Cédric Van Parys

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The Practice

Cédric Van Parys is an artist and researcher operating between Brussels (BE), Rotterdam (NL), and Sofia (BG). He creates sculptural works, site-specific installations, photographic assemblages, and publications that explore the relationship between monuments, infrastructure, symbols, rituals, and aesthetics. By collecting various phenomena as individual elements and reassembling them in new ways, Van Parys questions traditional ideas of culture and nature. His work has been built and exhibited at institutions, galleries, universities, and public spaces in the United States, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Italy, and China. He was the 2023–24 Douglas A. Garofalo Fellow at the University of Illinois Chicago.

Drawing inspiration from diverse cultural contexts, history, and natural sciences, ancient archetypes merge with contemporary languages to foster curiosity about the world we have made and inhabit, and how this relates to the planet, the cosmos, and beyond.

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Cédric Van Parys graduated with a Master’s in explorative architecture from KU Leuven, Campus Sint-Lucas Ghent in 2012. Then followed the postgraduate “Creative Practice for Narrative Environments” at Central-Saint-Martins, University of the Arts, London in 2013. After working with Rem Koolhaas (OMA/AMO) on multiple research and exhibition projects, he started his own artist practice.

His work has been exhibited at international institutions, galleries, and universities, among them the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago (2024); University of Illinois, Chicago (2024); Solo exhibition at Hof Van Cleve, Belgium (2024); Swimming Pool, Sofia (2023); Rebonkers, Varna (2022); +359Gallery, Sofia (2022); Chaxart Gallery, Amsterdam (2021); RAUM Utrecht (2021); Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo (2019), 57th Venice Art Biennale (2018); Shanghai Art Biennale (2016); Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam (2014).

He is also a lecturer and educator and has presented/taught at the University of Illinois in Chicago, Otis College of Art & Design in Los Angeles, Tongji University Shanghai, Sint Lucas KU Leuven campus in Ghent, Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and the Architecture Academy in Amsterdam. Recently, he completed the 2023-2024 Garofalo Fellowship at the University of Illinois, Chicago, School of the Arts, where he pursued independent research, created sculptural work, taught creative studios, and gave lectures.

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