The Kid (artist)

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rdf:langString Robin Kid a.k.a. The Kid (Born 1991) is an autodidact multidisciplinary neo-Pop contemporary artist from Dutch descent. His works hijack a variety of social, political, and traditional imagery of the past and present, with rebellious, religious, fantastical, and in some ways offensive undertones. He pulls intuitively from the world of advertising, the Internet, the entertainment industry, and his childhood memories, to produce ambitious, enigmatic, and thought-provoking narratives, which question our polarized world of the 21st century. He confronts the audience with, among other notions, social determinism and the thin frontier between innocence and corruption within his young generation in modern societies. Robin Kid a.k.a. The Kid lives and works in Paris, France where he has his main studio for drawings and paintings and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands for sculptures. His art works include wall-size blue Bic ballpoint pen or charcoal drawings and oil paintings as well as hand-made hyper-realistic lifesize silicon or bronze sculptures and art installations in various materials. In recent years, The Kid's works have been exhibited at Le Louvre, the Institute Of Contemporary Art, The Grand Palais (National Museums Reunion), the Halle Saint Pierre Paris City Municipal Museum in Montmartre or the Paris City Cultural Center Centquatre in Paris (France), the Alpes Maritimes Regional Museum Lympia in Nice (France), the MOCO Museum in Amsterdam (The Netherlands), the 21st Century Museums in Chicago and in Louisville (USA), and during solo and group shows at International contemporary art galleries, in particular Templon Gallery (Paris, Brussels, New York) as well as at International art fairs, in particular Art Basel and Volta in Basel (Switzerland), Art Basel Miami Beach and Pulse in Miami (USA), or FIAC and Art Paris in Paris, among other venues.