—2017
G.O.A.T., Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Sündenbock, Hannover Kunstverein, Hannover
Three Social Works, South London Gallery, London

—2016
The Show Must Ego On, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels
DOG, Pauluskerk Rotterdam, TENT, Rotterdam

—2015
After the Riot II, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
I am in Heaven, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

—2014
Private View, Maureen Paley, London

—2012
Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Janus, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
Commission, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt

—2011
Erik makes Happy, Bawag Contemporary, Vienna
Art Unlimited, Basel
How Can I Help You?, Hayward Gallery, London
English Lesson, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

—2010
Echter Luxus, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Rotterdam, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

—2009
keine Kohle, kein Holz, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
The Assistant, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
Spot on‚ Rotterdam-Rostock, Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
Im Netz, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Sex is Sentimental, Maccarone, New York

—2007
I’m so scared of America, (together with Kelley Walker), De Hallen, Haarlem
Gaza Surfers, Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Peepshow, Project for Wrong Gallery at Tate Modern, London
Homeland Security, Projekt am Museumsplatz, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Munich
Galeria s.a.l.e.s., Rome
MassMoCA, North Adams
Kunsthaus Hollywood, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Guantánamo Baywatch, Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

—2006
Nouveau Riche, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
This can’t go on (Stay with me), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Galerie Arndt & Partner (with Douglas Kolk), Berlin
I am afraid to tell you, but…,Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich
Presentation of 5 films, Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Don’t live with him, but give to him, Man in the Holocene, London
See? Now we are connected, Institut Néerlandais, Paris
Tessa, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

—2003
Therapy, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
Art Forum Berlin, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Berlin
Klebeplastik, Fiebach-Minninger Galerie, Cologne

—2002
Naughty by Nature, not because I hate you, Groninger Museum, Groningen
Bin Shopping, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

—2001
Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam

—2000
High, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

—1999
Aktionsforum Praterinsel Laboratorium, Munich
Selbstenzünderer, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
Altes Rathaus, Schwerin

—1998
Singing Apart Together, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
Mit Heizung, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp

—1996
Galerie Sabine Wachters, Brussels

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

—2021
Nomination The Daniel and Florence Guerlain Foundation Drawing Prize, 2021

—2020
Competition Tiger Award Ammodo, for BEER, International Film Festival Rotterdam

—2019
Best Dutch Book Designs, selection of 33 books. For Sündenbock/Scapegoat –Hannover Kunstverein/Studio Remco van Bladel

—2018
Dr. A. H. Heineken Prize for Art

—2017
Main Award from Kunststiftung Ingvild and Stephan Goetz, shared with Julian Rosefeldt (Manifesto) at Kino der Kunst for Die Insel, Munich

—2016
Theo Wolvencampprijs

—2013
Nomination Gouden Kalf Short Documentary at Dutch Film Festival for Janus

Tiger Award Short Films at International Film Festival Rotterdam for Janus

—2006
Dolf Henkes Prijs

—1999
2^nd Prize Prix de Rome

—1996
Wim Izaaks Prijs

 

PERFORMANCES

—2019
The Pitch, VBCN OPEN, 16th February, Singer Museum, Laren

—2017
Beeldbepalers, live video- performance, 14th november, De Balie, Amsterdam

—2013
Delegierte Performance for WWTBD, Marien Jongewaard at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

—2020

• Empört Euch!, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, September 2020
• BIER (BEER), Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam
• Old Technology, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
• Stedelijk Base, video works from the collection with Michael Smith, Grayson Perry, Liza May Post, Erik van Lieshout and General Idea, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
• Faces and Names, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
• New Reproductions, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
• Art Basel 50 Years, Basel, curators Kasper König, Hamza Walker, Christina Li, June 2020 postponed to June 2021, then cancelled

 

—2019

• Manifesta Revisited, Manifesta Headquarter, Amsterdam
• A Passion for Drawing– Guerlain Collection from the Centre Pompidou, Albertina, Vienna
• Dulle Griet – rebellie – provocatie – wanhoop – feminisme, LLS Paleis, Antwerp
• Best Dutch Book Designs 2018, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Chapter 1NE by Edson Sabajo and Guillaume Schmidt, Het HEM, Zaandam
• prolongation: Weil Ich Nun Mal Hier Lebe (Because I Live Here), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

