ART

I received my BA Fine Art degree in 2001 from the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2004, I received a Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art (Hons) from the Piet Zwart Institute/ Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, and an MA Fine Art degree from Plymouth University. In 2018, I completed my doctoral research on the use of transdisciplinarity for social change in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University.

In the past, I have been awarded a one year’s full-cost artist’s stipend from The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (now Mondriaan Fund) and was shortlisted for several prizes, including the Prijs voor de Jonge Kunstkritiek (Dutch competition for art critics) and the Hermine van Bersaanmoedigingsprijs (Dutch art award for young artists). 

Part of my MA Fine Art degree work, exhibited in Kaus Australis (2004, Rotterdam). Photo: Maurice Bogaert

Over the years, I have exhibited in many museums, galleries and artist-run spaces, including the Museum of Modern Art (Arnhem), Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden), LUMC Gallery (Leiden) and Tent. (Rotterdam). I co-organised exhibition projects at Kaus Australis (Rotterdam), Theater Zeebelt (The Hague), 1646 (The Hague) and PêSSEGOSpráSEMANA (Porto) in collaboration with artist colleagues. 

I co-organised the symposium called trans / gender (Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam) and co-edited the trans / gender magazine (launched in Photography Museum, Rotterdam), funded by the Piet Zwart Institute and Mama Cash’ Arts, Culture en Media Fund. Later I coordinated a large art project funded for the European Feminist Forum. 

My experiences led to the development of critical thinking on matters of social inequality and exploitation in the arts, which became the topic of my doctoral research in 2014.

My work exhibited in the LUMC Gallery in Leiden (2012)

I published short stories, cartoons and articles in magazines, art publications and on online platforms. Examples include Between Discipline and a Hard Place: The Value of Contemporary Art (A. Jelinek, 2020), The Art of Feminism (ed. H. Reckitt, 2019), Feminism and Art History Now: Radical Critiques of Theory and Practice (ed. V. Horne and L. Perry, 2017), Rebelle, Art & Feminism 1969-2009 (ed. M. Westen, 2010), Dutch feminist magazine Lover (2012, 2010), Looking, Encountering, Staging (ed. A. Bangma, 2004), Belief (ed. K. Leenaars), Trikster Nordic Queer Journal (ed. M. Danbolt) and Trivia: Voices of Feminism (ed. P. Friedrich).