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CLAUDY JONGSTRA
Born 1963 in Roermond, The Netherlands
lives and works in Spannum and Húns, NL
Education
1982 VWO pre-university program, Echt
1982 -1989 studied fashion design, Utrecht College of Art, Utrecht
1995 -2001 first label ‘nót tom, dick & harry’, Amsterdam
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2021 Vincent Van GoghHuis, Zundert, NL
2020 ‘Claudy Jongstra’, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, NL
‘Inner Vitality’, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, NL
2018 - 2020 ‘WOVEN SKIN’, Nomadic Sculpture, Touring Exhibition Locations:
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, NL; Intl. Agriculture Conference,
Goetheanum Dornach, CH; ‘It Fryske Gea Nature Preserve, Bakkeveen,
NL; Climate Week NYC, US; Manifesta 12 Collateral Events, Palermo,
IT; Waste NO Waste Factory, Groningen, NL
2016 ‘Claudy Jongstra: Ancient Light’, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
‘Aarde’, SFMoMA, San Francisco, US
2015 ‘Seele’, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2012 World Economic Forum Davos, Switzerland
2011 United Nations, NYC, US
2005 ‘Never Felt Before’, Moss, NYC, US
2000 ‘Feel, Felt, Felt’, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL
Group Exhibitions
2024 ‘Indigo’, Mingei International Museum, San Diego, US
2020 ‘To Dye For’, TextielMuseum, Tilburg, NL
‘Machtige Maas: Muze, Monster, Murderer and Mother’, curated by
Servé Hermans, Limburgs Museum, Venlo, NL
2019 ‘Back to Black,’ Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, BE
Into the Great Wide Open Festival, Vlieland, NL
2018 PAN Amsterdam, Gallerie Dom’Arte, Amsterdam, NL
2015 ‘Earth Matters’, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
5th Bienal Brasileira de Design curated by Jorn Konijn, Florianopolis,
Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 ‘Rudolf Steiner, Alchemie van het Alledaagse’, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL
2013 ‘Talking Textiles’ curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, TextileMuseum,Tilburg, NL
2012 ‘Wunderkammer’ curated by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, 13th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
2009 ‘Fashioning Felt’, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, NYC, US
2008 ‘Before Departure (all my changes where there)’, Eylem Aladogan, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, NL
‘Mapping Out Paradise’ with Marc Mulders, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, NL
‘Techno Threads‘, Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
2007 ‘Tangible Traces’, Dutch traveling exhibition NAi, 7th Architectural
Biennale of Sao Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2006 ‘Radical Craft’ Design Conference Pasadena, Los Angeles, US
‘NLA, Netherlands to Los Angeles’, Gallery ACME Los Angeles, US
2005 ‘Dutch at the Edge of Design’, Museum at the Fashion Institute of
Technology, NYC, USA
2002 ‘A Century of Design, part 4’, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, US
‘In the making’, Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, US
Major Works and Commissions
2021 Truth and Beauty in Black, Mingei International Museum,
San Diego, US, i.c.w. LUCE et Studio Architects
Crossings, Stadtsparkasse Bocholt, DE, i.c.w Kleihues + Kleihues
2020 Tingere, Abraham Eye Associates, Philadelphia, US
Eternal Reverie, private residence, Chicago, US i.c.w. Willer
Fish Creek, private residence, Jackson Hole, US
Tapestry of Two Voices, private residence, Auckland,
New Zealand, i.c.w. Bossley Architects
Tactile Landscape, Streetlife, Leiden, NL
Indigo Pointilism, private residence, NYC, US,
i.c.w. Pembrooke & Ives
Ocean Tides, George’s at the Cove, San Diego, US
i.c.w. LUCE et Studio Architects
2019 Diversity of Thought and Watercolor for Two Rivers,
Wallace Foundation, NYC, US, i.c.w. Deborah Berke Partners
Tribute to the Planets, Triodos Bank International Headquarters,
Utrecht, NL, i.c.w. RAU Architects
Halve Maen, Convene at Brookfield Place, NYC, US
Madder Diptych, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam, NL
Spiritual Glamour, Haute Couture A/W 19/20, Viktor&Rolf
A Space for Being, Google Design Studio for Salone del
Mobile, Milano, IT, i.c.w. Reddymade, and the Intl. Arts & Mind
Lab at Johns Hopkins University
Nieuw Leids Laken, Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden, NL
2018 Artisanal Collection A/W 18/19, Maison Margiela by
John Galliano, Paris, FR
Botanical Fresco, Restaurant Mokum, NYC, US, i.c.w.
