Ellen Kooi
Ellen Kooi, is a Dutch artist and photographer, who lives and works in Haarlem, Netherlands. She makes scenographic, theatrical imagery merging landscapes and figures–in the tradition of the city's landscape painters from the Dutch Golden Age.
Biography
Kooi graduated from the Academie Minerva, in Groningen, in 1987; she was an artist in residency, and completed post-graduate studies, at the Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, in Amsterdam, from 1993 to 1994.Within her body of work, themes of humans' intimate interactions with their surrounding natural world are explored. From unsettling landscapes, often populated only by young adults; to reassuring scenes of soothing serenity, and shelter; and serendipitous escapes; her subjects–nature and actor–are dramatically staged. Her work has been acquired by the Frans Hals Museum, the Fries Museum, and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, all in the Netherlands, as well as the Collection Hermès, in Luxembourg, and the Borusan Contemporary, in Turkey.
She is represented by Torch Gallery, in Amsterdam.
Solo exhibitions
2015Undertones, at Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon, la Roche-sur-Yon, FranceDocks Art Fair Lyon, Gallerie Les Filles Du Calvaire2014Undertones, solo show at Centro de Arte Alcobendas, Madrid, SpainAIPAD Photography Show, New YorkAs it Happens, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire, Paris, France
2013Sables Mouvants, Lambertart, Le Fort de Mons-en-Baroeul, Lille, France
2012Transparent Days, Camara Oscura, Madrid, SpainNext to Me, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, NetherlandsRecent Photography, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, United StatesLuz Holandesa, Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain
2011Out of Sight, PPOW Gallery, New York CityEllen Kooi: Out of Sight, Le Château d’Eau, Toulouse, FranceOn the Other Side of Twilight, duo-show with Astrid Kruse Jensen, Stedelijk Museum Den Bosch, Netherlands
2010Out of Sight/Hors de Vue, Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France Ellen Kooi, Photographies, Le centre Image/ Imatge, Orthez, France
2009"Borrowed Landscapes", part of Festival Off PhotoEspaña, Gallery Camara Oscura, Madrid, SpainFotowerken, de Willem III, Vlissingen, NetherlandsRecent Work, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2008"Dentro por Fuera, Within from Without", soloshow, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, SpainRecent Photography, Espacio Liquido, Gijon, Spain
2006Travaux Recents, duo show with Hans Op De Beeck, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
2005Hold Still, Keep Moving IV, Gallery Beaumontpublic, Luxemburg, Luxemburg