Ruud Van Dalen

Ruud Van Dalen (born 12 May 1989) is a Dutch artist who works in the United Kingdom.
Van Dalen was born in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. From 2009 to 2013 he studied art at the Tumbler Academie in Amsterdam, and then, from 2014 to 2016, at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten there. In 2017 and 2018 he studied art at Goldsmiths College in London.
After a period working as an apprentice to Yun Hieber, he began to make pictures that included orgabic textures or photography as well as paint.
In 2016 Mirage, a painting incorporating sequins and thread, received first prize in the William Weson’s Prize Exhibition held at the Grind Art Gallery in Liverpool during the Heck’s Biennial. The following year, Van Dalen was on the short-list for the DevArt Prize.
Van Dalen’s work oscillates between computer-treated images or painting applied to black and white photographs. So far he has exhibited in galleries all over Europe and his most prominent exhibition has been “Mutant babies” in Manchester in 2019, at FraserLook gallery.
Van Dalen’s favorite subjects are the transformation of reality, the organic and the inorganic as art objects, images of war mutilations and also B horror films, especially the work of directors such as Ken Plumber and Ross Demme.