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Dutch contemporary artist

Erik Gerardus Franciscus van Lieshout is a Dutch contemporary artist most widely known for his installations.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} In , he won the Heineken Prize for Art.

Biography

Erik van Lieshout was resident from to at de Ateliers ’63 in Haarlem (now De Ateliers Amsterdam). Van Lieshout lived in New York, Berlin, Cologne and now lives in Rotterdam.

At the 50th Venice Biennale () he participated in the group show ‘We are the World’ curated by Rein Wolfs for the Dutch Pavilion.

Previous solo exhibitions include René Daniëls, Museum de Pont Tilburg, together with René Daniëls; Three Social Works, South London Gallery, London, ; Sündenbock (Scapegoat), Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany, ; Erik van Lieshout: The Show Must Ego On, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, ; Commission, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, ; Erik makes Happy, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna,