Sebastiaan Bremer


Sebastiaan Bremer is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City.
Bremer turns photographs, found or snapped, of himself and his family into trippy, dusty memories that reveal the subconscious and the real world in one blink of an eye. He invents a poetic braille made up of text, personal symbols and ghostly shapes that, when integrated with their complex grounds, disappear again, buried in a sea of suspended dots. By slowly and laboriously painting on top of quickly taken snapshots, Bremer slows down time to render an interior landscape.
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Work

Born in Amsterdam, Bremer attended the open studio program at the Vrije Academie in The Hague from 1989 until 1991. During his early years he meticulously reproduced personal photographs in paint. He received the Werkbeurs Grant from FBKVB in the Netherlands and moved to New York in 1992 where he began to work primarily in black and white, reemphasizing his connection to photography.
In 1994 he had his first solo show at Galerie Reisel in the Netherlands and began both exhibiting in group shows and curating them. He was assistant to several artists in New York, and worked on production for the photographers Inez and Vinoodh from 1996 until 2000.
In 1998, he produced Liza May Post's 'Trying' film and photograph. In that same year he attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine where he began experimenting with murals, collage paintings, and began drawing directly on photographs, the style which he continues to use today.
In 1999, he finished his first large scale Ink on C-Print drawing entitled 10 AM-PM.
In 2001, he had a solo debut, 'Veronica' at Roebling Hall, New York. His work is part of several important collections in the US and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA, Zabludowicz Trust, the Rabobank collection and Lodeveans Contemporary LLP.
A new solo exhibition of his work opened May 2, 2008 in Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin. In the same year he worked on a small edition of jewelry pieces in collaboration with Moritz Glik for, a commission for the Rabobank in the Netherlands and new works for various group shows, as well as an upcoming solo show at Mia Sundberg Galleri in Stockholm.

Selected exhibitions

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Solo exhibitions

2008
2006Kraaij, Hales Gallery, London, UKSebastiaan Bremer, Roebling Hall, NY, NY, USA
2005Sub Neblina Use Luz Baixa, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, NLD
2004Seething, Lying And Other Work, Satellite, NY, NY, USAMonkey, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
2003Sebastiaan Bremer, 303 Gallery at White Box, Mari Spirito curator, NY, NY, USAVanishing Point, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USAYou’ve Made Your Mother Cry, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU
2002Janus, Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, SWESebastiaan Bremer, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA
2001Veronica, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2000Melanchromia, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA
1994Sebastiaan Bremer, Gallery Reisel, Rotterdam, NLD

Group exhibitions

2008When it’s a photograph, curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USAMULTIVERSE, curated by Pilar Tompkins, Claremont Museum of Art, CA, USAYour Documents Please, MAC-Itami, JapanVersions of Reality, curated by Lee Stoetzel, selections from the West Collection, NEXT, ChicagoWhen it's a photograph, curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USAPassed as present, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2007Inaugural show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, SWEIn het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Amersfoort, NLDPhotoplus, curated by Lilly Wei, Blue Star [Contemporary Art Center], TX, USAOut of True, Byblos Gallery, Verona, ITAThe End Begins, curated by Gil Hedley, selections from the Lodevans Collection, London, UKUnseen, Roebling Hall, Chelsea, NY, USAICPNY Selections 2007, curated by James Siena, ICPNY, USAThe Photograph as Canvas, curated by Stephen Maine, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
2006Out of True, curated by Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin, part of Art Basel MiamiI Walk the Lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU
2005Stay Inside, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, LA, USA
2004Is One Thing Better Than Another? Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, DEUPin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, UKSugar Hiccup, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, JPNCurious Crystals of Unusual Purity, PS1/MoMA, curated by Bob Nickas Queens, NY, USADrawn/Quartered, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, USAOff the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT, USAOpen House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, USAHome Extension, Albany University Museum, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, Albany, NY, USA
2003Obsession, Galica, curated by L. M. Barbero, Milan, ITAGame Over, Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, DEUThe Ballroom Show, Gimm- Eis Gallery, Copenhagen, DNKSome Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, curated by Paul Hedge, London, UKThe Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum permanent collection, London, UK
2002Paris/Brooklyn, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FRATransformer II, Air de Paris, curated by Inez van Lamsweerde, Paris, FRAQuase Desenho, Adriana Penteado, São Paulo, BRARecent Works, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2001Fast Fwd: Miami, Roebling Hall, Miami, FL, USSong Poems, Cohen, Leslie & Brown, curated by Steven Hull, New York, NY, USA
2000Figured Out, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY, USGroupshow, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, USALightness, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York, NY, USAAspects of Contemporary Landscape, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York, NY, USAMeatMarket Art Fair, Roebling Hall, New York, NY, USAWhite, Nicolai Fine Arts, curated by Irina Popiashvili, New York, NY, USA3D, Zingmagazine, New York, NY, USAPolar Bear In A Snow Storm, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, USA
1999Sebastiaan Bremer/Vince Szarek Gallery Untitled, curated by Steven Cochran, Dallas, TX, USAThe Stroke, Exit Art, curated by Shahzia Sikander, New York, NY, USABlueprint, Spark Gallery, New York, NY, USAAnti –World, Gallery Untitled, curated by Marcos Rosales, Dallas, TX, USA
1998Bank Holiday, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USAImagination Dead Imagine, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1996The Art Market, Gen Art, New York, NY, USA
1995Thicket on the Lamb, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992Protectors, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, NLD

Collections

His work is part of several important collections in the US and abroad, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The MoMA, Zabludowicz Trust, the Rabobank Collection and Lodeveans Contemporary LLP.