Desirée Dolron
Desiree Dolron (born 16 April 1963) is a Dutch visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her photographs portray a variety of styles and subjects, including documentary photography, still life, portraits and video works. Dolron is best known for her series Xteriors (2001-2018).
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Desirée Dolron
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- Name
- Desiree Dolron
- Born
- 16 April 1963
- Birthplace
- Haarlem, the Netherlands
- Field
- Photography, Film maker, Visual Artist
- Awards
- Prix de Rome (1996), Artist of the Year (2019)
- Nationality
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Occupation
- photographer · filmmaker
- Honours
- Grote Paul
- Languages
- Dutch
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Desiree Dolron (born 16 April 1963) is a Dutch visual artist who lives and works in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her photographs portray a variety of styles and subjects, including documentary photography, still life, portraits and video works. Dolron is best known for her series Xteriors (2001-2018).
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Biography
Biography
The recorded working language is Dutch. Work by Desirée Dolron is recorded in the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Museum Arnhem, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Kunstcollectie LUMC. Distinctions recorded are Grote Paul.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Desiree Dolron • Born — 16 April 1963 • Birthplace — Haarlem, the Netherlands • Field — Photography, Film maker, Visual Artist • Works — 'Xteriors (2001-2018), Te di todos mis suenos • Awards — Prix de Rome (1996), Artist of the Year (2019)
Early life
Early life
Dolron was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands.
Work
Work
Dolron has traveled extensively to find subjects for her photography. One of Dolron's ongoing series is titled Xteriors, which consists of photographic portraits drawn from the style of paintings by Old Masters.
Selected solo exhibitions
Selected solo exhibitions
• 1993 Desiree Dolron, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam • 1994 Selected Works, Galerie Serieuze Zaken, Amsterdam, Religion and Death, Kunsthal, Rotterdam • 1995 Desiree Dolron, Aschenbach Gallery. Amsterdam Silence of the Eye, RijksMuseum, Public space, Amsterdam Desiree Dolron, Stedelijk Museum het Domein, Sittard • 1998 Behind the Eye, Groninger Museum, Groningen Gaze, Flatland Gallery, Utrecht • Photographie, Arles Exaltation, Fototeca, Havana, Cuba • 2001 Xteriors, Loerakker Gallery, Amsterdam • 2002 Statement, Paris Photo, Paris. Te dí todos mis Sueños, Loerakker Gallery, Amsterdam Desiree Dolron, Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Exaltation, Fototeca, Havana, Cuba • 2003 Te dí todos mis sueños, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London • 2004 Xteriors, Michael Hoppen Gallery, London • 2005 Retrospective, Fotomuseum Den Haag, Den Haag • 2006 Desiree Dolron, Exaltation, Gaze, Xteriors, Instituut Néerlandais, Paris • 2007 Hotel California, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Foundation Corboud, Köln • 2009 Desiree Dolron, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm • 2010 Desiree Dolron, Fototeca de Cuba, Havana • 2013 Desiree Dolron, Solo presentation, Art Basel, Hong Kong • 2015 Desiree Dolron, Solo for Grimm at Paris Photo L.A. • 2016 I will show you fear in a handful of dust, RavenFoundation, Amsterdam • 2017 Forever Someone Else, GRIMM, Amsterdam, Desiree Dolron, A Retrospective, Singer Museum, Laren • 2018 Complex Systems, GRIMM, NY
Identity and overview
Identity and overview
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Works and production
Works and production
The following works and productions are recorded by name or by count. Recorded with the occupation photographer. Institutional cataloguing adds that desirée Dolron is recorded with the occupation filmmaker. It is also recorded that desirée Dolron is recorded as a citizen of Kingdom of the Netherlands. Recorded with the gender female. Born on 1 January 1963.
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Desirée Dolron was born at Haarlem.
Birthplace
Haarlem.
Birth place
Publications
• Stranded, 1990. Amsterdam: Design by Mevis & Deursen, Binded by André van der Zalk. This Volume contains eighteen selenium toned silver prints. The book was produced in an edition of ten. • Religion and Death 1992/1992, Amsterdam: Published by Alexander Valeton Design by Mevis & Deursen, Binded by André van der Zalk • Exaltation - Images of Religion and Death, Publisher DDH Foundation, Text by Manfred Heiting, Laurens ten Kate, Kees Fens & Joop de Jong, Designed by Mevis & Van Deursen • Desirée Dolron 2005. Publisher Terra Lannoo in conjunction with the retrospective exhibition 'Desiree Dolron' in the Hague Museum of Photography, design Maarten Evenhuis kindly supported by Michael Hoppen Gallery. • Desirée Dolron 2006. Publisher Éditions Xavier Barral, essays by Pierre Assouline, Mark Haworth-Booth. Accompanied the exhibition Exaltation-Gaze-Exteriors at The Institut Néerlandais. • Xteriors 2017, Publisher Raven Foundation Amsterdam, Design by Irma Boom essays by Wim Pijbes and Charlotte Cotton
Collections
• Stedelijk Museum het Domein, Sittard • Museum for Religious Arts, Uden • Groninger Museum, Groningen • Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam • The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston • Victoria & Albert Museum, London • Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York • Joseph M. Cohen collection • National Museum of Qatar
Awards
Dolron was awarded the Laureate Prix de Rome, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1996).
Notes from the source article
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Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1."Florentina Fuentes: retratos con alma de mujer". Tendencias (in Dutch)
- 2."Fall 2009: Dior Homme strikes a pose, says 'relax'". LA Times, January 26, 2009
- 3."10 Dutch Photographers you should know". Be Art Magazine, Sandrine Hermand-Griset.
- 4.Desiree Dolron. Exaltation, Gaze, Xteriors Art Daily.
- 5.Désireé Dolron: Morwenna. mfah.org.
- 6.Dolron, Desiree. www.museoreinasofia.es.
- 7.Cygnet Foundation. Shared space: the Joseph M. Cohen collection. 31 March 2010.
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