Jan van der Ploeg

Jan van der Ploeg (Netherlands, 1959) currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Croydon College of Art, London and De Rijksakademie in Amsterdam where he graduated in 1985. Van der Ploeg won the Royal Award for Modern Painting in the Netherlands. He exhibited his work extensively in both solo and group exhibitions all over the world: The Suburban, Chicago; Taubert Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; The Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Sarah Cottier Gallery, Sidney, Australia; Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Mercedes Benz Showroom Gallery, Germany; Zona Maco Mexico Arte Contemporanea, Mexico; Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Italy. His works can be seen in important public and private collections such as the Daimler Art Collection, Germany; the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Netherlands; Ministry of Internal Affairs and Finance in The Hague, Netherlands; Netherlands Embassy. Simultaneously to his artistic activity, Jan has founded and goes on running the PS, a highly-regarded exhibition space based in Amsterdam. Committed to new abstract and conceptual art, PS aims to provide a platform for the work of upcoming international artists in an environment that exists between the conventions of an artistrun space and a commercial gallery.