Manu DeMey

Biography

Manu De Mey was born in Antwerp in 1965, his mother was a British artist and his father a Flemish accountant. He graduated from the Mortsel Art Academy in 2017 and lives and works in Antwerp.

Hers is a world populated by portraits of young women, who often have their eyes closed, it is a warning to introspection, to look inside ourselves to find our own identity in a world increasingly dominated by homologation and by technology that alienates us and distances us from our humanity.

Exhibitions

• Black Graphics: 5 prints of 3D work featured at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in California USA – May 2013
• Burning Man: one artwork in group exposition in Central Café at the Burning Man festival in Nevada, USA – September 2017
• Gebermte: two paintings on plexiglass in outdoor group installation in Mortsel – April 2018
• Lambermontmartre:participation in the Lambermontmartre open air art market, Antwerp – summer 2018
• Open House Expo: exhibition of paintings and drawings in own home in Antwerp – March 2019
• Nomad Art Gallery: exhibition of paintings and drawings in galerie Art Nomade in Brussels – April 2019
• The Art Factory: 3 works in group exposition organized by the city of Mortsel, Mortsel – May 2019
• Expo 167: several works in group exposition, organized by myself, Kloosterstraat Antwerp – May 2019
• Ambigu: solo exposition in gallery Conscience20, Conscienceplein 20, Antwerp – July 2019
• Lambermontmartre:participation in the Lambermontmartre open air art market – summer 2019
• Open Ateliers Antwerp –september 2019
• ACAF: selected to be part of the Accessible Art Fair at BozarBrussels – October 2019
• Catawiki: featured as Trending Artist of the week –December 2019, 19 works sold
• EuropArtFair: selected to participate at EuropArtFair in Amsterdam – December 2019
• Rivierenhof Gallery: group expo with Hildegard Penne in Rivierenhof park Deurne, Antwerp – June 2020
• The New Gallery: solo expo in gallery in Brussels, September – October 2020
• Saint-Willebrordus Church: group expo in the Sint-Willebrorduskerk in Antwerp – October 2020
• New Jorg Gallery, group expo in New Jorg Gallery in Kalmthout – April 2021
• Balthasar Brussels, two works in group expo from June 2021 to May 2022
• Monaco Art Fair, two works represented by gallery, August 2021
• Conscience20,only expo in Popup Gallery in Antwerp – September 2021
• Nobody&Friendsgallery, group expo in Antwerp – October 2021
• Birth of Super Nova, group expo at Monat Gallery in Madrid – January 2022
• World Art Forum, Cairo, Egypt (January 2022)
• Identity Revolution, group expo in Lecce, Italy (March 2022)
• Intense, only expo at Rivierenhof Gallery, Antwerp (April 2022)
• Atelier in Beeld, Antwerp (13-15th of May 2022)
• ArtNordic, Copenhagen (June 2022)
• Open Ateliers Antwerp(September 2022)
• Focus Art Fair, group expo at le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris (September 2022)
• Dreamland, group expo at Galeria Azur, Madrid (November 2022)
• Shakespeare and I,Sint-Denijs-Westrem (December 2022)
• Azure Gallery, Berlin (February 2023)
• Expo Rivierenhof, Antwerp (March 2023)
• Open Atelier Deurne, Antwerp (April 2023)
• Atelier in Beeld, Antwerp (May 2023)
• Pleased To Meet You!, duo-expo with Hildegard Penne, Antwerp (June 2023)
• Eddy's Lab, group expo in Gare Maritime, Brussels (September-Oktober 2023)
• Borger Hart, Antwerp (September 2023)
• Open Ateliers Antwerp(September 2023)
• Le Neuf Gallery Brussels(December 2023)
• Mizar Gallery(t), Genk, group expo (April-June 2024)
• Riverenhof, Expo only (May 2024)
• ARTrigin, Taipei City, Taiwan, group expo (October 2024)
• Octopus Heart Art Center, Brussels, group expo (October – November 2024)
• FRACAS, Mons (Bergen), expo only (November – December 2024)
• 10th Silk Road International Art Exhibition, Xi'an, China (October – November 2024)