Sam Dillemans is a Belgian neo-expressionist painter and draughtsman. He draws inspiration from the human body, portraits, and nudes, which he approaches with a powerful, material technique and a deliberately limited palette of grays and blacks.
He studied at the Academies of Leuven, Mechelen, Ghent, Lille, and Tourcoing, where he notably met E. Leroy. Dillemans has received several major awards, including the Dirk Bouts (1980), Maurits Naessens Meise (1991), and Jules Bernaerts (1992). He has exhibited at Galerie De Zwarte Panter in Antwerp in 1999 and returned in 2001 with his reinterpretations of Old Master works.
His work confronts the viewer with the intensity and vulnerability of the human body, balancing realism and abstraction, and demonstrates exceptional mastery of material and expressive power.