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ABOUT
Frank Ammerlaan, The Netherlands ’79
Education:
-MA Painting, Royal College of Art in London (grad. ‘12)
-BA Fine Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam (grad. ‘07)
-Wood and Furniture College, Amsterdam (grad. ’02)
Awards:
--De Scheffer Award, Dordrechts Museum ’13, NL
-Koninklijke Prijs voor vrije Schilderkunst, NL ’12,
-Land Securities Studio Award, Royal College of Art, LDN ’12
-Doha Studio Art Prize ‘12
-Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize ’07
BIO
Frank Ammerlaan is a Dutch visual artist, living and working between Berlin and Amsterdam. He graduated in 2007 from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and in 2012 from the Royal College of Art in London. Ammerlaan received the Royal Award of Painting in The Netherlands in 2012. Other awards he has won include the Scheffer Prize 2013, the Land Securities Prize Royal College of Art 2012, the Doha Studio Art Prize 2012, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy Painting Prize 2007.
Ammerlaan has had solo exhibitions at the Dordrechts Museum, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Calasetta in Italy, and at various international galleries such as Simões de Assis in Brazil and Upstream Gallery in Amsterdam. His work has also been included in numerous group exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, including at White Cube in London, the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Brazil, KUMU Art Museum in Tallinn, Museum Catharijneconvent in Utrecht, Kunsthal Rotterdam, and NEST in The Hague. Ammerlaan’s work is included in private, corporate, and museum collections such as the Centraal Museum, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Museum Voorlinden, and the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.