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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
2023-2024 Claudy Jongstra X EINA Collserola LAB: Tornen les esquelles, Disseny Hub, Barcelona, ES
2023-2024 Cycles of Growth, EENWERK Gallery, Amsterdam
2023 LOADS Collection NY Fashion Week Premiere, L’SPACE Gallery, NYC 2023 Circulos Naturales, Galeria Aina Nowack, Menorca, Balearic Islands, ES
2023 Dyer’s Circle, Future Fabrics Expo, Magazine London, London, UK
2023 Guernica de la Ecología, Exhibition for the Inauguration of Spain as
President of the EU and International Day for the Prevention of Genocide, European Union Building for Judical Cooperation in Criminal Matters (Eurojust), The Hague
2023 Currents, Galeria Aina Nowack, ARCOmadrid, Madrid, ES
2021-2023 Guernica de la Ecología International Touring Exhibition and
Conexión Workshop Series beginning in Menorca, Balearic Islands, ES
2022 It’s our F****** Backyard, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
2022 To Dye For, TextielMuseum, Tilburg
2022 Dialogues with Nature, Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
2021 Connecting with Claudy, Galerie Fontana, Amsterdam
2020-2021 Claudy Jongstra, Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
2020 Inner Vitality, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
2018-2020 Woven Skin International Touring Exhibition
2019 A Space for Being, Google Design Studio, Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT 2019 The Year of Rembrandt, Museum Het Rembrandthuis, Amsterdam
2019 Back to Black, Museum Hof van Busleyden, Mechelen, BE
2016 Claudy Jongstra: Ancient Light, Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
2016 Aarde, SFMoMA, San Francisco, US
2015 Earth Matters curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, Artipelag, Stockholm, SE
2015 5th Bienal Brasileira de Design, Sao Paolo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2015 Seele, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam
2014 Rudolf Steiner: Alchemie van het Alledaagse, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
2013 Talking Textiles curated by Lidewij Edelkoort, TextielMuseum, Tilburg
2012 Wunderkammer curated by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, 13th
Architecture Biennale, Venice, IT
2011 United Nations Headquarters, NYC
2009 Fashioning Felt, Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, NYC
2008 Before Departure, Eylem Aladogan, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
2008 ‘Mapping Out Paradise’ with Marc Mulders, Museum De Pont, Tilburg
2002 A Century of Design: Part IV, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC
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; European Parliament 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
Films
Blue Gold in collaboration with Odin and De Beersche Hoeve, Film by Marit Geluk [https://vimeo.com/762336241]
Atelier Talks in collaboration with Galerie Fontana, Film by Lourens Lente, sound by Kay van Vree [https://vimeo.com/555771810]
and [https://vimeo.com/646507669]
Claudy Jongstra by Birchwood Films for Triodos Bank [https://vimeo.com/253265939]