The talent of Jan Hendrix encompasses a wide range of artistic media. Born in Maasbree, Holland in the year 1949, his formal education began at Ateliers 63 in Haarlem and was completed at Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht. As exploratory in his travels as in his creative expression, Hendrix spent the years between 1971 and 1976 in France, Portugal, Norway and Ireland. His first solo exhibition was held in 1975, and the group exhibitions in which he has participated literally span the globe. Since 1978, he has lived and worked in Mexico.
Hendrix’s talent has been recognized by numerous supporters in a variety of fields outside the visual arts, including architecture and literature. He has been the collaborator on architectural projects in which his modestly-scaled visions were made monumental, and has provided illustrations for books by such distinguished authors as Seamus Heaney, Gabriel García Marquez, Paolo Ruffilli and Bert Schierbeck. In 2005, he collaborated with W. G. Sebald on the first Spanish edition of After Nature.
| Selected Recent Exhibitions |
| 2007 |
Storyboard, Museo Amparo Puebla, Mexico
Jan Hendrix, Galería Ramis Barquet, Monterrey NL, Mexico |
| 2006 |
Storyboard, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey NL,
Mexico
Beneath the Surface, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketcham, Idaho
Signos de Origen, Centro de Diseño, Cine y Television, Mexico City |
| 2005 |
After Nature, Galería Rafael Ortiz, Seville, Spain
Advento, 100 objects of design, National Museum, University of Seoul, Korea
The London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens,
London
Expo AICHI 2005 Toyota, Japan
El Mito de dos Volcanes: Popocatépetl e Iztaccihuatl, Museo del Palacio de
Bellas Artes, Mexico City |
| 2004 |
Mexican Report: Contemporary Art from Mexico, Blue Star Contemporary Art
Center, San Antonio, Texas |
| Selected Collections |
| Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes |
| Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes |
| Secretaria de Hacienda |
| Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Mexico |
| Office of the Secretary of Foreign Affairs, The Hague, Holland |
| Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France |
| Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Holland |
| Fundacion Cultural Televisa, Instituto de Artes Graficas de Oaxaca |
| Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague, Holland |
| Fundacion Rodriguez Acosta, Granada, Spain |
| Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, Holland |
| Rijksmuseum Twente, Enschede, Holland |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland |
| Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland |
| Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, UNAM, Mexico City |
| Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| Coleccion Jaques y Natasha Gellman, Mexico City |
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