David Van Eyssen

David Van Eyssen

Selected works

All works
No End In Sight: a silhouetted self-portrait reflected in a paper-lined shop window, trees and a sunlit building behind.
No End In SightPhotography
The View: a lenticular panorama of night roads, city lights, a seated figure and a vast blue flower, one viewing state.
LenticularsLenticular works
Figures In Flight (and Falling) I: two embracing figures in red wireframe against black.
Figures In Flight (and Falling)Works on paper
In Case I Forget To Remember: fire projected across a building at night, the audience in silhouette.
In Case I Forget To RememberSite-specific installation
A white encrusted book-object, open, with a black rectangle set into one page.
ArchiveEarly work · painting
The Private Life of Public Transport: a visitor in a VR headset stands on a white platform in a London gallery window, at the Varjo Special Exhibition, as a passer-by looks on.
The Private Life of Public TransportExtended reality installation
Encounter: two figures thrown above colliding cars amid glass spheres and shards.
EncounterLife-scale augmented reality sculpture
Generative Extrapolations: a tall collage of interiors, clouds and light.
Generative ExtrapolationsGenerative imaging
Simulations: two participants in VR headsets stand on a beach at dusk, one smiling, the sea and distant lights behind them.
SimulationsVirtual reality
A boy kicks out across a green, hazy hillside as a black dog runs beside him; a translucent circle hangs over the scene. Still from And Then I Saw You Green (2022).
Video WorksFilms, projections, sound and motion
Abduction: figures in pale dresses float and fall within a cone of green light against black.

Current

Abduction

Competing Cosmologies · Wende Museum, Los Angeles
November 2026 – October 2027

Cover wrap of the Wende Museum catalogue Competing Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky, with a ringed planet over a mountain landscape and a QR code. Exhibition catalogueCompeting Cosmologies: Interpreting the Sky · AR edition
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Recent exhibitions

  1. Abduction, Competing Cosmologies, Wende Museum, Los AngelesNov 2026 – Oct 2027
  2. LG × IHG Hotels, installation collaboration (five installations)2022–2026
  3. Encounter/Reflection, West Hollywood Art Fair, IHG Hotels2025
  4. Encounter, Wende Museum, Los Angeles (temporary viewing)2025

Recent talks

  1. The Romance of Technology, Wende Museum · Art Across Boundaries2025
  2. In Conversation: The Next Generation of Interactivity and Storytelling, USC Center on Public Diplomacy, Annenberg2022

Recent publications

Cover of Mirror Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art by Michael Petry (Thames & Hudson).
  1. Mirror Mirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art, Michael Petry, Thames & Hudson. Includes Dis Appearance (Generative Extrapolations) and a broken-mirror work from A Slim Volume of Poetry In No Particular Order.2024