Hans Neleman (b. 1960) is a Dutch-born interdisciplinary artist based in New Canaan, CT whose practice includes collage, painting, photography, and video. Neleman creates lyrical dreamscapes where heads appear to emerge from their abstract backgrounds. Myths and modern tales merge. Making one wonder what occupies the ‘headspace’ within the imagery, how this stirs emotions and perceptions within our own imagination and if or why new meaning is created. This enthralling amalgamation of both realist and abstract heads provides a space for stories about transformed identities that move to a surrealist beat mixed with sensual and even romantic harmonies.

Neleman studied fine arts at Goldsmiths University in London and received a BA from Westminster University and an MA in Studio Art from New York University. He has worked for over 30 years as an internationally celebrated commercial and advertising photographer. He has published three books (Silence, Moko-Maori Tattoo and Night Chicas) and exhibited his works nationally and abroad. His most recent exhibitions include: MoCA, Westport, CT; Jean Jacobs Gallery, New Canaan, CT; the Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT; CUSP/NYC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Anita Rogers Gallery, New York City; Biennale de Lyon France, Lyon, France; and Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA.

His work is in many private and public collections including: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia; the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA; the Museum of Contemporary Art of Lyon, Lyon, France; the Art Museum at University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT; Norwalk Community College Art Collection, Norwalk, CT; and the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT. Neleman has also been featured in numerous international and national newspapers and magazines including The New York Times, Newsweek, Esquire, US News and Word Report to name a few. He has been interviewed on WNYC’s The Leonard Lopate Show and MTV’s Cool People.

His awards include Kodak Photographer of the Year and American Photographer Magazine Photographer of the Year. In 2006 he was awarded the Hasselblad Master title and he is the recipient of the World Image Award for Still Life Photography.

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