Willem de Rooij

Willem de Rooij (b. 1969, Beverwijk, NL) is an artist and educator in Berlin. He studied art history at the University of Amsterdam and art at the Rietveld Academie and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 1989 to 1998.

De Rooij was a recipient of the Bâloise Art Prize In 2000 and was nominated for the Hugo Boss Award in 2004 and the Vincent Award in 2014. He was a Robert Fulton Fellow at Harvard University in 2004 and a DAAD fellow in Berlin in 2006. He represented the Netherlands at the 2005 Venice Biennale with Jeroen de Rijke, his collaborative partner from 1994 to 2006.

Recent solo exhibitions were staged at the Gemäldegalerie at the Akademie der Bildende Künste, Vienna; Delgosha Gallery, Tehran; Portikus Frankfurt; IMA Brisbane; Le Consortium, Dijon; and the Jewish Museum, New York. Recent group exhibitions include MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai; Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum, Mumbai; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Jakarta Biennale; Aishti Foundation, Beirut; and the 10th Shanghai Biennale.

De Rooij’s works can be found in the collections of Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; MUMOK, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; MOCA, Los Angeles; and MoMA, New York.