JAN VAN LEEUWEN

b. 1932, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Jan Van Leeuwen, Barbed Wire No. 5, Cyanotype, 1993

Jan Van Leeuwen, Barbed Wire No. 5, Cyanotype, 1993


Solo Exhibitions:

Museo de Arte Moderno La Tertulia, Cali, Colombia, December 2005

Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes, Salta, Argentina, August 2005

Museo Pasquuini Loopez, Jujuy, Argentina, July 2005

Encuentros Abiertos de la Fotografia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2004

The Jewish Holocaust Museum and Research Center, Melbourne, Australia, August - December, 2001

Galerie Lichtzone, Groningen, The Netherlands, August - September 2001

Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Medellin, Columbia, August - September 2000

The Holocaust Museum, “Confrontations with Memory”  Houston, March 9 - April 23, 2000

Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, Texas, September - October, 1998

Kreatief Centrum “Krek”, November ‘96, Ede, The Netherlands

Artgalerie Artifex, July ‘96, Cuijck, The Netherlands

Galerie Area/Ecole National de la Photographie, Oct. ‘95, Arles, France

Kulturgeschichtliches Museum, Jan.-Feb. ‘94, Osnabrück, Germany

Centro Colombo Americano,  June-July ‘93, Medellin, Colombia

Agricultural University, April-May ‘93, Arnhem, The Netherlands

“De Gelderlander” Newspaper, Dec. ‘93, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Artgallery  “51” Aug. ‘92, Ede, The Netherlands

“De Gelderlander” Newspaper, May ‘90, Arnhem, The Netherlands


Group Exhibitions:

Corpus Christi, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, October 2006 - January 2007

Corpus Christi, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria, June - September 2006

Jesus Christ Superstar, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY, June - July 2005

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, May - June 2003

Photography Past/Forward, Aperture at 50, traveling international exhibition 2003-2007

Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY, December 2002 - January 2003

Burden Gallery, Aperture, New York, NY, December 2002

Discoveries, Houston FotoFest, Houston, TX, March - April 2000

Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands: Two-person exhibit with Janna Dekkers that will coincide with the exhibition, “Still-Life Paintings from the Netherlands, 1550-1720”, June 19 - Sept. 19,1999 and the Cleveland Museum of Art, October 12, 1999-January 5, 2000.

Fotofestival Naarden, May ‘97, Naarden, The Netherlands

Fifth Bienal de Arte de Bogota, Oct. - Dec. ‘96 , Bogota, Columbia

Fotoforum, October ‘96, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

Künstlerhaus Dortmund, August ‘96, Dortmund, Germany

Musée de la Photographie, Oct. ‘95 - Feb. ‘96, Charleroi, Belgium

Cultureel Centrum “De Werft” May ‘95, Geel, Belgium

Melkweg Galerie, Oct. ‘94, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Salon  Int.. de la Recherche Photographique, Aug. ‘93, Royan, France





Museum of Photographic Arts, 1993-94, San Diego, California

Hadassa-Wizo Neri Bloomfield Colloge of Design, April ‘93, Haifa, Israël

Artgallery “Im Kabinett” April-June ‘93, Berlin, Germany

Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Jan-March ’93, Paramus, NJ

Salon International de la Recherche Photographique, Aug. ‘91, Royan, France

“Photo-National” by B.N.A.F.V., Dec. ‘90, 5 city traveling exhibition in Netherlands

Museum Commanderie van St. Jan, Nov.-Dec. ‘87, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

National Exhibiton “De liemers” may-June ‘87, Zevenaar, The Netherlands


Selected Collections:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

Museum of Dutch Photography, Sitard, The Netherlands

Museum of the Dutch Resistance against Nazi-Occupation 1940-1945, Amsterdam

Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium

Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

Kulturgeschichtliches Museum,  Osnabrück, Germany

Gernsheim Collection, Switzerland/University of Texas, Austin, TX

The Hamidrasha Art Institiute, Jaffa, Israël

The Israël Museum, Jerusalem, Israël

Musée National d’ Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France

Ecole Nationale de la Photographie, Arles, France

Bergen Museum of Art & Science, Paramus, NJ

Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia


Selected Publications:

