Born in Mortsel, Belgium, 1958.
Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
 
Solo Exhibitions (selected)
2005 “The Go-Between”, Compton Verney, Compton Verney
2005 “Le Cinq Anneaux”, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2004 K 21, Düsseldorf
2004 Tate Modern, London.
2003 “The Arena”, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2003 “The Arena”, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen
2003 “Curtains”, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand
2001 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2001 “Luc Tuymans”, Belgian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice
1999 “The Purge”, Paintings/1991-1998, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
1997 “Premonition: Works on paper”, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern
1995 “Supersition”, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago
1995 “Superstition”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1995 “‘Blow Up’. Luc Tuymans”, Schilderijen paintings 1985-1995. De Pont Foundation, Tilburg
1994 “Superstition”, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
1992 “Luc Tuyman”s, Kunsthalle Bern
 
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2005 “The Triumph of Painting”, Saatchi Gallery, London
2004 Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof
2003 “The Dictatorship of the Viewer”, Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2003 “Mental Mappings”, Kunstverein, Hannover
2003 “Dear Painter, Paint Me”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2002 Documenta 11_ Platform 5:Exhibition, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
2002 “Limits of the Perception”, Fundació Miró, Barcelona
2002 “Painting on the Move,” Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; traveling to Kunstsammlung Basel and Kunstmuseum, Basel
2002 “Dear Painter, Paint Me”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; traveling to Kunsthalle Wien, Austria and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
2002 “Startkapital”, K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
2001 SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
2000 “Open Ends”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 “Of the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2000 “The Memory of the Painting”, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau
1999 “Trouble Spot Painting”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
1999 “Examining Pictures”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1998 “Verzachtende Omstandigheden”, Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen Rotterdam
1997 “A Decade of Collecting”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997 “Future, Present, Past”, 47th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Corderie, Venezia
1997 “John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Luc Tuymans”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996 “Face à l’Histoire”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
1996 “Painting - The Extended Field”, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
1995 “Change of Scene VII”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/Main
1995 “Luc Tuymans and Francis Picabia. Paintings”, David Zwirner, New York, NY
1993 “Der Zerbrochene Spiegel”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel
1992 “Modernism in Painting”, Museum Oostende