Michaël Borremans
(Belgian, born 1963)
Biography
Michaël Borremans is a contemporary Belgian artist whose photo-based paintings are characterized by their unsettlingly surreal imagery. His work has drawn comparisons to both Edouard Manet due to the artist's fluid brushwork and choice of unnerving subject matter. “I do not work thematically. But ultimately, works from a certain period have always an element that connects them together,” he has explained. “For example there was a time when I painted sleeping girls, or girls who seemed to be dead. That’s probably a way to express something that you’re subconsciously dealing with.” Born in 1963 in Gerardsbergen, Belgium, he received his MFA in 1996 from Hogeschool voor Wetenschap en Kunst in Ghent, and went on to work for several years as a teacher at the Secondary Municipal Art Institute of Ghent. In 2014, he was the subject of the mid-career retrospective “Michaël Borremans: As Sweet as it Gets” at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Borremans' paintings can be found in institutions around the world, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. He currently lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
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