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Cornelissen was born in Utrecht in 1954. He lives and work in Utrecht. Before practicing art, he studied Biology and Ecology. He attended the Vrije Akademie in Den Haag from 1982 to 1984 and then studied at Rietveld Akademie in Amsterdam from 1984 to 1987. He began his art career as a painter, but shortly switched to drawing, in which he developed a signature style of monumental drawings that show imaginary architectural spaces and enigmatic figures. His grid-like patterned drawings are not only part of paper-based work, but also come to life in 3-D in his animated videos. The highly detailed representations in Cornelissen's work examine the construction of space. He often creates a reality full of the strange and the familiar where the viewer becomes lost in a labyrinth of lines, rooms, and buildings.