Vanguard Gallery

Born in 1972 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Now lives and works in Netherlands

Gabriel Lester’s works across various disciplines including music, cinema, installation, sculpture, architecture and performance. Many of his works evolve around the very nature of the media of our time, and transform the space and time through meticulously altering the media and narrative forms. Strongly influenced by cinema and mime, Gabriel Lester’s works challenge the reality of perception and stimulate on collective imagination through constructing and creating theatrical illusions. “My work represents a field of tension.” Lester has explained. “It is either implicitly narrative, explicitly visual or both at the same time. My works of art rarely convey a single explicit message or idea, rather they suggest ways to relate to the world.”

Selected Solo / Duo Exhibitions
2023 “Dig it”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2020 “Holes in the Sky”, Machinery of Me, Arnhem, the Netherlands

2018 “Shake A Face”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2017 “The Return of Lester’s Loops”, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands

2017 “If you happen to be”, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, America

2017 “How to Act”, De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, The Netherlands

2016 “Unresolved”, De Appel Art center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2016 “The Nine Day Week”, CAC museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

2015 “Cosmic Call”, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

2015 “Cleromancy”, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, America

2014 “The Ears Have Walls”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China

2014 “Habitat Sequences”, El Museo De Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

2014 “Follies”, Bonner Kunst Verrein, Bonn, Germany

2014 “The Silent Trilogy”, Stiftelsen 3’14, Bergen, Norway

2014 “Blank Stare”, Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

2013 “The Secret Life of Cities”, Galerie Fons Welters, the Netherlands

2013 “Highlights & Chance Encounters”, Tetem Kunstruimte, Enschede, the Netherlands

2012 “Roxy”, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China

2012 “The Future that Was”, Smart Project Space icw NIMk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Biennale, Triennial, Quinquennial
2021 Quebec Biennale, Canadian – curated by Steven Matijcio

2019 Ural biennale, Russian – curated by Xiaoyu Weng

2018 Busan biennale, Korea – curated by Cristina Ricupero / Jorg Heiser

2017 Kochi biennale, India – curated by Sudarshan Shetty

2016 Moscow biennale, Russian – curated by Defne Ayas / Bart De Baere

2015 Istanbul biennale, Turkish – curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

2014 Marakech biennale, Morocco – curated by Hicham Khalidi

2014 Sydney biennale, Australia– curated by Juliana Engberg

2014 Folkestone triennial – curated by Lewis Biggs

2014 CAFAM bejing biennale, China – curated by Xiaoyu Weng

2013 Momentum biennale Oslo, Norway – curated by Power Ekroth

2013 Performa biennale, America– curated by Defne Ayas

2013 Sharjah biennale, Sharjah– curated by Yuki Kamiya

2013 Venice biennale, Italy – curated by Raimundas Malasauskas

2012 Documenta (D) – curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev