Lique Schoot (NL, 1969) was born in Arnhem-NL, the city where she currently lives and works.
Education
ArtEZ – Academy of Fine Arts, Arnhem, NL. Graduated in 1997
2012 – Masterclass: ACF – Presentation Photography, Amsterdam, NL
Residencies
2004 – Rokosowo, PL (catalogue)
2007 – Magdeburg, DE (catalogue)
Grants
2022 – 2026 – Mondriaan Fund – Artist Grant Basic, Amsterdam, NL
2022 – City of Arnhem – Grant for creative professionals in Arnhem, Arnhem, NL
2021 – 2022 – Mondriaan Fund – Artist Grant in times of Corona, Amsterdam, NL
2020 – 2021 – Mondriaan Fund – Project Investment Artist, Amsterdam, NL
2016 – 2020 – Mondriaan Fund – Working Grant for Proven Talent, Amsterdam, NL
2013 – Women’s and Gender Studies, USA
2012 – Mondriaan Fund – Project Museum Bronbeek, Amsterdam, NL
2012 – Prins Bernhard Culture Fund – Project Museum Bronbeek, NL
2006 – Foundation Pulchro Sacrum, The Hague, NL
2003 – 2008 – Federal Grants Foundation for Visual Arts, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Awards and Nominations
2014 – New Dutch Photography Talent 2015, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue)
2013 – Finalist RPS International Print Exhibition 156, The Royal Photographic Society, UK (catalogue)
2008 – Honorable Mention ‘Hoppeland Painting Award Benelux and North-Pas de Calais’, BE
2006 – Nominated for the Gaver Award, Waregem, BE
2005 – Nominated for the Marnixring Felix De Boeck Award, Drogenbos, BE (catalogue)
2004 – 3rd Prize: Gaver Award, Waregem, BE (catalogue)
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings 2023 – 2024
Permanent Collection, Museum SONS, Kruishoutem, BE
Contextualize, Der Greif, Pavillon 333, Pinakothek der Moderne, München, DE
Contextualize, Der Greif, ZIRKA, München, DE
BIG ART, Art Fair, Bajeskwartier, Amsterdam, NL (s)
Immigration Centuries, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
Zero and Other Heroes, Paviljoen Welgelegen, Haarlem, NL
Japon, Le Carton Voyageur, Musée de la Carte Postale, Baud, FR
Selected Exhibitions 2022
50 Years of Museum van Bommel van Dam, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
BIG ART, Art Fair, Bajeskwartier, Amsterdam, NL (s)
Permanent Collection, Museum SONS, Kruishoutem, BE
The Feminist Biennial, WM Gallery, Chicago, USA
My Body / My Choice, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA
ENDZEIT, Museum Herxheim, Herxheim, DE
Europe doesn’t fall from the sky, CA’SCARPA, Treviso, IT
War on War, Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art, Montecarotto, IT
Artists for Ukraine, Eusebiuskerk, Arnhem, NL
Salon New Works, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Exhibitions 2021
BIG ART, Art Fair, HEMbrugterrein, Zaandam, NL (s)
50 Years of Museum van Bommel van Dam, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
Permanent Collection, Museum SONS, Kruishoutem, BE
Drawing in Lockdown, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE
You Are Not Alone, Salon Am Moritzplatz, Berlin, DE
Light, Camera, Action, Musea Quinta da Cruz, Viseu, PT
Keep On Keepin’ On, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
Silent Fire, Nasty Women Connecticut & Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Connecticut, USA
Does Gender Really Matter?, galleria VISIONI ALTRE, Venice, IT
Salon New Works, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Exhibitions 2020
Permanent Collection, Museum SONS, Kruishoutem, BE
Fe*Mail*Art, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
Art in Isolation, North Dakota Museum of Art, USA
Where Are We Now?: Activism of the Everyday, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines (Chicago), USA (catalogue)
Le Disobbedienti, Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art, Montecarotto, IT
MIDECIANT Collections, MIDECIANT – International Electrography Museum, Cuenca, ES
World Collage Day 2020, Boneshaker Books, Minneapolis, USA
Civilization, Necmettin University, Konya, TR
What About 2020 / Hoe = Het Nu 2020, ACEC and Het Kunstgemaal, Apeldoorn en Bronckhorst, NL
The Self-portrait in 30 Days, De Transformatie, Arnhem, NL (s)
Salon New Works, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Exhibitions 2019
Permanent Collection, Museum SONS, Kruishoutem, BE
Collected Faces, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
Fashioning the Self, Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines (Chicago), USA
Wish You Were Here 19, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, USA
Moving Image and Contemporary Art Festival, 51zero, Canterbury and Rochester, UK
Forever Unforgettable, Oudenaarde, BE
Tour Exhibition, Zines of the Zone, FR, BE, NL
Nasty Women Exhibition #TeamFemke, De Balie, Amsterdam, NL
