joseph Ma Civit, Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain
• La Photographie Construite, Hotel des Arts, Centre Sebastien, Saint Cyr sur Mer, France
• Jano - La doble cara de la fotografia, Fondos de la Coleccion Permanente, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Note Urbane, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Anatomia dell'Irrequietezza: Il mito del viaggio dal Grand Tour all'Era Virtuale, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia, Italy
• Souvenir della Collezione, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• Personal Structures, Galeria Hafenrichter & Fluegel, Nuremberg, Germany
• Seestuecke, von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
• Italian Genius Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam
• Existencias, Musac, Leon, Spain
• Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Italies - Doubles visions, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Detour - The Moleskine City Notebook Experience, Art Directors Club NYC, New York, USA
• Local. The End of Globalization, Photo España, Sala Canal Isabel II, Madrid Ereditare il Paesaggio, Festival Internazionale della Fotografia di Roma, Arapacis, Roma, Italy
• Le Vif et le Furtif, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Ville Saint Denis, France
• Monumenti e paesaggi - Viaggi verso l'Italia, Il Filatoio Caraglio, Cuneo, Italy
• Linee all'orizzonte, Polo Museale di Nervi, Genova, Italy

2006

• Pre/View,  Jarach Gallery, Venezia, Italy
• 20/30 Vision, Bonni Benrubi, New York, USA
• Peintres de la vie moderne Modern-life painters - Donation - Caisse des Depots photograph collection, France
• Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
• Travelling without moving, Gate 24 Contemporary, Falconara Marittima, Ancona, Italy
• New Landscapes - Italienische Fotokunst, Sammlung der Unicredit Group, HVB Kunst Palais, München, Germany
• Arterritory, Centrale Montemartini, Roma, Italy
• Hereford Photography Festival 2006, England
• So Now Then, Talk, Hay Festival, Hereford Photography Festival, Hay on Wye, England
• Photomeetings Luxemburg, Neumunster Abbeye , Luxembourg
• UBS Collection, Tate modern, London, England
• Mediterranea, Pinacoteca Comunale di Bari, Italy
• The Age of Metamorphosis European Art Highlights from the Centro Pecci Collection, MoCA Shanghai, China
• Images d'un Territoire, Centre Culturel Francais des Damas, Damascus, Syria
• Ballermann, Die Austellung - The Exhibition Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
• Beyond Delirious CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA
• See into liquid, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
• Different Realities? Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• Images d'un Territoire, Les Chateau d'Eau Toulose, France
• Photo meetings Luxembourg 2006, Gallerie Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg
• Images d'un Territoire, Galerie le Lieu, Lorient, France
• Suoni e visioni 3, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
• Highlights from Harn Museum of Photography, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville , Georgia, USA
• Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie Arles 2006, Arles, France
• From Rome to New York, Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea, New York, USA

2005

• Come la Neve al Mare, Guidi & Schoen, Genova, Italy
• Collezione Permanente, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• 6th Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano, Italy
• Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, curated by Christopher Phillips. Miami Art Central
• Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent, curated by Gabriel Bauret - Grilles de Jardin de Luxembourg, France
• Mare Nostrum. Pinacoteca Provinciale, Bari, Italy
• La Dolce Crisi, curated by Bonami-Cannarutto Villa Manin, Udine, Italy
• III Bienal di Valencia - Agua sin ti no soy, Bienal de Valencia, Spain
• 10 ans de commandes photographiques, Citadelle de Saint Florent, Corse
• Il Paesaggio Italiano Contemporaneo, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
• Italia. Doppie Visioni, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italy
• Europe in art (MNAC) Palace of the Parliament, Bucharest, Romania
• Photographic Reality, Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
• 57 on 57th Street: Holiday Show. Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
• Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, Toronto, Canada
• Landschaft als Metapher, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
• Photo Espana 2005, International Festival of Fotografia and Visual Arts, Madrid, Spain

2004

• A holiday group show, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
• Water Water Everywhere, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, USA
• Italia. Doppie Visioni, Scuderie del Quirinale, Roma, Italy
• Sguardi Gardesani. Museo Civico, Riva del Garda, Italy
• Collection Agnès B., Les Abattoirs-Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
• Nous Remontons de la "Calle" Toutes le Photographies, Galerie du Jour Agnès B., Paris, France
• Italy Space and Places, Robert Mann Gallery, New York, USA
• L'idea di Paesaggio nella fotografia italiana dal 1850 ad oggi, Palazzo Santa Margherita, Modena, Italy

