Rezi van Lankveld

Rezi van Lankveld (1973, Almelo, Netherlands) lives and works in Amsterdam. Van Lankveld is known for her small-scale evocative paintings that are precisely articulated yet the result of intuitive improvisation. In her complex pictures, paints, colors and shapes are allowed to shift in unforeseen ways.

Van Lankveld studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (1993–1997) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (1997–1999). She received the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 2001.

Solo exhibitions include Premonitions, Petzel Gallery, New York (2025); Imprint, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2023); Soft Sun, Petzel Gallery, New York (2022); Flitsen, Office Baroque, Brussels (2020); Drifting Constants, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); Drifting Constants, Reset Home, Borgloon (2019); Solutions, The Approach, London (2018); Rezi van Lankveld, Petzel Gallery, New York (2017); Si Tu Sors, Je Sors, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2015); Brrxop, Spatiu Intact, Cluj-Napoca (2014); Solo presentation, FIAC, Paris (2014); Rezi van Lankveld, The Approach, London (2013); Rezi van Lankveld, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York (2010); and Rezi van Lankveld, The Approach, London (2010).

Group exhibitions include Wo Mann Sich Trifft, Emsdettener Kunstverein, Emsdetten (2023); WE PAINT!, Palais des Etudes des Beaux-Arts, Paris (2022); Blindenzimmer, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2022); Dancing with Octopuses, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2021); Realta Ordinarie, Palazzo de' Toschi, Bologna (2020); 'Inevitable Figuration': A Scene of Painting Today, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2013); Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover (2008); and Accidental Painting, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (2007).

Her work is held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Dordrechts Museum; The Rabobank Art Collection; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago; and the Zabludowicz Collection, London and New York.