Matthew Baird Architects
Living Soil, Skin of the Earth, The Stone Barns Center
for Food and Agriculture, Pocantico Hills, NY, US
Sheep to Wool, Plant to Pigment, Hermes, Palermo, IT
Vertical Garden, Restaurant ONE, Roermond, NL
2017 Metamorphosis of the Butterfly, U.S. Embassy, The Hague, NL,
i.c.w. Moore Ruble Yudell Architects
Pathway of the Birds, Cemetery Crooswijk, Rotterdam, NL
Fields of Transformation, Moelis Family Grand Reading Room,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, US, i.c.w. Gensler
2016 Aarde, SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA, US, i.c.w. Snøhetta
Crossing Currents, Kapor Social Center, San Francisco, CA, US,
i.c.w. Fougeron Architecture
Liquid Stardust, Wetterskip Fryslân, Leeuwarden, NL
Spring of Light, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital,
Amsterdam, NL
Human Pulsation, Rechtbank Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL
Priona Blossom, Priona Gardens, NL
2015 Room of Thought, Natlab, Eindhoven, NL
Löss, Mortuary Care Center Huize Rosa, Nijmegen, NL
2013 Frisian Landscape, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, NL,
i.c.w. Bierman Henket Architects
2012 Mother of Pearl, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA, US,
i.c.w. TWBT Architects
De Schepping, Synagogue of the Liberal Jewish Community,
Amsterdam, NL, i.c.w. SeARCH
Carded Landscape in Weld, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Untitled, CJIB, Leeuwarden, NL, i.c.w. Claus & Kaan
2011 Movement-Direction, CAPA, Bennington College, VT, US,
i.c.w. TWBT Architects
2010 Capitulare de Villis, Orangery Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, NL
North Wall, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, NYC, US,
i.c.w. TWBT Architects
2009 Gouvernement, Province House Limburg, Maastricht, NL
South Wall, David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, NYC, US,
i.c.w. TWBT Architects
2008 Cherry Blossom Garden, restaurant Lloyd Hotel & Cultural Embassy,
Amsterdam, NL, i.c.w. MVRDV
2007 Guimpe, Public Library Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL i.c.w. Jo Coenen
2006 Weld - Reseda Luteola, Dutch Embassy Berlin, Berlin, DE, i.c.w. O.M.A.
2005 Untitled (wall covering), Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, NL, i.c.w. O.M.A.
2004 Aarde en Lucht, Cancer Center Utrecht Medical Center, Utrecht, NL
2003 Untitled, Catshuis, The Hague, NL, i.c.w. Jo Coenen
Awards
2019 Claudy Jongstra, Kunstenaar van het Jaar 2019 Farm Flower Fragrances,
Creative Heroes Award for National Impact
2018 Fields of Transformation (Moelis Family Grand Reading Room), Winner CODA
Merit Award 2018
2017 Fields of Transformation, Winner 2017 IIAD PA/NJ/DE 13th Annual Design
Awards/ Best in Education, Viewer´s Choice Award
2016 Silver Gilt Medal RHS Chelsea Flower Show
2015 Room of Thought, Vredeman de Vries Design Award
2014 Shore Line, Best Studio Artist Design Award Domotex, Hannover
2011 Sustainable Accolade, Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
2010 Doen-Materiaal Award for Sustainable and Innovative Use of Materials
2008 Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Award for Applied Arts and Architecture
2005 Amsterdam Award for the Arts
2000 Incentive Award for Industrial Design, Amsterdam
1995 Materiaalfonds award for Innovative Use of Materials
Selected Collections
MoMA, NYC; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Stedelijk
Museum, Amsterdam; Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NYC; LACMA
Museum, Los Angeles; Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden; Limburgs
Museum, Venlo; TextielMuseum, Tilburg; Centraal Museum,
Utrecht; RISD Museum, Providence; SFMoMA, San Francisco;
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden;
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati;
Triodos Bank Art Collection; Akzo Nobel Art Collection
Publications
2020 Claudy Jongstra, Museum De Lakenhal, See All This, 2020
2017 Claudy Jongstra, design Irma Boom, L. Wijers, L. Edelkoort, L. Richards, P. Tegenbosch nai/010, Rotterdam, 2017
2006 Claudy Jongstra: Matter and Meaning, T. Lauwen, I. De Roode,
Artimo, Amsterdam, 2006