Helen Verhoeven

Helen Verhoeven (born 1974 in Leiden) is a painter and sculptor based in Berlin.[1] Verhoeven was born in the Netherlands and moved to the U.S. in 1986.[2] She attended the San Francisco Art Institute, New York Academy of Art, and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.[1] In 2008 she won the Dutch Royal Award for Modern Painting, in 2010 the Wolvecamp Painting Award, and in 2019 she was the recipient of the ABN-AMRO Art Prize. She was commissioned to make a painting for the new courthouse of Dutch Supreme Court in The Hague that opened in 2015. Verhoeven's works seem to explore the theme of ceremonial gatherings. She makes monumental-sized paintings that are populated with contorted figures in various states of rapture, despair, lust and estrangement. She is the daughter film director Paul Verhoeven.[3]

Hoge Raad (Supreme Court of the Netherlands) by Helen Verhoeven

References
  1. "Helen Verhoeven". RKD. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
  2. Saatchi Gallery. "Helen Verhoeven - Artist's Profile".
  3. "Helen Verhoeven: Part Pretty". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2015-03-06.

External sources

Media related to Helen Verhoeven at Wikimedia Commons

  • Rosenberg, Karen. (October 31, 2008). Art in Review. New York Times
  • Hamilton, Adrian. (November 25, 2013). A Mixed Body of Work. The Independent (London)
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