Education

2009 - 2014

Royal Academy of the Arts – Den Haag, Netherlands

Bio

Built on a foundation of reoccurring and often archetypal imagery, Jordan Herregraven’s practice reflects the natural world through an uncanny lens. Through various mediums and crafts such as woodcarving and etching he reveals a mythology filled with fragments and evolutions, memories and possible futures. Layers of fabric skins and wooden bodies contort and meld, colours and patterns reach for order and reason while lengths of thread seek to connect ideas or hold tension like nerves and muscles. The personal body extends outward into an imagined one as felt through the senses; a mortal form holding collective histories, traumas and revelations of the unconscious mind.

Remaining enigmatic, Herregraven’s work reveals itself through layers, often mirroring the ceaseless fecundity that lies at the centre of nature and the focus of much of his practice. This connection to nature is examined through forms and material use by retracing humanity's molding of the environment into aesthetic crafts and symbols, eventually drawing into question what we value, as a society and as a complex individual full of dreams, thoughts and ceremony.

In recent series, Herregraven has focused on the effects of climate change and extreme capitalism, framing cycles of life and death in further abstracted forms and situations. The weirdness of the natural world and human imagination blend to reflect the transformations of our contemporary world where our ecosystems, and the bodies that constitute their functioning, are at stake.

Solo Exhibitions

2024	Vanishing Loops, Kunstenlab, Deventer
2022	The Untold Histories as Perceived Through the Horses Tear, HOK, Den Haag
2020	The Unveiling of a Sacred Body, Trixie, Den Haag
2018	Angel Bait, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen
2009	Concrete vs. Organic: Jordan Herregraven, Gallery 13, Minneapolis

Group Exhibitions

2024 - 2025	The New Mother Sculptures, Museum Cobra, Amstelveen
2023	Wonderbaarlijke Wezens, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort
2021	Adventures Underground, Quartair, Den Haag
2021	Sterrentuin II, Ketelstraat 23, Den Haag
2020	A Theatre of Things Beneath the Ground and Behind the Eyes, Raam Maar, Rotterdam
2019	The Big Draw, ACEC, Apeldoorn
2018	Eigenaardig, Galerie Wit, Wageningen
2018	Veiling De Aanschouw, TENT, Rotterdam
2018	De Aanschouw #879, De Aanschouw, Rotterdam
2018	De Stenen Kamer, In Your Living Room, Park Madestein, Den Haag
2017	Budvar Young Art Event #1, Nest, Den Haag
2017	Open Air Gallery, Rosarium, Winschoten
2016	Grensloos Kunst Verkennen, de Wijk - Ijhorst
2015	Now or Never #3, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag
2015	Beelden in Leiden, Hooglandse Kerkgracht, Leiden
2015	Night: Degrees of Darkness, ArtDeli, Amsterdam
2015	Contrasten II, Galerie Wit, Wageningen
2015	BLOODY MARY, Maagdenhuis, Amsterdam
2015	REFINEDr, Flow Art Space, Minneapolis
2014	Best of Graduates, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
2014	Graphos Uitgelicht, Kunsthal Boschveld, 's- Hertogenbosch

Grants & Awards

2024 - 2028	Mondriaan Funds, Artist Base Grant Recipient
2024	Mondriaan Funds, Research Voucher Recipient
2024	Stichting stokroos, Project Grant Recipient
2024	Amarte Funds, Development Grant Recipient
2023	Stroom Den Haag, Pro Research Grant Recipient
2022	Gemeente Den Haag, Makers Scheme Grant Recipient
2021	Mondriaan Funds, Artist Grant Recipient
2019	Piket KunstPrijzen, Winner (Painting)
2018	Stichting Stokroos, Sculpture Stipendium Recipient
2014	Stroom Den Haag, “KABK Invest” Grant Recipient
2014	KABK Department Prize, Nominee (Fine Arts)
2014	Ron Mandos Youngblood Award, Shortlisted Nominee

Residencies

2023	Budapest Gallery, Budapest, HU
2022	Grafische Werkplaats, Den Haag, NL

Teaching

2021/2022

Guest Tutor, Fine Arts, 2D Department, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague

Collections

	Aegon Art Collection
	Various Private Collections

Publications

2024	Pleasant Place Issue 6: Topiary
2022	The Untold Histories as Perceived Through the Horses Tear, In Hok Publication # 20
2021	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Stencil Werk Publication
2020	A Theatre of Things Beneath the Ground and Behind the Eyes, Raam Maar Publication