I am born (1980) and raised in the city of Enschede.

After high school I moved to the city of Kampen. Here I attended the Christian University of the Arts Constantijn Huygens, to study architecture. After three years I changed course and chose to study fine art, followed by art education. 

In 2017 I migrated to China and are currently living in the bustling city of Guiyang in the Southwest. Besides my work as an artist I am the co-owner of the art café LIKE Café.  

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I visualise my own personal stories with figurative paintings, architectural models, objects and sometimes drawings. Additional items and objects are added to create a more layered and diffused narrative. 

The works are a result of endless scrolling on the internet, combining the gathered material with other gathered content matter. 

I have this eager need to make things look better, nicer, more innocent, less hostile, highly well executed, approached with a bit of humor, less depressing and more frivolous. 

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2011 – 2013 | Bachelor of Art Education | ArtEZ University of the Arts | Zwolle, The Netherlands

2002 – 2005 |Bachelor of Fine Art | ArtEZ University of the Arts | Zwolle, The Netherlands

1998 – 2001 | Architecture | University of the Arts Constantijn Huygens | Kampen, The Netherlands

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2022 | Fluctuate | Goose Corporation Bookstore & Art Gallery | Wuhan, China

2021 | Seven | BIGGER Art Book Festival | Guangzhou, China

2021 | Motion | LIKE SPACE | Guiyang, China

2021 | Freed From Desire | ART POP UP – Y Space | Guangzhou, China

2021 | To Pieces | Macro Pixel Gallery | Guiyang, China

2015 | Summer Expo Furious | ArtWorlds and Kunstmuseum Den Haag | The Hague, The Netherlands 

2009 | Art Night 2009 | bART and Gallery Majke Hüsstege | ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2008 | 5 Years bART | bART, DMT-loods | ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2008 | Nobody is ever lost. | Stichting P/////AKT | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2007 | Porn Festival - About erotics in art | Kleine Koppel 31 | Amersfoort, The Netherlands

2007 | W139/Basement | Post CS Gebouw etage -1 | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2006 | New Inheritors 1 | bART, Bank van Leening | s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands

2006 | No Title | Café Het Bolwerk | Enschede, The Netherlands

2005 | Final Exam Exhibition | ArtEZ University of the Arts | Zwolle, The Netherlands

2003 | No Title | Theological University | Kampen, The Netherlands

2003 | No Title | Café Het Bolwerk | Enschede, The Netherlands

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2022 February | BranD Magazine Issue 60 | By Luca Yin

2017 May | Cultuur In Enschede | Kunst van Enschede | Deze week Rick Fraterman

2015 September | Villa Next Door | ZomerExpo 2015 | By Bertus Pieters 

2011 November | ArtEZ Fact Nr 3 2011 | Friends? Over vriendschap in de kunst. 

2009 December | NRC Next | Herbruiksels, creatief met een wasbak. | By Marleen Luijt

2008 February | 8Weekly | De tentoonstelling als B-film | By Maarten Steenhagen

2007 April | Volkskrant | Typisch geval van softporno. | By Joost Ramaer

2007 April | geenstijl.nl | Amersfoort gristenbolwerk! | By Brusselmans

2006 March | Bastion Oranje | Kunstveiling bART via internet

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2009 – 2010 | Start Stipend for Emerging Artists | Mondrian Fund | Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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2015 | Rijksstudio Award Top 75 | Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam, The Netherlands