Anders Dickson (b. 1988 Wisconsin, USA) lives and works between Amsterdam and New York. While his practice gravitates predominantly around painting, other mediums are also used and assembled in immersive installations. Many themes pervade the practice, but the recurrent concepts reveal an interest in understanding, weirding, memory, and liminality. The artist works very intuitively using a DIY approach to incorporate diverse materials like cardboard, grapefruit rinds, felts, wire, and other found materials. The general conceptual background driving the works originates in his research of high-strangeness and fringe topics like ufological theory as hypothesized by thinkers like Erik Davis, Jeffrey Kripal, and Jacques Vallée.

The ubiquitous forms and scenes resist any urge to deliver a message about what the viewer is to think. It's far more interesting to stumble upon something. If it is ambiguous enough, there is a desire to linger and try and recognize what it is. This process facilitates a chance for viewers to digest and come to terms with understanding as an essential principle of entering Dickson’s practice. While the veneer is filtered through both the biographical and the cultural references, the audience is invited to situate Dickson’s art in their own frame of reference.

The oneiric world that the artist crafts is one where nature, culture, absurdity, and reality clash. His dense landscapes refuse to confine themselves to any categories. Instead, Dickson makes space for alternative knowledge to come through, inviting the viewer to enter a sublime realm for wonder and contemplation. He believes that “between mythology, philosophy, and nature there is a reflective space where one confronts the mystery of personal identity in contemporary society”. His integration of the strange into the material serves in adjusting the lens for self-questioning.

Born in 1988. Lives and works in Amsterdam and Paris.

Education:

2017 – 2019 – De Ateliers, Amsterdam
2014 – 2017 – Staedelschule, Frankfurt am Main
2010 – 2014 – Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste Karlsruhe

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Frieze London with Wschód (Focus section), London

2022

Powercells, The Commons, P/////AKT, Amsterdam

2021

LISTE BASEL with Wschód, duo show with Adam Shiu Yang Shaw, Basel
Other truths from the party, Wschód, Warsaw

2020

Sudden Wilt (w/ Clémence de la Tour du Pin), Balice Hertling, Paris
CULT OF THE DIRTY SUNFLOWER, Izacaia, Vienna

2019

Hobo Chili and the songs of rain, Wschód, Warsaw
Bone Orchard, Te Bakery, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Once A Closely Guarded Secret (curated by Martin Herbert), De Ateliers, Amsterdam

2018

Waterbound with Smokie Allies, The Oracle, Berlin
Studies in Transfiguration and Beyond the threshold and back again: An introduction to the hero’s journey, Gisela Capitain, Cologne

2017

St. Elmo’s Fire, The Beach Office, Berlin
The Future of the American Lawn, JAGLA, Cologne

2016

Summertime Witchcraft (with Aileen Murphy), The Fort, New York
Croissant – Absolventen Ausstellung der Städelschule, MMK
Obscure Motions, Basis Project Room (with Lena Phillips), Frankfurt am Main
Rundgang 2016, Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main
H-O-R-S-E, Johan (with Soley Ragnarsdottir), Frankfurt am Main

2015

GO(O)D VIBRATIONS (with Xerxes Oakman), Kunstverein Letschenbach, Karlsruhe
Nachtwache (with Marco Breu), Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
Barbe a papa, CAPC MUSÉE D’ART CONTEMPORAIN DE BORDEAUX
Man’s Traces in Nature, Wschód, Warsaw

2021

WALK!, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt

2020

Perhaps a window, Stadium, Berlin

2019

Hinky Punk, Billytown, The Hague
Ford Every Stream, Galeria Acappella, Naples
Everything Ordinary, PiK, Cologne
WHOOHW HAAH HUUHUUH (curated by David Zink Yi), Lovaas Projects, Munich

2018

Paranoid House, Vleeshal, Middleburg
Fairy dust and wanderlust, Ornis A Gallery, Amsterdam
Flowers, The Root Canal, Amsterdam

2017

Wohnfront Megadark, Plan5, Stockholm
Permanent Tourist (curated by Line Ebert, Franz Hempel, Beatrice Hilke), Le Meridien Hotel, Frankfurt am Main
Monday is a day between Sunday and Tuesday, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin

2016

We the Dulles, Johan, Frankfurt am Main

2015

Der Zweite Blick, Galerie Scharmann Laskowski, Cologne
Pentaposition, Orgelfabrik, Durlach
Re:done, Ettlingen Kunstverein, Ettlingen

GRANTS AND PRIZES

2015 – Kuenstlerhilfe Stipendium, Frankfurt am Main
2013 – Preistraeger der Rotary Club Karlsruhe fuer junge Kunst
2012 -Preistraeger der Jahresausstellung der Kunstakademie Karlsruhe

Galeria Wschód

Paris

Amsterdam

Wisconsin

London

Frieze

Basel

Liste Art Fair

Paris Internationale

Miami

NADA Miami

Anders Dickson

Receipt printing in infernal madness

Das Einwelt-rad

Suchet: The bride’s Notary

genealogy of workplace merit

ligne de foi

homespun in spite of myself

Us force

Painting the commons and insecticide today