Iris van Dongen came to fame for her drawing of young women, mixing pencil, pastel, watercolor and charcoal, and combining virtuosity and contemporary sensitivity, as artist's inner selfportraits.
Her work is very detailed, realistic and it is influenced by mysticism and myths. In the background one finds vivid and detailed patterns, a recurring element of her work.
Iris van Dongen lives and works in Berlin (DE).
| 2023 | Poplife, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam |
| 2023 | La Beauté du Diable Frac Franche-Comté, Besançon, France |
| 2017 | Iris van Dongen – Thérèse Schwartze Award, Museum van Loon, Amsterdam |
| 2014 | Luis de Adelantado, Valencia, IT |
| 2013 | Amsterdam Drawing 2013, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2011 | Temporary Devotion, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE |
| 2011 | Iris van Dongen, Luis de Adelantado, Valencia, IT and Mexico, MX |
| 2011 | Wrong exit, Autocentre, Berlin, DE |
| 2010 | The Preparation, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2009 | The curse of the monk, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, FR |
| 2009 | Suspicious, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Amsterdam, NL (catalogue) |
| 2008 | The ejaculation of the demon, with Dionisis Cavallieratos, The Breeder, Athens, EL |
| 2008 | Suspicious, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2006 | Hooley (with Kimberley Clark), The Breeder, Athens, GR |
| 2006 | Doomed with Grace and Pleasure, solo presentation Liste, Basel, CH |
| 2005 | Mystery Zone, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2005 | Aurelia, Salon 94, New York, US |
| 2005 | Nox Noctis, GEM, Den Haag, NL (catalogue) |
| 2005 | She is the Night, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE |
| 2004 | Spleen, The Breeder, Athens, GR |
| 2003 | Mortality, TENT, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2022 | Portrait of a Lady, Fondation Boghossian, Bruxelles, BE |
| 2021 | L'homme Gris, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, LUX |
| 2018 | New Black Romanticism, Topicuv Salon, Praha |
| 2018 | New Black Romanticism, Galerie der Standt Backnang |
| 2018 | New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz |
| 2017 | New Black Romanticism, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
| 2017 | New Black Romanticism, The National Museum of Art of Romania, Bucharest |
| 2017 | New Black Romanticism, Stadtgalerie Kiel (Kiel Municipal Gallery of Contemporary Arts) |
| 2016 | La Grande Galerie du Foot, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris |
| 2016 | Haute à porter, Modemuseum Hasselt, Hasselt |
| 2016 | Art Brussels 2016, Tour & Taxis Avenue, Brussels |
| 2015 | Wunderkammer, Art Ptuj, Ptuj |
| 2015 | Paysages, rêvés de fin de siècles (XIXe - XXe siècles), Musée de Cambrai, Cambrai |
| 2015 | Duenas, del Arte, Las Atarazanas, Valencia |
| 2014 | Tri Postal, commissaire, curated by Caroline David, Lille |
| 2013 | The Legend of the Shelves - Autocenter, Berlin, DE |
| 2013 | Collectie Hugo en Carla Brown, Kasteel Keukenhof, Lisse, NL |
| 2013 | Insitu, episode 3, Kimberly Clark, Berlin, DE |
| 2013 | Video presentatie #5 : Kimberly Clark, Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, NL |
| 2013 | Gratis is het woord niet, Pulchri Studio, Den Haag, NL |
| 2012 | Devine and scary, Afrikamuseum, Berg en Dal, NL |
| 2012 | Dicke, Verhoeven, Fortuyn, van Dongen, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2012 | Figuurlijk, museum Hilversum, Hilversum, NL |
| 2012 | Dead Lines. Der Tod in Kunst, Alltag Kunsthalle Barmen, Wuppertal, DE |
| 2012 | Invisible maps, Luis de Adelantado, Mexico, MX, commissaire / curated by Violeta Horcasitas |
| 2012 | Death and taxes, Tidens Krav, Oslo, NO |
| 2012 | Into the woods, Galerie des galeries, Paris, FR commissaires / curated by Beauvais |
| 2012 | Point de Vue: 200 jaar Kunstacademie Den Bosch 1812-2012, Stedelijk Museum, Den Bosch, NL |
| 2012 | Hans Bayens & 35 kunstenaars ING Collectie: Hetliefdevolle oog, Museum Henriette Polak, Zutphen, NL |
| 2011 | Maîtres de Hollande au XXIème siecle, Institut néerlandais, Centre culturel des Pays-Bas, Paris, FR |
| 2011 | A Fresh and Personal Feel, Gemeentemuseum's Works on Paper, Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, NL |
| 2011 | Martin Skauen, Marc Bijl, Iris van Dongen, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, US |
