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Jacco Olivier was born in 1972 in Goes, The Netherlands
He lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jacco Olivier fuses painting and filmmaking by repeatedly reworking paintings in generous casual brush strokes and systematically photographing each development. The various stages are combined into projected animations. The resulting films are enigmatic and experiential – moving in and out of abstraction they reveal the traces and decisions made by the artist in the process of painting. While there is a clear and quite complex process involved in their creation, Olivier does not set a thematic agenda for the works, or for their relationship to one another. The films are instead imagined as windows onto converging, and often elegantly simple, moments of daily life – a bus journey, a swim in the ocean, or a walk through the woods. At this convergence of painting and cinema, however, lies an uneasy tension, a feeling that something is about to happen or has just happened that is unexpected and beyond our control.
Jacco Olivier is a graduate of the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. He has exhibited worldwide, notably at ZKM, Karlsruhe; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; Victoria Miro Gallery, London; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY; Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht; MCA Denver, CO; The 56th Venice Biennial, Venice; Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem; New York City Center/New Museum, New York, NY, and GEM, The Hague. His art is held in many public collections, including Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar; the Honart Museum, Tehran; the Zabludowicz Collection, London, and the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL. In 2019, he was awarded the Jeanne Oosting Prize for figurative painting in The Netherlands.
EDUCATION
1997-98 Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1991-96 Hogeschool voor Kunst en Vormgeving, Den Bosch, The Netherlands
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Axis Mundi, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017
Doing identity, Die Sammlung Reydan Weiss, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Cosmology in flux, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois, USA
2016
Jacco Olivier: Liquid Painting, Liquid Time, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Jacco Oliver, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2015
Jacco Olivier: New Works, Galerie Ron Mandos Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Jacco Olivier, Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Backnang, Germany
2014
Cycle, GEM, The Hague, The Netherlands
Landscape: Another Dimension, Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
2012
New York City Center (curated by the New Museum), New York, NY, USA
Jacco Olivier, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Madison Square Park, presented by the Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York, NY, USA
Jacco Olivier: Recent Video Works, Galerie Thomas Schulte Berlin, Germany
Jacco Olivier, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2010
Jacco Olivier, Centro de Arte de Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain
Jacco Olivier, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
First Take: Jacco Olivier, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA
Jacco Olivier, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2008
Jacco Olivier, IM ART, Seoul, South Korea
Jacco Olivier, Pilar Parra & Romero, Madrid, Spain
2007
Jacco Olivier, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Jacco Olivier, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Jacco Olivier, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2005
Im Kabinette, Video Works, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2004
Moving Pictures, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Moving Pictures, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK, USA
2001
Jacco Olivier, Stichting Plus Min, Renesse, The Netherlands
2000
Jacco Olivier, Yves Hoffmann Gallery, Paris, France
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Changez! Art Brussels in Amsterdam, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019
Virtuoos! Israels tot Armando, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Jacco Olivier / Ronald Zuurmond, Vincent van Gogh Huis, Zundert, The Netherlands
Een Schitterende Afzondering, Fort bij Asperen, Acquoy, The Netherlands
Jeanne Oosting Prijs 2019, De Vishal, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Jacco Olivier, Maryland Hall Arts Center, Annapolis, MD, USA
