All is vanity
Born 1973 Leerdam, The Netherlands
Collections
See here.
Gallery and bookshops
Johan Deumens gallery, The Netherlands. A selection of books is also available at Printed Matter in New York, Photoeye in Santa Fe, Le Bal in Paris, Walther König in Köln and Printroom in Rotterdam.
Solo Shows
A Dialogue in Useful Phrases, Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, UK, August 2012.
Interior Monologue, Booksmart Gallery, Rochester, NY, 2010.
The Man of the Crowd, SRO Photo Gallery, Lubbock, TX, 2010.
The Man of the Crowd and other works, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 2009.
Interior Monologue, Poetry International, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 2009.
The Man of the Crowd, Small World Books, Rochester, NY, 2008.
Selected Group Shows
Fotofocus, Cincinnati, OH, October 2012.
A Particular Kind of Heavy, Utility Canvas, Tokyo, Japan, May 2012.
Dead Darlings #7, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Gent, Belgium, December 2011.
Little big Press, during Fotoleggendo, Rome, Italy, October 2011.
LE GARAGE, during International Photography Festival of Arles, July 2011.
ABC group show at Printed Matter, NYC, June 2011.
Different Repetitions, curated by David Senior (MoMA), Booklyn, Brooklyn, NY, 2010.
To the Limit, Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany, 2010.
Lightwriting, New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 2010.
Made in NY 2010, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2010.
Quantified Aesthetics, Minnesota Center for Book Art, Minneapolis, MN, 2010.
Soho Photo Gallery National Competition show, curated by Susan Kismaric (MoMA), New York City, 2009.
Photo+Book, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2009.
Artists’ Books as (Sub)Culture, Center for Book Arts, New York City, 2009.
In serie/Boeken uitgelicht, Johan Deumens Gallery, Haarlem, The Netherlands, 2008.
Fairs
New York Art Book Fair at PS1 (2010, 2011), EAB Editions and Artists’ Books Fair, NYC (2009, 2010, 2011), Offprint Paris (2010, 2011), The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010, 2011), Amsterdam Art/Book Fair (2011), Kassel Fotobookfestival (2010, 2011), Beurs voor Kleine Uitgevers, Amsterdam (2011), Berlin Book Days (2012).
Awards
Sheffield International Artist’s Book Prize, Special Jury Prize for A Dialogue in Useful Phrases, 2011.
Honorable Mention award for Oceanus, Photography Book Now Competition, 2011.
Artists’ Book of the Moment Award, A Dialogue in Useful Phrases shortlisted, Art Gallery of the University of York, 2011.
2nd place award (Fine Art category) for In this Dark Wood, Photography Book Now Competition, 2010.
Honorable Mention award at “Made in NY 2010″, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY, 2010.
De wereld is er, nominated for the biannual Hugues C. Pernath Poetry Award, Antwerp, Belgium, 2009.
“Lakeside-Statewide” exhibition, The Art Association of Oswego, Oswego, NY, 2nd place award, 2009.
De wereld is er, selected as one of the 50 most beautiful books of 2006/7, Mooi Marginaal, 2008.
Arts and Culture Award, Annual Student Art Exhibition, SUNY Brockport, NY, 2008.
ASA Materials Award, Annual Student Art Exhibition, SUNY Brockport, NY, 2007.
Serge Heederik Philosophical Essay Award, 2nd place award, 2001.
Essay Award Leadership in the 21st century, Schouten en Nelissen, 1999.
Thesis prize of the Workgroup of Italian Studies, awarded for MA thesis, University of Amsterdam, 1997.
University Studyprize 1995-1996 of Radboud University Nijmegen, awarded for MA thesis, 1997.
Grants and residencies
Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), grant work budget, 2009.
Writer-in-residence for literary magazine nY in Belgium, 2009.
Fonds voor de Letteren, grant for literary translation, 2008.
NYSCA literature grant for “Image Process Literature”, 2007
British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia, UK, translation residency, 2004.
Province of Gelderland, literature production grant for “Let us go then, you and I”, 2003.
Amsterdam Art Council, grant for translation of Wordsworth’s “Essays upon Epitaphs”, 2003.
Dutch Institute, Rome, Italy, residency, awarded for MA thesis, 1997.
Education
MFA Visual Studies, Suny Brockport at Visual Studies Workshop, 2006-2008.
MA litt Comparative Literature, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1992-1996.
Propaedeutics English language and Literature, Radboud University Nijmegen, 1991-1992.
