Biography
Remy Jungerman (1959) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies in Paramaribo, Suriname, before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.
In his work Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African diaspora, and 20th century Modernism. Placing fragments of Maroon textiles and other materials found in the African diaspora—the kaolin clay used in several religious traditions or the nails featured in Nkisi Nkondi power sculpture—in direct contact with materials and imagery drawn from more ‘established’ art traditions, Jungerman presents a peripheral vision that enriches our perspective on art history.
In 2022 Jungerman received the A.H. Heineken Prize for Art.
From November 20, 2021 – April 10, 2022 he was the subject of a career survey show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam titled Remy Jungerman: Behind the Forest.
In 2019 he represented the Netherlands at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.
In 2008 he received the Fritschy Culture Award from the Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands.
His international residencies include Art Omi, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and Tembe Art Centre, Moengo, SR.
His work has been featured in numerous publications and acquired by various institutions and private collectors worldwide including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Kunstmuseum The Hague, and International African American Museum (IAAM), Charleston, US. His first book, Where the River Runs, published by Jap Sam Books in 2019, won the 2019 50books | 50covers design award from the AIGA in the US and has received two 2019 30 Best Dutch Book Designs awards. His second book, Behind the Forest, was published by Jap Sam Books in 2021 in connection with his solo exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. His third book, Tracing the Lines: Patterns of the African Diaspora was published by Jap Sam Books in 2024.
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Education
- 1989-1993 Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
- 1985-1988 Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo, Suriname
Solo exhibitions
- 2025 Blue Obia, Fridman Gallery, NY
Off the Grid, Mondriaanhuis, Amersfoort, The Netherland
Still Waters, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, SA - 2024 What the River Says, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Still Waters, Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa - 2023 Tracing the Lines, DOTS Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2022 FNB Art Joburg, Goodman Gallery, South-Africa
Higher Ground, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
Fault Lines, Goodman Gallery, London
- 2021 Behind the Forest, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- 2020 Remy Jungerman, Fridman Gallery, New York, USA
- 2019 The Measurement of Presence (with Iris Kensmil), Dutch Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennial, IT
Neap Tide, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam, NL
Art Chicago, Fridman Gallery, Chicago, USA
Untitled, Fridman Gallery, Miami, USA
- 2018
Based In, Robert Henry Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY, US - 2017
In Transit, Expositieruimte 38 CC, Delft, NL
Winter Artist Residency, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY, US - 2016
The Fall Exhibition, Charles B. Benenson Visitors Center and Gallery, Ghent, NY 3rd Atlantic Obeah, Presidents Gallery, NY
FESITEN – first time, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam, NL - 2015
CROSSING THE WATER, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, NL Open Studio NY Residency, Marc Straus Gallery, NY - 2013
KABRA. Descendants Exchange, Kunstverenging Diepenheim, NL Adding Up to the West, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam (cat) - 2012
Limited Edition, Galerie 23, Amsterdam - 2011
Positions, de HAL (Readytex Art Gallery), Paramaribo, SR - 2010
Remy Jungerman & Folkert de Jong Metis-NL Gallery, Amsterdam - 2008
Desire, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, NL
Fritschy Culture Award, Museum Het Domein, Sittart, NL (cat) - 2006
Afro-Intensity, Kunst Vlaai, Amsterdam - 2005
Afro-Blue, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam - 2004
Absolute Truth, Gemak, Den Haag, NL - 2003
Absolute Truth, Buro Leeuwarden, NL - 2002
Territory, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam, NL - 2000
Flattened Toad Force, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL - 1999
Waardige Zaken, Het Oude Slot, Heemstede, NL
Sometimes Travelers don’t come back, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam - 1998
Made in India, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam - 1997
Remy Jungerman, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Selected group exhibitions
- 2026 Wi Sranan. Surinamese Art in Transition, Museum Cobra, NL
Collection, more than 500 works from 1870 until now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam - 2025 Seasonal Gallery in Plettenberg Bay, Goodman Gallery
Carried Over, International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY
Threading Truths: Memory, Power, and the Fabric of Resistance, Goodman Gallery, NY
II Biennial of the Amazons (II BDAS), Verde-Distancia, Belem, Brazil - 2024 Gathering Fragments, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, SA
Christendom en Slavernij, Museum Catharijne Convent, Utrecht, NL
Collection Centraal, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Tomorrow is a Different day, Collection 1980-Now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
A Delicious Dead, Museum tot Zover, Amsterdam - 2023 Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
Maps Unfolded – From Atlas to Street Map, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
Miami Seasonal Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Miami - 2022 Mondrian Moves, Kunstmuseum, The Hague, NL
We is an other; for a poetics of Relation, Video festival Fuso Insular, MNAC/Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, PT
The Breath of the Ancestors, Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, CD
The Agreement: Chromatic Presences. Curated by William Corwin, ZÜRCHER Gallery, New York
The same space in tree times, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, ZA
Udubaki part 2, Ready Tex Gallery, Paramaribo, SR - 2021 Freethinkers: from Spinoza to Now, Amsterdam Museum
Reflections beyond the Surface, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Collection 1980-Now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Healing Power, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
Hot/Cold – Dry/Wet: On Art and Latitude, Schloss Oberdiessbach, Switzerland - 2020 Young Artists: One, Fridman Gallery, New York, USA
In the Presence of Absence, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 2019 Healing Power, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden, NL
dis/location: mapping Black Europa, New Jersey City University, New Jersey, USA - 2018 Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration, El Museo del Barrio, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, the Bronx, New York, USA
Spring Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Fall Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York, USA - 2017 ‘I AM A NATIVE FOREIGNER’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Bye Bye de Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Private room: Artists from the Gallery, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam
Nadia Naveau & Remy Jungerman, I Presume, DAK@ galerie Sanaa, Utrecht, NL - 2016 Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada
Arrows Shot From the Bow, Rietveld Cordemeyer Huis, Apeldoorn, NL This is not a show, Marc Straus Gallery, NY - 2015 Expo Chicago, Marc Straus Gallery, Chicago, USA Global Inspirations, LUMC, Leiden, NL
Tembe fu Libi, Moengo Festival of Visual Arts, Moengo, Suriname (cat) Exclude/include. Alternate Histories Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam Zomertentoonstelling Kunstverenging Diepenheim, NL - 2014 Prospect.3 Notes for Now, New Orleans Contemporary Art Biennial (cat)
I am not doing anything until I feel the need, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (cat) Art Fair, Amsterdam Drawing, C&H Art Space Gallery, NL
The Daylight Show, Galerie Ton de Boer @ Dresselhuyspaviljoen, NL
Spirit Levels, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
Flow, IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery Washington, DC
Art Rotterdam with C&H Art Space, NL - 2013 BIAC, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Martinique
Van God Los? Je geest in balans, Museum het Dolhuys, Haarlem, NL First Biënnale Of The South in Panama, Panama City
The World of Extraordinary Objects, October Gallery, London - 2012 Gallery Artists + Guest, C&H Art Space, Amsterdam
‘Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?’ Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL (cat) More to Tell, Recent Acquisitions, Museum het Domein, Sittard, NL - 2011 Running Tread (Wakaman), C&H Art Space, Amsterdam
- 2010 Gallery Artists Show André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium Art Brussels and Art Paris with Gallery Andre Simoens
Mi Art Milano, Metis-NL Gallery - 2009 10th edition of the Havana Biennial, Cuba (cat)
Droog Shop NYC, New York
Higher Ground, curated by Astrid Honold, Metis-NL Gallery, Amsterdam Licht aan Zee, Born on Wednesday, Kunsthal 52, den Helder, NL
The Rhetoric of Doubt, Galerie André Simoens, Knokke, Belgium - 2008 Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (cat) Exoten, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, NL (cat)
Arco 08, 27th International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain - 2007 Infinite Island, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York City (cat) The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
By The Way, Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal, NL (cat) - 2006 Nederland 1, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, NL
Papier. Beeld & Basis: Cartografie, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium Bison Caravan, Museum Bamako, Mali, Africa
Four by Four, Kashi Art Gallery, Fort Cochin, India (cat)
Flatscreen project, Polvo, Chicago, USA - 2005 Rendez-vous 2005, Musée Art contemporain, Lyon, France
Wakaman, TENT. Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, NL
la Planck, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
Gekleurde Vormgeving, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
Black & White and a little bit of color, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL (cat) Utopia, Gorcums Museum, NL (cat)
Grid 2, Gallery éof, Paris, FR (cat) - 2004 Secrets of the 90’s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL Wish You Were (T)here, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
Art Fair, 31st Fiac, Paris Expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris - 2003 Objects in Mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat) Armour / Asperen, Ford Asperen, Acquoy, NL (cat)
Black My Story, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL (cat) - 2002 Political Correct, Dutch?, Gallery Krinzinger, Salzburg / Vienna, Austria (cat) Grid, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (cat)
No ID, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India
European Living, The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, NL (cat)
Politics of Difference, Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat)
Politics of Difference, Palacio de Congresos, Recife, Brazil (cat) - 2001 Bank Secrets in the Attic, Museum Amstelkring, Amsterdam
We are always on the edge of the wilderness, W139, Amsterdam - 2000 Closer to One Another, Biennial of Havana, Cuba (cat) The Container, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany
- 1999 Glad ijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat)
Big River, National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (cat) - 1998 Power Up, Museum Arnhem, NL (cat)
Gate way to the Arctic, Museum Tromso, Norway - 1997 In the Ditch, Out of the Ditch, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat) Around Europa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
- 1996 20 years of fine Arts In Suriname, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat) New Light, Peninsula, Eindhoven, NL (cat)
- 1995 20 years of fine Arts In Suriname, Ford Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname (cat)
Residencies & awards
- 2026 The Hermitage Artist Retreat, Englewood, Florida, USA
- 2025 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) Honoree 30th Anniversary
- 2022 A.H. Heineken Prize for Art 2022
- 2019 Nomination Black Achievement Award, Amsterdam
- 2018 One year Residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program NY, Mondriaan Fund, NL 2017 Orientation travel to CUBA & USA, Mondriaan Fund, NL
- 2017 Nomination Black Achievement Award, NL
- 2016 Winter Residency Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, NY
- 2016 Mondriaan Fund, Project investering bemiddelaar en kunstenaar 2015 NY Residency, Marc Straus Gallery, NYC
- 2014 Mondriaan Fund, Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent
- 2013 Art Omi Residency, Ghent, NY
- 2012 Residency Tembe Art Studio, Moengo, Suriname
- 2010RAVY, Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaound , Mus e National Cameroun 2009 Fonds BKVB, Intendant Cultural Diversity
- 2008 Fritschy Culture Award, The Netherlands
- 2007 CCA7 residency, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
- 2004 TGD4, International Artist Workshop, Tambacounda, Senegal
Collections
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Kunstmuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands
Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, The Netherlands
Museum De Domijnen, Sittard, The Netherlands
Africa Museum, Berg en Dal, The Netherlands
Miniatuur Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ABN AMRO Collection, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AEGON Art Collection, The Hague, The Netherlands
Mondrian House, Amsersfoort, The Netherlands
LUMC (Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum), Leiden, The Netherlands
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Rennie Museum, Vancouver, Canada
Art Omi, Ghent, New York, USA
US Embassy, Paramaribo, Suriname
Hudson Vally MOCA, Peekskill, New York, USA
Francis Greenburger Collection, New York, USA
JP Morgan Chase, JFK, NY
International African-American Museum, Charleston, South Carolina
Saamaka Marron Museum, Pikin Slee, Suriname
Contemporary Art Museum Moengo (CAMM I), Suriname
Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural studies, Paramaribo, Suriname
Energie Bederijven Suriname (EBS), Suriname
And various private collections
