Ton van Summeren

Ton van Summeren

Ton van Summeren (Oss, 1953 – Amsterdam, 2017), painter, collagist, sculptor, was educated at Stadsacademie Maastricht (1972-1975) and Ateliers ’62 in Haarlem (1976-1978), at the same time as for instance: Marlene Dumas. He is mainly known for a postmodernist oeuvre, of: installations, murals, collages and monumental work in public spaces. The main subject of his work is his fascination for science, ranging from: micro-organisms, chromosomes, sperm, comets and microscopes to maps, animals, plants and scientific instruments.

The American magazine Art forum called his work “an ingenious juxta position of scale, in both space and time” … “studies in the sublime”.

In the eighties his breakthrough began with expositions at galleries such as the famous: The Living Room in Amsterdam. Work by Ton van Summerencan be found in collections such as those of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Centraal Museum Utrecht and the Lakenhal in Leiden.