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Katrijn Verstegen (Nijmegen, 1977) lives and works in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
She finished her study in Fine Art/Painting at St. Joost, the academy of arts in Breda, (NL) in 1999 and graduated with her Masters Degree in Fine Art from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (NL) in 2004.

After experimenting within several disciplines she has focused on painting since 2005. With different paints, as well as her own egg-tempera, she creates paintings on walls, canvas and paper.

    
   
   
Exhibitions & projects

2011 The Fireplace Gallery-Shop (g), Plymouth (UK). The gallery is being run as part of Come to Ours (CtO).
2011 Every Picture Tells A Story (g), TENT, Rotterdam
2010 100 x 100 (g), zwervende tentoonstelling #15, Rotterdam
2009 (s) Rechtsachter, CBK Rotterdam
2008 Preludium, (g) Kunstvereniging Diepenheim.
 

Salon@M2R (g), zwervende tentoonstelling #11, Rotterdam
  'De Schepping in 6+1 weken' (g), CBK Zeeland , Middelburg.
  Laatste kans deel 2 (g), Berendsen Gallery, Rotterdam.
2007 Mirjam Somers & Katrijn Verstegen, Gb5, Rhoon.
  Floral Expansions II (s), Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth (UK).
  Summer exhibition (g), Berendsen Gallery, Rotterdam.
  Floral Expansions (s), De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Helmond.
  Schilderijen en tekeningen (s), Berendsen Gallery, Rotterdam.
2006 SÍM resident artists show (g) SÍMRES Seljavegur, Reykjavík (IS).
  Invited stranger and the uninvited guest (g,) interventie, s’ Gravendijksewal, Rotterdam.                                        
2005 Kleur bekennen, intervention in collaboration with Mirjam van Tilburg, Rotterdam.
2004 Graduation Show Piet Zwart Institute (g), TENT., Rotterdam.
2003 Nachtwacht , (g), Locus 010, Rotterdam.
  Legal Space Public Space, intervention, Piet Zwart Institute/ Establissement d' en Face in Brussels (BE).
  Tour de promenade (d), Projectspace de 5-er, Rotterdam.
2002 Individual Speed in the Information Society, a seminar project, Piet Zwart Institute, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam.
  Etalage nr.50 (g), Begijnenstraat 50, Antwerp (BE).
2001 89-’01' (g), cultural center De Lindenberg, Nijmegen.
  Of All Places (g), Kunsthuis Syb (before gallery Hellinga), Beetsterzwaag.
2000 Karnemelk (g), N.B.K.S., Breda.
  Laatste kunstwerk van de eeuw (g), Hellinga Gallery, Beetsterzwaag.
1999 Park of the future (g), Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam.
  Kan ik u doorverbinden (g), event, gallery De Fabriek, Eindhoven.
  Graduation Show (g), Art Academy St. Joost, Breda
  LOOS (g), Chassé kazerne, Breda.
  Sl!ck (g), Haagweg, Breda.
   
   
Residencies
2007 residency at Plymouth College of Art and Design, (UK).
2007 residency at De Nederlandsche Cacaofabriek, Helmond.
2006 residency at SÍMRES - Association of Icelandic Visual Artists - in Reykjavík (IS).
2001 residency at Kunsthuis Syb, Beetsterzwaag.
   
   
Publications
   
2011 De Grote Rotterdamse Kunstkalender 2012, Kantoor Kraaij, Trichis Publishing
2010 Eigenhuis & Interieur, Nr. 5 mei 2010, Kunst voor iedereen, CBK Rotterdam doet het anders, text Jack Meijers, p. 95
2009 Eerste Tekencahier, Drawing Center Diepenheim, Kunstvereniging Diepenheim
2007 article on my residency at Viewpoint Gallery, Devon Today, September, 2007
2007 Art is rarely on the wall' article in the Herald, September 11, 2007
2007 Harris, Chrissy. 'College wall is a blank canvas' article in the Evening Herald, August 21, 2007.
2005 Aftérouge, a bookwork by Navid Nuur and Lisa Alena Vieten, published by Piet Zwart Institute in collaboration with Revolver Archiv für Aktuelle Kunst. ISBN 3-86588-014-2
2001 Wester, F. ‘'Vijf weken lang werken aan presentatie in Galerie - Vier kunstenaressen sluiten verblijf Syb af' article in newspaper Drachter Courant.
2000 SYB DNA, Stichting Syb, ISBN 90-72321-03-0. A little bookwork containing 60 artists who exhibited at Galery Hellinga in Beetsterzwaag.
1999

Grootjans, L. ‘'A Lot' Eindhoven, Lecturis. A bookwork with contributions of St. Joost students
ISBN 90-804908-1-4
1999 Art Academy St. Joost Breda Eindexamencatalogus 1999, p.149. Ede, Veenman drukkers.
(Graduation bookwork). ISBN 90-73060-09-5