Rezi van Lankveld (1973, Almelo,NL, lives and works in Amsterdam) is known for her small-scale paintings. She harnesses the essential character of paint to create intuitive, complex pictures. Van Lankveld allows paint to flow onto the canvas, making way for unpredicted images. She takes advantage of something sufficiently evocative, a line or a shape, to contribute to the process of building an image; turning that which is perceived into that which is constructed.
Recent solo exhibitions include: Petzel Gallery, New York, USA (2022); Reset, Borgloon, Belgium (2019); Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam (2019); The Approach, London (2018); FIAC, Paris (2014). Her work has been a part of several group exhibitions, including Palazzo de'Toschi, Bologna (2020); Annet Gelink, Amsterdam (2019); Root Canal, by De Ateliers, Amsterdam (2018); The Approach, London (2017); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2016); and many others. Van Lankveld's work is included in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Dordrechts Museum; The Rabobank Art Collection, Netherlands; The Art Collection of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, and the Zabludowicz Collection, London and New York. Van Lankveld won the prestigious prize: The Royal Award for Modern Painting (2001).