Hedwig Brouckaert grew up in Flanders, Belgium, and has been living in NYC since 2011. She works with mass media imagery to create introspective and tactile works, which range from drawings to site specific installations. She received an MFA from the University of California, Davis after completing a Masters in sculpture at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels, and a Postgraduate at the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Belgium. Brouckaert received numerous grants from the Flemish Government in Belgium, and fellowships of the NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, the Rockefeller Foundation – Bellagio (IT), Liguria Study Center Bogliasco (IT), Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Hafnarborg Museum of Iceland, Yaddo (NY), Anderson Ranch (CO), Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and FLACC (BE). Her work has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout the US and internationally, including ‘Re/pro/ducing Complexity’ curated by Peter Lodermeyer with work by Jorinde Voigt and Nelleke Beltjens at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (BE), Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders (DE), Bangkok Art and Culture Center (TH), VOLTA NY with Jan Dhaese Gallery (2014 & 2018), Kentler International Drawing Space (NY), Kunstraum (NY), Project:ARTspace (NY), ChaShaMa (NY), McLothlin Center for the Arts (VA), Murray State University (KY), and Pallazo Vendramin Costa (Venice IT). Brouckaert’s work has been discussed in magazines and papers such as the Brooklyn Rail, the New York Times, Blackbook, ArtSpiel, Uncovered, the ArtCouch, and KunstHart (BE).

2023 Peel (America) ProjectART:space, Manhattan, NY, USA
2022 Peel Galerie EL, Welle, Belgium
2022 Spreekkamer with Alexandra Leyre Mein, Poort 8, Ghent, Belgium
2022 Peel America McGlothlin Center for the Arts, Emory & Henry College, Emory, VA
2019 Joyrides Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2018 VOLTA NY Jan Dhaese Gallery, NY, USA
2017 To Pieces (with work by sister Elfriede Brouckaert) Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2016 Collect Light (with Vanessa Albury) Clara M. Eagle GalleryMurray State University, Murray, KY, USA
2016 Bureau/Office curated by Maxime Van Melkebeke, offspace.xyz NY, NY, USA
2015 Illusive Flesh of Light Jan Dhaese Gallery Ghent, Belgium
2014 A knot, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness
The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn NY, USA
2014 VOLTA NY Jan Dhaese Gallery, NY, USA
2012-2013 Uprooted -P window installation, FLACC Workplace for Visual Artists, Genk, Belgium
2011 Cosmo.Sys / Solo Show and Book Presentation Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2010 Bilateria SECONDroom, Ghent, Belgium
2010 Mass Storage /05-09 Margalef & Gipponi Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2009 Mass Storage /01-09 Jan Dhaese Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2008 Magazine Drawings Radical Gallery, Zug, Switzerland
2008 Mass Storage Cultural Center, Hasselt, Belgium
2007 Magazine Drawings Zebrastraat Art Center, Ghent, Belgium
2006 Magazine Drawings Secondroom, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Drawings, Magazine Series Newcomb Hall Gallery
University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA, USA
2004 Ceramic Sculptures (with E. Higgins O’Connor) Davis Art Center, CA, USA
2002 New Work De Ziener Gallery, Asse, Belgium
2002 Oublies et Mémoires Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, VT, USA
2002 Oublies et Mémoires (multiple ‘02) De Ziener Gallery, Asse, Belgium
2001 Hanging Figures Cultural Center Leopoldsburg, Leopoldsburg, Belgium
2000 New Work (with Stéphanie Leblon) CIAP Hasselt, Belgium
1999 New Work (with Ronny Heiremans) CIAP Hasselt, Belgium
1999 Drawings Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland

2021 Shifting Sands NYFA IAP 2020
(with work by Zeshan Ahmed, Katya Akuma, Ivana Brenner, Zorica Colic, Carin Kulb Dangot, Bel Falleiros, Nathier Fernandez, Vinay Hira, Jaejoon Jang, Hyun Jung Ahn, Ae Yun Kim, Geuryung Lee, Jiaoyang Li, Spandita Malik, Levan Mindiashvili, j.p.mot, Ghislaine Sabiti, Leila Seyedzadeh, Sofia Suazo) co-curated with Yvette Molina and Ghislaine Sabiti, ChaShaMa Manhattan, NY

2019 Orbweavers
(with Emerald Rose Whipple and Max Razdow) Co-curated with Kari Adelaide, Project:ARTspace, Manhattan, NY

2016 liminal lyrics
(with work by Lucy Puls, Carol Hepper, Alexander Gorlizki, Max Razdow, Bart Stolle,Stéphanie Leblon, Sofie Muller, Nelleke Beltjens, Taney Roniger) Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Masters of Fine Art University of California, Davis, CA, USA
Laureate of the Higher Institute for Fine Arts – Flanders Belgium
Masters of Fine Art Sint-Lukas Hogeschool, Brussels, Belgium