Hans Meertens

Visual artist Hans Meertens -aka Shane- (1975) is currently working and living in Amsterdam.
After spending some years abroad as an art student in York (U.K.) and Ghent (Belgium),
Meertens graduated from the HKU -the Art Academy of Utrecht (Holland)- in 2000.
In that same year he was nominated for the Piet Bakker Prize, an incentive prize for young
HKU graduates with outstanding talent. In the following years Meertens' artworks were exhibited
in a variety of galleries among which Caelum Gallery in New York (2006) and Giulio Cesare & Co Gallery
in Den Bosch, Holland. This is where his solo exhibitions “Solo Inferno” and "Invocatio!" were held
in 2004 and 2005.
As a singer/songwriter Meertens independently released two cd's; Trenches (2005) and Soul On Fire (2006).