Born 1967, Belgium
The photographs of Belgian photographer Wouter Deruytter offer us a view into worlds not usually opened to us. Always on the lookout for adventure, he likes to see himself as a modern day Tintin, photographing his experiences along the way. Through his lens we get to look inside cultures as diverse as the New York drag scene and the life of wealthy oil sheiks behind their palace walls. In his photographs Deruytters tries to find both the extreme and the intimate of these private communities. He tries to tell us that it is possible to exist outside the grand happening of things, that although always changing, people can live outside the times they live in.
2011 Galerie Torch, Amsterdam (N) (Billboards, NY)
Art Chicago, Barry Singer Gallery, (Billboards, NY & Wicked Creek)
2010 Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Eroi e Onore)
2009 PULSE New York Contemporary Art Fair, Light & Sie Gallery (1989-2009 Survey)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Wicked Creek)
2008 Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas, TX, U.S.A. (Wicked Creek) (cat.)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (homage to Maurice Béjart) (cat.)
Oswald Gallery, Jackson, Wyoming, U.S.A. (Crow Warriors)
2007 United Nations, New York (Crow Warriors)
David Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (USA) (Billboards, NY)
2006 Caermersklooster Museum, Ghent (B) (Billboards, NY) (cat.)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Billboards, NY)
Packard Reath Gallery, Lewes, DE (USA) (Cowboy Code)
2005 Chelsea Art Museum, New York (Billboards, NY) (cat.)
Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York (Crow Warriors) (cat.)
Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York (Billboards, NY)
George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles (Arabian Knights)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Crow Warriors)
2004 Galerie Torch, Amsterdam (N) (Arabian Knights)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Circus in Egypt)
2003 Musei Centrale Montemartini, FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale, Rome (Il Codice Dei Cowboy)
Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Arabian Knights)
Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, Paris Photo, Paris (Arabian Knights: Negative) (cat.)
2002 Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Anachronism Abroad) (cat.)
2001 RoseGallery, Santa Monica, U.S.A. (Cowboy Code)
Galeria des Artistes, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (Cowboys & Indians: Brave in the West)
Galerie James Van Damme, Brussels (B) (Rodeo Days)
2000 Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (Codigo Vaquero (Cowboy Code))
Wessel + O’Connor Gallery, New York (Cowboys & Indians; Brave in the West)
Museo del Pueblo, Festival Internacional Cervantino, Guanajuato, Mexico (Caballeros Árabes) (cat.)
Galería Óscar Román, Mexico City, Mexico (Brave in the West)
1999 Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp (B) (Cowboys & Indians; Brave in the West)
Bogarden Chapel, Brugge (B) (Egypt in 7 Days)
1998 Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp (B) (Arabian Knights)
1997 Museum Of Modern Art (PMMK), Oostende, (B) (Knights of the Impossible) (book)
Galerie De Lege Ruimte, Ghent (B) (Transgenderism)
Stadsschouwburg Brugge, (B) (Valentino Mania)
Grammercy Contemporary Photography Fair, New York (Lunn Ltd.) (Arabian Knights)
1996 Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp (B) (Circus in Egypt)
Galerie Torch, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) (Anachronism Abroad)
Galerie Van Laethem, Rekkem (B) (Valentino Mania) (book)
Mois de la Photo, Paris (Galerie Boulakia) (Circus in Egypt) (cat.)
1995 Gallery Zelda Cheatle, London (Transgenderism and Circus in Egypt)
1994 Galerie Annette De Keyser, Antwerp (B) (Anachronism Abroad) (cat.)
1993 Galerie Gyselinck, Kortrijk (B) (Transgenderism) (cat.)
1990 Galerie Contact J., Antwerp (B) (original works from the book “Brussel...?”)
La Fenice, Venice (dance photographs of the Ballet Béjart Lausanne)