Hello, I'm Tilde van Uytven
graphic designer & painter based in Antwerp, Belgium.
Areas of Expertise
Tilde Van Uytven graduated M.A. at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp in Graphic Design. She worked as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator from 1980 till 1997 for numerous companies and cultural institutions, For 11 years she designed weekly small posters for a newsreel on the Belgian television broadcasting company VRT. They have been exhibited in numerous shows. A selection out of the over 600 posters was published in a book 'Panorama getekend', edited in 1991.
With the posters, designed from 1980-'89 for the Royal Youth Theatre of Antwerp, she was selected in 1982 and 1986 at the International Biennial for graphic design in Brno (former Czechoslovakia).
In 1990 she became professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Artesis Hogeschool) and at Sint Lucas (Karel de Grote Hogeschool), both university colleges in Antwerp, teaching illustration and drawing (formerly also graphic design, reproduction techniques and painting). In 2009 she was guest lecturer in the Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. She was the curator of the exhibition ‘A Day In A Life’ in 2010 and of ‘De Kringwinkelcollectie’ in 2012.
In 1993 the Europalia Nippon Kinen committee selected her for a four-months sojourn in Japan on a personal project to investigate about graphic design, illustration and high-quality offset print. She visited several companies and artists in Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka, Osaka University of Arts and held a lecture and exhibition in Osaka for the Designers Association.
Her creative work evolved towards fine arts and in 2004 she attempted an education in Painting at Sint-Lukas University College in Brussels, resulting in a M.A. graduation in 2007.
In 2011 she was invited by The Hermitage, Florida, USA, as artist in residence.
Her graphic work and paintings have been on show in numerous group and solo exhibitions since 1982.
Since 1983 she regularly travelled to South East Asia, Japan, the USA and New Zealand. She lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Awards
2016
A one-year BOF grant from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp for the research project ‘Peripheral Points of View’ collaboration with. UA and KU Leuven / affiliated member of Appearance Lab, Bern
2014
a two-year BOF grant for the research project ‘The Art of Seeing: Perceiving and drawing the visual periphery’
2011
Artist residency in the Hermitage, Fl, USA
1994
laureate of Benelux Award-Strathmore Paper
1993
laureate of Europalia Nippon Kinen
1986
selected at the International Biennial for graphic design in Brno (former Czechoslovakia)
1982
selected at the International Biennial for graphic design in Brno (former Czechoslovakia)
Exhibitions
2021 group exhibition "3" in Ruimte 34, Antwerp
2019 solo exhibition "Then and now" in Ruimte 34, Antwerp
2017 group exhibition ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
2014 solo exhibition in Galery Lina Tassent, Antwerp
2013 group exhibition 'Happy Birthday Dear Academy', Antwerp
2012 group exhibition KASKA 'C&A'
2011 group exhibition KASKA 'Vierkante tuinen', 'Light' the Hermitage, FL. USA
2010 group exhibition KASKA 'Tuin van verlangen'
2009 group exhibition KASKA 'Kloppend hart'
2008 solo exhibition in Zwanepand gallery, Antwerp
2008 'Op het tweede zicht' group exhibition professors of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
2007 'Confrontatie' group exhibition professors of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
2007 group exhibition ‘Through a Mirror of Riddles’ in Atelier 340, Brussels
2006 group exhibition ‘In Team’ in Chocolaterie, Brussels
2001 group exhibition professors of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
1998 group exhibition laureates of Nippon Kinen, Europalia, in the Embassy of Japan in Brussels
1995 exhibition in the Flanders’ Cultural Exchange Centre in Osaka, Japan
1993 group exhibition “Fin-de-siècle” in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp
1992 group exhibition professors of Sint-Lucas
1992 group exhibition ‘Former Students’ the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp, for it’s 325th anniversary
1991 solo exhibition at the Free University of Brussels (VUB)
1990 solo exhibition in Fnac-gallery, Antwerp
1982-’89 over 20 exhibitions of the TV-work in Cultural Centres throughout Flanders