Miko Veldkamp's lush botanical dreamscapes represent the ever-shifting boundaries between self and other, the familiar and the foreign. Drawing from his experiences of cultural dislocation and displacement, Veldkamp's paintings function as ‘pseudo self-portraits’ that weave together enigmatic cultural references through fluid, translucent layers to explore identity, memory and the multiplicity of self.
Miko Veldkamp (b.1982, Suriname) currently lives and works in New York. 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. Solo show includes Off-White Columns, NY and Galerie Rianne Groen, Rotterdam. His work has been included in group exhibition at Workplace, London; New Wight Biennial, UCLA, LA; Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL and Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, NJ, amongst others. In 2016 Veldkamp was nominated for the van Bommel van Dam Prize and in 2020 his work was selected to be featured in The New American Paintings publication and in ArtMaze magazine.
