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Luc Tuymans (1958) is a Belgian artist who lives and works in Antwerp. Tuymans is considered one of the most influential painters working today. history and memory.

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Solo Exhibitions

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Tuymans represented Belgium at the Venice Biennale in 2001. Hungary; Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany; the Zachęta National Gallery of Art in Warsaw, Poland; the Tate Modern, London, England (2004); Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland (both 2006); and, most recently (2011) the BOZAR Center for Fine Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The artist's first comprehensive US retrospective opened in September 2009 at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, and traveled to the_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-586FranciscoSbadancf586 Museum Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Against the Day, an exhibition of works inspired by one of Tuymans' favorite authors, Thomas Pynchon, originated at Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and subsequently traveled to_cc781905-5cde -3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, and Moderna Museet Malmö, Sweden.

In 1992, Tuymans was invited to show at documenta for the first time. 5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; -136bad5cf58d_François Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (2009);_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136_bad5cf58 Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; Doing it My Way: Perspectives in Belgian Art,_cc781905 -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany (2008); What is Painting? Contemporary Art From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; Fast Forward: Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art,_cc781905-5cde-3194 -bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas; The Painting of Modern Life, Hayward Gallery, London, England and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy (2007 ); Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan; Infinite Painting: Contemporary Painting and Global Realism, Villa Manin Centro d'Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy (2006).

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collections

Work by Tuymans is held in the public collections of various museums, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium; Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg;_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58f Frankfurt 3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_Pinacothek der Moderne, Munich; and the Tate Gallery, London.

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Recognitions

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Tuymans holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp, Belgium and was honored by the Belgian government when they bestowed upon him the title of Commander, Order of Leopold_cc781905-5cde- 2007. 3 July 2015 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art.