page_title: Job Smeets
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caption_attribution_description: English: Job Smeets in his Antwerp apartment, 2018
context_page_description: Job Smeets is a Belgian contemporary conceptual and sculptural artist and designer and founder of Studio Job based in Antwerp, Belgium. Known for producing "high-end works toying with politically loaded signifiers", he combines traditional and modern techniques to produce art and design objects.
context_section_description: Studio Job's artwork ranges from unique bronze artwork in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, to a royal stamp featuring the Dutch King (forty million pieces produced) from the unique life-size bronze sculptures on Miami Beach for Faena, to the one-off Wunderkammer curiosity cabinet that Studio Job produced for Swarovski in Innsbruck.
  Under the direction of Job Smeets with a studio in Milan, Italy and the atelier in Tilburg, Netherlands, Studio Job work across many areas including art, design, fashion, architecture, automotive and interior design having worked on projects including sculptures for Swarovski, Barneys, Viktor & Rolf  and Land Rover, and product collections for brands such as Alessi, Moooi, Bisazza, Swatch, and Disaronno. In 2017 Studio Job teamed up with Italian manufacturer Seletti to form the joint brand BLOW producing products in the pop spirit. Job Smeets has produced work for various galleries including Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Moss Gallery New York, Dilmos Milano, Fondazione Bisazza and Chamber New York where he curated and coordinated the gallery's launch collection and book.
  Studio Job are ranked in the press as one of the world’s most influential players within design and art. Their collectable work is said to create a bridge between object and product by merging art and graphics.
  He has completed four solo shows as an individual and over 82 solo shows as Studio Job including Groningen Museum 2003, 2006, 2007, 2011 & 2012,
caption: Job Smeets in his Antwerp Apartment, 2018
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