Born: 1957, Hattem, The Netherlands
Lives and works in Curaçao since 1980 (USA 1985-1986)
www.ellenspijkstra.com
EDUCATION:
1985-1986 School for American Craftsman of the Rochester Institute
of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA
1974-1979 Academy of Fine Arts Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands
AWARDS:
2000 Award Final Selection, Taipei County Government, Taiwan (ceramics)
1999 Honorable Mention, Arte ’99, Curaçao (photography)
1993 Curaçao Museum Lustrum Prize, Curaçao (ceramics and photography)
1990 Award, international photo competition New York Institute of
Photography, NY, NY, USA(photography)
1989 Third Prize, international photo competition New York Institute of
Photography, NY, NY, USA (photography)
1987 First Prize, photo competition Twilight, Curaçao (photography)
1985 Best of category, The Strong Art Show & Sell, Rochester, NY, USA (ceramics)
1985 First Prize, photo competition Innerwheel, Curaçao (photography)
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
Avila Beach Hotel Curaçao
Museo Arte Moderno, Sto. Domingo Dominican Republic
Centro Wifredo Lam, Havana Cuba
Resen Ceramics Museum, Resen Macedonia
Centrum Beeldende Kunsten Rotterdam The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam The Netherlands
Artoteek Den Haag The Netherlands
Het Curaçaosch Museum Curaçao
Maritiem Museum Curaçao
World Trade Center Curaçao
Central Bank Curaçao
EXHIBITIONS:
ONE-PERSON:
2009 Art Studio Insight Aruba
2009 Galerie Taptoe, Brussels Belgium
2008 Landhuis Bloemhof Curaçao
2008 The French Embassy Gallery, Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
2008 Kleurgamma Downtown, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2006 Open Atelier Route, Studio Girouette Curaçao
2006 Blow-up Gallery, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2006 Slide show during concert Tania Kross,
Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2005 Het Curaçaosch museum Curaçao
2005 Kas di Alma Blou Curaçao
2004 Dutch Maritime Museum, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2003 Art Studio Insight Gallery Aruba
2003 World Trade Center Curaçao
2000 Maritiem Museum Curaçao Curaçao
1999 Kas di Alma Blou Curaçao
1998 Galerie Bloemhof Curaçao
1997 Scheltema, Holkema, Vermeulen, Amsterdam The Netherlands
1993 Het Curaçaosch Museum Curaçao
1989 Taller Escuela Arte Fuego, Caracas Venezuela
1988 Het Curaçaosch Museum Curaçao
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2009 Arte Bèbè, The Rif Fort Curaçao
2007 2nd annual Dutch Caribbean Art Exhibition,
Kas di Arte Bonaire
2007 275 years Snoa, Maritime Museum Curaçao
2007 It’a all about women, Gallery Alma Blou Curaçao
2006 ASNA Clay Triennal, Karachi, Pakistan
2006 First ACP Festival, Museo Arte Moderno Dominican Republic
2006 The Caribbean in the Age of Modernity, National
Library, Port of Spain Trinidad
2006 Arte Bèbè, The Rif Fort Curaçao
2004 Cocktail di Arte, Heerlickheijd van Ermelo The Netherlands
2004 Blow-Up Gallery, Amsterdam The Netherlands
2003 Laman 2003, The Rif Fort Curaçao
2003 Vision +, V Caribbean and Centro American
Biennial, Dominican Republic
2003 Resusita, The Rif Fort Curaçao
2003 Keramika Sisak 1700, Sisak Croatia
2003 First Bienal Internacional Del Mosaico
Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires Argentina
2002 Elit-Tile 2002, Museum of Modern Art, San. Dom. Dominican Republic
2001 Arte, di nos e ta, TENT- CBK, Rotterdam The Netherlands
2000 Seventh Biennial of Havana, Centro Wifredo Lam Cuba
2000 Sixth Taiwan Golden Ceramics Awards Exhibition Taiwan
2000 Two pictures. One story (Diana Blok &
Ellen Spijkstra) Maritiem Museum Curaçao
2000 Mon Petit Art Gallery, San Juan Puerto Rico
2000 Laman Chiki, Waaigat Curaçao
1999 Auto Retrato Nobo, Instituto di Cultura Aruba
1999 La Vida Urbana en la región del Caribe, Centro
Cariforo Dominican Republic
1999 Arte ’99, Magazina di Arte Curaçao
1999 The Curaçao Connection, S.B.K. Kunstcentrum
Haarlem The Netherlands
1997 5th World Triennial Exhibition of Small Ceramics Croatia
1995 Artoteek Den Haag The Netherlands
1992 Un Abraso ku Koló, Heemstede The Netherlands
1991 Gala di Arte, World Trade Center Curaçao
1990 Taller Escuela Arte Fuego, Caracas Venezuela
1988 Bida i Koló, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam The Netherlands
1988 Potpourri, Gallery ’86 Curaçao
1986 Directions, Däwson Gallery, Rochester USA
1986 The Atrium Gallery, Rochester USA
1985 Het Curaçaosch Museum Curaçao
SELECTED BOOKS AND MAGAZINES IN WHICH WORK HAS APPEARED:
-Scott Meyer, 'Ellen Spijkstra's quiet search', Ceramic Arts & Perception, International,
no 76, 2009, page 28-30
-Jimmy Clark, 'Caribbean ceramics', New Ceramics, International, no 5, 2008
-Nicole Henriquez, Lusette (Pòpi) Verboom en Renske van der Zee, Het Gouverneurshuis
van de Nederlandse Antillen, een rondgang langs Antilliaanse en Nederlandse kunst,
2008, page 128,129
-Sinaya Wolfert, Curaçao Artists, 2007, page 156 - 167
-Erik Jager, ‘Te gast bij Ellen Spijkstra’, Eigen Huis & Interieur, The Netherlands, July
2005, page 238, 239
-Hans Fonk, Dutch Caribbean Architecture & Style, 2004, Curaçao Style Foundation, page
164, 165, 212 , 213
-Henry Parisius e.o., Geraffineerde Kunst / Refined Art, 2004, KIT Publishers Amsterdam,
page 26-28, photo 22-43
-Adi Martis & Jennifer Smit, Arte, Dutch Caribbean Art, 2002, Ian Randle publishers,
Jamaica / KIT publishers, The Netherlands, page 98, 99
-Sluitertijd, ‘Ellen Spijkstra, Fragmenten uit de haven’ Arts & Auto,The Netherlands, April
2002, cover and page 58-59
-Bernd Pfannkuche, ‘Ellen Spijkstra, Keramik aus der Karibik’, Neue Keramik, Germany,
March/April 2001, page 20-24
-Marianne de Tolentino, ‘Ellen Spijkstra, fotografa de Curazao’ Cariforum, Cultural
Magazine of the Caribbean, Dominican Republic, volume 3, December 2000, cover and
page 70-74
-Marianne de Tolentino, ‘Art ’99 in Curaçao: Opinion of a jury’, Art Nexus, Colombia,
volume 35, Februari/April 2000
-Makiri Mual, ‘The Curaçao Connection’, Glas en kristal, aardewerk en porselein, The
Netherlands, July 1999, page 71-78
-Hans Fonk, Curaçao Architectural Style, 1999, Curaçao Style Foundation, page
29,158,159
-Nelly Barbieri, El Movimiento Cerámico en Venezuela, 1998, Consejo nacional de la
Cultura, Venezuela, page 117
-Wouter Welling, ‘Een grote rijkdom aan smaken’, Kunstbeeld, The Netherlands, June 1998,
page 44-47
-Yih-Wen Kuo, ‘Curaçao’, Ceramic Art, Taiwan, December 1996, page 124-128
-Nicole Henriquez and Jennifer Smit, Ellen Spijkstra Ceramics & Photography, 1994, The
Curaçao Museum Foundation, page 1-30
-Shaaron Lewis, , ‘Island Influences’, Worldwide News, The Netherlands, October 1991,
page 30
-Karin Wijnand, ‘Expositie Potpourri op Curaçao’, Keramiek, the Netherlands, September
1989, page 28
VIDEO / TV PRODUCTIONS:
-Quirijn Dalen Meurs, ‘Ellen Spijkstra’, vanEps Kunneman vanDoorne, Curaçao, 2007
-Olivier Jansen en Hugo Kaagman, ‘Blauw Curaçao’, Television Production Amsterdam
TVA, The Netherlands, 1999
-Carrilho Multimedia Studio, ‘Mirador’ , Curaçao, 1998
