CURRICULUM VITEA
PERSONAL DETAILS
Name: Claire Fons
Date of birth: 14-03-1978
Nationality: Dutch
Mail: clairefons@gmail.com.com
EDUCATION
+ UVA University, minor Abjection and Transgression in Art, 2007
+ Master Class of fine arts BK 026 Arnhem, diploma of fine arts, 2006-2007
+ Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Academy of Arts, Bachelor 2002-2006
+ VU University, Art History, 2001-2002
+ INHOLLAND University of applied sciences, Bachelor of Leisure Management, 1997-2001
+ Guidor diploma, 2001
+ INHOLLAND University of applied sciences, Culture and Policy, 1996-1997
EXHIBITIONS
2010
+ Erwartungen II/Expectations II, The forgotten bar project, Berlin Germany
2009
+ door|rood, exhibition ROOD organised by the Swiss artist
Moritz Ebinger, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
+ Into Infinity, Asil Sapporo Gallery, Sapporo Japan
+ Into Infinity, Mado Lounge, Tokyo Japan
+ Open studios, with the projects Making fortune/Expectations/good art-bad art, GlogauAir, Berlin Germany
+ Into Infinity, Look Gallery, Nakano Japan
+ Die Mauer, Potsdammer Kunstallee, Potsdam Germany
+ Interval #, Gallery SINFA, San Nicolas Aruba
+ Mirror me, Gallery SINFA, San Nicolas Aruba
+ ROOTS, Atelier ’89, Oranjestad Aruba
2008
+ Into Infinity, 111 Minna Street Gallery in San Francisco, USA
+ ModeBelofte 2008, designer of the exhibition, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst De Krabbedans, Eindhoven
+ Into Infinity, Dublab, Los Angeles USA
+ Morality and Gin, installation, Service Garage, Amsterdam
+ Out of the Box, Performance/video-installation, Oude Volkskrantgebouw, Amsterdam
+ Dialogues House, in collaboration with Tatiana Capozzoli, performance/video-installation, Dialogues House, Amsterdam
+ D2R & comme la pipe..., Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2007
+ My fuck me dress, Access Gallery, Oranjestad Aruba
+ meer..., Volkskrantgebouw, Amsterdam
+ Inside design, Lloyd Hotel, Amsterdam
+ Averechts, Gallery 37, Haarlem
+ Kleur van de Nacht in collaboration with Gamal Fouad (poet), Sonsbeekpark, Arnhem
+ D2R & Comme la pipe…, Gallery NieuweOntwerpers.nl, Rotterdam
+ Tentazioni di Natale, Gallery Metis, Amsterdam
2006
+ TF-1 Fringe Festival, Stadsschouwburg, Amsterdam
+ Fashion Film Night, Fashion week nr. 5 Kriterion, Amsterdam
+ Final Works, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
+ Buttonholeswap #4, for CAC TV (Vilnius) Workshow V, in collaboration with This is not Paris, Rotterdam
2005
+ Welkom to the dollhouse, OT 301, Amsterdam
2004
+ Circle Sundays, Sociëteit de Kring, Amsterdam
2003
+ Homo Sapiens, Museum Nemo, Amsterdam
LECTURES/TEACHING
2009
+ Teaching fine arts, Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad Aruba
+ Lecture, To avoid fixed patterns, Oranjestad Aruba
2008-2009
+ Teaching design and leading a production process for CASA 400 v/s Palwest
+ Teaching design to Moroccan Women, initiative of YD+I and Marokko media
+ Workshops for the company GITP
2007
+ Lecture, a different way of observing, Oranjestad Aruba
+ Teaching design, Ateliers ’89, Oranjestad Aruba
+ Teaching design and creating a new fashion label, Palwest Modeatelier
2006
+ Lecture for students fashion design, ROC Eindhoven
+ Lecture for couturiers (BVK), Ede
+ Several lectures for students fashion design, Fashion Academy Artemis, Rotterdam
SUBSIDIES/GRANTS
2009
+ Artist in residence programme, Ateliers ’89, granted by the Sandberg Institute
2008
+ Startstipendium/starter stipend, Fonds BKVB (foundation for visual arts design and architecture), Amsterdam
+ With the project FAUB: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, VSBfonds, AFK
2007
+ Artist in residence programme, Ateliers ’89, granted by the Sandberg Institute
2006
+ Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
+ Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst
+ Koninging Sophia Fonds
+ Stichting Niemeijerfonds
+ Hendrik Muller’s Vaderlandsch Fonds
+ Stichting Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude