Biography
Since 1978, Ansuya Blom (Groningen, 1956) has built up an oeuvre that explores the boundaries of the world of our inner experiences. In drawings, collages, films and installations, she unravels the complex relationships humans maintain with themselves and the external world. These relationships often involve misconceptions and confusion.
Biographies of various people in the margins inform her works, in which the world is seen through the protagonist’s eyes and heard through their inner voice. Her works are based on texts such as the letters of Ellen West, Native American poems and songs, texts by Sarah Kane and the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Flannery O’Connor and others.
Solo exhibitions of Ansuya Blom’s work have been held at Camden Arts Centre in London; The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and Huis Amelisweerd in collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht. Her work was part of the Aperto 90 at the Venice Biennal. Her films have been screened at The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, IDFA and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work is part of various private and public collections such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Tate Modern London and Centraal Museum Utrecht. In recent years, Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has been working with the artist to conserve and restore her films.
Ansuya Blom is a regular advisor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and has been a guest advisor at various art institutions, amongst others the Slade School of Fine Art in London; ACC in South Korea; the Nola Hatterman Institute Surinam and Gudskul, Indonesia. In 2020 she was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Price for Art for her oeuvre.
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Biographies of various people in the margins inform her works, in which the world is seen through the protagonist’s eyes and heard through their inner voice. Her works are based on texts such as the letters of Ellen West, Native American poems and songs, texts by Sarah Kane and the writings of Søren Kierkegaard, Flannery O’Connor and others.
Solo exhibitions of Ansuya Blom’s work have been held at Camden Arts Centre in London; The Douglas Hyde Gallery in Dublin; the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; and Huis Amelisweerd in collaboration with Centraal Museum Utrecht. Her work was part of the Aperto 90 at the Venice Biennal. Her films have been screened at The International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin, IDFA and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Her work is part of various private and public collections such as Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam, Tate Modern London and Centraal Museum Utrecht. In recent years, Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam has been working with the artist to conserve and restore her films.
Ansuya Blom is a regular advisor at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and has been a guest advisor at various art institutions, amongst others the Slade School of Fine Art in London; ACC in South Korea; the Nola Hatterman Institute Surinam and Gudskul, Indonesia. In 2020 she was awarded the Dr. A.H. Heineken Price for Art for her oeuvre.
Go to press release Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Art ︎︎︎