Education
1997-2001 Willem de Kooning Academie (Cum Laude), Rotterdam.

Solo-exhibitions:
2007 ‘De Verdrietige vrijheid’, Galerie Delta, Rotterdam, NL
2006 ‘Fijt’, Cucosa, Rotterdam, NL
2005 Harold Linker, Olphaert den Otter en Hidde van Schie,
Galerie van Kranendonk, Den Haag, NL
2005 ‘Pistache’, CBK, Rotterdam, NL
2002 Nancy Pigmans, Jaco Olivier en Hidde van Schie, ROOM,
Rotterdam, NL

Group-exhibitions
2007 The White Show, W139/basement, Amsterdam, NL
2006 Chaos & Orde, Artstore, Rotterdam, NL
2006 ‘Just Painting’, Galerie Van Kranendonk, Den Haag, NL
2006 ‘Contrafacts’, Ostrobothnian Museum, Vaasa, Fi
2006 ‘Stand by me’, Gist Galerie voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Brummen, NL
2005 ‘Sterk van kleur’, WdkA Galerie Blaak 10, Rotterdam.NL
2005 ‘Ciao Nykarleby’, WdkA Galerie Blaak 10, Rotterdam, NL
2005 ‘My satellite Mind’, CBK, Rotterdam, NL
2005 ‘I Love Barbara’, CBK, Rotterdam, NL
2004 ‘Prospecten van nooit vermoed schoon’, TENT, Rotterdam, NL
2004 ‘Uitgelicht 04’, Kunstvlaai 5, Amsterdam, NL
2004 ‘Vol weelde’, CBK, Rotterdam, NL
2003 ‘Descubrir de Europa’, Fabrica de imagenes, Morelia, Mexico
2003 ‘Trans_Habitos from Rotterdam MORGEN, Maus Habitos,
Porto, Portugal
2003 ‘Bruut’, Showroom MAMA & Galerie Heerenplaats Rotterdam, NL
2002 ‘Buning Brongers Prijs 2002’, Arti et Amicitiae; Amsterdam, NL
2002 ‘Hottentottententententoonstelling’, Showroom MAMA; Rotterdam, NL
2001 ‘From Rotterdam with love’, La Chaufferie; Strassbourg, FR
2001 ‘Shell Young Art Award’, Rotterdam, NL
2000 ‘Die or communicate’, Kunstenaarssocieteit De Illusie; Rotterdam, NL
1999 ‘Mixer’, Galerie Ron Mandos; Rotterdam, NL

Theatre
1999 ‘Krambamboelie’, Orkater, Amsterdam, NL with Loes Luca & Peter BLok
1998 ‘Shopping & Fucking’, de Trust, Amsterdam, NL with Jacob Derwig,
Halina Rheijn & Jaap Spijkers

Teaching
Painting, Fine arts department, Willem de Kooning Academie,
Rotterdam since 2005

Artist-Initiative
Member of Rottedam based artist-initiative Foundation B.a.d since 2006

Stipendia/Grants
2004 Startersstipendium Fonds BKVB
2005 Startersstipendium Fonds BKVB
2006 Basisstipendium Fonds BKVB

Prizes
2001 Shell Young Art Award 2001 (nomination), NL
2002 Buning Brongers Prijs 2002, NL

Artist in Residence
Nykarleby, Finland 2005

Collections
Cbk Rotterdam
Artoteek Den Haag
Private collections in the Netherlands and Great- Brittain

Hidde van Schie (Rotterdam, 1978) isn’t an artist who has got a focus on one specific medium, though you can see that his paintings, drawings, collages, photographs an animations have arisen from one and the same source: the aim to create in an associative manner new images. These images have got in their diversity one thing in common. In his usage of the big painterly gesture, in drawing a refined representation on a sheet of paper and in bringing strange creatures to life by assembling fragments of images from old books and magazines, everywhere in the artist’s oeuvre you can perceive an absurdist undertone.
Van Schie finds great pleasure in strolling down book markets to look for the vintage material like anatomy books and comics. He isn’t specifically interested in the physical aspect of the collage technique (the assembling of the material paper), but rather more in the newly created image, as shown by the photographical works based on his collages. Caused by the absence of the material forming he collage and also by the fact that the size of the print is often bigger than the original, these photographs result in a totally different image.
In the work of Hidde Van Schie, the flirtation with those human aspects which are hidden and brewing under the surface is never far away. These dark elements become more emphatic in his paintings. Most of the time he starts with a landscape and based on the atmosphere it breaths, he depicts the attended figures. He uses different kinds of paint and in some paintings he has added pieces canvas cut out of older works. By doing so, the way he approaches his paintings bears resemblance with the manner in which he works on his collages: the interacting of different pictorial elements.
In the center of the gallery space, the artist has created an installation on which he has attached a selection of his drawings. Part of the installation is an animation, a video work called Nervus Opticus. This ‘moving collage’ gives us an insight in the working method of Hidde van Schie: he is guided by the creation process, until that moment comes that he has found the image that he was looking for.