Background
Schoorel was born in Santpoort, Netherlands.
Schoorel was born in Santpoort, Netherlands.
She makes paintings based on photographs, using traditional genres such as landscape, portrait and still-life. She favours pale colours and minimal detail. Maaike Schoorel is represented in London by Maureen Paley.
2015 Tribute, Prix de Rome, de Appel, Amsterdam.
2015 Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom 2014 Interiors, Stigter Van Doesburg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 2013 Conservatory, Mendes Wood, São Paulo. 2012 Tribute, Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom 2011 Maaike Schoorel – Zelfportretten & Stillevens, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, London zwart / wit dagboek, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam Maaike Schoorel, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2010 Art Features, Art 41 Basel, Galerie Diana Stigter 2009 Nudes and Garden, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles 2008 Album, Museum de Hallen, Haarlem, Nudes, Maureen Paley, London 2007 Prix de Rome 2007, de Appel, Amsterdam The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London How to Endure, curated by Tom Morton, Athens Biennial, Athens Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Zes, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, & Harris Lieberman, New York Stilleven, Portret, Schutterstuk, Marc Foxx: West Gallery, Los Angeles 2006 Just in time, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 2005 Slow Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf Prague Biennale 2, presentation for Flash Art, Prague IBID Projects, Vilnius, London. 2004 Galerie Diana Stigter, Rheinschau, Cologne Must I paint you a Picture?, Haunch of Venison, London 2003 Someplace Unreachable, IBID Projects, London 2002 Koninklijke Subsidie voor Vrije Schilderkunst, Gemeente Museum, The Hague Band in Crisis, (with Skill 7 Stamina 12), Cooper Gallery, Dundee.