CHRONOLOGY
1959 Born in The Netherlands
1978-80 Studied Cultural Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1986-88 Studied Visual Anthropology and Mass Communication, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1988-90 Studied Audiovisual Design and Photography, Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht, Netherlands
2012 Selected for the Paris Photo-Aperture First Photo Book Award
2013 Gold Medal for Das schönste Buch aller Welt, Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
The Best Dutch Book Designs 2012, Stichting Het Best Verzorgde Boek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
SOLO or TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022 Around the Polar Circle: Jens Knigge and Witho Worms | Caroline O’Breen Gallery, Amsterdam, NL
2021 Polderland | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, NYC
2019-20 When You Look at a Landscape . . . . | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, NYC
2018 Cette montagne c’est moi & A Forest Reconstructed | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, NYC
2016 Cette montagne c’est moi | Arena Noorderlicht | Museum Belvedere, Heerenveen, Netherlands
Two: a forest on a drawing board | Art Rotterdam, Johan Deumens Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Tree: a collection in Time and in Space | Amsterdam Art Fair, Johan Deumens Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Cette montagne c’est moi | Johan Deumens Gallery, Leipzig, Germany
Cette montagne c’est moi | Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Cette montagne c’est moi | Johan Deumens Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2005 Polderland NL/FL | Richmond, VA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Coal + Ice: Inspiring Climate Action through Art and Ideas | Asia Society, New York, NY
2022 Paris Photo Fair | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs at the Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris, France
The Photography Show presented by AIPAD | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, New York, NY
Coal + Ice, | Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
2021-22 Tomorrow is a Different Day 1980 - Now | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2020 Art Rotterdam | Caroline O’Breen, NL
2019 The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain | Gallery Vriend van Bavink, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Back to the Future | C/O Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Coal + Ice | Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture, San Francisco, CA
Traces of Coal, The Photography Show, presented by AIPAD | L. Parker Stephenson Photographs, Pier 94, NYC
2017-18 What’s New? Recent Acquisitions | New York Public Library, NYC
2017 PAN Amsterdam | Galerie Caroline O’Breen’s booth, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Suspension of Disbelief | Galerie Caroline O’Breen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Aanwinsten: vergezichten | Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
2015 The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Uitgelezen: over boekdrukkunst | Museum Gouda, Gouda, The Netherlands
2014 On the Move | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oh No! They did not . . . | De Drie Heuvelen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2013 Best Verzorgde Boeken | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Coda Black | Coda, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Das Schönste Buch aller Welt | Buchmesse, Leipzig, Germany
2012 The Paris Photo-Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards | Paris Photo, France
Ruin in Photography | New York Public Library, NYC
2011 E/AB Fair | Johan Deumens Gallery, New York, NYC
De kracht van heden | Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
2008 PAN Amsterdam | Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2007 PAN Amsterdam | Witzenhausen Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2006 A Portrait and an Apartment | Dmitrovsky Kremlin, Dmitrov, Russia
2005 A Portrait and an Apartment | De Kubus, Lelystad, The Netherlands
Landscapes Flevoland | Dmitrovsky Kremlin, Dmitrov, Russia
In contact met Negele | Situaties/Laboratorium Flevoland, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
Verleidelijk Beleid | Belsting en Douane Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MONOGRAPHS
2021 Fantastik Fangst. Amsterdam: Bijzondere Boeken Brigade
2016 A forest on a drawing board. Amsterdam: Self-Published, Ed. of 10 + 2 A.P.
2012 Cette montagne c’est moi. Amsterdam: Fw: Books
2005 Polderland NL/FL. Flevoland: Cultuurnota
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
2021 Fantastik Fangst, Bijzondere Boeken Brigade, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018 Taco Hidde Bakker, The Photograph That Took the Place of a Mountain, Fw: Books, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Foam Magazine #49, “Back to the Future”
2017 Taco Hidde Bakker, Kent Sisyfus de berg? Op reis met Witho Worms
EXTRA 21 Fotografie in context, FoMu, Antwerp, Belgium
Elsje van Ree, Die berg ben ik, Pf Professionele fotografie, The Netherlands
2015 Sarah Greenough and Andrea Nelson, The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
2012 Susan Tallam. This Mountain That’s Me (2006-2011), Art in Print, Vol 1, Number 5
2005 Verleidelijk Beleid. Belasting en Douane Museum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2004 The wild and wonderful colors of Zia. The World Journal of Post-factory Photography. 2/2003, New York
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2021 Artist Grant (4 years), Mondriaan Fund, the Netherlands
2013 Gold medal for Das schönste Buch aller Welt [The Most Beautiful Book in the World]. Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2012 The Best Dutch Book Designs. Stichting Het Best Verzorgde Boek, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Short-listed for First Book Award, Paris Photo-Aperture
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Bayerische Staatliche Sammlung, Munich, Germany
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
Gemeente Almere, Almere, The Netherlands
Leiden University, Special Collections, Leiden, The Netherlands
Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, Belgium
Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library, NY
Province of Flevoland, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT