All is vanity
Collections
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Exhibitions
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Reviews and interviews
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Gallery and bookshops
Johan Deumens gallery, The Netherlands. A selection of books is also available at Printed Matter in New York, Art Metropole in Toronto, Photoeye in Santa Fe, Spaces Corners in Pittsburg, Photo Book Corner in Lisbon, Le Bal in Paris, Walther König in Köln, LhGWR in The Hague and Printroom in Rotterdam.
Selected presentations
3 day workshop, together with Joachim Schmid, Widephoto, Barcelona, May 17-19 2013.
Poetry reading and talk about white space in my work, Perdu, Amsterdam, April 5, 2013.
Talk about my artists’ books, hosted by Jeff Ladd, Düsseldorf Photobook Salon, February 3, 2013.
Poetry reading and talk about my artists’ books, Perdu, Amsterdam, November 23, 2012.
Three talks about my work, hosted by Chris Burnett, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, October 9-10 2012.
Talk about my artists’ books, hosted by Tate Shaw, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, October 2, 2012.
Talk about my artists’ books, hosted by Hester Keijser, LhGWR Gallery, The Hague, July 24th 2012.
Talk about my artists’ books, hosted by Delphine Bedel, Printroom, Rotterdam, Netherlands, April 13th 2012.
Poetry reading, hosted by nY and Lokaal 01, Antwerp, Belgium, March 28th 2012.
Poetry reading, University of Gent, Belgium, March 1st, 2012.
Panel discussion Artist as Publisher, hosted by Yannick Boullis, Le Bal, Paris, France, November 12, 2011.
Presentation on my artists’ books in Doug Dubois’ class, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, Feb. 22th, 2010.
Presentation at &Now conference for innovative literature, with Chris Burnett, Buffalo, NY, October 16th, 2009.
Poetry reading Hughues C. Pernath award, Letterenhuis, Antwerpen, Belgium, June 6th 2009.
Fairs
New York Art Book Fair at PS1 (2010, 2011, 2012), EAB Editions and Artists’ Books Fair, NYC (2009, 2010, 2011), Offprint Paris (2010, 2011, 2012), Offprint Amsterdam (2012), 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, 2012), Berlin Book Days (2012).
Awards
ABotM Award, The Story of A Young Gentleman,shortlisted, Art Gallery of the University of York, 2012.
ABotM Award, In this Dark Wood, shortlisted, Art Gallery of the University of York, 2012.
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.
ABotM 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
Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, artist in residence, October 2012.
Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB), grant, 2009-2010.
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.
