Lique Schoot (born 10 December 1969 in Arnhem) is a Dutch visual artist who is preoccupied with the

self-portrait A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...

in a multidisciplinary way. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem (ArtEZ).

Awards, grants and nominations

*2001 - Nomination 13th Painting Award Boechout, (BE) (catalogue) *2003 - 2008 Federal Grants Foundation for Visual Arts, (NL) *2004 - Gaver Award, (BE) (catalogue) *2005 - Nomination Marnixring Felix De Boeck Award, (BE) *2006 - Nomination Gaver Award, (BE) *2008 - Honorable mention 11th International Hoppeland Painting Award Benelux and Nord-Pas de Calais, (BE) (catalogue) *2013 - Women's and Gender Studies, (USA) *2013 - Finalist RPS International Print Exhibition 156, The

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, (UK) (catalogue) *2014 - New Dutch Photography Talent 2015, (NL) (catalogue) *2016 - 2020 Working Grant for Established Artists, Mondriaan Fund (NL)

Life

Lique Schoot was born in Arnhem in 1969, from a Dutch mother and Indonesian father. She grew up in Arnhem and followed the Academy of Fine Arts, where she graduated in 1997.

Work

LS data Lique Schoot is preoccupied with the

Self-portrait A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...

since her graduation in 1997. She works in the tradition of the conceptual art. She makes paintings, objects, installations and daily photographs. Her work reflects emotions like pain, love and loneliness and show the major themes of life: birth, growth, decay and death - shown in different series, like Somewhere, Pillow Portraits, Towel Portraits, Sleeping Portraits and Moments in Time. Her oeuvre of the Self-portrait is called 'LS data'. LS diaries Since October 2003 she takes a photograph of herself every day, creating a continuous and open-ended record of her existence. The self-portraits are taken at arm's length with a hand-held, film-containing camera. These visual diaries illustrate her feelings as captured in one moment each day. Each month, the film roll is developed in the lab. The prints are stored on a CD, edited on the computer and titled with the date they are made (year, month and day). The project contains more than 5000 photographs. Paintings Lique Schoot has been painting

self-portraits A self-portrait is a representation of an artist that is drawn, painted, photographed, or sculpted by that artist. Although self-portraits have been made since the earliest times, it is not until the Early Renaissance in the mid-15th century tha ...

for more than fifteen years. She selects certain images from her LS diaries to become the basis for her works. Her paintings refine and distill the immediacy of candid photography to create formally dynamic compositions at the same time that they expose self-revelation to be another form of camouflage. They are a balancing act between abstraction and figuration, between rationality and feeling, and between existence and perception. Both her paintings and her photography explore authenticity and introspection in the tradition of Frida Kahlo and Nan Goldin and at the same time invoke the older Dutch tradition of self-examination in Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Selected exhibitions

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, Brooklyn NY, (USA) *Be-part, (BE) *CODA Museum, (NL) *FeliXart Museum, (BE) *Gorcums Museum, (NL) *Het Valkhof Museum, (NL) *Koehnline Museum of Art, (USA) *Museum van Bommel van Dam, (NL) *Museum

Bronbeek Bronbeek is a former Royal palace in Arnhem, Netherlands. It is now a museum and a home for elderly soldiers. Bronbeek was built early in the 19th century. In 1845 the Dutch King William III bought it. He donated it to the Dutch state in 1859 ...

, (NL) *Museum Kurhaus Kleve, (DE) *

SONS Museum SONS Museum (Shoes or No Shoes) is a Belgian museum dedicated to contemporary art connected to shoes as the subject. The museum is located at Kruishoutem, Belgium. History William "Boy" Habraken was literally born between shoes at the end of th ...

, (BE) *

Phoenix Art Museum The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest museum for visual art in the southwest United States. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, the museum is . It displays international exhibitions alongside its comprehensive collection of more than 18,000 works of ...

, (USA) *Rencontres d'Arles, (FR)

Collections

Lique Schoot's work is included in several collections, corporate as well as private and in the

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as well as abroad, e.g., Provinces of

Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...

Delta Lloyd Delta Lloyd Group was a Dutch insurer with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. It consisted of Delta Lloyd, OHRA, ABN AMRO Verzekeringen and a few minor banks. The company was the sixth-largest insurer in the Netherlands, with a ...

Amsterdam, UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen, OHRA Arnhem, Essent N.V., Municipal Archives of

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, Museum

(NL),

(BE) and Museum van Bommel van Dam (NL).

References

External links

Website Lique Schoot

External links

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