Education
He began drawing when he was young, and at age 14 he went to classes at the Royal Academy in Antwerp and graduated at 21 in Brussels.
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The whole series, including portraits Dams made of Clark, were shown in a solo exhibition at Harrods, London in 1987. Suffocated by the “pseudo-intellectualism” and the “political-buro of art,” Dams fled Belgium to exhibit with Galerie Oz in Paris in 1993 and was quickly picked up by galleries such as Gracie Mansion in New York and Torch in Amsterdam. He later found kindred spirits in Belgium and has since then joined them to successfully offer a counterbalance to the Belgian art world’s “one-track thinking.”
A notorious recluse, he prefers to work in intimate circles.
To further advocate the work of people he admires, in 2005 Dams opened envoy enterprises, an independent contemporary art space located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
The first gallery to defect Chelsea, envoy enterprises joined Lower East Side strongholds such as Canada and Participant Incorporated. in what appears to be a tradition in Dams’ life, offering a counterbalance. Some of the better known artists represented by envoy enterprises are Simon Henwood, Jared Buckhiester and Paul Mpagi Sepuya.
Dams lives and works in New New York Recently some of his work has been exhibited in the "In My Solitude" exhibition at aeroplastics contemporary in Brussels, Belgium and will be featured at the Modern Chinese Art Foundation in Beijing in the Spring of 2008.
