Scarlett Hooft Graafland

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Scarlett Hooft Graafland (* 1973 ) is a Dutch photographer and performance artist .

Life

Scarlett Hooft Graafland studied from 1995 to 1999 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague . From 1999 to 2000 she took part in the postgraduate program at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem . She then graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York . Scarlett Hooft Graafland travels to many countries for her work and stages her works on site. In doing so, it involves the local population. Mostly she uses the rough natural landscape, for example the salt deserts of Bolivia, rural China or the Canadian and Finnish Arctic as a backdrop for her surrealistic productions. The artist takes analogue photographs and does not manipulate her images digitally. Scarlett Hooft Graafland's pictures can be seen in international group and solo exhibitions, including the Rencontres d'Arles , the World Expo in Shanghai , the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA Museum) in Toronto , the Huis Marseille Museum for Photography in Amsterdam , Museum of Photography in Seoul and exhibited in the Fotografiska in Stockholm . Her work will be shown in the Dutch pavilion at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai.

The artist lives in Amsterdam.

Works

  • 2004 Bolivia 1
  • 2004-2014 Socotra, Yemen
  • 2005-2006 China
  • 2006–2007 Bolivia 2
  • 2007-2008 Nunavut, Canada
  • 2010 Norway
  • 2010–2019 Bolivia 3
  • 2010–2019 The Netherlands, Gorinchem
  • 2012–2013 Madagascar
  • 2014 Socotra, Yemen
  • 2015 Vanuatu
  • 2016–2018 United Emirates, Oman

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2018 Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne , Germany
  • 2018 Scarlett Hooft Graafland, Huis Marseille Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2019 Flowers Gallery , London
  • 2019 Vanishing Traces , Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden

Publications

  • 2008 Instant Sculpture , ISBN 978-90-9023716-9
  • 2008 Discovery
  • 2011 Soft Horizons , Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-86828-223-8
  • 2012 Scarlett Hooft Graafland in Altiplano , WBooks, Van Vlissingen Art Foundation, The Netherlands, ISBN 978-90-400-0358-5
  • 2014 Unlikely Landscape , Ga-Hyeon Foundation of Culture, The Museum of Photography Seoul, Korea
  • 2016 Shores Like You , nai010 publishers, Rotterdam

Award

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fotografiska.com: Scarlett Hooft Graafland - Vanishing Traces ; accessed on November 18, 2019
  2. ↑ sweepers publisher: Scarlett Hooft Graafland - Soft Horizons ; accessed on November 18, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hooft Graafland, Scarlett
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch photographer and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam , Netherlands