Gabriel Lester

Quick Facts

Full Name	Gabriel Lester
Occupation	Sculptor
Date Of Birth	Feb 6, 1972(1972-02-06)
Age	52
Birthplace	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	North Holland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Gabriel Lester Biography

Gabriel Lester is one of the most popular and richest Sculptor who was born on February 6, 1972 in Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands. Gabriel Lester was born in Amsterdam on the 6th of February 1972. The son of Mark Dunning Lester (New York City, USA 1947) and Frederika Rolande Wilhelmina Erwteman (Bruxelles, Belgium 1944 + Groningen, Netherlands 2006). Lester was raised in a commune called “Impuls” in the small town of Pieterburen situated in the region of Groningen (the Netherlands).

The year 1994 saw Lester was transferred to Breda (the Netherlands), where he enrolled in a program that focused on audiovisual techniques within the Sint Joost art academy. After completing the course successfully, his initial year of study, Lester decided to travel instead of spending time at the school. This summer, he traveled by train through Georgia’s capital Tbilisi which is where he spent several months researching and creating his first feature- length screenplay entitled “Travel without a Course’. When he returned after his trip to Georgia, Lester entered a course in experimental cinema at the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Bruxelles (Belgium). He also completed one year in the four-year program, but without the intention to pursue the course.

In January 1999, Gabriel Lester started a two-year residency at the Rijksakademie, with the intention to do further research into cinema and produce some short films. However, in April of that year, shortly after an internal open-studios, Lester decided to avoid making film-art or video-art and rather create cinematic experiences in a three-dimensional fine arts practice. Later that year, Lester joined Fons Welters Gallery. At the end of 2000 Lester moved back to Brussels, where he was based until 2008.

Publications on the work of Gabriel Lester include: How to Act (monograph, Veenman publishers 2006), ‘Gabriel Lester’s Elevating the Witte de With’ (Paperkunsthalle 2007), ‘62 Gasoline Stations’ (artist book self-published 2007), Forced Perspectives (monograph, Sternberg Press 2015).

As of 1991, Lester relocated to Amsterdam and frequently presented and performed freestyle spoken-word in concert with a variety of music groups, including jazz as well as Hip Hop musicians. The identical year Lester went to a one-week class that was known as”pre-cinema class.

Gabriel Lester Net Worth

Gabriel Lester is one of the richest Sculptor from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gabriel Lester 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Gabriel Lester (Amsterdam, 6 February 1972) is an inventor, visual artist , and filmmaker who is based in Amsterdam. His work includes cinema, music spatial installation art, sculpture, performance art photography, architecture, and prose.

He was born in 1984 and relocated to the capital city of the province The town of Groningen. Around this time that Lester was interested in the hip-hop and street culture of the past. He began to write graffiti under the name ‘tag’ Catch. Lester later made hip-hop music using cassette decks, and turntables before transforming into sequencers and digital samplers. He joined the group in 1986. started the group “Definitely Def along alongside Andy Godderis. After 1989, Eugen Walker joins the group, which later became Utile Connection (or U.C.). U.C. recorded several tracks, and would perform on The band would perform throughout the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Lester returned to Amsterdam in 1995 and worked as a director, assistant director and editor of video-clips and commercials for the film production company Filmhouse. In 1996, he was engaged by Carlos Amorales, with whom he had previously worked on a short film, to collaborate in his Amorales art and performance project, a collaboration that lasted for two and a half years. This project introduced Lester to the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, to which he applied and was admitted in 1998. Before starting at the Rijksakademie, Lester traveled to Iceland, where he lived for five months farming and writing a collection of short stories. Upon his return to Amsterdam, Lester self- published a selection of the stories in a book called “Over and Done With”.

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Facts & Trivia

Gabriel Ranked on the list of most popular Sculptor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Netherlands. Gabriel Lester celebrates birthday on February 6 of every year.

Top Facts about Gabriel Lester

1. Gabriel Lester is a Dutch inventor, artist, and filmmaker.
2. He was born in Amsterdam in 1972.
3. Lester studied at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.
4. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale.
5. Lester’s art often explores themes of perception and illusion.
6. He has directed several short films and music videos.
7. In 2018, he created an immersive installation for the Sharjah Biennial.
8. Lester has won numerous awards for his work, including the Prix de Rome in 2000.
9. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam and Shanghai.
10. Lester’s inventions include a device that allows people to control their dreams (Dreamachine).