MONIQUE VAN GENDEREN

"You see a small painting. It seems innocuous enough, a picture on the wall surrounded by others just like it. You step closer to get the measure of it, to try to grasp something about its collection of colors and array of techniques. You look at it for some time. Yet the longer you look, the less yielding the surface appears, despite bearing the minute, cross-hatched lines and looping, irregular textures of canvas and paint. After some time, the penny drops. It is not (or not exactly) a painting, but a clay cast of a stretched canvas fired in a kiln, painted, glazed, and fired again, masquerading as a painting."

Monique van Genderen (b. 1965, Vancouver, Canada) received her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.

She has presented solo exhibitions most recently at Bernier/Eliades, Brussels, Belgium; Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany; and Vielmetter, Los Angeles, CA. Her past presentations include the Hammer Museum Lobby Project, Los Angeles, CA; “Monique van Genderen,” survey exhibition at Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany; “Festaal,” Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany; “Monique van Genderen and Kirsten Everberg,” Le Consortium, Dijon, France; “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Abstrakt Maler,” Galleri Brandstrup, Oslo, Norway; “Monique van Genderen,” D’Amelio Gallery, New York, NY; “Personal Exhibition,” The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Effearte, Milan, Italy; and Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium.

Van Genderen has been included in group exhibitions at numerous international institutions such as the Albertina Museum,Vienna, Austria; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstverein am Rosa–Luxemburg–Platz, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego,CA; Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany; and the U.S. Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname.

Her work may be found in the collections of the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria; Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoria, IL; Eileen Harris Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN; Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; the U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.

She is the recipient of a Project Commission for the Murals for La Jolla, La Jolla, CA; the Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Federal Courthouse Building Art Commission for the GSA, Arts and Architecture Program, Harrisburg, PA; and the West Hollywood 1% for the Arts Public Art Commission, West Hollywood, CA. In 2004, she was an Artist in Residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX.

The artist lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.