Stilte, The Ketelfactory, Schiedam, The Netherlands
Healing Light, 14 februari tot en met 19 mei, LUMC Leiden, The Netherlands
The Greatest Longing, The Act of Painting, BOHUSLÄNS MUSEUM, Uddevalla, Sweden
2018
De Meest Eigentijdse Schilderijen Tentoonstelling, Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2017
Nieuwe Streken, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum, NL
2015
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN: About Painting in the MUSAC Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
El Inconsciente Pictórico (The Pictorial Unconscious), Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
InLight, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, USA
Vita Vitale, The Azerbaijan Pavilion at the 56 International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Buitengaats: Jacco Olivier and Ronald Zuurmond, Ketelfactory Schiedam, The Netherlands
Out There #2, Art Rotterdam Week, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Metamorphoses: Ovid in Contemporary Art, Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
MOVE ON…! 100 Years of Animation Art, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands
Laureaten Buning Brongers prijs, Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, The Netherlands
2014
Cycle, Museum Hilversum, Hilversum, The Netherlands
Here Today…, …, an exhibition marking the 50 years of The IUCN Red List, The Old Sorting Office, London, UK
Buning Brongers Winners: The Beauty of Difference, Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, The Netherlands
Jacco Olivier and Benjamin Li, Villa Mondriaan, Winterswijk, The Netherlands
2013
Afterlife: Jacco Olivier & Jennifer West, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
The House of the Seven Gables, University Galleries, Illinois State University College of Fine Arts, Normal, Bloomington, IL, USA
2012
New Works: 12.2: Jacco Olivier, Leslie Hewitt and Mike Osbourne, Artpace, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Painting Now, Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
CHORUS, selección de vídeos de la colección de Martin Z. Margulies, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain
Pere Llobera, Yuko Murata, Jacco Olivier, Hidde van Seggelen, Contemporary Art, London, UK
Stil Even, gouden eeuw tot nu, Stedelijk Museum Zwolle, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Luid Land, Stichting Kunstfort, Vijfhuizen, The Netherlands
Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011
Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Art Video, Art Basel Miami Beach, New World Center, USA
What’s Up? De jongste schilderkunst in Nederland, Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands
6 x Rijksakademie Alumni, Ron Mandos Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Live Video, The Chocolate Factory, New York, NY, USA
Visual Museum, Saitama, Kawaguchi, Japan
Kilkenny Arts Festival, Kilkenny, Ireland
Peace Starts with Me, World Peace Festival, Berlin, Germany
2010
Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA
In the Company of Alice, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
SITE Santa Fe 8th Biennial: The Dissolve, Santa Fe, NM, USA
2009
PAINT CAN, Travelling Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2008
Landscapes for Frankenstein, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, curated by Rachel Gugelberger and Jeffrey Walkowiak
Alba Art Show, Palazzo dell'Esposizioni, Alba, Italy, curated by Jovana Stokic
The Morning After, Videoarbeiten der Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Neues Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany
The Canvas is the Screen, CaixaForum, Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Art Now: Recent Acquisitions in Film/Video, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT, USA
Stultifera Navis: The Ship of Fools, Porta Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy
2007
Fantasmagoria: Dibujo en movimiento, Fundacion ICO, Madrid, Spain
Madrid-Paris-Berlin, Les Rencontres Internationales, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM | Museum fur Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany
Titled/Untitled, Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland
2006
Version Animée 2006, Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
See Into Liquid, MCA Denver, Colorado, USA
The Wonderful Fund – Collecting Art for the New Millenium, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK
2005
Roaming Memories, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Video Programme, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
U_MOVE, Galleria Comunale, Monfalcone, Italy
Prague Biennale 2, Prague, Czech Rupublic
The Wonderful Fund on Tour, Le Musee de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco
2004
Seeing Other People, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Jacco Olivier, Kate Ford, Helen Baron, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK
Latest Paintings, Lia Rumma Gallerie, Milano, Italy
Extended Painting, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2003
10 years Rijksakademie, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
2002
Amsterdamse visite, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2001
Camera Works – The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2002
Meet me again, Room, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2000
Koninklijke subsidie, Koninklijk Paleis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1998
Wiener Secession, “Junge Szene,” Vienna, Austria
CATALOGUES
2007 Fantasmagoria: Dibujo en movimiento, Fundacion ICO, Madrid
2005 Most Wanted, Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany
2003 Fast forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, Munchen, Germany
1999 Prix de Rome 1999, Uitgeverij 010, Rotterdam, NL
1999 Junge Szene, Secession, Vienna, Austria
1998 Buning Bongers Prijzen 1998, Buning Bongers Stichting, Amsterdam
1998 Koninklijke subsidie voor de vrije schilderkunst, Amsterdam, NL
AWARDS
2019 Jeanne Oosting Prijs 2019
2012 Residency, Artpace, San Antonio, TX, USA
1998 Buning Brongers Sitchting, ‘Buning Brongers Prijs’, Amsterdam
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
Keh, Pei-Ru. “Light work: artist Jacco Olivier fuses painting and film to mysterious effect,” Wallpaper* Magazine (January 14, 2016) [online]
2012
Calos, Katherine. “InLight 2015 expands to two nights,” Richmond Times–Dispatch (November 11, 2015) [online]
Carlson, Jen. “Madison Square Park Gets New Wildlife… With New Art Project,” Gothamist (January 10, 2012)
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Gerecitano, Liz; Mancuso, Anne. “Spare Times for Jan. 6-12: Around Town,” The New York Times (January 5, 2012) [online]
Wyma, Chloe. “27 Questions for Dutch Painter Jacco Olivier,” Blouin Artinfo (January 18, 2012) [online] 2012
“Jacco Olivier’s ‘Painterly Animations’ Bring Madison Square Park to Life,” Arts Observer (January 12, 2012)
[online]
2011
Holland, Heather. ”New Mad. Sq. Art exhibit, opening in December, will feature animation,” Town & Village (November 24, 2011)
Johnson, Mary. “Avant Garde Animation to Take Over Madison Square Park,” DNA info November 30, 2011) [online]
Vogel, Carol. “Highlighting Influence of Asia Behind Artwork,” The New York Times (November 18, 2011) [online]
Yi, David. “Free & Cheap in New York: Fri., Dec. 30,” New York Daily News (December 30, 2011) [online]
“Jacco Olivier: Sneak Peeking Park Art,” Curbed (December 15, 2011) [online] "Madison Square Park," Art Media Agency (December 1, 2011) [online]
“This week in New York, Mad. Sq. Art: Jacco Olivier, Critics’ pick,” Time Out New York (December 15, 2011) [online]
“Jacco Olivier: Sneak Peeking Park Art,” Curbed, December 15, 2011
Johnson, Mary. “Avant Garde Animation to Take Over Madison Square Park,” DNAinfo.com, November 30, 2011
2010
Whitaker, Blake. "Blaffer Art Gallery: First Take: Jacco Olivier," Houston Press, May 13, 2010
Weiner, Emily. "Critic's Pick: Jacco Olivier," Artforum, March 23, 2010
Johnson, Ken. "Jacco Olivier," The New York Times, March 12, 2010
2008
Lax, Thomas J. "Images in Motion," Artkrush, February 20, 2008, http://www.artkrush.com/current/#feature
2007
Independent, Jacco Olivier, Peter Chapman, 19 January 2007
Independent on Sunday, Moving pictures from the Netherlands, Charles Darwent, 14 January 2007
2005
Art in America, by P.C. Smith, May
Artnews, by Joseph Jacobs, February
2003
London Evening Standard, “New Dutch mastery to celebrate a rebirth”, Nick Hackworth
Metro London, “The rijks way to see art”, Fisun Guner
Time Out, London, Martin Coomer
2001
PZC, “Olivier zit tussen abstract en figuratief” Margreet van den Broek 1998 De Volkskrant, “Open studio’s Rijksakademie”
1998
NRC Handelsblad, “Open dagen voor jonge kunstenaars”, Sandra Smallenburg De Volkskrant, Verbeelding gevoed door ontheemding”, Sacha Bronwasser
Trouw, “Vrije Figuratie zet de toon”, Robbert Roos
COLLECTIONS
Honart Museum, Tehran, Iran
The Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Sammlung Olbricht, Essen Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Tishman Speyer Collection, New York, USA
The Logan Collection, New York, USA
Vail Calder Foundation, New York, USA
The Margulies Collection, Miami, USA
The Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA