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Most exhibitions in: |
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| Netherlands | 27 |
| Spain | 19 |
| USA | 18 |
| France | 16 |
| Italy | 11 |
Biography: 
1959 Born in Hilversum, NH (NL)
Awards 1988 he received the Young European Photographer Prize in Germany
1995 First prize, ‘Woord en Beeld 1995’ applied photography, Federation of Parents Association Mentally Disabled
1998 Silver Lion, commercial-festival for Diesel Dirty Denim, Cannes
2001 Silver Lion, commercial-festival for Heineken ‘Corner’, Cannes
2002 Prize commercial- festival New York, for Heineken ‘Line-up’, New York
Grand prix de l’affiche, Humour & Pub, ‘Charal advertising’
Golden Eagle, Zlote Orly, ‘Nescafé advertising’, Poland
2005 Rain, The Hairdresser’s, winner of a PDN Award Photography Annual New York
Lavazza Calendar, Selected for the PDN Award Photography Annual New York
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 147
until 30.6.
Solo shows 57
2013
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| Erwin Olaf - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Erwin Olaf - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht |
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| Erwin Olaf. Regressive - Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem - MMKA, Arnhem |
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| Erwin Olaf - Gallery Kong, Seoul |
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| Own - Gallery Kong, Seoul |
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| Erwin Olaf - Art Statements - Tokyo, Minato-ku Tokyo |
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| The Dark Side - Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris |
2011
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| Erwin Olaf - Art Statements - Tokyo, Minato-ku Tokyo |
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| Dawn & Dusk - Deluge Contemporary Art, Victoria, BC |
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| Captured Sense - Cer Modern, Ankara |
2010
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| Erwin Olaf - Art Statements - Tokyo, Minato-ku Tokyo |
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| Erwin Olaf - Galerie Paris-Beijing, Beijing |
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| Vite private di Erwin Olaf - Forma - Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Milan |
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| Erwin Olaf - Hamiltons Gallery, London (England) |
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| Erwin Olaf - Hotel & Dawn - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Erwin Olaf - Ruarts Gallery, Moscow |
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| Erwin Olaf - Darts Of Pleasure - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Dusk & Dawn - Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid |
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| Erwin Olaf - Ilan Engel Gallery, Paris |
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| Erwin Olaf - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
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| Erwin Olaf: Moving Targets - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
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| Fotográfica - Nueveochenta, Bogota |
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| Erwin Olaf: A CHOREOGRAPHY OF EMOTIONS - Langhans Galerie, Prague |
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| Erwin Olaf - EyeCandy 1984-2009 - Fotomuseum Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2008
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| Hope - M² - Metroquadro, Rivoli (TO) |
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| Erwin Olaf - Art Statements - Tokyo, Minato-ku Tokyo |
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| Erwin Olaf: Selected Works - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| Recent Works - Hamiltons Gallery, London (England) |
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| Erwin Olaf - Rain Hope Grief & Fall - Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague |
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| Erwin Olaf: Still Living - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Erwin Olaf - Grief - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
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| Erwin Olaf - Space E6, Shenzhen |
2007
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| Erwin Olaf - M+B, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Erwin Olaf - GRIEF - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Erwin Olaf - Galerie Olivier Houg, Lyon |
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| Erwin Olaf - Elegance and perversity - The John Curtin Gallery, Perth, WA |
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| Flash back - B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan |
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| Erwin Olaf - Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Erwin Olaf - Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid |
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| Moving Targets - - NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (closed, 2013) |
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| Erwin Olaf - Viritatis Splendor. Photographs of 1988 – 2003 - ms - Muzeum Sztuki Lodz, Lodz |
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| Erwin Olaf - Elegance & Perversity - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| Erwin Olaf - Moscow House of Photography, Moscow |
2003
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| Erwin Olaf - MAN - Museo d`Arte di Nuoro, Nuoro |
2002
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| Royal Blood - Bilbao Arte, Bilbao |
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| ERWIN OLAF - Paradise - Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid |
2001
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| Erwin Olaf - Mature - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
1999
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| Erwin Olaf - De Meerse, Hoofddorp |
1996
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| Erwin Olaf - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
1993
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| Erwin Olaf - Joy - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
Group shows 89
2013
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| La Colección de Alicia Aza en el Museo Lázaro - Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid |
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| De madonna a Madonna. (De)construcciones de lo femenino en la sociedad contemporánea - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
2012
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| Pan Amsterdam - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht |
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| La Peau De L'ours - Group Show - Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris |
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| Jocelyn Lee, - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht |
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| Megacool 4.0 - Jugend und Kunst - Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna |
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| Collection Museum Van Bommel Van Dam Venlo - IKOB – Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst Eupen, Eupen |
2011
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| Paris Forever 100th exhibition of the gallery - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
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| No fashion, please! - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Photo Festival Seoul 2011 - The Detour Of The Real - Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul |
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| DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien - Alltag - Galerie der Stadt Remscheid, Remscheid |
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| DEAD_Lines - Der Tod in Kunst - Medien - Alltag - Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal |
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| The Unseen Eye: Photographs from the W.M. Hunt Collection - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Kunsthalle Darmstadt macht Schule - Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Darmstadt |
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| Gambatte Humanity! - Art Statements - Tokyo, Minato-ku Tokyo |
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| Living Room - NL - The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space, London (England) |
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| Fucus Nu - Galerie Adler, Paris |
2010
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| Collector’s Items No.2: High Drama: Works from the Collection of Hugo & Carla Brown - NL - The Dutch Cultural Pop-Up Space, London (England) |
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| Decadence Now! Visions of Excess - Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague |
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| Best of Wonderland - - WAS - Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen (closed, 2011) |
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| Cinema X: I Like to Watch - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Beeld verplaatst - Museum Meermanno, The Hague |
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| ATOPIA - Art and the City in the 21st Century - CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| "De pictura. En defensa de la belleza" - EMAT Espai Metropolità d´Art de Torrent, Torrent |
2009
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| Something for Everyone - Hamiltons Gallery, London (England) |
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| Michaël Matthys - Famille de Aang - En dialogue avec des images de la série « Royal Blood » d´Erwin Olaf - Fondation Francès, Senlis |
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| Beauty Farm. La bellezza del corpo tra idealizzazione e ossessione - Palazzo Durini - Fondazione Durini, Milan |
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| Faces - 18Gallery Shanghai - Bund18, Shanghai |
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| Amsterdam Gaypride 2009 - Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, Amsterdam |
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| Wild Exaggeration - The Grotesque Body in Contemporary Art - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa |
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| Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered - Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Vision-Aussicht aufs Leben - Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie e.V., Darmstadt |
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| All that is solid melts into air - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Pequeña historia de la fotografía - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
2008
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| Urbanités - Galerie les filles du calvaire - Paris, Paris |
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| Sale - Wessel + O'Connor Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Gewoon Anders! / Just Different! - Cobra Museum, Amstelveen |
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| Overkill - - WAS - Wonderland Art Space, Copenhagen (closed, 2011) |
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| Bloody Beautiful ( Part #2 ) - RONMANDOS - Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
2007
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| Intimate Strangers - Barton Art Galleries, Wilson, NC |
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| Exotica - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht |
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| De 99 tot 999 euro show - BuroRotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| 15 años tiene mi amor - Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid |
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| NY C Photo - Phillips de Pury & Company - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Bellezza Pericolosa - PAN - Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples |
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| Play - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
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| CONTACT Toronto Photography Festival - mocca - Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON |
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| Group Show - Reality bites - - Galerie | Caprice Horn, Berlin (closed, 2012) |
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| Contour / Continuïteit, Heden en Verleden - Stedelijk Museum Het Prinsenhof, Delft |
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| Dangerous Beauty - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Oog / Eye - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
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| Expressive Bodies: Contemporary Art Photography from The Kinsey Institute - The Kinsey Institute Gallery, Bloomington, IN |
2006
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| curator for one day - - NIMk - Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam (closed, 2013) |
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| De Italiaanse verlokking - Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen |
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| Real spaces, fictitious spaces - - Fundación Centro Ordóñez-Falcón de Fotografía - COFF, San Sebastián (closed) |
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| Netherland Now - the Northern School - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| Ray Ceasar - Sas Christian - Erwin Olaf - Nostalgia - Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris |
2005
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| Baroque and Neobaroque / The Hell of the Beautifull - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Gorgeous Isn't Good Enough - Hangar Bicocca | spazio d’arte contemporanea, Milan |
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| The Other Europe. On Art and Political Incorrectness - Gallery S.E., Bergen |
2004
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| Portraits/Autoportraits - Photographies - Guy Ledune, Brussels |
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| Ipermercato dell'arte. Il consumo contestato - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
2003
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| The bridges of art - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome |
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| Child in time - Gemeentemuseum Helmond - Boscotondohal, Helmond |
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| O.V.T. - Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo |
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| Playboyfotografie in Nederland 1983-2003 - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Melting Pop - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
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| Como si nada - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
2002
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| Handle with care - ArtKitchen Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| Shock and Show - Realtà e alternative - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste |
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| Liefde op het eerste gezicht - Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch |
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| Amsterdam Revisited - Adam & Eve: On sex, tolerance - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
2001
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| I Bienal de Valencia - The Body of Art - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
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| Transphotographiques 2001 - Transphotographiques, Lille |
1994
| Dealer Directory 12 |
China
France
| | Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris
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Germany
Italy
| | B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milan
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Mexico
| | Arcaute - Arte Contemporáneo - Monterrey, Garza Garcia, NL
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Netherlands
| | Flatland Gallery, Utrecht
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Spain
| | Galería espacio mínimo, Madrid
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Sweden
| | Tapper-Popermajer Art Gallery, Teckomatorp
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United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
| | Hamiltons Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Hasted Kraeutler, New York City, NY
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Collections 6
France
| | Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris
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Germany
| | Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen
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Netherlands
| | Museum het Domein, Sittard
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Spain
USA
| | The West Collection, Oaks, PA
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