Vincent Van Oss

Raised on a farm in the Netherlands I was always an introverted, shy, almost autistic dreamer and started painting. My art teacher 'discovered' me so on my 18th I went to Art Academy.
Although the first year offered a broad orientation painting became my specialization. In 1984 I graduated and moved to Amsterdam. Through the years my paintings were figurative and abstract. Since 2017 I wanted to work 3-dimensional by making sculptures and installations.

In 2020 my working with used products started. For that I went to thrift shops to find second hand products to make my installations. These objects are real and pure, not painted or sculpted. There was a special focus on children's attributes because they bring difficult ideas back to children's proportions. Household objects were also often used because they are common and easy to transform to another representation or function.

I make sculptures or little installations by combining objects. The artworks mostly consist of piled up, or fitted together objects. One could use the word ready made, but the simple presentation of only one object is avoided by confronting one object with another. (Preferably I use different materials, to accentuate the uniqueness of each mater...

Art Academy St. Joost, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, 1979 - 1984, certificated
Pedagogical -Didactic Training Course, Rietveld Academy
Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1992 - 1993, certificated

- Artistik Galerie, Amsterdam, 2007 - 2012
- W 139, Amsterdam, 'What the Queen may see', 1995
- Gaypride, Amsterdam, 1994 and 1998
- a'pert gallery, Amsterdam, 1990 - 1993