90. Miko Veldkamp - Fountain

2026
Acrylic on paper
15.24 x 10.16 cm

Miko Veldkamp (born in Paramaribo) is a Dutch-American painter of mixed Dutch-Indonesian ancestry based in New York City. His paintings construct dreamlike psychological worlds inhabited by shapeshifting figures, fragmented patterns and recurring symbolic motifs, where memory, imagination, past and future dissolve into one another.

Working intuitively and improvisationally, Veldkamp often begins with only a few lines or surfaces that suggest spaces or figures, allowing colours, moods and narratives to evolve organically through the process of painting itself. Frequently using translucent layers of paint, traces of earlier gestures remain visible beneath the surface, giving the works a sense of memory and continual transformation.

Across his practice, motifs emerge and recede like echoes through time: bicycles, dairy cows, nightclubs, checkered floors, forest spirits, tobacco and coca leaves. His fragmented, fluid figures — often resembling himself or members of his family — inhabit landscapes shaped by migration, multiplicity and politicised histories. Blending references to European modernism, colonial histories, Surinamese folklore, urban environments and psychological symbolism, Veldkamp’s paintings occupy a space between the personal and the mythological.

Recent solo and duo exhibitions include Buketan at Alice Amati (2024); Postcards from Home at BB&M (2023); Confetti in the Shade with Sangram Majumdar at Nathalie Karg Gallery (2023); Long Distance with Kate Bancroft at Long Story Short (2023); and Second Nature at Southwark Park Galleries (2022).

Selected group exhibitions include Finding my Blue Sky, curated by Omar Kholeif, at Lisson Gallery (2025); Printed Matter at BB&M (2025); Legacy at Plato Gallery (2024); Teach me how to fish at Art Intelligence Global (2024); The 7th Wall at Alice Amati (2024); and Botany of Desire at Swivel Gallery (2023).