CV and Bio

Education

2003-2007 Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2007-2009 DNA, post graduate, The Hague, The Netherlands

Artist In Residence

2020-2022 ISCP, Brooklyn, New York
2017-2019 Flux Factory, Queens, New York
2016 Fusion Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
2011 Flux Factory, Queens, New York
2010 Coup De Ville, Artist Village, St Niklaas, Belgium
2009 Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China

Grants and Awards

2022 Wynn Newhouse award, winner
2021 New York City Artist Corps
2019-2022 Mondriaan Fund, Stipend for Established Artist
2018 Mondriaan Fund, Project Subsidy
2017 O-68 Award, winner
2016 Strabag Art award International, nomination
2013 Royal Award for Painting, Winner
2009-2010 Grant Mondriaan Fund (former Fund BKVB)

Solo Exhibitions

2023 VOLTA, Art Gallery O-68, Art Fair, New York
2019 Drawing Online, galleryviewer, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 “ ”(quote, unquote), Flux Factory, New York, USA
2017 With Colored Content2 , Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Bringing the Content Back, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2016 With Colored Content, Fusion Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
2016 Once upon a line, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2015 Painting, Painthing and Paintthing (the verbs), Fluxfactory, New York, USA
2014 Wieteke Heldens, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2011 Paintings, Painthings and Paintthings, Flux Factory New York, USA

Group Exhibitions

2023 Order of Operations, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York
2023 Floating Land, Dest Gallery, Shanghai
2022 Chronic Stillness, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York
2022 A something in a summer’s day, O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
2022 In good company, Lydian Stater Gallery, New York
2022 A Room of One's Own, Zhu Qizhan Art Museum, Shanghai, China
2022 Connection Collection, Bos Fine Arts, The Hague, The Netherlands
2022 Open Studio’s, ISCP, New York
2022 Open Studio’s, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2021 Survival Tools for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Plaxall gallery, New York
2021 In Between, Crossing Art Gallery, New York
2021 De Tekening, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2021 Intuition, Echo Ann Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021 Who Are Thy Ancestors? O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
2021 Structures on Mars, Gallery Pictura, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
2021 Robe Blue, Fond Rouge, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2021 Boundary & Dislocation, Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
2020 ISCP, The Sky is Blue Like an Orange, New York
2020 How the land lies, Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland
2020 The Drawing Lesson, Museo Moli Paperer de Capellades, Capellades, Spain
2020 Ontgrendeld, O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
2020 Touch, Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York
2020 Pick Me, De Groen, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2020 Art Rotterdam, We Like Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2019 London Art Fair, O-68 Gallery, London, UK
2019 Art Rotterdam, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Rotterdam
2019 Haagse Heritage, Heden, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2019 Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2019 Talk Back, Flux Factory, New York, USA
2019 The great longing, Bohuslans Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden
2018 Accidents Never Happen, Hans & Fritz, Clui-Napoca, Romania
2018 Cross Over Sense, Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft, Bornem, Belgium
2018 Talking With Hands, Fusion Gallery, Turin, Italy
2018 See What You Know, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 Summer exhibition, Borzo gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Scope Art Basel, O-68 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2018 Unfolding Landscape, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, The Netherlands
2018 Do Not Disturb, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 KunstRai, O-68 Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Things only I know about Tim Breukers/ Things only I know about Wieteke Heldens, Hans & Fritz contemporary, Barcelona, Spain
2017 De finalisten, Art Gallery O-68, Velp, The Netherlands
2017 Permanent Repetition, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Code Art Fair, Hans & Fritz Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2017 Schilderkunst 3, Museum Waterland, Purmerend, The Netherlands
2017 I Am A Painter, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2017 We like Art, Editions & Multiples, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2017 Art Rotterdam, Borzo Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Amsterdam Drawing, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Coup De Ville, Sint Niklaas, Belgium
2016 Andy Warhol, Wieteke Heldens, Ikawa Seiryo, Cang Xin and Gao Yansong, Schema Art
Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
2016 New Dream, New Future, Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
2016 Re-Juvenation, Thornwillow Press Inc. Newburgh, NY, USA
2016 Art Cologne, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2016 Drawing Front (and back), Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2016 Art Rotterdam, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Een Blauwe Kamer, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2015 Trial and Triumph, Royal academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2015 Amsterdam Drawing, Art Fair Amsterdam, Borzo Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Blind Date, Alabama, sir, Leipzig, Germany
2014 THERE IS NO I in W139, W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 Your engagement has consequences, Billytown, The Hague, The Netherlands
2014 Raw, Art Fair,Rotterdam, Borzo modern & Contemporary art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Koninklijke prijs voor vrije schilderkunst, Royal Palace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 DRAWn to beTEKENis, Gemak, The Hague, The Netherlands
2013 Gallery Artist + Guest, C&H Art Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Capriccio, JCA DE KOK centrum voor actuele kunst, The Hague, The Netherlands
2012 Prune in the sky, Toves Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 The Infamous and Only Somewhat Ambassadorial Outpost of the Semi-Legitimate Nation
of Flux, Spanien19C, Aarhus, Denmark
2011 Dots and Dashes, Myrtle Windows Gallery, New York, USA
2011 Sounds like Architecture, Maria Aalter, Belgium
2011 Status!Status!Status!, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2009 DNA, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2008 Fast Feed Forward Control, Gallery Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France
2007 7-UP, Kunst Museum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
2007 Thun le paradis, Wilfried Von Gunten Projektraum fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Thun, Switzerland

Curatoral Activities

2018 See What You Know, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2018 Talking With Hands, Fusion Gallery,Turin, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2016 Drawing Front (and back), Quartair, The Hague, the Netherlands
2015 Een Blauwe Kamer, Quartair, The Hague, The Netherlands
2012 WAT’s Up, Project Space Parterretrap, The Hague, The Netherlands
2008 All tomorrow's parties, Museum het Petershuis, Gennep, The Netherlands

Artist Talks

2022 Lydian Stater Gallery, New York
2021 Plaxall Gallery, New York
2021 ISCP, New York
2020 ISCP, New York
2019 Flux Factory, New York
2018 O-68 Gallery, Velp, The Netherlands
2018 Flux Factory, New York
2016 Panel Amsterdamse kunstraad, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2015 Flux Factory, New York
2013 Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, The Netherlands
2012 Spanien 19C, Denmark
2012 Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands

Works in Collections

Flux Factory, New York
Heden, The Hague, The Netherlands
LAM Museum, Lisse, The Netherlands
Warp, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Henk Van Os, The Netherlands
Schema Art Museum, Cheongju, South-Korea
Royal King of the Netherlands
Private collections in the Netherlands, USA, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, France, and the United Kingdom

Teaching

2019 - present, Adjunct professor Color and Light, Montclair State University, NJ

Bio

Wieteke Heldens (1982, Ottersum, The Netherlands) graduated from the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, in 2007. Heldens’ work has been shown internationally, including the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in the Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, Ireland, Denmark, South Korea, Japan, and the United States. She has also worked as an artist-in-residence in Chongqing, China and Turin, Italy. Heldens won the Royal Award for Modern Painting in the Netherlands. Wieteke is a recipient of a Stipend for Established Artists of the Mondriaan Fund.