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Biography
Gijs van Lith, born in 1984, received his education at the art academy AKV St Joost in ‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL). After earning his bachelor’s degree, he obtained his master’s degree at the same academy a few years later in 2013. The work of Gijs van Lith quickly caught the attention of the artistic world; the artist has been nominated for several prestigious prizes for young artists and in 2009 he won the Thieme Art Young Talent Award. Meanwhile, his work is also gaining international prominence and is being included in national and international private, corporate collections.His work is also in the public art collection of Het Noord Brabants Museum. He has previously exhibited in New York, London, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Brussels, London, Antwerpen, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Van Lith was also invite for a recidency in Koln at Lesien Art Foundation and at the CCA Andratx in Mallorca. He exhibited a monumental installation during his solo-exhibition at the Kunsthal Rotterdam in 2018. And Van Lith has duo exhibition with Henk Visch at Het Noord Brabants Museum in the Netherlands in February 2020 and His solo exhibition at MOYA Museum in Breda in 2022.Gijs van Lith's artistic research is mainly focused on painting but his body of work also includes sculptures and installations. The creative process, the choice of materials and the pictorial strategy – understood as modus operandi – play a fundamental role and are initially positioned as essential substrates for each new creation. Van Lith considers the canvas on which a painting is made as important as the material with which he paints it; and aspects such as materiality, the originality of the act and the luminosity granted to the physicality of the painting, unquestionably cover all his work.Education:
2011 / 2013 MFA: Master of fine art, St. Joost, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2004 / 2008 BA: AKV St. Joost, Autonome Beeldende kunst, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Prizes / Awards / Grants/ Residence
2020 / 2024 Awarded the Stipendium for Established Artists by the Mondriaan Fund
2020 Tao Hua Tan Residency, Anhui province, CN
2018 CCA Andratx Artist in Residence Program, Mallorca, ES
2018 Lepsien Silkscreen Grand, Dusseldorf, DE
2014 Buning Brongers Prijs (Nominee)
2014 Gaverprijs 2014 (4th place)
2011 Royal Awards for painting (Nominee)
2011 Gasunie art prize (Nominee)
2011 Brabant Talent Lab Award 2011 (nominee)
2010 Royal Awards for painting (Nominee)
2009 Thieme Art Young Talent, Art Amsterdam 2009 (Winner)
2008 Buning Brongers Prijs (Nominee)
2008 Royal Awards for painting (Nominee)
2008 ArtOlive Jong Talent (Nominee)
2008 Hans Brinker Budget Hotel Trophy (Nominee)
Solo exhibitions
2023 Starshine, Curators Room, Barcalona, ES
2022 Up is Down, Down is Up and Up is Up, MOYA Museum of Young Art, Oosterhout, NL
2022 Three Legged Dog, MPV Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
2020 En Dehors Des Murs De Palais, Het Noord Brabants Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2020 After Nurture, MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2018 Thinner Spirits, Rotterdam Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
2018 Super Beast, MPV Gallery, Knokke, BE
2016 Welcome To The Thunderdome, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 Hardly Anything Sticks Anymore, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2014 Like My first love I can’t get you outta my head, RH Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA
2014 Engine room, Wiggle room, Punt WG, Art space, Amsterdam, NL
2011 Gijs van Lith, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2011 View, APG headquarters, Amsterdam, NL
2011 ‘PAINT!’, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL
2010 Thieme Art Talent Award, Art Amsterdam, RAI, Amsterdam, NL
2009 Gijs van Lith, Galerie Bart, Amsterdam, NL
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2023 The Other Country, Centre d’arte Contemporian, CAC Museum, Meymac, Fr
2023 After Nature, Dots Gallery, Belgrado, Servia
2023 Really Real, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2023 Art Rotterdam, MPV Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2023 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Discovery of Modernity, Noord Brabants Museum, NL
2022 Ballroom Project, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Antwerpen, BE
2022 Celebracao, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Een Brandende Hoepel, Huis Henk Visch, Eindhoven, NL
2022 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Discovery of Modernity, Noord Brabants Museum, NL
2021 Discovery of Modernity, Museum Singer Laren, Laren, NL
2021 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2021 Celebracao, Josilda da Conceicao Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Material Mutilation, Artphy, Artspace, Onstwedde, NL
2021 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Here we are, MPV Gallery, Oisterwijk, NL
2020 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2019 An End With No Beginning, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2019 Sofreh, No Man’s Art Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2019 Book Happen, Kunstenlab, Deventer, NL
2019 Big Art, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Hembrug Project Fabriek, Amsterdam, NL
2019 HR333, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, DE
2018 CODE Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
2018 Interior Motive(s), MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2018 Art Amsterdam, Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Brother From Another Mother, Majke Hüsstege Projects, MPV Gallery, Knokke, BE
2018 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Rotterdam, NL
2018 PAN Amsterdam, Art Fair, MPV Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 Mindframes, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2018 No/time, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2017 New Amsterdam, Marisa Newman Projects, New York, NY, USA
2017 The Browsing Chamber, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2017 Bech Risvig Collection, House for Kunst & Design, Holstebro, DK
2017 Attitudes in Painting, Hunted Projects, Lepsien Art Foundation, Dusseldorf, DE
2017 Abstracted, Aeroplastics Gallery, Brussels, BE
2017 Orakel der Abstracten, Majke Husstege Projects, MPV, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2016 Art Miami, Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA
2016 The End, Lets Start Again, Donau83, Art Space, Berlin, DE
2016 Contemporary Visions VI, BEERS London Gallery, London, UK
2016 This Art Fair, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Impossibile, Spacio Bianco, Art Space, Torino, IT
2016 Amsterdam Art Fair, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2016 Got It For Cheap Vol.5, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2016 Got It For Cheap Vol.4, Agnes B Galerie Dejour, Paris, FR
2015 Art Rotterdam, Art Fair, Majke Hüsstege, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Amusing ourselves to death, Galerie Frank Taal, Rotterdam, NL
2015 Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Den Haag, NL
2015 20 years of deferred value, Nieuwe Vide, Art space, Haarlem, NL
2015 Reboot, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2015 Heavy metal, Grafisch Atelier, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2015 HYPERHYPER, Willem II Fabriek, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
Publications / Texts / Catalogue
2015 Catalogue: Art Rotterdam
2014 The Gaverprijs 2014, De schakel, Waregem, BE
2013 Traces: Elly Stegeman, Curator Stedelijk museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2012 Kunstbeeld: May edition, Schilderkunst 2.0 (A paintings womb, Diptych)
2011 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2011 Text: ‘Paint!’ by Maarten Bertheux
2010 Monographic: Gijs van Lith, Author: Elly Stegeman, Curator Stedelijk
museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch
2010 Catalogue: Preview Berlin, Art Fair, Berlin, Germany
2010 Catalogue: Art Amsterdam 2010
2010 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
2008 Catalogue: Royal Awards for painting, Royal Palace Amsterdam
Curator
2020 MPV Booth at Art fair Art Rotterdam, NL
2020 ARTLABB art-space and residency program, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2019 ARTLABB art-space and residency program, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2018 MPV Booth at CODE Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 Interior Motive(s), MPV Gallery, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2018 Brother From Another Mother, Majke Hüsstege Projects, MPV Gallery, Knokke, BE
2017 The Browsing Chamber, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2015 HYPERHYPER, WII-Fabriek ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2014 The Kick off, VORTplatform, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2012 Young Guns, Galerie Majke Hüsstege, Amsterdam, NL
2009 The Drive-in, DMT-loods, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL -
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