Biography

Stefan Thelen/ Super A 1981 Goes, The Netherlands

Stefan Thelen's anti-superhero identity Super A is a Dutch artist who uses traditional painting technique and a knack for design to create compositions that manipulate familiar iconography into mind-bending and inquisitive pieces. His alter-ego, Super A is the filter with which the life and observations of Stefan Thelen are distilled down and turn into inspiration. All of his work evolves out of personal experiences or thoughts that grow into concepts which tightrope between fiction and nonfiction. Super A is a mystery that leans on the art doing most of the talking for Stefan Thelen, taking the viewer into a wonderland walking down a yellow brick road in which Thelen’s figurative and modern surrealist compositions are providing playful puzzles to decipher.

 

2025
Mural for Street Art for Mankind - Chicago,  United States
Mural collaboration with Collin van der Sluijs and Marcel Thelen -Renesse, The Netherlands
Groupshow Stand Strong Thinkspace Art - Los Angeles, United States
Mural for Straat Kunst Museum - Stedelijk Museum Breda, The Netherlands
Mural for The Crystal Ship - Oostende, Belgium
Groupshow Perseverance curated by Thinkspace Art at Brand Library - Glendale , United States

 

2024
Mural New York for Street Art for Mankind - New York,  United States
Mural Leicester, United Kingdom
Mural at Watersnood Museum in collaboration with Museum Murals, The Netherlands
Groupshow - Vertical Gallery  - Chicago, United States
Groupshow Ampersand - Known Gallery - Los Angeles, United States
Mural for Street Art for Mankind - Houston, United States
Soloshow Atypical - Thinkspace Art - Los Angeles, United States

 

2023
Groupshow LAX//AMS - Straat - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Groupshow Fuck Cancer - Thinkspace Art - Los Angeles, United States
Groupshow Daydream - Beinart Gallery - Melbourne, Australia
Mural  for STRAAT Museum - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mural for Blindwalss Gallery - Breda, The Netherlands

 

2022
Groupshow Reflections - Open Gallery - Long Beach, United States
Groupshow Alias - Out Of Line - Pier - Breda, The Netherlands
Soloshow The Other Way Around - MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, United States
Mural collaboration with Collin van der Sluijs for Het Mauritshuis Den Haag, The Netherlands
Mural for Bring The Paint - Leicester, United Kingdom
Mural for SAGA - Hasselt, Belgium
Mural for Progetto TRUST - Taranto, Italy

 

2021
Soloshow Through The Facade - Gallery Droste - Berlin, Germany
Groupshow LAX/ORD III Vertical Gallery - Chicago, United States
Soloshow Double U- Galerie Droste, Paris, France
Mural  for Naestved Kunstby - Naestved, Denmark
Mural for Art Hotel - Bayreuth, Germany
Jewelry design in collaboration with Suarez - Madrid, Spain

 

2020
Soloshow Apostasy - Thinkspace Art - Los Angeles, United States
Groupshow Art Is Where The Heart Is vol.7 - Galerie Droste -  Paris, France
Mural Tilburg, The Netherlands
Mural Breda, The Netherlands

 

2019
Groupshow  Scope Art show Thinkspace Art - Miami, United States
Soloshow Conversion - Gallery Droste Wuppertal, Germany
Groupshow Pow! Wow!  - Wade Warehouse - Honolulu, Hawai
Mural Boston, United States
Mural Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

2018
Soloshow - Domestication - Brand Library - Glendale, United States
Groupshow The New Vanguard II - Museum of Art and History - Lancaster, United States
Groupshow – Partisan  A4LW – Soest, Germany
Groupshow Vitality and Verve III - Long Beach Museum of Art- Long Beach, United States
Groupshow LAX / PDX  - Antler Gallery - Portland, United States
Groupshow Art Is Where The Heart Is  - Galerie Droste - Paris, France
Groupshow Pow! Wow!  - Honolulu Museum of Art - Honolulu, Hawai
Mural collaboration with Collin van der Sluijs Leuven, Belgium
Mural Berlin, Germany
Mural Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Mural Lancaster, United States

