Miko Veldkamp
b. Paramaribo, Sr
Based in Brooklyn, NY
Bio
Miko Veldkamp (Miquel Rianto Veldkamp) is a Dutch-American painter of mixed Dutch-Indonesian ancestry. He was born in Surinam, grew up partly in The Netherlands and has been living in NYC for the past ten years. Veldkamp amalgamates cultural and visual elements from each place he has called home, into a dream-like world that transcends spatial and temporal boundaries. Applying light washes of colour and layering them to create varying degrees of translucency, the figures in his paintings often resemble himself, family members, or ghost-like entities. He was a resident at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and a recipient of the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton University, and in 2021 he graduated from the Hunter College MFA painting program. Recent exhibitions include: 'Finding my Blue Sky', group show Lisson Gallery, London (2025), ‘Buketan', Alice Amati, London (2024); ‘Postcards from Home’ BB&M Gallery, Seoul (2023); ‘Confetti in the Shade’, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York (2023); ‘Long Distance’, Long Story Short, New York (2023); ‘Botany of Desire’, group show, Swivel Gallery, New York, (2023); ‘Just Play’, group show, The Here and There, New York, (2023); ‘Second Nature’, Southwark Park Galleries, London (2022); ‘Ghost Stories’, Workplace, London (2022); His work was recently featured in Artforum, New American Paintings, ArtMaze Magazine, Metropolis M and Juxtapoz amongst others.
Solo and Duo shows
2024 Buketan, Alice Amati Gallery, London, UK
2023 Postcards from Home, BB&M Gallery, Seoul, KR
2023 Confetti in the Shade, duo show with Sangram Majumdar, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Long Distance, duo show with Kate Bancroft, Long Story Short NYC, New York, NY
2022 Second Nature, Southwark Park Galleries, London, UK
2022 Ghost Stories, Workplace Gallery, London, UK
Group shows
2025 Finding My Blue Sky, curated by Omar Kholeif, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2025 Paper Matters, BB&M Gallery, Seoul, KR
2024 Teach me how to fish, curated by Will Leung, Art Intelligence Global, Hong Kong
2024 The 7th Wall, curated by Jeanette Bisschops, Alice Amati Gallery, London, UK
2023 Botany of Desire, curated by Sadaf Padder, Swivel Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Just Play, The Here and There, New York, NY
2023 Decoy, Workplace Gallery, Newcastle, UK
2022 Viscereal, curated by Saša Bogojev, Althuis Hofland, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Kaleidoscope, Workplace Gallery, London, UK
2022 Dream Life, curated by Dan Cameron, BB&M Gallery, Seoul, KR
2021 The privilege of getting together, Regular Normal at Swivel Gallery, NYC, US
2021 In the Wake, Hunter MFA thesis show, 205 Hudson Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Once more with Feeling, UCLA New Wight Biennial, UCLA, LA
Grants, residencies and education
2021 Dedalus Fellowship (nominated)
2018 - 2021 MFA Studio Art, Hunter College, New York, USA
2016 Van Bommel Van Dam Prize, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL (nominated)
2015 Hodder Fellowship, Lewis Centre for the Arts, Princeton University, USA
2014 CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES
2013 & 2012 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, NL