SERGE ONNEN
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Serge Onnen (1965 Paris, France)
Lives in Amsterdam & NYC

Groupshows

Faulconer Gallery at Grinnell College-Iowa (US) Animated Paintingfeb.2009
Centro Cultural Tijuana CECUT -Animated Painting (MEX)oct. 2008
Sonsbeek 2008- Grandeur- Arnhem (NL)may 2008
Ornament- BravinLee Program NYC2007
San Diego Museum of modern arts~ animated painting (US)2007
Life in a Lamp- (performance with oorbeek )W139 Amsterdam (NL)2007
J&Lgroupshow OkOkGallery Seattle- (US)2007
J&Lgroupshow- MarciaWoodGallery -Atlanta (US)2006
Arkansa Art Centre-Little Rock (US)2006
Unfolding the wing- Denver museum of Arts(US)2006
Center for Visual Art & Culture of the University of Connecticut in Storrs (US)2006
Kunsthaus Basel (Switzerland)2006
Drawing Centre NYC Analog animation (NYC)2006
Lost & Found in NYC co-organizer; Art in General (NYC)2006
Kunstverein Hannover germany2005
project space Deutscher Künstlerbund Berlin germany2005
Summer in the City Caren Golden Fine Art NYC2005
Artek Contemporaries "it will cost you.." curator Berth DeWoody NYC2005
Black & White and a little bit of colour, Arnhem Museum of Modern Art (Holland)2005
By Artificial Resemblance ~the FrontRoom NYC (curator Crenson & Alic) (USA)2005
Dina Reininger Gallery Munchen (Germany)2005
Roberts & Tilton Gallery "Capoeira" curator Stijn Huys, Los Angeles (USA)2005
Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Vidéo d'artistes dans la collections (France)2005
"Screen Spirit" Bremen Kunsthalle (Germany)2004
Simply Drawn LuxeGallery New York (US)2004
ISCP studioprogram New York (US)2004
"Haal Verhaal" ReutenGalerie Amsterdam (curator) (Holland)2004
Fuse De Beyerd Museum Breda (Holland)2003
Moving Head Outline Amsterdam (curator) (Holland)2003
IMPAKT Festival exhibition Utrecht (Holland)2002
"Mother Mouth" -open-air screaning- on De Balie A’dam (Holland)2002
Crafting Space SMART A’ dam (curator Alice Smit) (Holland)2002
Eat Quicksilver/Shit Quicksand Five Years, London (UK)2002
Consortium:Sans Papiers (curator) Amsterdam (Holland)2000
Stedelijk Museum, In de sloot,Uit de sloot Amsterdam(cat.) (Holland)1997


Solo

Museum Het Domein Sittard (NL)sept. 2008
Bernard Garnoud Dijon (France)april 2008
Mouth -Cornell University Museum-Ithaca (US)2007
L'eau gratuite Bernard Garnoud Dijon (France)2006
Glove in Hand Caren Golden Fine Art (NYC)2006
Holland Animation Festival Utrecht2004
Multiples, Galerie des Multiples , Paris (France)2004
AnnetGelinkGallery, Amsterdam "cell animations" (Holland)2002
LUMC, Leiden " Sanitary Park"(Holland)2001
HotelNY at PS1,New York2000
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam " Zware zakken " (Holland)1999
Bloom Gallery, Amsterdam, Paintings&Songs(Holland)1996


Publications

"DRAWINGS ON WRITING" (aka Volume3) J&Lbooksapril 2008
J&L-dvd2007
TUBU Artist book for children/ VanWaveren publishers2005
DRAWINGS ON GEOLOGY"(aka Volume2) J&Lbooks2005
Volume1 for ZingMagazineBooks 16#2002
Heavy Bags/Zware zakken Bloom Gallery books1999
Close Co. Bloom Gallery books1997
CD (with the band Oorbeek) etos - subtarean records2005


RESIDENCIES

Cité International des Arts PARIS2006
ISCP program NYC2003-4
Glassell Program HoustonTX91
Rijksakademie, Amsterdam89/92
(autodidact before RA) 


Bibliography

Mr Motley~ nr; Gevonden 2006–––essay by Herb Tan- ZingMagazine #20 (oct 2006)––– Art in America review Caren Golden Fine Arts may 2006––– VPRO Radio de Avonden interview 7-12-2005–––interview Kees Keijer 4/6/05 het Parool––– "Artists at play in the world"2/25/05/Holly Myers LATimes–––"Meerwaarde meerdere media"Merlijn schonenboom/ DeVolkskrant 30/4/03–––VISUAL POWER; SEX mieke Gerritzen books 2003–––Kunstzinnige koppensneller" Annet de Groot Admagazine 25/1/03–––ArtHouse/SKRIEN "De buitelende hoofden van Serge Onnen" Jacquine van Elsberg 12/02–––Bellisima TV verslag IMPAKTfestival met TV-interview–––KunstBeeld XIII recencie VOLUME–––Vrij Nederland/ Ellen Reijtsema 4/5/02–––Nieuw hoofd maakt nieuwe startVolkskrant Merle Ben1/5/02–––Durer en de tandarts boor Het Parool Maartje den Breeijen 16-4-02 –––Carp nr; 15 Dirk Koppes–––Time Out (UK) nr 1843-Martin Herbert AVRO–––Opium-TV,13/02/02–––1-12-2000 HetParool;"Elk krasje, elke agressieve uithaal is zichtbaar’ Maartje v/d Breejen 5-2-00–––VPRO de Avonden Atelierbezoek 16-2-2000–––InterviewMagazine (US) Watch this place! 8-99,–––Volkskrant "De zwerver spuugt zijn slaapzak uit"W.Sütö (20-1-99)–––Het Parool "Kleren met een eigen karakter "Sven Lütticken(16-8-96)


Other Activitys

Trumpet player of the band Oorbeek (www.oorbeek.net)
Teacher at Rietveld academie Amsterdam