Jimi Dams

Jimi Dams (b. June 21, 1963, Mortsel, Belgium) is a Belgian-born artist based in New York City. Following his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, he attended the Higher Pedagogical Institute in Brussels, where he earned his teaching degree in 1984. After completing his studies, Dams returned to Antwerp and began establishing his artistic practice.
Emerging in the early 1980s, Dams developed a multidisciplinary body of work encompassing printmaking, drawing, painting, and collage. In 1997, he relocated to New York City, settling in the East Village, where he continues to live and work.

Dams’ practice is characterized by a contemporary reinterpretation of neo-pointillism, centered on the dot as both a formal and conceptual unit. Across his work, he explores the accumulation, repetition, and density of individual marks. His drawings employ graphite marks in varying densities and configurations, while his signature collages are constructed from meticulously applied sequins, which accumulate into luminous, reflective images.

Portraiture has remained central to Dams’ oeuvre since the early 1980s. His earliest portraits took the form of linocuts depicting people within his immediate social and cultural milieu, including figu...

BFA Royal Academy, Antwerp, Belgium
MFA HPIR, Brussels, Belgium

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Dams’ Realism, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, USA
2003 Killing Time, Gallery S&H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
2001 It Rains Even Harder Now, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Barok, Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
1993 La Reine Soleil, Galerie Richard/.OZ, Paris, France
1993 De todos modos, siempre serás Amanda, Galerie Parbleu, Antwerp, Belgium
1988 Xp, Tels Quels, Brussels, Belgium
1987 MOve, Harrods, London, UK
1986 PunkMe, Jordaenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium
1984 Strive to Survive, Galerie Capitt, Paris, France

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 Group Exhibition, TW Fine Art, New York, USA
2025 These Letters Don't Run, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, USA
2025 Oude Meesters – Nieuwe Meesters: In dialoog I & II, Galerie S&H De Buck, Ghent, Belgium
2024 40 x 40 x 40, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023 Sag mir wo die Blumen sind, wo sind sie geblieben?, Galerie S&H De Buck, Oirin, France & Ghent, Belgium
2023 A Path Less Traveled, Keijsers Koning Gallery, Dallas, USA
2023 Piece of My Heart, TW Fine Art, Palm Beach, USA
2022 Good Vibrations, TW Fine Art, Montauk, USA
2013 As Tears Go By, Cokkie Snoei Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2009 Psychedelia Paradise, EXPRMNTL Galerie, Toulou...