ABOUT
My name is Ronald Boom, I am a contemporary artist based in Amsterdam. In 2021 I graduated from Gerrit Rietveld Academy, where I received my Bachelor in Fine Arts in Expanded Painting.
My painting practice explores the possibilities within painting. I like to work in series around a concept with recognizable elements, such as equipment, foodstuffs or other objects. But ultimately I don't think figurative information is as important as the creation of the painting itself. To separate the idea from the form I use different tactics to circumvent my own conditioning, so that I can be open to coincidence and surprises.
In a cyclical process of transformation, the work unfolds gradually throughout the process. Some input remains or is broken through and reduced to color, layers of paint, contrasts, boundaries and transitions, ultimately creating a new (un)natural, layered, painterly and coloristic space.
EDUCATION
2016-2021 BFA, Expanded painting, DOGtime, Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam.
2002-2007 BASc, Life sciences, Avans Hogeschool Breda.
SHOWS
2023 Kate's Nightshop, Kate, Amsterdam
2022 Nee, het was zo, Eight Cubic Meters, Amsterdam
2022 This Art Fair, Kromhouthal, Amsterdam
2022 De Tweede Derde Plaats, Telefooncentrale, Amsterdam
2021 De Eerste Derde Plaats, Casco Casco, Amsterdam
2021 On-Bepaald, Kunstlijn, Haarlem
2021 Best of Graduates 2021, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2021 Graduation show, DOGtime, Expanded painting, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2021 Si.Si.Spex #9, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019 The Capital of Caducity future worlds, Albert van Abbehuis, Eindhoven
2019 Panopticon, Kunstkapel, Amsterdam
2019 Take a Walk on the Wild Side [Rietveld Uncut], Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2019 COOL Japan, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
2018 Constrained by Space, Tetterode (promenade,) Amsterdam
2017 COOL Japan, Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden
2017 Dump Trump, WG Kunst, Amsterdam