Hans Van De Bovenkamp is renowned for his monumental sculpture created primarily for open-air public locales, Hans Van de Bovenkamp has been described as an artist-mystic whose work -- with its signature power, lyricism, and grand proportions -- heightens the viewer's sense of imagination and discovery.
A Dutchman and a youthful immigrant to Ontario, Canada, and then the United States, he was a part of the avant-guard Tenth Street scene in the New York City of the 1960s, an adherent of Abstract Expressionism, and has maintained residences in New York City and Sagaponack in the Hamptons. Mr. Van de Bovenkamp has earned an international reputation over the past 55 years for designing, fabricating, and installing over 100 unique commissioned sculptures and fountains in collaboration with architects, cities, museums, and private individuals. His works can be seen in public, civic, corporate and private collections. Recent solo exhibitions include Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, N.J., the Danubiana Meulensteen Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia and Season of Sculpture, Sarasota Marine Park, Florida. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2017 Quogue Gallery, Quogue, New York
2016 Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
2014 Adelphi University, Garden City, NY
2013 Samuel Lynne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2012 Lyceum Gallery, Northampton, New York
2011 Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
2011 Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
2008 Goldman Warehouse, Wynwood District, Florida
2007 Sculpturesite Gallery, San Francisco, California
2007 Basel Miami Art Fair, Goldman Warehouse, Miami, , Florida
2007 Basel Miami Art Fair, Gary Nader Fine Art, Miami, , Florida
2006 Danubiana Meulensteen Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
2005-06 Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
2003 Louis Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
2003 Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York, New York
2003 Sagaponack Sculpture Fields, New York, New York
1996 Michener Museum, Doyles Town, Pennsylvania
1996 Camino Real Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1994 Quietude Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey
1993 Elaine Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
1992 Shidoni Contemporary Gallery, Tesuque, New Mexico
1981 Tiffany’s, New York, New York
1981 University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri
1979 Sculpture Center, New York, New York
1976 Brooklyn Borough Hall, New York, New York
1976 Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, New York
1970 Jacksonville Children’s Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
1968 10 Downtown, New York, New York
1965 Glassboro State College, Glassboro, New Jersey
1963 New York University, New York, New York
1961 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Museum Collections Minature Museum, Amsterdam, Neatherlands
Guild Hall East Hampton, New York
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
Danubiana Meulensteen Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Estate of Nelson Rockefeller, Kykuit, New York
Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio