Juul Kraijer
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About Juul Kraijer
Juul Kraijer (1970, The Netherlands) graduated from the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts in 1994. Her consistent, authentic oeuvre consists mainly of large format drawings but also includes sculptures and video-works. In recent years she has embraced photography as an important medium.
Institutions which have hosted solo exhibitions of the artist's work include Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2001); Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2006); Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (2004 and 2009); Kunsthalle Giessen, Germany (2014); Drents Museum, Assen (2015); Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam (2017) and Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany (2020).
Her work has been awarded four Dutch art prizes and two LensCulture Awards and has been included in major international exhibitions such as ARS 06 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki (2006); The Third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009) and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, India (2018).
Her work is represented in public collections internationally, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; the Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania; Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf; Kupferstichkabinett Berlin; Museum Moderner Kunst Vienna; Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam.