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Dienke Nauta
Visual artist
03-19-1971, Groningen, the Netherlands
Moved from Taos to Santa Fe in August 2013
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Special Recognition
2007 Grant Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Taos, USA
2005 Permanent installation ‘Fishes’, Water Company ‘Noorderzijlvest’, Groningen
2003 ‘Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen’ (Museum Wilhelmshafen), Germany
2000 ‘Cum Laude 2’, Artists who graduated Art Academy Cum Laude, graduation ’95-’99, The Hague
1997 ‘Hendrik de Vries-Stipendium’ (Grant Visual Artist), Groningen
1996 ‘Koninklijke Subsidie voor de Vrije Schilderkunst’ (Royal Grant for the Independent Art of
Painting), presented by the Queen of The Netherlands, Amsterdam
Exhibits
2025
- Active and Board Member with the Santa Fe Society of Artists, Shows from March through October.
Check www.santafesocietyofartists.com for more information.
We will have new locations this year, in the Santa Fe Railyard district as well as in town.
- Solo Show at the VIP lounge of the Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque, February/March 2025
2024
- Active member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists, weekend shows from April through October.
Check www.santafesocietyofartists.com for more information.
2023
- Active member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists, weekend shows from April through October.
2022
- Active member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists, weekend shows from April through October.
2021
- Art on the Rockies, 3 day show in July in Edwards Colorado.
- Pop Up Group Art Show in Albuquerque, November 13 and 14, a Dan Badgley Production
- Active member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists, weekend shows from April through October.
2020
- Part of Group exhibit with Stern Gallery on Canyon Road, Santa Fe, month of January
- Active Member of Santa Fe Society of Artists, no shows due to Covid 19.
2019
- Active member of the Santa Fe Society of Artists
15 weekend shows from April through October
2018
- Got juried in the Santa Fe Society of Artists Association; did 12 weekend shows this summer
In the fall; show at the Harwood Museum in Taos; Artists from the Wurlitzer Residency that stayed in New Mexico
2017
- Year of Children's book illustration; made book 'My dog and me', written and illustrated by me
2016
- Start daily drawing posted on dienkenauta.wordpress.com (no longer maintained)
2015
- Pop up exhibit with GR95, reunion show 20 years after graduating
2014
- Digital Latin America
Agnes Chavez who is a STEM Art director and artist, asked me to work together on a project called ‘Digital Latin America’ in Albuquerque, through 516 ART. Miss Chavez had me focus on the conceptual part of the workshop she was teaching to High School students.
2013
- Pecha Kucha Santa Fe, Volume 1, at the Travel Bug, August
2012
- ISEA
I worked with students from the Taos Academy, 21st Century Learning. The workshop was based on Machine Wilderness, the theme of ISEA that year. The students made Site Specific Installations as well as pieces that were more theatrical. I gave a lecture about the process and outcome of the students’ work in Albuquerque for ISEA.
- Pecha Kucha Night Taos, Volume 5, February 2012 at KTAOS.
I did a talk about my work in 20 x 20 seconds, with 20 slides, following the Pecha Kucha concept
2011
- New Mexorado
Participation with paintings in the exhibition at the Harwood Museum in Taos. ‘Artists living and working in the Albuquerque – Denver corridor’
2010
- Art Space LOKA, new paintings, Taos
2009
- Art Space LOKA, paintings, Taos
- Wilder Nightingale, new paintings, Taos
- NY 400; 'Double Dutch', group exhibition at GAGA Art Center in Garnerville, New York
- Art Space Café LOKA, paintings and two installations, Taos
- Millicent Rogers Museum, group exhibition, Taos
2008
- Wilder Nightingale Gallery, exhibition October 2008, installation and paintings, Taos
- Art Space Café LOKA, ‘Pillow’; paintings, photographs and installation, Taos
2007
- Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, Artist in Residence for 3 months, Taos, USA
2006
- Gerrit van Houten Prize 2006, painting, Fraeylemaborg Slochteren, Groningen
2005
- Water Company ‘Noorderzijlvest’, permanent wall installation, Groningen
2004
- ‘Een Mooie Zomer’ (A Beautiful Summer), exhibition Westerklavier, Den Horn
- ‘Kunstspoor Stedum’ (Art Tour Stedum), installation, Stedum
- ‘De Keuze van het Publiek’ (The Choice of the Audience), exhibition Centre of the Arts, Deventer
2003
- Exhibition Nord West Kunst 2003, paintings, ‘Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen’ (Museum Wilhelmshafen), Germany
- Frontaal, solo exhibition, installation and paintings, Appingedam
2002
- ‘Identities’; writers’, musicians’ and artists’ project; installation, ‘Kunstonderneming Oosterkade’, Groningen
- GR95 (group of 7 artists, founded in 1995 and dissolved in 2002), Groningen
- ‘OEMGEBOENG’, GR95, installation, ‘Villa de bank’, Enschede
- ‘KLICK!’ GR95, installation and paintings, Pictura Groningen
2001
- Halte 1811, paintings and photographs, Noordbroek
- ‘Noorderlicht’, Camera & Co, photographs, Groningen
- ‘Post Human’, exhibition Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
- ‘Knooppunt Deventer’, ‘The North’, photographs, Deventer
- ‘Kill your darlings’, installation, photographs and movie, Theatre ‘de Lawei’, Drachten
- ‘GR95 FRONTAAL’, installation, Appingedam
2000
- I.B.G., photographs, Groningen
- Photogallery Lichtzone, solo exhibition, photographs, Groningen
- USVA Noorderlicht Photogallery, photographs, Groningen
Artist in Residencies
2007
Helene Wurlitzer Foundation of New Mexico, April till July 2007, Taos, USA
2000
Studios Midwest, May till June 2000, Galesburg Illinois, USA
Commissions
2015
UMCG Groningen The Netherlands
Assignment for the center for rehabilitation, to make several drawings with scenes about a patient who is rehabilitating at the renewed building of the Beatrixoord.
2004
‘Goed Gestemd voor de Klas’ (Well Tuned in Class), 45 drawings published in 2004
2003
Commissioned for Consultant Firm ‘KLANT INZICHT’, photographs
Private Collections
A. Alferink, Groningen
A. Kampman, Groningen
R. Doff, Groningen
R. Reed, Schiermonnikoog
Castel Media, Groningen
Watercompany ‘Noorderzijlvest’, Groningen
Zocalo Holding, Groningen
‘Hanzehogeschool’, Groningen
C. Pelotte, Galesburg, USA
J. Rickard, Taos, USA
L. Vellenga-Gootjes, Zuidhorn
J. Nauta, Groningen
E. Michel, Haren
J. Gulka and D. Orellana, Colorado
J. Hamre, Colorado
J. Barnes, Oklahoma
C. Wall-Rand, Hawaii
D. Rand, New York
D. Rand, New Mexico
Public Collections
‘ARTeria’, Groningen
‘CBK Deventer’ (Centre for the Arts), Deventer
‘Kunsthal Rotterdam’ (Museum Rotterdam), Rotterdam
‘CBK Groningen’ (Centre for the Arts), Groningen
Schools of Study
Academy Minerva Groningen (Academy of Art) 1990-1995 (Cum Laude June 1995)
Oog TV Groningen (created animations for television), 1997-1998
Teaching experience
After school program Graphic Novel making at the Elementary School Wood Gormley in Santa Fe, K through 6th grade, 2016 until now
Taos Academy and Dixon Elementary 2010
I taught STEM Art workshops at the different schools in Taos and Dixon
The students were between the ages of 10 till 15. Students were making a model of their bedroom
They had to measure their room and convert it to model size and make a site specific installation within each room
Juvenile prison ‘Het Poortje’, Groningen, painting workshop in the summer, 2000-2006 |
