Artists

SEBASTIAAN BREMER

Sebastiaan Bremer
CV

Born 1970, Amsterdam
Lives and works New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions



2009
Small Wonders, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Panta Rei, BravinLee Programs, New York, USA
Dream a Little Dream of Me, Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
Triptych, James Fuentes LLC, New York, USA
Microkosmos, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, Sweden

2008
Volta Halle, Hales Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Cold Turkey, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin Germany

2006     
Roebling Hall, Chelsea, New York
Kraai, Hales Gallery, London, UK

2005      
Sub Neblina Bota Luz Baixa, Rabobank Collectie, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Galica, Milan, Italy

2004    
Seething, Lying and Other Works, Satellite, New York
Monkey, Air de Paris, Paris, France

2003     
303 Gallery @ White Box, New York  
Vanishing Point, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York
You've Made Your Mother Cry, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany

2002     
Janus Schaper, Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil

2001    
Veronica, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York    
Hotel Lydmar, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Thomas Nordanstad

2000     
Melanchromia, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil

1994     
Gallery Reisel, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    
Selected Group Exhibitions



2009

Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, curated by Philae Knight and Amanda Stack, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

Through a glass, darkly, curated by Jimi Billingsley, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA

Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA

Deviate, Schroeder-Romero, Chelsea, New York, USA

Human Nature Machine, Wonderland Art Space, Kopenhagen, Denmark

Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Art Advisory Services, Chelsea, New York, USA

Contemporary Collage, cuated by Jill Olm, Foster Gallery, University of Winsconsin, USA

Drawings, curated by Jimi Billingsley, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
Parsing Spirituality, curated by Micaela Giovannotti, Affirmation Arts, New York, USA

2008
Art Basel Miami Beach, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Miami, Florida, USA
Hales Gallery, Wynwood, Miami, Florida, USA
New Works, Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
When it's a photograph, curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Multiverse, cuarted by Pilar Tompkins, Claremont Museum of Art, California, USA
Tales of Flames, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Exquisitude, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA
Versions of Reality, curated by Lee Stoetzel, selections from the West Collection, NEXT, Chicago, USA
Your Documents Please, MAC-Itami, Japan
Passed as present, York Art Gallery, York, UK

2007
Inaugural Show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, Sweden
In het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Netherlands
Photoplus, Main & Middle Gallery Blue, Star Contemporary Art Center, Lilly Wei curator, Texas
The Photograph as Canvas, curated by Stephen Maine, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
Out of True, Byblos Gallery, Verona, Italy
The End Begins, Lodevans Collection at the Hospital, London, UK
Unseen, Roebling Hall, Chelsea, New York
ICPNY Selections 2007, Curated by James Sienna

2006
Out of True, Curated by Micaela Giovannotti  & Joyce Korotkin, part of Art Basel Miami
Barbara Thumm Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Invisible Museum, curated by Devon Dikeou-Denver Art Museum

2005           
Stay Inside, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004   
Is One Thing Better Than Another? Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne, Germany
Pin-Up: Contemporary Collage and Drawing, Tate Modern, London, UK
Sugar Hiccup, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, curated by Bob Nickas, PS1 Contemporary Art Museum, New York
Drawn/Quartered, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, North Carolina
Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection, Bruce Museum, Connecticut
Open House: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Home Extension, Albany University Museum, curated  by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ, New York

2003
Obsession, Galica, lan, Italy curated by L. M. Barbero   
Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, Germany
The Ballroom Show, Gimm- Eis Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, curated by Paul Hedge, London, UK
The Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum (permanent collection), London, UK
Ybakatu Gallery, Brazil
Far Away, So Close, Clare Weiss Fine Arts, New York
Group Show, Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden
Water, Water, Rotunda Gallery, curated by Lily Wei, New York
The Armory Show, Roebling Hall stand, New York

2002
Paris/Brooklyn, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Transformer II, Air de Paris, Paris, curated by Inez van Lamsweerde
Quase Desenho, Adriana Penteado, Sao Paulo
Recent Works, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Art Chicago, Roebling Hall, Chicago
ARCO, Roebling Hall, Madrid, Spain

2001
Fast Fwd: Miami, Roebling Hall, Miami, Florida
Song Poems, Cohen, Leslie & Brown, New York, curated by Steven Hull
Song Poems, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
Song Poems, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2000     
Figured Out, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Lightness, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York
Aspects of Contemporary Landscape, Marcello Marvelli Fine Arts, New York
MeatMarket Art Fair, Roebling Hall, New York
White, Nicolai Fine Arts, New York, curated by Irina Popiashvili
3D, Zingmagazine, New York
Polar Bear In A Snow Storm, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts

