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Jeroen Witvliet
b. Capelle aan den Ijssel, Netherlands, 1972

"My work as a painter has revolved around the questioning of the communicative possibilities of painting. By exploring and experimenting with materials, subject matter and conceptualization, I try to question the acceptance of painting as a visual, communicative tool. Graphic use of images related to world events and world history, different techniques dealing with the materiality of paint, use of categorizable styles such as landscape painting, abstraction and the use of narrative all form part of this investigation.

A painting is first and foremost an abstraction, a formalized visual, and when no longer in sight anymore, capable of becoming a pure mental image. The memory of the work lingers on and can, overtime reshape the first impression to become a fully altered ‘ after image ‘ of the first encounter. For me paint is both materiality and ghost like lingering. I engage in transforming suspended pigment into a reactionary statement. A statement informed by the world around me, its politics, its forgetting. A statement informed as well by art history, emotion and the daily bombardment of ‘other’ visuals."

EDUCATION

1996 - BFA, Rotterdam Academy of Visual Arts/ Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1996 - Photography, film and studio (painting)
Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006 - Jeroen Witvliet: In this light...whisper, 24", Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver BC Exhibition images
2005 - Jeroen Witvliet: Random Acts, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver BC
- Island Film and Video Festival, selected video works (groupshow) Prenelle Gallery, London UK
- Edges Festival, Film and video, selected work, Victoria BC
- Sunscreen, group show, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB

2004 - Jeroen Witvliet : Moratorium, Elissa Cristall Gallery, Vancouver BC
- Event Horizon, multi media (3 person exhibit), Open Space, Victoria BC
- Interface, group show, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria BC
- Sunscreen, group show, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB

2003 - Vestiges, three person show, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo BC
- Residue, curated show, ARTROPOLIS, Vancouver, BC
- Group Show, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB

2002 - Group Show, Galerie StLaurent+Hill, Ottawa ON
- Shades of Black, group show, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB
- San Francisco International Art Exposition 5, San Francisco CA
- ART MIAMI, Miami FL

2001 - Group Show, BC Festival of the Arts, Fort St. John, BC
- Solo Exhibition, Vortex Gallery, Salt Spring Island BC
- Two Person Show, Fran Willis Gallery, Victoria BC
- The Impossibility of Travel,Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB

2000 - Landscape Redefined, group show, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo BC
- Group Show, Royal Canadian Academy of the Arts, Gallery Stratford, Toronto ON
- Solo Exhibition, Vortex Gallery, Saltspring Island BC
- Landscape X8, group show, Newzones Gallery, Calgary AB

INTER MEDIA PROJECTS

2004 - Epilogue, DVD, single channel projection
2003 - Runner, DVD, 3 channel projection, continuous loop
1998 - Discordant, 8mm to video, single channel projection

GRANTS

2005 - Project Grant, BC Arts Council
2002 - VADA Award, Vancouver Foundation for the Arts
2001 - Creation Production Grant
- Canada Council for the Arts
1996 - ERAMUS Scholarship, Rotterdam, The Netherlands