Carroll Dunham joins Tim Van Laere Gallery
Tim Van Laere Gallery is happy to announce that the American artist Carroll Dunham will join the gallery.
Dunham will have his first solo show in the gallery in Antwerp in 2027, following a drawing retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago in January 2026 (Jan 31–Jun 1, 2026) and a career survey at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami in December 2026.
“Tim & I have had great conversations and I appreciate his sensitivity and understanding of my intentions as an artist. His program represents a new context for my work, which I’m very excited about.”
— Caroll Dunham
“I have followed the work of Carroll Dunham for more than 20 years and I have always admired it. I believe he is one of the most important living American artists of our times. I know Dunham will be a great addition to the gallery’s program with his work and vision. My other artists and I are very excited and we all look forward to his first solo show at the gallery in Antwerp in 2027."
— Tim Van Laere
Dunham's work is included in the collections of:
- The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
- Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
- The British Museum, London, UK
- Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
- Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
- Drammens Museum, Drammen, Norway
- Fort Wayne Art Museum, Fort Wayne, USA
- Inhotim Institute, Brumadinho, Brazil
- The Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, USA
- Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, USA
- Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
- Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, USA
- Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, USA
- Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
- Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, USA
- Tate, London, UK
- Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
About Tim Van Laere Gallery
Tim Van Laere Gallery was founded in Antwerp in 1997 by Tim Van Laere. In 2023, the gallery opened a second location in Rome at Via Giulia 98, in the 17th-century Palazzo Donarelli Ricci.
The gallery represents established international contemporary artists like Jonathan Meese, Adrian Ghenie, Franz West, Gelitin, as well as Belgian artists like Bram Demunter, Kati Heck, Ben Sledsens and Rinus Van de Velde.
Profiling itself as an artist gallery, the gallery upholds a philosophy that is based on on a very close and direct contact with its artists. The gallery hosts 6 exhibitions per year and collaborates with numerous Museums for Contemporary Art and Institutes.
Ever since its foundation in 1997 by Tim Van Laere, Tim Van Laere Gallery has housed numerous innovative, groundbreaking and singular exhibitions, presenting a wide variety of media and genres.
By seeking out artists who are bold enough to start up new conversations in art history and allow us to enter their own constructed universe through their works, Tim Van Laere Gallery has put together a cutting edge program and has helped foster the careers of some of the most high profiled and influential artists.
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