1999   
Sebastiaan Bremer/Vince Szarek, Gallery Untitled, Texas
The Stroke, Exit Art, New York, curated by Shahzia Sikander
Blueprint, Spark Gallery, New York
Anti -World, Gallery Untitled, Texas, curated by Marcos Rosales

1998      
Bank Holiday, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Imagination Dead Imagine, Silverstein Gallery, New York

1996     
The Art Market, Gen Art, New York

1995     
Thicket on the Lamb, Thicket Gallery, New York

1992     
Protectors, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands


Selected Projects
 
2001    
Collaboration with M&M, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin for Callaghan campaign, VOGUE US, Italia, France, March
Curator for Volume, a magazine of drawing magazine

2000     
Curator for 36 page - 3D insert in Zingmagazine, October/January

1991-1993         
Curator of ALBUM, travelling group shows in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and New York City

Awards

2006
Lower East Side Printshop residency

2001
ART OMI residency program, New York, USA

1998     
Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, USA
Stipend Netherlands/America Foundation, New York

1997  
Basisbeurs S.F.B.K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1995     
Basisbeurs S.F.B.K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1992     
Werkbeurs S.F.B.K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
        
Residencies

2006    
Lower East Side Printshop residency

1998
Scholarship, Showhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine

Bibliography

2009
Parsing Spirituality, review, The New Yorker, February 9 & 16
Paterson, Carrie. Multiverse at Claremount Museum of Art, Artillery Magazine Issue 3

2008
Muller, Katrin. Lufspiegelungen, Tip Berlin, Issue 59
Creative Face, review, May
Thomsen, Henrike. Valerie Favre und in der Galerie Barbara Thumm, Artnet, May
Niederlandeweb, review, May

2007   
Someone's Garden, Issue #2
McAuliffe, Kathleen. Medical Mysteries, Secrets of Sleep, Discover, Summer
Genocchio, Benjamin. Beyond Airbrushing, New York Times, April 1st

2006
McAdams, Shane. Sebastiaan Bremer, Artseen, April
New Yorker, March

2005             
HxBxD, Review in Vokskrant, March 4th
Maine, Steven. The Photograph as canvas, Art on Paper, Sept/Oct
Zing Magazine, curated project, Winter
Art on Paper, September/ October
Spaninks, Angelique. De Rabo Kunstcollectie, Kunstbeeld, Cahier 5
HxBxD, Review in Vokskrant, March 4th

2004
Volk, Gregory. Big Brash Borough, review of Open House: Brooklyn, Art in America, No. 8, September
The New Yorker, March
Time Out, March
IN magazine 05 (article and cover), April
The Brooklyn Rail, April
Essay by Russ, Sabine. Catalogue of HOME EXTENSION, University Art Museum, University at Albany Press
Harper's, February
Photography Now, January
Archistorm 7, February

2003    
Tubelight, September
Neue Review, December
Die Tageszeitung, November 26
u_SPOT, August
The Big Draw, Paul Hedge, ArtReview, May
Daniels, Corina. Zeichnungen auf Fotos von Sebastiaan Bremer, Die Welt, December 5
Bettina Müller, Kathrin. Zeit-Punkte Galerie Thumm, TAZ, November 2
Rebel Magazine, volume 6
Visionaire #41

2002     
Oyster, #39
Charley 02
Veja, Orlando Margarido, October 23
Coimbra, Eduardo. O desenho na lingauagem de 17 artistas, O Estado de Sao Paulo, October 18
Greene, Robert. Artforum, April, p. 115

2001     
Planet Magazine, Fall Issue
Copa Cabana, Rebel, Numéro 2
BlackBook, Winter Issue, pp. 112-113
Cyphers Wright, Jeffrey. Painted Pictures, Art & Auction, November, p.136
Sebastiaan Bremer, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, November 23
Esquire, Japan, November, p. 83
Top Ten, Inez Van Lamsweerde, Artforum, April

2000     
Copa Cabana, Rebel, Numéro 2
Melanchromia, Zingmagazine, Fall
Melanchromia, Jornal do Estado, Spring
Melanchromia, Estado do Parana , Spring

1999     
The Gallery: The Artist As Curator, Wall Street Journal, May 20
NL in NY, Parool PS, May

1998     
Sebastiaan Bremer, New York Magazine, April

Publications

2007    
Schmidt, Jason. Artists

2006     
Russ, Sabine and Kantor, Jordan. Avila, Published by Roebling Hall and 99 Publishers
Out Of True, catalogue, Published by Byblos

2004  
Russ, Sabine. Home Extension, University Art Museum, University at Albany Press

2003
Essays by Koerner von Gustorf, Oliver and Volk, Gregory. Monkey Brain, catalogue, Published by Galerie Barbara Thumm, January/ February

2002
Essay by Oliva, Fernando. Quase Desenho, catalogue

2001
Catalogue of Song Poems, curated by Steven Hull