CV  MAURICE THOMASSEN

Born 1967, Tegelen, NL

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA & Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Education / Recidencies:

1991-1995            Academy of Fine Arts, Maastricht

1996-1998            Jan van Eyck Academy, Post-Graduate Institute for Fine Arts, Design & Theory, Maastricht

2006-2013            Member artist Initiative Duende, Rotterdam

2003-2006            Recidency / Working periods in Berlin

2006-                    Recidency / Working periods in New York City

Selected exhibitions:

2015

Memory of Beautifull Horror, Group exhabition, Dominican Republik Ambassy, NYC

2014 

‘A Glorious Gift’, Collection Knecht-Drenth, Museum van Bommel van dam, Venlo ‘The  Peripheral Theatre’, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo (solo)

2013

Art Amsterdam Art Fair, NL=US Art Consultancy, Amsterdam

Raw Art Fair, NL=US Art Consultancy, Rotterdam

WTC Gallery, Rotterdam

2012

‘Use It Again’,Ampelhaus, Oranienbaum, Germany

Ikob- Museum fuer Zeitgenossische Kunst, Eupen, Belgium.

Re-Rotterdam Art Fair, NL=US Art Consultancy, Rotterdam

Adanna Visual Art Presentation, CSE Gallery, Morristown, NJ, USA (solo)

2011

Art Amsterdam, Galerie Gist, Amsterdam

'Painting a Person, Painting a Place', Galerie Gist, Amsterdam

Maurice Thomassen & Andre Wiehager, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo

2010

'The Silent Majority', Galerie Wilms, Venlo (solo)

National Writers Gallery, Litterary Museum, The Hague (cat.)

Presentation Collection, Museum De Valkhof, Nijmegen

2009

'Lost and Found' Anna Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)

Art Rotterdam, Anna Hakkens Gallery, Rotterdam, (cat.)

Art Amsterdam, Anna Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam, (cat.)

2008           

'The Promised Land', Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)

Art Rotterdam, Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Rotterdam, (cat.)

Art Amsterdam, Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam, (cat.)

2007

'Soakers'. Museum Boymans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, (cat.)

'Leve de Schilderkunst, terug naar de figuur', Kunsthal Rotterdam, (cat.)

'Kijk naar mij: 50 portretten uit de collectie De Heus-Zomer', Veluws Museum Nairac, Barneveld

2006

'4 x Schilderkunst', Museum De Stadsgalerij, Heerlen

Presentation Collection, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

'Mensbeeld', Artstore Kunstambassade, Rotterdam, (cat.)

Nieuwe Aanwinsten, AMC Brummelkamp Gallery, Amsterdam

'Dangerous women', Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)

'Under given circumstances', Hedah Centrum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Maastricht (solo)

2005

Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam

Berliner Liste, Van Wijngaarden Hakkens,Gallery, Berlin, (cat.)

ArtAmsterdam KunstRai, Van Wijngaarden Hakkens, Gallery, Amsterdam, (cat.)

2004

Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam

'Sind die Besten schon raus?', Multiple XX Gallery, Rotterdam (multiple)(solo)

2003

Van Wijngaarden Hakkens Gallery, Amsterdam (solo)

2002

'Catholic Block', Tent CBK, Rotterdam

'So What’, Gallery Gist, Brummen

2001

Nomination for The Royal Price for Painting, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, (cat.)

Galerie Van Wijngaarden, Amsterdam

'Occupying Space', City Hall, Rotterdam ,(cat.)

2000

Nomination for The Royal Price for Painting, Amsterdam, (cat.)

Tent CBK, Rotterdam • Room, Rotterdam

1998

Rijks Universiteit Limburg, Maastricht

Gallery Phoebus, Rotterdam

Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht

1997

Nomination for The Royal Price for Painting, Amsterdam, (cat.)

Assignments / Public Art:

1998-Year print 1998-1999 BonnefantenMuseum, Maastricht

2011- Public Art assignment for the ‘Klokgebouw’ (former Philipsfactory), Eindhoven

2012- Design for the cover of Adanna Literary Jounal, Morristown, New Jersey, USA

Curatorial / Commity Experience:

2015- Advisetory Commity for reprofiling of Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo

2006- Curator ‘Art Store’, Kunstambassade Groothandelsgebouw, Rotterdam

2006-2009 Aplication Commity Duende Guest-Studios

2002- Curator ‘So What’- Galerie Gist, Brummen

2002- Curator ‘Catholic Block’- Tent., Rotterdam

Lectures:

2014- Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo

2012-Adorna Poetry & Visual Art presentation, College of Saint Elizabeth, Morristown,

          New Jersey, USA           

2010- Union County Community College, Elizabeth, New Jersey USA

2009- Center for the Arts, Venlo

Work in collection:

Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Museum Het Glaspaleis/Schunck,  Heerlen

Museum De Valkhof, Nijmegen

Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo

Collection Knecht –Drenth, Venlo

Collection De Heus-Zomers, Barneveld

Letterkundig Museum, The Hague

Oce Technologies / Canon, Venlo

N.O.G, Amsterdam

AEGON, The Hague

Fortis / ABN Bank, Amsterdam

AMC, Amsterdam

AZM, Maastricht

University of Limburg, Maastricht

Collection Province of Limburg, Maastricht

Center for the Arts ,The Hague, Dordrecht, Amsterdam en Rotterdam

International private collections

 Studio NYC                                     Studio NL

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E-mail      :thomassen.maurice@gmail.com