Artists
SEBASTIAAN BREMER
CV
Born 1970, Amsterdam
Lives and works New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Sebastiaan Bremer, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
"Small Wonders", Hales Gallery, London, UK
2009
"Panta Rei," Bravin Lee Programs, New York City, USA
2009
"Dream a Little Dream of Me," Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, Netherlands
2009
Triptych, James Fuentes, LLC, New York, USA
2009
Mikrokosmos, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2008
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
2010
The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA
Phantoms, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, USA
Anti-Trend, Curated by Amelia Abdullahsani, Sarvia Jasso and Kathy Garcia; Lu Magnus, New York, USA
In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, USA
2009
Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, curated by Philae Knight and Amanda Stack, FLAG 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 Centre, Chicago, USA
Deviate, Schroeder-Romero, Chelsea, New York, USA
Human. Nature. Machine, Wonderland Art Space, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Contemporary Collage, Curated by Jill Olm, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, USA
Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Fine Art Advisory Services, New York, USA
Drawings, curated by Jimi Billingsly, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
Deviate, Schoeder Romero, New York City, USA
Presentations of new limited edition prints for 99 publishers at Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PS: Parsing Spirituality, Curated by Micaela Giovanotti, Chelsea, New York City, USA
2008
Passed as present, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2007
Inaugural Show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
In het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Netherlands
Photoplus, Main & Middle Gallery Blue, Star Contemporary Art Center, Lilly Wei curator, Texas
The Past in the Present, curated by Frank van der Stok, Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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
2009
Het Vijfde Seizoen residency, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
2006
Lower East Side Printshop residency
2001
ART OMI residency program, New York, USA
1998
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
2009
Het Vijfde Seizoen, The Netherlands
2009
Visiting resident Professor, Cooper Union, Spring Semester
2006
Visiting Professor Dept. of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Semester
2006
Lower East Side Printshop residency
2001
ART OMI, New York, USA
1998
Scholarship, Showhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Bibliography
2009
Parsing Spirituality, The New Yorker, February 9 & 16
Paterson, Carrie. Multiverse at Claremount Museum of Art, Artillery Magazine, Jan/Feb
2008
Muller, Katrin, Luftspiegelungen, Tip Berlin, Issue 59
Creative Face, review, May
Thomsen, Henrike, Valerie Favre und in der Galerrie Barbara Thumm, Artnet, May
Niederlandeweb, review, May
2007
Someone's Garden, Issue #2
McAuliffe, Kathleen. Discover, Medical Mysteries, Secrets of Sleep, 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
Born 1970, Amsterdam
Lives and works New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Sebastiaan Bremer, Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
"Small Wonders", Hales Gallery, London, UK
2009
"Panta Rei," Bravin Lee Programs, New York City, USA
2009
"Dream a Little Dream of Me," Het Vijfde Seizoen, Den Dolder, Netherlands
2009
Triptych, James Fuentes, LLC, New York, USA
2009
Mikrokosmos, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
2008
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
2010
The Pencil of Nature, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, USA
Phantoms, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, USA
Anti-Trend, Curated by Amelia Abdullahsani, Sarvia Jasso and Kathy Garcia; Lu Magnus, New York, USA
In a Paperweight, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, USA
2009
Re-Accession: For Sale by Owner, curated by Philae Knight and Amanda Stack, FLAG 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 Centre, Chicago, USA
Deviate, Schroeder-Romero, Chelsea, New York, USA
Human. Nature. Machine, Wonderland Art Space, Kopenhagen, Denmark
Contemporary Collage, Curated by Jill Olm, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, USA
Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Fine Art Advisory Services, New York, USA
Drawings, curated by Jimi Billingsly, Pablo's Birthday, New York, USA
Deviate, Schoeder Romero, New York City, USA
Presentations of new limited edition prints for 99 publishers at Art Amsterdam, The Netherlands
PS: Parsing Spirituality, Curated by Micaela Giovanotti, Chelsea, New York City, USA
2008
Passed as present, York Art Gallery, York, UK
2007
Inaugural Show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
In het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Netherlands
Photoplus, Main & Middle Gallery Blue, Star Contemporary Art Center, Lilly Wei curator, Texas
The Past in the Present, curated by Frank van der Stok, Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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
2009
Het Vijfde Seizoen residency, Den Dolder, The Netherlands
2006
Lower East Side Printshop residency
2001
ART OMI residency program, New York, USA
1998
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
2009
Het Vijfde Seizoen, The Netherlands
2009
Visiting resident Professor, Cooper Union, Spring Semester
2006
Visiting Professor Dept. of Painting and Printmaking, Virginia Commonwealth University Fall Semester
2006
Lower East Side Printshop residency
2001
ART OMI, New York, USA
1998
Scholarship, Showhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine
Bibliography
2009
Parsing Spirituality, The New Yorker, February 9 & 16
Paterson, Carrie. Multiverse at Claremount Museum of Art, Artillery Magazine, Jan/Feb
2008
Muller, Katrin, Luftspiegelungen, Tip Berlin, Issue 59
Creative Face, review, May
Thomsen, Henrike, Valerie Favre und in der Galerrie Barbara Thumm, Artnet, May
Niederlandeweb, review, May
2007
Someone's Garden, Issue #2
McAuliffe, Kathleen. Discover, Medical Mysteries, Secrets of Sleep, 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