HELEN VERHOEVEN b. 1974, Leiden, The Netherlands
EDUCATION:
2005-2006 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten/Dutch Ministry of Education,
Culture and Science, Amsterdam
2001 MFA, New York Academy of Art, New York
1996 BFA, San Francisco, CAArt Institute, San Francisco
1994 School of Visual Arts, New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Events One and Two, Wallspace, New York, NY
Events One and Two, Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles, CA
2007 The Beautiful Many, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Saints, Wallspace, New York, NY
2004 Nightmares, Wallspace, New York, NY
2003 Targets, Wilkinson Hall—The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Tints of Majesty, Lizabeth Oliveria, Los Angeles, CA
Pruesspress, Rental Gallery, New York, NY
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2008, GEM Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL
2007 Some Kind of Portrait—curated by Simon Watson & Craig Hensala, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hedendaagse Figuratie #2—curated by Pim Trooster, Kunstcentrum, Hengelo, Hengelo, NL
About Contemporary Figuration, Safe Art, Dalfsen NL
Recent Acquisitions - Young Painting' Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
2006 The Presence of Absence—curated by Rachel Howe, Gallery w52, New York, NY
In Order of Appearance, Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
25 Bold Moves—curated by Simon Watson/Scenic, 382 West Broadway, New York, NY
Parts, Xiamen City, CN, 'Rijksakademie at Parts'
Open Ateliers—curated by Nacisse Tordoir, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, NL
2005 Hot Spots 05, Sammlung Essl Museum, Vienna, Austria
Seven Young Painters, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists, Phillips de Pury & Co, New York, NY
The Exploding Plastic Inevitable—curated by Simon Watson/Scenic, Bergdorf Goodman, New York, NY
Open Ateliers—curated by Nacisse Tordoir, Rijkakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2004 Show and Tell, Zimmer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2003 The Holiday Shopping Show II—curated by Robin Kahn, Wallspace, New York, NY
Photography As Model, Wallspace, New York, NY
Space Invaders, Fishtank, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Night of a 1000 Drawings, Artist Space, New York, NY
2001 MFA Exhibition, Tribeca Hall, New York, NY
1997 Baggage, The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 Betrothed, Falkurk Cultural Center, San Raphael, CA
Snacks, ACME Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 Lateral, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
1994 Posturing, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Its About Power, Belcher Street Studios, San Francisco, CA
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2008 Smith, Roberta, “Pruesspress@Rental,” Art in Review, The New York Times, Friday June 27, 2008
Guus Luijters, JFK Magazine, September 2008
Raymond Frenken, “Een Keuse (1),” Tube Light, May 8, 2008
Shin Yamauchi, Someone’s Garden, June 2008
2007 Booth, William, “Big Walls to Fill,” The Washington Post, Monday, December 10, 2007
Spijkerman, Sandra, NRC Handelsblad, February 2007
BLVD Magazine, NL “100 Veelbelovende Vrouwen,” January 2007
Amsterdam Weekly, January 25, 2007
2006 Morris, Ryan, “Helen Verhoeven at Wallspace,” Fecal Face, April 2006.
Spijkerman, Sandra, Kunstbeeld, “Tussen Pixel en Pigment:
Jonge schilders en de constructie van de voorstelling,” nr. 3, 2006
Fischl, Eric, “Eleven Artists From Everywhere,” The Believer, Dec 2005/Jan 2006.
2005 Kunitz, Daniel, and Ribas, Joao, “The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists,” Art Review, April 2005.
Egan, Maura. “Trail Blazers,” T: The New York Times Magazine, February 20, 2005.
2004 Frolke, Viktor, “Girlfriends,” Elle (NL) November 2004.
“De Kunst van Helen Verhoeven,” Elle Wonen (NL), May 2004.
2003 Krenz, Marcel. “Reconstructing Representation,” Contemporary, Issue 55, 2003.
“Paper VIP List,” Paper Magazine, June 2003.
2002 “Dagelijks Leven in New York,” Palet Magazine, Aug/Sept 2002.
Galerie Selectie NRC Handelsblad, July 4, 2002.
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2007 The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, (Basisstipendium), NL
2006 Stichting Dr. Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2006 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds - "Van Eck-Vollgraff Fonds" The Netherlands
2006 ARCADIS, The Netherlands
2002 Research/Travel Grant, Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University
2002 Prince of Whales Foundation—Travel Grant, Normandy
2001 John Alexander Research Fellowship, New York
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL
Sammlung Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
Collectie Koninklijke KPN, Den Haag, NL
ARCADIS, Amsterdam, NL