André Hemer

André Hemer’s works explore the intersections between digital media and painting. His interest in sampling digital media—including scans, found digital images or systems, and digital drawings—is born out of a desire to synthesize the concerns of the post-internet age with more traditional methods and techniques. Combining digital and traditional processes, Hemer sculpts images out of paint, which are scanned on a flatbed scanner. The scans are printed on canvas and function as an underlayer onto which paint is applied and the original sculpted paint is attached, creating a dialogue between material and image. His works embrace and reveal the transformations and transactions occurring between the contemporary digital image and the traditional painted object. 

Hemer’s work has been exhibited widely, with solo presentations at the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery; COMA Gallery, Sydney; LUIS DE JESUS, Los Angeles; Gow Langsford Gallery, Auckland; Yavuz Gallery, Singapore; and Chalk Horse Gallery, Sydney. His work has also been shown at a range of art fairs, including presentations at Art Basel, Art Shanghai Contemporary Fair, and Manila Art Fair, and in group presentations across Asia, Europe, and the United States. In 2017, Hemer was awarded a six-month residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York.

Hemer was born in New Zealand in 1981. He received a Ph.D. in Painting from Sydney College of the Arts, University of Sydney, Australia in 2015 and M.A. from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2006, including a Postgraduate Research Residency at the Royal College of Art, London also in 2006. Hemer lives and works in Vienna, Austria.