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(1989, Belgium)
Works and lives in Namur / Brussels (Belgium)

(+32) 474051548
dumortier.laurent@hotmail.com

Represented by the galley Michèle Schoonjans (BE)
https://micheleschoonjansgallery.be/

He studied in the drawing studio at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (2010-2016) and obtained an advanced Master's degree in partnership with the ULG. He has participated in several artistic residencies including that of the Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts (2019-2020) and was selected for the Prix de la ville de Tournai (2021), the Prix Découverte du Rouge-Cloître (2022). Laurent Dumortier also had his first solo exhibition at Michèle Schoonjans Gallery (2022).

He continues his work with the project Windows Shadows Disavow (2018-/) and his research on the figurative representation of everyday life and the narrativity of nightlife with the position of the voyeur, windows and intimate living spaces at its center.

His current work (2026) explores the noctural life of sacred interiors such as baroque churches.

He is very attached to the works of Wilhelm Hammershoi, Giorgio De Chirico, Léon Spilliaert, Francis Bacon, André Kertész and Vivian Maier. But also sensitive to the current work of Becky Suss, Nathanaëlle Herbelin and Laurent Proux.

Education

2019 - 2020
2014 - 2016
2010 - 2014
2007 - 2010

Visual Art Aggregation, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium.
Master degree, Drawing, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels and U.L.G, Belgium.
Master degree, Lithography, Royal Academy of Fine Arts - Brussels, Belgium.
Bachelor degree, Landscape architecture, I.S.I.A - Gembloux, Belgium.

Residency

2021 - 2022
2019 - 2020

Centre Culturel de Namur - Abattoirs de Bomel, individual, Namur, Belgium.
Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, group, Brussels, Belgium.

Exhibitions

2026
2025
2024
2024

2022
2021
2021
2020
2020
2019
2019

Everything fades. The horizon recedes, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Rivoli, Brussels, Belgium.
Saynète, Abattoir de Bomel / Centre Culturel de Namur, Belgium.
Plein Soleil, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Variations artistiques autour des fenêtres et des portes, Centre Culturel de Stavelot les
Trois-Ponts, Belgium.
11 Years of residencies, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
Art confiné temporaire, Act-Exhibition, Brussels, Belgium.
Opening, Galerie en ligne Alegrarte, Brussels, Belgium.
294 jours entre 4 murs, Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, Brussels, Belgium.
No Guts, No Glory, La Chambre de l’Art, Brussels, Belgium.
Heart, Loudert Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania.
Sans fil, Lin Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.

Art Fair

2024
2023
2023

Art on Paper 2024, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium.
Art on Paper 2023, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium.
Art on Paper 2023, Michèle Schoonjans Gallery, Art Fair, Amsterdam, Holland.

Prizes

2022
2022
2021
2019

Prix Découverte 2022, Rouge-Cloître, Brussels, Belgium. (Finalist)
Prix Elisabeth Burdot, Les Amis d’ma mère, Brussels, Belgium. (Finalist)
Prix de la ville de Tournai, La Ville de Tournai, Tournai, Belgium. (Finalist)
Carte de visite / ArtopenKunst 2019, La Ville de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. (Finalist)

Press

2026
2026
2022

2020

Peinture et dessin de retour au Rivoli, Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir magazine.
Laurent Dumortier retient la nuit, Gwennaëlle Gribaumont, La Libre.
Le murmure des fenêtres ou l’obscure clarté d’un voyeur dévoilé, Michel Voiturier, Point
Contemporain n°27 - Revue d’arts contemporain .
Prix Artistique de Tournai - Génération 90’, Michel Voiturier, Flux News Magazine .

Collection

2020

Fondation privée du Carrefour des arts, group, Brussels, Belgium.

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