Simon Schrikker

born 1973 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

 

Lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

EDUCATION

 

Dutch Art Institute (MFA), Enschede, 1999-2001

 

Minerva, academie voor beeldende kunsten (Bachelor), Groningen, 1995-1999

 

Koninklijke Academie voor de Schone Kunsten, Gent, Belgium (exchange) 1998

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (A SELECTION)

 

 

2017 “Dark Mountains/Seeing Things”, Livingstone gallery, The Hague

2015 "Diary of a Sailor", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

 

2014 "Pulpo", installation @ Art the Hague with Livingstone gallery

 

2014 "Shadows Lick the Daylight", Majke Husstege Gallery, Den Bosch

 

2012 "Through Thick and Thin", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

 

2012 "SCREECH", Drents Museum, Assen

 

2012 "Old Dogs, New Tricks", Majke Husstege Gallery, Den Bosch

 

2008 Hudson Museum, Rotterdam

 

2008 Galerie Dick de Bruijn, Middelburg

 

2008 IJssalon Aris Laan, Den Helder (curated by Emo Verkerk)

 

2007 "Unleashed", Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

2007 "Paintings", Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam

 

2005 Museum van Nagsael, Rotterdam

 

2005 "Anything banal can be turned into horror", Rechtsachter, CBK Rotterdam

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (A SELECTION)

 

 

 

2017 

 

 

 

2017 "Mooi gemaakt", Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort

2017 "Gerrit van Houtenprijs 2016”, Academie Minerva, Groningen

2016 "ATC" (Artist Trading Cards), galerie Martin van Blerk, Antwerp

2016 "Summer of Love", Bright Side Gallery, Amsterdam

2016 "How Heavy is Time?", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

2015 "de B-Kantjes", Horizonvertikaal, Haarlem

 

2014 "Dier in het Vizier 2", Museum NAIRAC, Barneveld

 

2014 "Daar Komen de Puttertjes", Kasteel de Keukenhof, Lisse

 

2014 "Angels and Demons", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

 

2014 "Nothing But Good Live", Park, Tilburg

 

2014 "Miscellaneous", Walls Gallery, Amsterdam

 

2013 "Badly Natured", NEST, The Hague

 

2013 "Face the Face", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

 

2012 "On The Road Again", Livingstone gallery, The Hague

 

2012 "Buiten De Lijnen 02", De Fabriek, Eindhoven

 

2012 "Real Fiction", Sign, Groningen

 

2012 "Andy Knows", Direktorenhaus, Berlin. Re:Rotterdam, Rotterdam

 

2011 "Andy Knows", Westergasfabfriek, Amsterdam

 

2011 "Zwaan Kleef Aan", Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem

 

2011 "I Should Have Done That", NEST, The Hague

 

2011 "Kunst na 1945, Collectiepresentatie", Stedelijk Museum Schiedam

 

2011 FITAX 500, Tupajumi, Kunst & Complex, Rotterdam

 

2010 "Young Collectors #3: Jaring Dürst Britt en Alexander Mayhew", Sign, Groningen

 

2010 "Challenging the myth of the painter", Stichting OUTline, Amsterdam

 

2010 "Dutch Treat", Tupajumi/KNIPSU, Bergen, Norway

 

2010 "LEVEL", duo exhibition with Bert Frings, Villa de Bank, Enschede

 

2010 "Expanding capacities with four coins in a fountain", Cacao Fabriek, Helmond

 

2010 Ladenkastproject, Galerie Phoebus, Rotterdam

 

2010 "Overslag 2008-2009", de Overslag, Eindhoven

 

2009 "the Importancy of the Unimportant", Hudson Museum, Rotterdam

 

2009 "Pictures in the reflection of a golden horn", De Fabriek, Eindhoven

 

2009 "Torn", Galerie 10, Utrecht

 

2009 "Another perfect world", Kulter ±4, Amsterdam

 

2009 "Rome in Zeeland”, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg

 

2009 "Trendbeheer Presenteert’, NFO XPO’09, Chicago, USA

 

2009 "Friendly Fire/Courtesy Rotterdam”, formerly Foto Museum, Rotterdam

 

2009 "Publieke Werken”, Cacao Fabriek Helmond

 

2008 "Dancing On The Moon With Tears In My Eyes", Alice Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

 

2008 "Schatkamers”, permanent collection of the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

