paintings
(all acrylic and airbrush on canvas, selection)
Wind Up Lady
80cm x 50cm
Unicorn
75cm x 104cm
ladies and speechbubbles
120cm x 85cm
Girl and birds
125cm x 85cm
Boy and cat
boy and snail
50cm x 60cm
lady and bird
30cm x 30cm, 2019
lady and smoke
120cm x 85cm, 2019
lady-with-lettre-70cm-x-50cm
50cm x 70cm, 2019
Lady and bubblegum
120cm x 85cm, 2018
Tattooed snake
75cm x 90cm, 2018
the band
25cm x 25cm
girl and bird
60cm x 40cm
Boy and batmobile
89cm x 69cm
Lady and seabird
89cm x 59cm, 2018
Girl on ice
135cm x 90cm, 2018
Boy on ice
135cm x 90cm, 2018
Poodle
140cm x 170cm, 2018
Lady laser
60cm x 100cm, 2017
King of the forest
Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 140cm x 200cm 2017
At night
Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 120cm x 160cm 2017
Boy and aeroplane
Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 60cm x 105cm 2017
Lady dragonfly
Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 85cm x 125cm 2017
The kids
Painting, acrylic and airbrush on canvas 70cm x 95cm 2017
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