ART ‘N SOCIETY, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Salon New Works, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings 2005 – present
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A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn NY, USA
Arti et Amicitiae, NL
Be-Part, BE (visitor guide)
BIG ART, Art Fair, NL
CODA Museum, NL (visitor guide)
FeliXart Museum, BE
Gorcums Museum, NL
Het Valkhof Museum, NL (catalogue)
Koehnline Museum of Art, USA (catalogue)
Kunstverein Mϋnchen, DE (visitor guide)
Museum van Bommel van Dam, NL (catalogue)
Museum Bronbeek, NL (catalogue)
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE (visitor guide)
Museum of Modern Art and Mail Art, IT
Museum SONS, BE
Museum Waterland, Purmerend, NL (catalogue)
Pinakothek der Moderne, DE
Phoenix Art Museum, USA
Rencontres d’Arles, FR
WM Gallery, Chicago IL, USA
Selected Catalogues
Catalogue: ‘Hair Towels 2008 I 2019‘, LSbooks, NL
Visitor Guide: ‘XIII Salon der Kϋnstler’, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Catalogue: ‘Gezelligheid’, Benetton Foundation, Treviso, IT
Catalogue: ‘Sequences 16 (3×6)’, LSbooks, NL
Catalogue: ‘Song of Herself’, LSbooks, NL
Catalogue: ‘Collection Catalogue 2010 – 2014’, Museum van Bommel van Dam, NL
Catalogue: ‘New Dutch Photography Talent 2015’, x Publishers B.V., Amsterdam, NL
Catalogue: ‘Raw Beauties‘, Galerie Vevais, NL
Catalogue: ‘RPS International Print Exhibition 156, The Royal Photographic Society, UK
Catalogue: ‘Bronbekers in Beeld‘, Foundation NOX, NL
Catalogue: ‘100 years Gorcums Museum, an impression’, Piet Augustijn, Rob Kreszner, Aron de Vries, Gorcums Museum, Hardinxveld-Giessendam, NL
Catalogue: Essent 2009 ‘Exhibitions and Purchases 2009’, Arnhem, NL
Catalogue: ‘5 Years of Be-Part‘, Be-Part, BE
Catalogue: ‘O Fortuna!’ (Gelderland Biennial at The Valkhof Museum), Arnhem, NL
Catalogue: ‘Beyond the Black; Laureate Selection for the Gaver Awards – 1982 – 2004’, Veerle Van Durme, BE-PART, Waregem, BE
Selected Art Libraries
Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, NL
Foam, Amsterdam, NL
FotoMuseum Antwerpen, BE
ING Art Collection, NL
Hellenic Center for Photography, GR
Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, NL
Koehnline Museum of Art, Des Plaines, IL, USA
Museum Hilversum, NL
Municipal Museum / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NL
Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, NL
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, DE
Netherlands Institute for Art History / Modern Art, The Hague, NL
Rencontres d’Arles Library, FR
The Valkhof Museum, Nijmegen, NL
Zines of the Zone, FR
Curator
2012 – 2013 – Bronbekers in Beeld – Museum Bronbeek, Group Exhibition with Lobke Burgers, Dedden & Keizer, Eun Young Lee, Maria Roosen, Rob Voerman, Lique Schoot and Peter Zwaan (catalogue)
2012 – Short Stories of Silence, Group Exhibition with Lynne Leegte, Carla van de Puttelaar and Lique Schoot
2010 – Dutch Girls, Group Exhibition with Karin Bos, Barbara Broekman, Anouk Griffioen, Anya Janssen, Hester Scheurwater and Lique Schoot
Commissions
2024 – 1998 – Over the years: Several commissions for companies and for private individuals
2016 – A painted Self-portrait for the Imago Mundi Collection, Milan, IT (catalogue)
2015 – Art Centre – Installation ‘Moments in Time 15 06 12/13/14’, Zaandam, NL (catalogue)
2014 – Proposal for a portrait of King Willem Alexander, Veenendaal, NL
2012 – 2013 – Museum Bronbeek, installation for the exhibition ‘Bronbekers in Beeld’, Arnhem (catalogue)
2007 – ‘Nothing=Sure’, 200th Anniversary of Delta Lloyd, painted portraits of the youngest employees of the company (catalogue)
2005 – Historical Society, The Hague – Cityscapes of The Hague, works on paper (catalogue)
Other
2024 – 2010 – Independent Publisher at LSbooks, NL
2019 – FFforward, Women in Photography, research project, UK
2018 – 2017 – Artistic Advice at ‘Crone gezien door Arnhem’, Hijman, Arnhem, NL
2016 – Artist Talk with Alex de Vries, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, NL
2015 – Organisation Art@deTransformatie, Arnhem, NL
2015 – 2004 – Lectures about my work in Museum of Rawicz Land, PL – Pulchri Studio and Sociëteit de Witte, NL
2014 – 2004 – Member of Artist Society Pulchri Studio, NL
2013 – Exhibition Guide at Museum Bronbeek – Exhibition Bronbekers in Beeld, NL
2012 – Interview with Wim van Sinderen about project LS diaries, Pulchri Studio, The Hague, NL
2011 – Lecture/tour at The Valkhof Museum – Exhibition O Fortuna!, NL
2010 – present – Member of Artist Society Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, NL
2009 – Lecture at Museum Kasteel Wijchen – Exhibtion Visual Diaries, NL
Collections
Public, private and museum collections in- and outside the Netherlands
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