When she gets there
Stevenskerk-II (Luuk)
Two Chairs at the Pool
 
 

  André Schoots’ oil paintings have been included in numerous exhibitions.

They are also represented in several private and institutional collections.

The works have merited many international certificates and awards.

WORKS FOR SALE

All works are for sale (on request, see CONTACT tab) unless stated "Sold".

BIO

In terms of education and profession André followed several tracks.

First of all he was educated in art.

Besides being an artist, André took a Ph.D. in natural sciences at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

He used to work as an embryologist in Europe and the US.

Later André held, for over twenty years, a position of civil spokesperson.

André Schoots currently lives and works in Berg en Dal, a small town in the east of The Netherlands 

ARTIST STATEMENT
        “My oil paintings are meant to show beauty and feeling.  Colorful visual, open-ended narratives, making the viewer ponder”.


Selected exhibitions
2015 Artexpo New York (USA)
2015 Art Monaco (Monaco)
2015 Gallery Global Art, Tongeren (Belgium)
2015 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (The Netherlands)
2015 Museum Casteelse Poort, Wageningen (The Netherlands)
2015 Galleria San Vidal, Venice (Italy)
2015 Marzia Frozen, Berlin (Germany)
2015 Gallery Steiner, Vienna (Austria)
representation ArtExpo NYC, Art Monaco, Spectrum Miami
2015 Galleri Gal, Frederiksvaerk (Denmark)
2015 Annual Dutch Art Fair (ADAF), Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
2015 Artists for UNICEF, Palermo (Italy)
2015-2016 Breda's Museum, Breda (The Netherlands)
2016 Art Leydan, Windsor Ontario (Canada)
2016 Dutch Art and Design Salon, Den Bosch (The Netherlands)
2016 (permanent) European Art Museum, Frederiksvaerk (Denmark)
2018 Rank Art (en ligne), Autrech, Saint Lary, (France)
Art Eindhoven 2022 and 2023 (The Netherlands)

Selected publications
Vanguard Visionaries (Art Platform New York City, 2015)
Effetto Arte, March 2015 (Florence, Italy 2015)
Cohen’s Choice (Kunstweek, The Netherlands, 2015)
Internationale Kunst Heute 2014 (IKH-Publishing, Germany, 2014)
Nationale Kunstagenda 2014 (Dutch Master Painters, Netherlands, 2014)
Art & Beyond, vol 22, Nov/Dec 2014, (Miami, USA, 2014)
Effetto Arte, Sept/Oct 2015 (Palermo, Italy 2015)
Himmelblau Art Compass (Art Domain Whois Publisher,  Quedlinburg, Germany 2016)
Kunstoase, June 2016 (Nationaal Kunstplatform, The Netherlands, 2016)
Booklet Global Art, June 2018, 35 (Global Art, Brugge-Tongeren, Belgium, 2018)
Art International Magazine 2018, 3, 136, (EA Editore, Italy, 2018)
Circle Spotlight (contemporary art magazine - Issue 14, page 92, 2019)
Art Collector's Choice - Middle East (Contemporary Art Station, pages 62-63, 2021)
Jaarboek Kunstenaars (Stichting Kunstweek, Netherlands, 2014, 2019 and 2023)

Selected awards
Certificate of Excellence, Palm Art Award 2014, Quedlinburg, Germany
Finalist Painting of the Year, Nationaal Kunstplatform 2014 en 2022, The Netherlands
Winner Second Prize, Artists Compete 2015 - Art Preferred (Los Angeles, USA)
Publisher's Choice Award, Art & Beyond 2014 (Miami, USA)
Cohen's Choice, Kunstweek 2015, The Netherlands
Sandro Botticelli Prize, Art Florence 2015, Italy
WINSOR & NEWTON PRIZE 2015, Palm Art Award 2015, Quedlinburg, Germany
International Prize Raffaello,  Bologna 2018, Italy
Circle Foundation 2019 en 2023, Artist of the Year Finalist