Koen Vermeule

Koen Vermeule is a contemporary artist who was born in 1965 in Goes. He paints landscapes and people who seems to be lost in a desolated world. From 1983 to 1988 he studied at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilburg. From 1990 to 1992 he was educated at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. In 1994 Vermeule was honored the Carlotte Köhler Awards, Visual Arts. In 2009 he curated, along with Ian Whittlesea, the exhibition The Foundations of Judo in Rotterdam.

Since 1998 he has been a external advisor of graduate students and guest lecturer at various art academies, including Rietveld Academie Amsterdam, Academie Minerva Groningen, ArtEZ hogeschool voor de kunsten Enschede, Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten in Den Haag. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam.