Sebastiaan Bremer

Sebastiaan Bremer (born 27 June 1970) is a Dutch artist who lives and works in New York City.

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 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 Karen LaGatta editions , 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 Source:

Solo exhibitions 2008 Solo show at Voltahalle, Hales Gallery, Basel Cold Turkey, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2006 Kraaij, Hales Gallery, London, UK Sebastiaan Bremer, Roebling Hall, NY, NY, USA

2005 Sub Neblina Use Luz Baixa, Gemeente Museum, The Hague, NLD Galica, Milan, ITA

2004 Seething, Lying And Other Work, Satellite, NY, NY, USA Monkey, Air de Paris, Paris, FR

2003 Sebastiaan Bremer, 303 Gallery at White Box, Mari Spirito curator, NY, NY, USA Vanishing Point, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USA You’ve Made Your Mother Cry, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2002 Janus, Schaper Sundberg Gallery, Stockholm, SWE Sebastiaan Bremer, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA

2001 Veronica, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USA Hotel Lydmar, curated by Thomas Nordanstad, Stockholm, SWE

2000 Melanchromia, Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA

1994 Sebastiaan Bremer, Gallery Reisel, Rotterdam, NLD

Group exhibitions

2008 When it’s a photograph, curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA, USA MULTIVERSE, curated by Pilar Tompkins, Claremont Museum of Art, CA, USA Your Documents Please, MAC-Itami, Japan Versions of Reality, curated by Lee Stoetzel, selections from the West Collection, NEXT, Chicago When it's a photograph, curated by Soo Kim, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA Passed as present, York Art Gallery, York, UK

2007 Inaugural show, Mia Sundberg Galeri, Stockholm, SWE In het woud - op zoek naar betekenis, Armando Museum, Amersfoort, NLD Photoplus, curated by Lilly Wei, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, TX, USA Out of True, Byblos Gallery, Verona, ITA The End Begins, curated by Gil Hedley, selections from the Lodevans Collection, London, UK Unseen, Roebling Hall, Chelsea, NY, USA ICPNY Selections 2007, curated by James Siena, ICPNY, USA The Photograph as Canvas, curated by Stephen Maine, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA

2006 Out of True, curated by Micaela Giovannotti & Joyce Korotkin, part of Art Basel Miami I Walk the Lines, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DEU

2005 Stay Inside, Shoshanna Wayne Gallery, LA, USA

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

2003 Obsession, Galica, curated by L. M. Barbero, Milan, ITA Game Over, Grimm Rosenfeld Gallery, Munich, DEU The Ballroom Show, Gimm- Eis Gallery, Copenhagen, DNK Some Panoramas, Pump House Gallery, curated by Paul Hedge, London, UK The Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum permanent collection, London, UK Ybakatu Gallery, Curitiba, BRA Far Away, So Close, Clare Weiss Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA Group Show, Mia Sundberg Galleri, Stockholm, SWE Water, Water, Rotunda Gallery, curated by Lily Wei, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2002 Paris/Brooklyn, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, FRA Transformer II, Air de Paris, curated by Inez van Lamsweerde, Paris, FRA Quase Desenho, Adriana Penteado, São Paulo, BRA Recent Works, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001 Fast Fwd: Miami, Roebling Hall, Miami, FL, US Song Poems, Cohen, Leslie & Brown, curated by Steven Hull, New York, NY, USA

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

1999 Sebastiaan Bremer/Vince Szarek Gallery Untitled, curated by Steven Cochran, Dallas, TX, USA The Stroke, Exit Art, curated by Shahzia Sikander, New York, NY, USA Blueprint, Spark Gallery, New York, NY, USA Anti –World, Gallery Untitled, curated by Marcos Rosales, Dallas, TX, USA

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

1996 The Art Market, Gen Art, New York, NY, USA

1995 Thicket on the Lamb, Thicket Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1992 Protectors, Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, NLD

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