Arts and Artists, Edition 1, Editor Malin Fabbri, Stockholm 2006

Artists playing with fire, exhibition catalogue, Ede, The Netherlands, May 2005

Foto Mundo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2005

Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, festival catalogue, 2004

Photography Past/Forward, Aperture at 50, Aperture publication, 2002

Nissan Perez. "Corpus Christi" Christusdarstellungen in der Fotografie 1852-2002. Edition Braus im Wachter Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany December 2003.

Nissan N. Perez: "Revelation" Representations of Christ in Photography 1885-2002. Merrell Publ.Ltd. London, UK. May 2003

Nissan N. Perez: "Corpus Christi" les representations du Christ en photographie 1885-2002. Ed."Marval" Paris, France. Oct. 2002

Lyle Rexer "Photography's Antiquarian Avant-Garde" The New Wave in Old Processes. Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, New York, Spring 2002.

The New York Times", Sunday Febr. 25, 2001, New York, USA

Catalogue Houston FotoFest 2000, Houston, Texas, USA

"Jewish Herald Voice", weekly newspaper, March 1, 2000, Houston, Texas, USA

"Art in America", monthly art-magazine, April 2000, New York, USA

"The New York Times", Nov. 10, 2000, New York, U.S.A.

"Photo Metro" vol. 18, issue 161, Dec. 2000, San Francisco, U.S.A.

"Apperture", quarterly photomagazine, February 1999, New York, USA.

"Times-Bulletin", 8-9-1999, Van Wert, Ohio, USA

"P/F" (Professional Photography) 9x per year. Official Magazine of the Association of Dutch Professional Photographers & Photojournalists, no. 7/99 Oct. 1999, Rijswijk, The Netherlands.

"The Cleveland Museum of Art, Members Magazine", Nov. 1999, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

"Akron Beacon Journal", 17-11-1999, Akron, Ohio, USA

"Cleveland Free Times", 8-14 Dec. 1999, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

"The Photograph Collector", newsletter for curators, 15-5-1998, Langhorne, Penn. USA.

Rencontres Photographiques, Cat.+Slides Show "Voies Off", July 1998, Arles, France.

"Dallas Observer" special issue "Best of Dallas 1998", 24-30 Sept. 1998, Dallas, Texas, USA.

"The Dallas Morning News", 5-10-1998, daily newspaper, Dallas, Texas, USA.

"The Photo Review", quarterly photomagazine, fall 1998, Langhorne, Penn. USA.

“Nouvelles de la Photographie” Nov. ‘96, Publié par le Comité National de la Gravure Française avec le soutien de la Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Paris, France

“Gelders Dagblad” 4/11/96, Arnhem, The Netherlands

“Ede Stad” 4/01/96, Ede, The Netherlands

“Foto” Jan/Feb. ‘96 The Netherlands

“Le Provencal”  2/01/96, Arles, france

Périodique no. 97, Musée de la Photographie, Nov. ‘95, Charleroi, Belgium

Photographic Yearbook ‘94, B.N.A.F.V., The Netherlands

Catalog, Salon Int.. de la Recherch Photographique, ‘93, Paris, France

“La Recherche Photographique” issue no. 14, ‘93, Paris, france

“El Colombian” 10/07/93, Medellin, Columbia

“El Mondo” 7/07/93, Medellin, Columbia

“Photo-Metro” March ‘93, San Francisco, CA

“Foto” July/Aug. ‘92, The Netherlands

“Focus” Oct. ‘91, The Netherlands

“De Gelderlander” 4/26/90 Arnhem, The Netherlands

Catalog, Museum Commanderie van St. Jan, Dec. ‘87, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

“Foto & Doka” Sept. ‘87, The Netherlands