ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Studio Job
Dutch artist collective, established 2000
Based in Antwerp

 

 

EXHIBITIONS (selection)
2011
/ Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
/ Pavillion des Arts et du Design, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris.

2010
/ Design Miami/Miami, United States.
/ Design Miami/Basel, Switzerland.
/ 'Industry', Carpenters Workshop Gallery, London.
/ 'Sotheby's at Sudeley Castle' in collaboration with Carpenters Workshop Gallery.
/ Moss Gallery of Art and Design, New York: Studio Job 2006-2008: Works in paper/bronze/wood/clay.
/ Moss Gallery, Spring Exhibition, May Design Week.

2009
/ Pavilion of Art & Design, London.
/ Mitterand Cramer, Geneva, Studio Job: Industry.
/ V&A Museum, London, Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, MoMA, New York.

2008
/ Moss, Pyramids of Makkum.
/ Moss presented Studio Job in Milan during the Salone del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair (decorative arts).
/ Moss presented Studio Job at Design Miami/Basel and Design Miami/Miami, Vessel Gallery, Notting Hill.

2007
/ Moss, Graphic Paper.
/ Moss, Golden Still Life.
/ Moss, Golden Biscuit.

2006
/ Moss, Perished.
/ Moss, Homework.
/ Moss, Robber Baron.

2005
/ Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Vikings!.
/ The Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg.
/ The Groninger Museum, Groningen.

 


AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS (selection)
2012
/ Job Cabinet, 'Wallpaper Design Awards, London.
/ Furniture of the year, Raum und Wohnen, Cham.

2011
/ Perished Persian, Elle Decor Intl Design Award, Milan.
/ Dutch Design Awards, Eindhoven.

2010
/ Top 10 most influential design, Financial Times, London.
/ Design of the Decade, Boco, Taiwan.
/ Design Flanders, Brussels.

2009
/ The 100 Hot List, Queensland Homes, Australia.
/ Le meilleur du Design 2009, AD Collector, Paris.
/ Pyramid, Rotterdam Design Prize, Rotterdam.

2008
/ Architectural prize Gevel Totaal 2008, Rotterdam, NL.
/ Archistar, L’Uomo Vogue, Milan
/ Best of The Brands, Elle Decor, London
/ 2008: Gevel Totaal 2008, Rotterdam
/ 2008: Nationale Staalprijs, Rotterdam

 

2007
/ Winner Woonbeurs Pin, Amsterdam, NL.
/ Winner International Elle Deco Design Award, tableware 2006.
/ Winner International Elle Deco Design Award, lighting 2006.
/ Paper Chandelier Elle Decor Intl Design Award, Milan
/ The Style & Design 100, Time (Magazine)

 

2006 

/ Perished selected for International Design Yearbook 2006.
/ Elle Decor Intl Design Award, Milan

 

2005
/ Winner International Elle Deco Design Award, Milan, IT.
/ Elle Decoration Intl Design Award Elle Decor, Milan
/ Best breakthrough designers, Wallpaper Design Awards, London

 

2004
/ Nomination, Bombay Sapphire prize, London, UK.

2003
/ Nomination, Harrie Tillie Prize, Stedelijk Museum, Roermond, NL.
/ Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam
/ Inside Design, Elle Wonen, Amsterdam

2002
/ Nomination, Woonbeurs Pin 2002, Amsterdam, NL.

2001
/ Nomination, Rotterdam Design Prize 2001, Rotterdam, NL.

2000
/ Nomination, Dutch Culture Prize 2000, NL.

1998
/ Startstipendium, Fonds BKVB, Amsterdam.
/ Foundation Sofa, The Hague.

1996
/ René Smeets Prize, Design Academy Eindhoven, Eindhoven.

 


LITERATURE (selection)
2010
/ Job Smeets, Nynke Tynagel, ‘The Book of Job’, Rizzoli, New York.

2009
/ David Linley and C.Cator, H.Chislett, “Star Pieces – The Enduring beauty of Spectacular Furniture”. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009.
/ Sophie Lovell, ‘Limited Edition’, Basel: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2009.
/ Gareth Williams, “Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in contemporary Design”,
London: V&A Publishing, 2009.

 

 

MUSEUMS REFERENCES
Museum of Glass, Shanghai. State Museum of Architecture, Moscow. Audax Textile Museum, Tilburg. Ara Pacis Museum, Rome. Bruggemuseum, Utrecht. CODA Museum, Apeldoorn. Design Museum, London. Design Museum, Holon. GEM Museum, The Hague. Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. Groninger Museum, Groninge. Guggenheim, New York. High Museum, Atlanta. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis. Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. MUDAC, Lausanne. Musee de la mode et du textile, Paris. Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan. Museum at FIT, New York. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Meseum Contemporary Art, Den Bosch. Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Museum Sheffield, Sheffield. Museum Voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem. NRW Forum, Dusseldorf. Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Teylers Museum, Haarlem. Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Wallraf Richartz Museum & Fondation Corboud, Koln. Z33, House for Art, Hasselt. Zuiderzee Museum, Enkhuizen.



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Established in 2005 by Parisian entrepreneurs and art devotees Loic Le Gaillard and Julien Lombrail, Carpenters Workshop Gallery is known for its discovery of bold and iconic design-art. Like many of the artists it fosters, the gallery takes a young, fresh and dynamic approach, primarily following its own aesthetic. They exhibit unique and limited edition works both by emerging and established artists, and designers.

Carpenters Workshop GaIlery is committed to making ambitious ideas work, through its daring and integrity it has cultivated strong relationships with the artists it works with. Carpenters Workshop Gallery presents the work of established artists including: Atelier Van Lieshout, Maarten Baas, Sebastian Brajkovic, Andrea Branzi, Wendell Castle, Demakersvan, Ingrid Donat, Vincent Dubourg, Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, Johanna Grawunder, Mathieu Lehanneur, Frederik Molenschot, Nendo, Marc Quinn, Random International, Pablo Reinoso, Robert Stadler, Studio Job & Charles Trevelyan.

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