Vincent Dams makes paintings , drawings, objects, installations, photographs, texts, collages and invents concepts or fictional colleagues that accomplish all or something else. He won The Buning Brongers Prize for promising young painters in 2008 and the Charlotte van Pallandt Prize for young talented sculptors in 2012, in 2013 he was longlisted for the Prix de Rome. His sculptures often possess a surreal, poetic or absurd character with frequent references to sources of inspiration from literature, art history and the everyday life of the artist himself.

In most cases, the typical humor in his work, if not merely a visual exploration or joke, is the outer layer for a more melancholy undertone that seems almost to underlie his work as a visual artist. Thus the humor serves not only to grab the viewer directly, but also to represent the self-reflection and irony of the creator.