2003

• L'idea di paesaggio nella fotografia italiana dal 1850, Galleria Civica, Modena, Italy
• L'attimo fuggente tra fotografia e cinema, Pinacoteca Agnelli, Torino, Italy
• Agrupèmonos todos, ARTIUM Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria, Spain
• Agrupèmonos todos, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea, Vigo, Spain
• Vacant Community, Fondazione Olivetti, Rome, Italy
• Beaufort 2003, Kunst aan zee Triennale, Oostende, Belgium
• Undergang, Kunsthalle, Bergen, Norway
• Melting Pop, Palazzo delle Papesse Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
• La montagna disincantata, Tour Fromage, Aosta, Italy
• By the Sea, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, USA
• Summer Holiday, Galerie Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Temporary Exhibition Space in Chicago recommended Arndt & Partner - Berlin+Zurich, Berlin, Germany
• CMYK: Contemporary Color Photography, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York, USA
• Summer Holiday, Galerie Bernhard Knaus Fine Art, Mannheim, Germany
• Alta Densità. Brancolini Grimaldi Arte contemporanea, Firenze, Italy

2002

• Camere con vista, Il Filatoio di Caraglio Continuità: Arte in Toscana 1968-1989, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy
• Cache-Cache, Camouflage, MUDAC Musée de Design et d'Arts appliqués contemporains, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Trade, Nederlands Foto Institut, Rotterdam, Holland

2001

• Mediterraneo um nuovo muro?, Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
• Effetto Provos, Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy
• Kunst und Kur, Kunsthaus Meran, Germany
• Arkens Samling, ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj/Denmark Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
• Mutamenti+Analogie, Centro Trevi, Bolzano, Italy
• Biozones, Forum Culturel Blanc-Mesnil, Bobigny, France
• Contemporary Artists of the Mediterranean, Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
• Collection 3, FRAC Alsace, France
• Painterly Photography, Blains Fine Arts, London, England

2000

• Tempo!, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy
• Arte y Tiempo, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain
• Toi, Paris, tu m'as pris dans tes bras, Galerie du Jour Agnes b., Paris, France
• PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
• Kuenstler fuer die Natur, WWF, Munich, Germany
• La Collection de photograhie d'Agnes b., CNP Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
• Desirs de Rivages, 1ere Biennale Internationale de la Photographie Maritime, Musee nationale de la Marine, France
• NoConfines, Musei di Porta Romana, Milano, Italy
• Stadt, Land, Mensch, Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
• Studio Guenzani, Milano, Italy
• Le Temps Vite, MNAM Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Dormir/Sleep, Coromandel Press, SpainFirenze Fotografia Duemila, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Polistampa, Firenze, Italy
• Pique-Nique, Binome, Paris, France
• Art y Temps, Centre de Cultura Contemporanea, Barcelona, Spain
• Biozones, Forum Culturel de Blanc-Mesnil, France

1999

• In Uso, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al Mare, Italy
• Paesaggi Italiani del '900, Palazzo dell'Arengario, Milan, Italy
• Farniente, Maison de la Culture, Amiens, France
• Photography from the Martin z. Margulies Collection, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA
• The Big Picture: Large Format Photography, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA
• Espana '98, Madrid, Spain

1998

• Un nouveau paysage humain, XXIXes Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, France
• Paisagens do quotidiano, Encontros de Fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
• Italian Photojournalism around 1968, Triennale, Milan, Italy
• Paesaggi Italiani, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy

1997

• Un Paese Unico, Museo Alinari, Firenze, Italy
• Europa, Encontros de fotografia, Coimbra, Portugal
• Postwar Italian Photojournalism, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
• Sguardigardesani, with Gabriele Basilico, Museo Civico, Riva del Garda, Italy

1993

• Where Olives Grow, Biennale Internazionale di Fotografia, Torino, Italy

Collections

• AGO Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
• Conservatoire du Littoral, Paris, France
• Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
• The Guggenheim, New York, USA
• Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain
• Belgacom, Brussels, Belgium
• Fondazione Sandretto Rebaudengo, Guarene, Torino, Italy
• Metropolitan Bank Trust Photo Collection, Chicago, USA
• MMK Frankfurt am Main, Sammlung E-On, Dusseldorf, Germany
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, USA
• Agnesb. Paris, France
• Fond National d'Art Contemporaine, Paris, France
• Arts Plastiques, Belgium
• Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
• Fortis Bank, Germany
• FRAC Alsace, France
• ABN Amro, Holland
• Arken Museum, Denmark
• Akzo Nobel
• Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
• Neue Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria
• UBS - SBV, Switzerland/Italy
• Samuel B. Harn Museum of Art , Gainesville, Florida, USA
• Unicredit, Germany
• Autostadt Wolfsburg - Volkswagen Collection, Germany
• Elton John, Atlanta, USA
• Vacances Bleues, Paris, France
• Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, USA
• Essl Sammlung, Austria
• Deutsche Bank, Germany
• Rupert Everett, England
• Sacha Cohen, USA
• Cameron Diaz, USA
• Courteney Cox, USA
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA
• The Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, USA
• AT&T Corporate Collection, USA
• And many others

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