Awoiska van der Molen
#507-6 (Marin County, CA,) 2017, 2020
Estimated Value: $8,500

Gelatin silver print
30 x 36 inches
Framed
Edition 1/3 +2 AP
Signed, on labe,l verso
Donated by the artist.

The Dutch artist Awoiska van der Molen is known for her abstract representations of landscapes. The photographs are the result of her longing to return to the place from which we stem: the uncorrupted territory of nature. Her slow and solitary working process continues in the darkroom where she creates the gelatin silver prints.

As a result of receiving the Larry Sultan Award 2017, Van der Molen was invited for the AIR program at the Headlands Centre for the Arts. This image was made during these months in Marin County.

About the Artist:
Awoiska van der Molen

The way Awoiska van der Molen is sensing the landscape has been widely praised. In 2019 Van der Molen was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Prize and in 2017 for the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize. In that same year she was the recipient of the Larry Sultan Award in San Francisco. In 2014 she was the winner of the Japanese Hariban Award.

Van der Molen has had solo exhibitions at FOAM Museum in Amsterdam, Casemore Kirkeby Gallery in San Francisco, Museum Kranenburgh in Bergen, and Annet Gelink Gallery in Amsterdam. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; and Fotomuseum, The Hague in Netherlands. Her work is represented in public and museum collections such as Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, Pier 24 Photography in San Francisco, Victoria & Albert Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Photography in Seoul, and Huis Marseille in Amsterdam. Her first publication Sequester was nominated for the Paris Photo/Aperture First Book Prize in 2014, and it received the Silver Medal for “Best Books from all over the World” in Leipzig, Germany.

Van der Molen studied Architecture & Design followed by photography at Minerva Art Academy Groningen and at Hunter College, City University of New York and received her MFA in Photography in 2003 at the St. Joost Academy in Breda, Netherlands.

Website: awoiska.nl
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Twitter: @awoiska
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