| 2011 | 'I like what you did,...' NEST, Den-Haag, NL |
| 2011 | Hollandse Meesters in de 21e eeuw, (19 documentaries, ) produced René Mendel, Kunsthal Rotterdam, NL |
| 2011 | La Vallée Patibulaire, Berlin, DE |
| 2011 | All about drawing, Stedelijk museum Schiedam, NL |
| 2011 | Point it at granny, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, DE |
| 2011 | R Dijkstra/C Noland/P Leguillon features D Arbus/K Clark, Hooley, De Hallen,Haarlem, NL |
| 2010 | Gallery Luis de Adelantao, Valencia, ES |
| 2010 | Smell of Pepper, Gallery Peter Bergman, Stockholm, SE |
| 2010 | Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, GR |
| 2010 | Get Behind me Satan and Push, Peres Projects, Berlin, DE |
| 2010 | Summer Teeth, The Breeder, Athens, GR |
| 2010 | Ever Prosperity, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, FR |
| 2010 | Arrivals and Departure_Europe, Mole Vanvitelliana, IT |
| 2010 | Sur le Dandysme, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, ES |
| 2010 | Madonna Psycho Slut, GRIMM Museum, Berlin, DE |
| 2009 | When the mood strikes... collection Wilfried & Yannicke Cooreman, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent, BE |
| 2009 | Towing the Line, Drawing Space:40 Cont. Dutch Artists,Defining the Moment in Holland,White box,NY,US |
| 2009 | Forgotten bar project #4, Galerie im regierungsviertel, Berlin, DE |
| 2009 | Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Wall Rockets, Albright Knox museum in Buffalo, NY, US |
| 2009 | Contemporary visitors, Pecs, HU |
| 2009 | Ophelia, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL |
| 2009 | Temporairy city, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE |
| 2009 | Empathie und abstraction, The Drawing Lab, Berlin, DE |
| 2008 | Wer ficken will, muss freundlich sein, Nationalmuseum, Berlin, DE |
| 2008 | Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Wall Rockets, The Flag Art Foundation, New York, US |
| 2008 | XXste Eeuw, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, NL |
| 2008 | Hallucinations & Halleluja's, Stedelijk Museum, 's Hertogenbosch, NL |
| 2008 | Cobra to contemporary, Artnews projects, Berlin, DE |
| 2008 | Chambres à Part II, Paris FR |
| 2008 | Forgotten Bar Project, Berlin DE |
| 2008 | The end was yesterday PART II, Kunstraum Innsbruck AT |
| 2008 | In the Shadows, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, DE (catalogue) |
| 2008 | Zwart, CBK, Apeldoorn, NL |
| 2007 | Stranger than Paradise, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, CH |
| 2007 | Drawing Typologies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2007 | Beyond Sensation, Brian White & Rona Cole Galleries, Channel Islands, GB |
| 2007 | Gegen den Strich, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE |
| 2007 | Hello, I’m Crashing, Salon 94, New York, US |
| 2007 | Soakers, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2007 | Leve de Schilderkunst, Kunsthal, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2006 | People, Madre Museo d'Arte Donna Regina, Naples, IT |
| 2006 | Discreet Insidious Charm of the Bourgeoisie,Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven,curator Phillip van de Bossche |
| 2006 | Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2006 | Doomed with Grace and Pleasure, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, FR |
| 2006 | Bewitched, Clementine Gallery, New York, US |
| 2006 | Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE |
| 2005 | New Figuration, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, DK |
| 2004 | I just don't know what to do with myself..., Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, IT |
| 2004 | Dutch Show: Cont. Dutch Artists in Greek Collections, Netherlands Institute of Athens, GR |
| 2004 | Expander, Royal Academy of Arts at Burlington Gardens, London, GB |
| 2004 | Vixen, Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2003 | 6000 Watt, Antwerp, BE |
| 2003 | Het Oog van de Vrouw, Slot Zeist, Zeist, NL |
| 2003 | Het Oog van de Vrouw, De Vishal, Haarlem, NL |
| 2002 | Hofvijver in Poëzie en Beeld, Kunstpassage in Rijksmonument, Museum Bredius, Den Haag, NL |
| 2002 | I Am a Camera, MU, de Witte Dame, Eindhoven, NL |
| 2001 | Tuin der lusten, Galerie Ron Mandos, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2000 | Op de huid bekeken, SBK, Amsterdam, NL |
| 2000 | Galerie Multiple XX, Rotterdam, NL |
| 2006 | Smolders Rob, |
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