Manon de Boer was born in 1966 and lives in Brussels. She studied at Akademie van Beeldene Kunsten in Rotterdam and at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam. Recent solo exhibitions include Frankfurter Kunstverein; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Jan Mot, Brussels (all 2008). The same year she participated in the 5th Berlin Biennial and, in 2007, Resonating Surfaces (2005) was exhibited as part of the 52nd Venice Biennial.