 

2017
Groupshow Portrait  - Vertical Gallery - Chicago, United States
Groupshow LAX / JFK  - Spoke Art - New York, United States
Groupshow - No Limit Boras - Boras, Sweden
Groupshow Versatile - Dampkring Gallery - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Duoshow with Collin van der Sluijs  - 1AM - San Francisco, United States
Mural collaboration with Collin van der Sluijs Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Mural Kiev, Ukraine
Mural Gent, Belgium
Mural collaboration with Marcel Thelen, Vlissingen, The Netherlands

 

2016
Groupshow - Dampkring Gallery - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mural Hofstade, Belgium
Mural Berlin, Germany
Mural Hasselt, Belgium
Mural Antwerp, Belgium

 

2015
Duoshow Wonder World  - Partisan  Soest, Germany
Groupshow Stroke Art Fair – St. Art Gallery – Munich, Germany
Groupshow Affordable Art Fair – St. Art Gallery – Brussels, Belgium
Mural Goes, The Netherlands
Mural Goes, The Netherlands
Mural Genk, Belgium
Mural Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Mural Oslo, Norway
Mural Heerlen, The Netherlands

 

2014
Groupshow Art.Fair – St. Art Gallery – Cologne, Germany
Groupshow Moniker Art Fair – St. Art Gallery – London, United Kingdom
Groupshow KunstRai – St. Art Gallery – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Groupshow Layered Behaviour – Partisan  A4LW – Soest, Germany
Mural Goes, The Netherlands
Mural Heerlen, The Netherlands
Groupshow Raw Art Fair – St. Art Gallery – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Groupshow Affordable Art Fair Brussels – St. Art Gallery – Brussels, Belgium

 

2013
Soloshow BlooomArt Fair – A4LW – Cologne, Germany
Groupshow Three – A4LW  Cologne, Germany
Groupshow Alles Goes! – Van Berkel Art – Goes, The Netherlands
Groupshow Realisme – Gallery Majke Husstege – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Mural Heerlen, The Netherlands
Murals for Warchild in Bogota, Medelin and Sabaleta, Colombia

 

2012
Groupshow Wallstreet 25 – Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Solo exhibition – Willem3 – Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Soloshow Backspace – Gallery Majke Husstege – Den Bosch, The Netherlands

 

2011
Groupshow City of dreams 2 – Deventer, The Netherlands
Soloshow Humanster – Willem3 – Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Groupshow Interland C – Mine – Genk, Belgium
Tiny Vices – Alley Gallery – Hasselt, Belgium
Installation – Onderstroom – Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Installation Hidden Beauty – Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 

2010
Duoshow It’s a strange world after all – Opperclaes – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Duoshow It’s a strange world after all – NIU: Espai Artisti – Barcelona, Spain
Art Amsterdam – St. Art Gallery – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sculpture Rize – Salon Versailles – Paris, France
Groupshow Streetlab – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2009
Groupshow Gouden Bergen – Dek22 – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Groupshow Hypermarket – Go Gallery – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Soloshow Affordable Art Fair – St. Art Gallery – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Group show – Prints and the Revolution – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2008
Group show – Prints and the Revolution – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Installation – Namesfest – Prague, Czech Republic
Group show – Subwalk – Arnhem, The Netherlands

 

2007
Groupshow No7 – Roodkapje – Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Duoshow And you are? – Señor Hernandez – Nijmegen, The Netherlands

 

2006
Groupshow Alias at Bomhuis – Breda, The Netherlands
Installation Collabse – zware plaatwerkerij – Vlissingen, The Netherlands
Groupshow My streets my city – Chiellerie – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Groupshow Dutch Masters – Gemeente Museum – The Hague, The Netherlands
Groupshow Redbull Artbeat – Club 11 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

2004
group show – Punct – Tilburg, The Netherlands

 

Education:

1998-2002
Grafisch Lyceum – Rotterdam, the Netherlands