Artists

Profile

Born in Belgium in 1978
Lives and works in Tokyo
   
【Education】 
2020 Completed PhD at Tokyo University of the Arts – Crafts Department Metal Casting
2017 Received Master’s degree at Tokyo University of the Arts – Crafts Department Metal Casting
2013 Tokyo University of the Arts – Crafts Department Metal Casting – MEXT Research Student  (Monbukagakusho) (until 2015)
2002 Received Master’s degree at Royal academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, Belgium
2000 Graduated, Royal academy of Fine Arts of Antwerp, Belgium
   
【Work】  
2003 ART CASTING (Bronze Foundry) Head of the metal colouring department (until 2013)
   
【Selected Solo Exhibitions】
2020 VALENTIJN VANMEIRHAEGHE (SEIZAN Gallery, Tokyo)
   
【Selected Group Exhibitions】  
2020 Growth & Evolution 1st International Jewelry Exhibition (Kunming, China)
2019 Illusion of Metal Casting (Tokyo University of the Arts Chinretsukan Gallery, Tokyo)
48th Japanese Traditional Metal Craft Exhibition (Meiji Shrine Office・Tokyo)
Tokyo University of the Arts Doctoral Program Exhibition 2019
(Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo)
2018  Togenkyo Art Festiva (Tenshin Memorial Museum of Art, Ibaraki)
Tenku Art Festival (Umeno Memorial Art Gallery, Nagano)
2017  Three Dimensional Work Exhibition: Kreator vol.3 (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Tokyo)
65th Graduation Works Exhibition (Tokyo University of the Arts Museum, Tokyo)
9th Sano Renaissance Metal Casting Exhibition (Sano Community Hall, Tochigi)
2015  Imono Collection (Tennoz Central Tower Art Hall, Tokyo, continued in 2016, 2018)
Art Brut (Tomioka City Museum of Art, Gunma)
2014  Viva! Geidai students did it! Part 2 – Metal Casting (Ueno Zoo, Tokyo)
Tokyo University of the Arts Exchange Student Exhibition (Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo)
2011  Group exhibition (Gallery Amagoya, De Panne, Belgium) 
2010  Group exhibition 3rd Art and Tea (Oudenaarde, Belgium, continued until 2012)
   
 【Awards】   
2017  9th Sano Renaissance Metal Casting Exhibition, Grand Prize in the category Artistic Expression