education
1997-1999 University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA – Visual Arts
1981-1987 State University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands – MA Linguistics/Literature

exhibitions [selection]
2018 Mirror Garden – K.F. Hein Foundation Garden Studio, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Sonar – Kunstliefde, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2017 Genius loci – Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands (solo)
Utrecht Down Under, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2016 Sweet Gongs Vibrating (w. B. Goeltzenleuchter) – San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA, USA
2015 Volatile! (w. B. Goeltzenleuchter) – The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL, USA
La Condition Humaine – Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Just like a bright silvery mist – Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2014 Pioneer Pop – Paviljoen pOp, Utrecht, the Netherlands (solo)
2013 Our Airs Conspire – Kas Kunstuitleen Utrecht (solo)
2012 Back to the Future – PGGM, Zeist, the Netherlands
Sky/Voyeur – Kunst aan de Scheene, Friesland, the Netherlands
2011 Het onverwachte (The unexpected) – Kunstliefde, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2010 Lindenduft – K.F. Hein Stichting, Utrecht, the Netherlands (solo)
2009 Soft Voices – Paddestoel Doorn, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Museum Boerhaave Leiden [solo]
2008 Banyan Stories/Cocoon – LekArt 2008, Culemborg, the Netherlands
2005-2007 Re-identification – Trilateral Print Exchange – SPA Yokohama, Japan, MPS Vancouver, Canada, GAU Utrecht, the Netherlands
2006 1 January 1939, 4am: a weather report – Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg WA, USA (solo)
2005 Tosa-washi art project – Japanese Paper Museum Ino Town, Kochi, Japan
Jane – Kunstvaarroute 2005, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
2004 TONG II – Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal, the Netherlands
2003 Jardins d’Amis – De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
2002-2003 Huid (Skin) and Splinters – blue room Seasons Galleries, The Hague, the Netherlands (solo)
2002 Skin: a Pilgrimage – Sushi Performance & Visual Art, San Diego CA, USA (duo)
Poort (Gate) – Open Stal, Oldeberkoop, the Netherlands
2001 De koning is met mirre en al vertrokken (The king has left with myrrh and all) – Huis voor Beeldende Kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands (solo)
Hortus conclusus – Phoebus Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

screenings, performances and commissions [selection]
2018 Het dunne stugge weefsel (The thin stiff tissue) – Kunstliefde/K.F. Hein Foundation Garden Studio, Utrecht, the Netherlands [film]
2017 Genius loci I, II, III – Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands [films]
2015 0 degrees and < > – Dapiran Art Project Space, Utrecht, the Netherlands [films]
2014-2015 Paintings for Drowning Men (w. B. Goeltzenleuchter) – Eureka Institute [artist box/folio]
2014 Pioneer Pop – Maanzaad Foundation/Architectuurcentrum Aorta [film]
2013 Pilgrim Kootwijk – Groene Golflengte 2013, Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands [film]
2012 Pilgrim Kootwijk – Groene Golflengte 2012, Radio Kootwijk, Netherlands [interactive walk]
When to throw a painting to a drowning man (w. Brian Goeltzenleuchter) – Eureka Institute [film]
Our Airs Conspire – nomination K.F.Hein Kunststipendium [commission]
2010 Overtocht (Passing) – Festival Utrecht over Utrecht, Louis Hartlooper Complex, Utrecht [film]
2008 Mannen van Sonnenborgh (Men of Sonnenborgh) (w. Henk van Voorst) – Museum Sonnenborgh, Utrecht, the Netherlands [film]
Overtocht (Passing) – LekArt 2008, Culemborg, the Netherlands [performance]
2007 Cocoon – Utrecht Manifest, Utrecht, the Netherlands [film]
Watershawl – CBKU/Zangsporen, Utrecht, the Netherlands [commission]
2006 The Shopping Wall – Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, Canada [interactive project]
2005 Pleased to meet you/Banyan Stories – CBK Amersfoort, ’t Hoogt Utrecht, the Netherlands [performance/film]

teaching
2018 Summer School Eureka Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands [faculty teaching]
2014-present Eureka Institute, Syracuse, Italy [faculty teaching Translational Creativity]
2006 Exploration of Collage – University of California San Diego, San Diego CA, USA [UCSD Extension summer course]
Ritual & Memory: Experimental Approaches to Installation Art – Central Washington University, Ellensburg WA, USA [graduate course]
2003 Logboek van een plek (Diary of a location) – Grafisch Atelier Utrecht [art education]
2006-present various lectures, presentations and artist talks, a.o. at BAK/Art Utrecht, CBKU/ZAP-U, K.F. Hein Foundation Utrecht, Utrecht Manifest, Museum Boerhaave Leiden, Emily Carr University of Art and Design Vancouver, University of British Columbia Vancouver, Central Washington University Ellensburg
2002-present teacher various workshops a.o. at Culturele Zondagen/Peace of Utrecht, De Vuurdoop Utrecht, Sanskriti Kendra Foundation New Delhi, Kinderkunstfabriek Maastricht, Grafisch Atelier Utrecht

residencies
2018 Garden Studio K.F. Hein Foundation, Utrecht, the Netherlands
2011 Eureka Institute for Translational Medicine, Syracuse, Italy
2006 Kas/Lusthof Utrecht – Kunstuitleen/CBKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Malaspina Printmakers Society, Vancouver, Canada
Central Washington University, Ellensburg WA, USA [visiting artist fellowship]
2005 Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, New Delhi, India
2002 Sushi Performance & Visual Art, San Diego CA, USA

awards and grants
2018 nomination PZC Public Award
2018 nomination Zeeland Book Award 2018
2013 Stokroos Foundation, Utrecht
2012 nomination K.F. Hein Art Stipend
2012 nomination Kunstliefde Prize 2012
2009 Scholingsfonds voor Kunst en Cultuur, Bussum, the Netherlands
2007 Scholingsfonds voor Kunst en Cultuur, Bussum, the Netherlands
2006 Reino Randall Memorial Fellowship, Ellensburg, WA, USA
2002 Consulate-General of The Netherlands, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2000-2001 Commission SBKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands

work in collections
UMC Art Collection, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Kunstuitleen, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (Collection Van Winter)
Hubrecht Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Kunstsporen Foundation, Doorn, the Netherlands
Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal, the Netherlands
Collection Van Winter, Utrecht, the Netherlands
various private collections

work at publisher’s house and writing
2017-present various lectures and presentations related to book publication Versailles aan de Schelde (Versailles at the Scheldt), a.o. at Historical Museum De Bevelanden Goes, Nationaal Baggermuseum Sliedrecht, Kunstkring Kloetinge, Special Sunday Noorderkerk Ede, Bookstore Day 2018, Zeeland Book Week 2018, Het Paard van Troje and De Koperen Tuin Goes, Drvkkery Middelburg, Bookstore Van Rossum Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2017 Versailles aan de Schelde (Versailles at the Scheldt) – Cossee Publishers, Amsterdam [novel, literary non-fiction, 320 pp.]
2011-2017 Lucy Art Platform – journalist
1990-1998 freelance designer and illustrator [book covers]
1988-1997 HES Publishers Utrecht, SDU The Hague, de Prom/De Fontein Publishers Baarn, the Netherlands – editor