Elisabeth Bezemer

My primary interest is how body/matter and mind/spirit/energy are related. In my work I
investigate this relationship in myself, my life and my art, based on the conviction and experience that
these seemingly separate objects are, in reality, one.

In doing qi gong and Taoist meditation I experienced and cultivated energy and while living in China I grabbed the opportunity to study acupuncture to get a better understanding of health and illness in relation to that energy. The divisions, separations and blocks that people impose around themselves, their minds and their world are causes of illness,stress and unhappiness in life. My work grapples with the meaning of being human and the deeper questions of the relationships we have to our bodies.

My intention is not to reproduce individual personalities but the life force itself as it manifests in
outer form. Yet, in my work, it often appears that the bodies have no skin: they are transparent, built of
layers of paint that allow the background colors to manifest in the same way that our spiritual and
essential background manifest through our skin.

While my early work played with the body as an expression of sexual energy transforming into
spiritual energy, my work in Thai...

1980-82 Fashion College Rotterdam NL
1982-85 Art College St.Joost Breda NL
1989 DETEX Textile Business Course Amsterdam NL
1994 Painting lessons with Harold Schouten
1997 Feng Shui Workshops with Ronald Chin
1997 MEMO Art Business Training Amsterdam NL
1997-99 CNT Massage Training NL & TH
2004 Traditional Chinese Medicine training Chiang Mai TH

2017 August 4- November 3 @ Gallery Red Door No.5 Tampa
2015 August 2-30 Solo exhibition at 8 Count Studio@ Rialto Theater
2012 Aug.- Dec. Relevant Church, Ybor City Tampa FL USA
2009 14th-28th of March, Opera Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
2007 1-23 March Ji Qoo Gallery Chiangmai Thailand Fluids
2006 March Chiang Mai TH La Luna Gallery Farang Farang
2005 May- June Chiang Mai TH Chiang Mai University Museum "Heart of the street"
2002 April-July Kunming China ZEIT Gallery Solo Exhibition
2001-02 December/January Kunming China Spanning 4+4 International Exhibition of 4 Chinese artists and 4 European artist
2001 March/DecemberKunming China
Solo exhibition of Circular Movement The Hump
2000 22 May Amherst, VA, USA Artist appreciation/ open studio VCCA
1997-29 NovemberRotterdam NL Gallery Ioduo paintings exhibition
1999 24-27 September Amsterdam NL Open studio route including central exhibition in the Pijp Art Space
1999 24 -26 April Edam NL Water Sculptures Mirror of Love and Mermaid , Open House route.
1998 24-26 November Amsterdam NL Open Studio weekend at the Lloyd Hotel
1997 28 June-31 September Rozendaal Nl Sculpture exhibition Rosendael ...