 

2007 "Macht van de nacht”, CBK Rotterdam

 

2007 "Mooi van ver”, TENT, Rotterdam

 

2006 SUPERMEDIUM, artists space, The Hague

 

2006 Dick de Bruijn Gallery, Amsterdam

 

2006 "Stand by me", GIST Gallery, Brummen

 

2005 "Happy garden”, artists space, Amsterdam

 

2005 "Royal Award for Modern Painting”, GEM Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hague

 

2005 "Selectie’05”, CBK Dordrecht

 

ART FAIRS

 

2015 Art The Hague, Livingstone gallery

 

2015 Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, Livingstone gallery

 

2014 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2014 Art The Hague, Livingstone gallery

 

2014 Welikeart, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Livingstone gallery

 

2014 RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Livingstone gallery

 

2013 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2013 Welikeart, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2013 Kunst Rai, Amsterdam, Livingstone gallery

 

2013 Art Warehouse, Rotterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege/Livingstone gallery

 

2012 Kunst Rai, Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2012 RAW Art Fair, Rotterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2011 PAN Amsterdam, Galerie Majke Husstege

 

2010 Art Amsterdam, TRENDBEHEER ("First Virtual Exhibition of Shows")

 

2008 LA Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA, Carl Berg Gallery

 

2007 Aqua Art Fair, Miami, USA, Carl Berg Gallery

 

2007 Art Amsterdam, Galerie Dick de Bruijn

 

2006 Art Amsterdam, Galerie Dick de Bruijn

 

PROJECTS

 

2008 "Approach”, project space de Overslag, Eindhoven

 

2008 "Overschilderschilderij”, de Aanschouw, Rotterdam

 

COLLECTIONS

 

• Gemeentemuseum, The Hague

 

• Drents Museum, Assen

 

• Caldic Collection, Wassenaar

 

• Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam

 

• Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg

 

• Ploum Lodder Princen Art Collection, Rotterdam

 

• VUMC Amsterdam

 

• CBK Rotterdam

 

• CBK Dordrecht

 

• Private collections in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, United Kingdom, Norway, Germany and the United States of America

 

GRANTS / AWARDS

2017 Bewezen Talent Subsidie Mondriaan Fonds

 

2014 O&O Subsidie, CBK Rotterdam

 

2010 Basisstipendium, Fonds BKVB Amsterdam

 

2006 Basisstipendium, Fonds BKVB Amsterdam

 

2005 Public Prize, Royal Award for Modern Painting 2005, The Hague

 

2002 Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB Amsterdam

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

2015 Simon Schrikker, "Diary of a Sailor”, text Bertus Pieters & Simon Schrikker. VanSpijk/Rekafa Publishers & Livingstone Editions

 

2012 "SCREECH", Drents Museum. Text Sandra Smets & Christophe van Eecke. WBOOKS.

 

2010 "Overslag 2008-2009", de Overslag, Eindhoven

 

2009 "the Importancy of the Unimportant", text Sandra Smets, Hudson Museum, Rotterdam

 

2009 "Pictures in the reflection of a golden horn", De Fabriek, Eindhoven

 

2009 "Rome in Zeeland", text Herman Brusselmans, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg

 

2008 "Dancing on the moon with tears in my eyes”, Alice Gallery Brussels, Belgium

 

2007 "Anything banal can be turned into horror”, text Jonas Staal and Frank Lisser, Design HOTEL

 

2006 11 jaar Museum van Nagsael, catalogue, Silvia-b & Rolf Engelen

 

2005 Royal Prize for Painting, The Netherlands

 

ARTICLES

 

2013 "Pas op voor de hond!", Wim van der Beek, Meppeler Courant

 

2012 "Fabels van Verf”, Bertus Pieters, Villa La Repubblica

 

2012 "Het sublieme via een shortcut", Egbert van Faassen, Den Haag Centraal

 

2012 "Onder de huid van schrikwekkende schilderijen", Illand Pietersma, Nieuwsblad van het Noorden

 

2008 "De mens is een bloeddorstige hellehond met holle ogen”, Sandra Smets, NRC Handelsblad, NRC Next

 

2008 "Mooi van ver”, Metropolis M

 

2007 "Muurkunst tegen stadse grauwheid", Volkskrant

 

2005 "Zonder titel wint publieksprijs”, Algemeen Dagblad