 

—2018

• Vrijheid, Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle
• RE:Collecting –VBCN OPEN, Singer, Laren
• Manifestations, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
• Weil Ich Nun Mal Hier Lebe (Because I Live Here), Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
• The Line-Up, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
• Ich bin ein Riss, ich will durch Wände gehen, Sammlung Peters-Messer und Mettinen Collection, Salon Dahlman, Berlin
• Echte Luxe/True Luxury (Art Acquisitions 2012-2018), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Ter Wereld, Stedelijke Kunstacademie, Tielt
• Bad News, Wiesbaden Biënnale, Wiesbaden
• 30 jaar Heinekenprijs voor de Kunst, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• screening of Die Insel, La Moreria, Madrid
• Deutschland ist keine Insel, Sammlung zeitgenössischer Kunst der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Ankäufe von 2012 bis 2016, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn

 

—2017

• Bye Bye de Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht
• Revolution in Red-Yellow-Blue – Gerrit Rietveld and Contemporary Art, Marta Herford, Herford
• Screening of WORK, Krafta Doc, Glasgow
• ICON, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
• EXPOVideo, Chicago Art Fair, curated by Ali Subotnick, Chicago
• Radicale Sociale Animale Talen, Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
• Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London
• Mentales Gelb.Sonnenhöchststand, Works from the KiCO Collection, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, Munich and Kunstmuseum Bonn
• Screening of Die Insel, Kino der Kunst, Munich
• Unfinished Conversations, New Work from the Collection, MoMA, New York

 

—2016

• Forming in the pupil of an eye, Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi, Kerala
• Shame,Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden
• Theo Wolvencampprijs, 20 Jaar, Hengelo
•  Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
• Theatre Dreams of a Beautiful Afternoon, Annet Gelink Gallery at Manifesta Office, Amsterdam
• Emscherkunst 2016, Dortmund

 

—2015

• Duh?!, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
• Political Populism, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
• The Bottom Line, SMAK, Ghent
• FEIERT DAS LEBEN!, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien and Caritas&Du, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection, MoMA, New York
• Screening of WORK at EYE Film Institute Amsterdam and Dutch Film Festival, Utrecht
• Screening of The Basement, Galerie Krinzinger Parterre, Vienna
• Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki
• Draw Now, Albertina, Vienna
• Time Capsule, Jacob Lawrence Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
• Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London
• A Modest Proposal for Radical Bourgeoisie, De Hallen, Haarlem
• Meisterzeichnungen/Master Drawings, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich

 

—2014

• Play Time, Biennale de Rennes
• UNE HISTOIRE (art archi design / des années 80 à nos jours), Centre Pompidou, Paris
• Manifesta10, Hermitage-General Staff Building, Saint Petersburg
• Sammlung De Leeuwenhoeve, OsthausMuseum, Hagen
• Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Haarlem
• The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan

 

—2013

• Sluizen-Between Two Poles, Moscow Biennale, Planetarium, Moscow
• Kanaalwerken, Gemeentemuseum, Helmond
• Ruhe-Störung, Marta Herford, Herford
• Ik hou van Holland. Nederlandse Kunst na 1945, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam
• Ghost in the System – Scenarios for Resistance, 5thMoscow Biennale, NCCA, Moscow
• Salon der Angst, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
• If you will it, it is not a dream, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
• Territory, AVL-Mundo, Rotterdam
• 1.pers.sing. – the artist’s body between selfportrait and performance –, b-05,Montabaur
• The Encyclopedic Palace, La Biennale di Venezia, Arsenale, Venice
• Nieuwe Aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
• Rineke Dijkstra. The Krazy House, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt
• Screening of Janus, together with Daria Martin, Maureen Paley, London
• Do it, MU, Eindhoven
• Modern Housekeeping, Cinema Zuid, EYE Film Institute Amsterdam, Amsterdam
• Screening of Janus, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• Testing (Re)Production, Museum Sztuki, Łódź

 

—2012

• Point de Vue, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch
• Edition Bewegte Bilder, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
• Parelen, De Lakenhal, Leiden
• The New Public, Museion, Bolzano
• The Living Years, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Manifesta9, Genk
• TRACK, SMAK, Ghent
• Insight-Outsight II, Städtische Galerie im Park, Viersen
• Colombo Art Biennale, Colombo
• La La La Human Steps, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam

 

—2011

• Studio Job House, Bergeijk
• Melanchotopia, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
• Out of Storage, Marres, Maastricht
• Beziehungsarbeit. Artists and Institutions, Künstlerhaus Vienna
• Fountain Show, dispari&dispari project, Reggio Emilia
• Wow wow wow, Atelierhof Kreuzberg/Eddie the Eagle Museum, Berlin

 

—2010

• Contemporary Magic: A Tarot Deck Art Project, The National Arts Club, New York
• Modern Dialect, MUHKA, Antwerp
• Trust, Seoul Media City, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
• Nether Land, Dutch Cultural Centre, Shanghai
• Behind the Green Door, Harris Liebermann Gallery, New York
• Was tun? Was geschieht? Schloss Dyck, Jüchen
• fpm-collection, Viersen
• Act V: Power Alone, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art  , Rotterdam

 

—2009

• amor fati, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
• Recente Aanwinsten, De Hallen, Haarlem
• Editions vs Objets, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
• fpm-collection, Berlin
• Plein Air, Art Forum Berlin, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Berlin
• DoubleDutch, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
• Zij kwamen uit Deurne, Museum de Wieger, Deurne
• Van Lieshout Van Lieshout Van Lieshout, KadE Kunsthal, Amersfoort
• Van Dürer tot Kiefer, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• Shifting Identities, CAC Vilnius
• ‘T’ Quelques Possibilités de Textes, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva
• 200 Jaar Prix de Rome, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• Mental Puberty 4 AM, Store Gallery, London

 

—2008

• In Het Duister, De Salon, Rotterdam
• A Meeting between the Tragic and the Funny, Hessenhuis, Antwerp
• NEXT, Kunstencentrum Buda, Kortrijk
• Home Alone, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Copenhagen
• Busan Biennale, Busan
• After Nature, New Museum, New York
• Pretty Ugly, Maccarone, New York
• Shifting Identities, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
• Brave New Worlds, Jumex Collection, Mexico City
• Institutional and Poetical Violence, with Anne Lise Coste and Tatjana Doll, Museu Serralves, Porto

 

—2007

• If I can’t dance, I Don’t Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution, MUHKA, Antwerp
• Installation of UP! at Rubell Family Collection, Miami
• Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Size Matters: XXL, HVCCA Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill
• Nederclips, Stedelijk Museum, ‘s-Hertogenbosch
• Hamsterwheel, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice
• Chocolates, Ojo Atómico, Madrid                    
• Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London
• Between 2 Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe
• ‘Discussion between Erik van Lieshout and author Ian Buruma on Tensions in Dutch Society and Politics’, 17th April, CCS Bard, Anandale on Hudson
• Temporarily Disconnected, CCS Bard, Anandale on Hudson
• european kunsthalle, Cologne

 

—2006

• Chocolates, Museo Carillo Gil, Mexico City
• Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse
• Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
• Public Image, Painting in the City, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg
• Cooling Out – Zur Paradoxie des Feminismus, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz/Basel
• Gimme Shelter or I’m gonna fade away, Halle für Kunst, Lüneburg, Luneburg
• Schadenfreude, film program by FACT, Liverpool, Arnolfini, Bristol, Oberhausen, Short Film Festival, Impakt, Utrecht
• Do The Right Bling, Stedelijk Museum, ’s-Hertogenbosch
• Of Mice and Men, Berlin Biennale 4, Berlin
• Nederland 1, Museum Gouda, Gouda
• Satellite of Love, TENT/Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
• e-flux video rental, Portikus, Frankfurt
• Respect! Forms of Community/Formes de Cohabitation, Musée Dar Si Saïd and the Palais el-Badi, Marrakech
• Schadenfreude, film program by Tirdad Zolghadr, Frieze Art Fair, London
• Pursuit of Happiness, Bureau Beyond, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
• Art Unlimited, Basel Art Fair, Basel
• Jan De Cock, Pieterjan Ginckels, Manfred Pernice, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Erik Van Lieshout, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
• Populism, CAC Vilnius,  Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Sjarjah Biennial, Sjarjah

