ABOUT

Jeroen Nelemans (1974-2024) was a Netherlands born conceptual artist who most recently lived and worked in Kansas where he served as a full-time professor at Kansas Wesleyan University. Throughout his practice, Nelemans investigated digital images, where he treated them as physical objects. Through the act of scanning the computer screen or photographing a backlit digital device, Nelemans dissected these images, investigating their process while exposing the mechanism of display. Ultimately, this relationship investigated how we process and read digital images through backlit devices. Nelemans was interested in these new forms, while maintaining a thread of nostalgia throughout this process.

Nelemans work is included in the collections of the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, Illinois, and the Ulrich Museum of Art in Wichita, Kansas as well as many private collections. He has shown internationally at institutions including: Museum Of Contemporary Art, Chicago; De La Cruz Collection Contemporary Space, Miami; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Greece; Elmhurst Art Museum, Illinois; Helen Day Art Center, Vermont; and Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids. Gallery exhibitions include the Nice & Fit Gallery, Berlin; MISSION Gallery, Chicago; and Aspect/Ratio Gallery, Chicago.

Video based works from Nelemans have been screened at Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Banff Center, Canada; Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago; Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle, Germany; Magmart International Video Art Festival, Napoli; Dublin Electronic Arts Festival, Ireland; Kortfilm festival, Copenhagen; as well as the 25th Festival Les Instant Video in Marseille France.