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Sebastiaan Bremer (b. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1970) attended the open studio program in Vrije Academie in The Hague (1989-1991) and subsequently moved to New York City in 1992 where he now lives and works. 

Throughout his career, Bremer has in one way or another used pre-existing images to explore profound ideas about time, memory, and meaning.

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In his early years, he meticulously reproduced personal snap-shots in painting. Over the following years, this process of re-envisioning visual documents of the past led Bremer to experiment with different techniques and materials.

He sought to alter the image’s material existence, add another dimension, and shift the viewer’s perception of the image’s purported meaning. In the late 1990s he began to draw directly on the surface of personal photographs, covering the images with intricate patterns of strokes and dots or applying splashes of paint and ink.

Since then, Bremer has complicated this process of alteration, cutting and ca