 

—2004

• Premio del Golfo, Biennale Europea Arti Visive, La Spezia
• Wim Izaksprijs laureates, Museum Dordrecht, Dordrecht
• Habitat, Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin
• Ethnic Marketing, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
• Trailer, Man In The Holocene, London
• Funky Lessons, BüroFriedrich, Berlin, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna
• Tracer, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
• We are the world, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, De strip, Vlaardingen
• Quicksand, De Appel, Amsterdam

 

—2003

• Travelling: Towards the Border, Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
• Ian Kiaer, Jonathan Pylpichuk, Erik Van Lieshout, Massimo de Carlo, Milan
• Not Now!, Kunstraum B2, Leipzig
• BüroFriedrich at Frieze Art Fair (with Monica Bonvicini), London
• Accessoiremaximalismus, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel
• We are the world (with Jeanne Van Heeswijk, Meschac Gaba, Alicia Framis, Carlos Amorales), Dutch Pavilion, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
• Urban Tension, Museum in Progress, billboard project, New Opera, Vienna
• Do it, webproject e-flux by Hans Ulrich Obrist
• Private Views, Fiebach-Minninger Galerie, Cologne
• Politically Correct? Dutch! Galerie Krinzinger, Salzburg and Vienna

 

—2001

• Stroomversnelling, Groninger Museum, Groningen
• Wolfgang Plöger — Erik Van Lieshout, CIAP, Hasselt
• Pussy Forever, Christa Burger Galerie, Munich
• Zero Gravity, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
• Carbar, Lowlands, Biddinghuizen
• April is the cruellest Month, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
• A Very Fancy Fair, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht
• Nieuwe aanwinsten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

 

—2000

• Pleidooi voor intuïtie, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
• Les 33, nightly art bar with Jeroen Jongeleen and Marc Bijl, Rotterdam
• Christa Burger Galerie, Munich
• Buren, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• BüroFriedrich, Berlin
• Paintballs (with Bill Beckenbridge), Buro Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden
• Hey, International Competition Style (in cooperation with Dierk Schmiedt and Amelie von Wulffen), TENT, Rotterdam
• Exorcism, Aesthetic Terrorism, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Het paard van Troje, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden

 

—1999

• Prix de Rome: Four artists of the Prix de Rome (painting): Charlotte Schleiffert, Erik Van Lieshout, Gé Karel van de Sterren en Gijs Frieling, Arti et Amicitea, Amsterdam
• Franky DC, Walter Swennen, Niels Donckers, Elske Neus, Erik van Lieshout, Sven ’t Jolle, Stella Lohaus Gallery, Antwerp
• Group Show, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam
• After the Riot, MARRES, Maastricht
• After the Riot: Snowflake Office (with Annette Weisser/Ingo Vetter), Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf
• Snowflake Office, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
• Schildersverdriet, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
• Gladijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

 

—1998

• The Centre Holds, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
• Fonds voor Beeldende Kunst, Vormgeving en Bouwkunst Amsterdam
• Mit Heizung, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin

 

—1997

• Excedra (with David Bade), Hilversum
• Einde eeuw, Tableau Vivant, Pulchri Studio, The Hague
• Oosterhof/Donia Exhibitions, Rotterdam

 

—1996

• 6th International Biennale of Cairo, Cairo
• RTL 12+, Galerie Tanya Rumpff (with Charlotte Schleiffert), Haarlem
• Pump the Cherry, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
• Ver na Vermeer, De Beyerd, Breda
• Stroomopwaarts, HAL, Rotterdam

 

—1994

• De Ateliers 1985—1993, Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
• Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Galerie Sabine Wachters (with Charlotte Schleiffert and David Bade), Brussels
• WATT, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam

 

1993

• De Kracht van Heden, Loods 6, Amsterdam

 

—TUTOR

• Guest tutor at De Ateliers, Amsterdam
• Guest tutor at Leipzig HGB, workshop in presentation, 2020