Lique Schoot

Lique Schoot (born 10 December 1969 in Arnhem) is a Dutch visual artist who is preoccupied with the self-portrait in a multidisciplinary way. She was educated at the Academy of Fine Arts in Arnhem (ArtEZ).

Awards and Nominations

• 2001 - Nomination 13th Painting Award Boechout, Belgium (catalogue)
• 2004 - Gaver Award, Belgium (catalogue)
• 2005 - Nomination Marnixring Felix De Boeck Award, Belgium
• 2006 - Nomination Gaver Award, Belgium
• 2008 - Honorable mention 11th International Hoppeland Painting Award Benelux and Nord-Pas de Calais, Belgium (catalogue)
• 2013 - Finalist RPS International Print Exhibition 156, The Royal Photographic Society, UK (catalogue)

Life

Lique Schoot was born in Arnhem in 1969, from a Dutch mother and Indonesian father. She grew up in Arnhem and followed the Acacemy of Fine Arts where she graduated in 1997.

Work

LS data

Lique Schoot is preoccupied with the Self-portrait since her graduation in 1997. She makes paintings, objects, installations and daily photographs. Her work reflects emotions like pain, love and loneliness and show the major themes of life: birth, growth, decay and death - shown in different series, like Somewhere, Pillow Portraits, Towel Portraits, Sleeping Portraits and Diaries. Her oeuvre of the Self-portrait is called 'LS data'. In 16 years time, she made more than 4000 Self-portraits.

LS diaries

Since October 2003 she takes a photograph of herself every day, creating a continuous and open-ended record of her existence. The black and white Self-portraits are taken at arms-length with a hand-held, film containing camera and titled by date. These visual diaries illustrate her feelings as captured in one moment each day. The LS diaries contain, in 10 years time, more than 3500 photographs.

Paintings

Lique Schoot is painting Self-portraits for more than fifteen years. She selects certain images from her LS diaries to become the basis for her paintings and other works. Her paintings refine and distill the immediacy of candid photography to create formally dynamic compositions at the same time that they expose self-revelation to be another form of camouflage.They are a marvelous balancing act between abstraction and figuration, between rationality and feeling, and between existence and perception.

Both her paintings and her photography explore authenticity and introspection in the tradition of Frida Kahlo and Nan Goldin and at the same time invoke the older Dutch tradition of self-examination in Rembrandt and Van Gogh.

Collections and Exhibitions

Lique Schoot’s work is regularly exhibited in the Netherlands as well as elsewhere, in both museums, galleries, and art fairs. Her work is included in several collections, corporate as well as private and in the Netherlands as well as abroad, e.g., Provinces of Gelderland, Delta Lloyd Amsterdam, UMC St. Radboud Nijmegen, OHRA Arnhem, Essent N.V., Municipal Archives of The Hague, Museum Bronbeek and Museum van Bommel van Dam.