(1955 - 2015) Dirk De Bruycker is a Belgian-born painter who lived and worked in Santa Fe, NM. De Bruycker is a recipient of the prestigious Visual Artist Fellowship Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and has paintings in prominent private and public collections around the world including the New Mexico Museum of Art Santa Fe, NM, Flemish Community Government in the Province of East Flanders, Ministry of Visual Arts in Brussels, Belgium and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, MO. Education: 1964-73 City Academy of Fine Arts, Sint Niklaas, Belgium 1973-77 M.A. St. Lucas Institute of Visual Arts, Ghent, Belgium 1979-80 Tamarind Institute, UNM Albuquerque, NM 1980-81 Graduate Program Printmaking Department, UNM Albuquerque, NM