• Still life 1 Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 120cm x 60cm, 2014

exhibitions

2024

Where Magic Lies… A Group Exhibition of Enchanted Moments
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Summer Radiance
Group show, KochxBos gallery, Amsterdam

Jack Kirby exhibition
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Care Bears Forever
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Special Selections from Context Art Miami
Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Art collectors starter kit show X
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2023

Art the hague
Claire Partington, Zoé Byland, Meryl Donoghue, Sarah Maple, Nicoletta Ceccoli
KochXBos gallery Amsterdam

Bound by Nature
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Literaristry – Art inspired by the written word
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Vanguard
International Invitational group show, Outré gallery, Melbourne

All creatures great and small
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Ladies to the front
Group show, Parlor gallery NJ

Art collector starter kit IX
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2022

The last unicorn 40th anniversary group exhibition & more!
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Context art Miami 2022
With Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles/Miami

Sixth sence
Stanley, Early, Lee, Brike, RYOL & Byland
Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Art collector starter Kit VIII
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2021

The little prince 75th anniversary
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Vanguard
International Invitatonal group show, Outré gallery, Melbourne

Summer 2021 Collection
Group show, KochXBos gallery Amsterdam

15 year anniversary show
Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Schicht um Schicht
Galerie art 333, Wädenswil

The magnificent seven
Travis Lampe, Zoé Byland, Rodolfo Loaiza, Yang Cao, Helice Wen, Andy Adamson, kozyndan.
Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Art collector starter Kit show VII
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2020

Wide Awake -15 Years KochXBos gallery
Group show, KochXBos gallery, Amsterdam

Window Shop Lockdown
KochXBos gallery, Amsterdam

Fantastical Beasts
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Art collector starter kit show VI
Group show, Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

Mini solo exhibition
Curated by Caro Buermann, three artist exhibit at Corey Helford gallery, LA

Zoé Byland
Solo show at KochxBos gallery Amsterdam

2019

Captured dreams
Solo show at haven gallery, New York

Come undone
Curated by Kylie Dexter, group show at Beinart gallery, Melbourne /AU

6th Annual Art Collectors Starter Kit show
Curated by Caro Buermann, group show at Corey Helford gallery, LA

District 13
International art fair with Haven gallery, Paris

Hello Kitty’s official 45th Anniversary Group Show
By Sanrio, curated by Caro Buermann, group show at Corey Helford gallery, LA

Lucky 13 Anniversary
Curated by Caro Buermann, group show at Corey Helford gallery, LA

Season’s start
Group show at KochxBos gallery Amsterdam

Kunst Rai
International Art fair with KochxBos gallery Amsterdam

2018

Zoé Byland/ Walter Wetter
Show at Trace gallery, Zurich

In the presence of the past
Solo show at Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2017

Parallel
Solo show at KochXBos gallery, Amsterdam

Pages from a minds travellers diaries
Dorothy circus gallery 10th anniversary group show, Rome

Beneath the New waves group show
Corey Helford gallery, Los Angeles

2016

Napoleon Complexity
AFA NYC, New York

La Lune
Haven gallery, New York

Lost faces
Trace gallery, Zurich

2015

Monochrom
Solo show at KochXBos gallery Amsterdam

Head in the clouds
Solo show at Dorothy circus gallery, Rome

Between masks and traces
Galerie Bäckerstrasse, Berlin

Art Monaco 15
Dorothy circus gallery

Haven gallery, Inaugural Group show
Haven gallery, New York

Zoé Byland with paintings soundtrack by D&A Brun del Re & Le diamantaire
Show at Trace gallery, Zurich

2014

Women, Street, Art &Studio
Inoperable gallery, Vienna

Zoé Byland
Solo show at Lay Low gallery, Palma

Scope, art Basel
Inoperable gallery

Kunst Rai
KochXBos gallery, Amsterdam

2013

Winter group show
KochXBos gallery, Amsterdam

Lacrima Aquarium
Dorothy circus gallery, Rome

2012

Tiny trifecta 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
Cotton Candy machine, Brooklyn/ New York, curated by Tara Mc Pherson

2011

Kardinal-König-Kunstpreis 2011
Kunstraum St.Virgil, Salzburg

Stroke urban art fair 2010, 2011
Inoperable gallery

2010

Three
Pure evil gallery & Lebenson gallery, London

ARCO Madrid 2010, 2009
Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher

2009

Identity/self II
Praxis art gallery, New York

Bäckerstrasse 4
Galerie Bäckerstrasse 4, Wien

2008

Art Cologne 2008, 2007
Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher

Viennafair 2008, 2007
Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Charim Galerie

Candy Cult
Breadbox Gallery, Perth/Australia

2007

Open art München 2007
Galerie Projektraum Viktor Bucher

2006 walking, doupting, rolling shining and musing
Academy of fine arts Vienna, curated by Adam Budak

bio/CV

Zoé Byland is a painter, based in Switzerland.

She attended the F+F school for art and media design in Zurich and studied contextual painting at the academy of fine arts in Vienna (class of Muntean/Rosenblum, Prof. Elke Krystufek and Prof. Hans Scheirl). She studied art history and teached at an art school in Vienna.

She lives and works in Bern.

In terms of style and content my paintings are based on elements of vintage photography, film noir, graphic novels, super heroes, tattoos and classical genres of art history. I combine the traditional and the contemporary, the classical and the subcultural.

I like to use subjects from turn-of-the-century portrait photography because they are a timeless style of representation

We are always in the presence of the past but the past only exists in a selective, staged form, altered by memory. I want to create moments in my paintings that elude time and space, in which history and the present day are blended together.

Disguises are another central aspect of my work. My characters never fully reveal their identity; they retain a degree of secrecy, they protect themselves and are simultaneously visible and vulnerable. The viewer’s imagination has enough room to think up their own narrative ideas. An image can be read in a variety of ways and I don’t want to limit this spectrum of interpretation by applying specific meaning. Just like a good story for me a good painting needs an atmosphere that draws you in and defines the genre in which the narrative is taking place.

awards

American Art Award 2015 /Category Acrylic painting, human figure

Opernballplakat /design of the Viennese Opera Ball poster 2012, Vienna

Kunstankauf / BMUKK artist award 2012, Vienna

Kardinal König Kunstpreis Nomination 2011, Salzburg

Strabag art award Nomination / 2008, 2010

MFA now / Master of art award 2008, New York

Fügerpreis / for painting and graphic art of the academy of fine arts 2007, Vienna

Project grant / of the academy of fine arts 2005, 2006, 2007, Vienna

contact/imprint

Verantwortlich gemäß § 5 TMG und § 55 RStV:
Zoé Byland

zoe@zoebyland.com