ERWIN OLAF
b. 1959, Hilversum, The Netherlands
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Hotel & Dusk / Dawn - HASTED HUNT KRAEUTLER, New York, NY
2009 Photography & Video: Rain, Hope, Grief, Fall, Et D’Autres Oeuvres - Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
2009 Eye Candy 1984 - 2009 - Photomuseum Antwerp, Atwerp, Belgium
2009 Erwin Olaf : 50 Years (Retrospective), Domas Artrium, - Salamanca Ciudad de Cultura, Spain
2009 Erwin Olaf - Langhans Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2008 Still Living: Structure, Surface and Espression - SECCA, Winston-Salem, NC
2008 Hope, Rain, Grief & Fall - The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague, The Netherlands
2008 Grief - Flatland Paris & Gallery Magda Danysz, Paris, France
2008 Erwin Olaf - Space E6, Shenzhen, China
2008 Human All Too Human - Fotografia Europea Reggio Emilia 2008, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2007 House of Beautiful Nightmares - Arcaute Arte Contemporaneo, San Pedro Garza Garcia, Mexico
2007 Grief - M+B Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Grief - HASTED HUNT Gallery, New York
2007 Grief - Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam
2007 Le Dernier Cri - Galerie Rabouan Moussion, Paris, France
2007 Elegance & Perversity - Shoalhaven City Arts Centre, Shoalhaven, Australia
2005 Rain & Hope - HASTED HUNT Gallery, New York
2005 Elegance & Perversity - Australian Centre of Photography Sidney, Australia
2005 Fashion & Style in Photography - Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2005 Imitation of Life - Modern Art Gallery of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2005 Moving Targets - Montevideo, Dutch Media Arts Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2005 Hope - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
2003 Vertias Splendor: Erwin Olaf Photographs 1998 - 2003 - Museum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
2003 Silver - Groniger Museum, Gronigen, The Netherlands
2002 Retrospective - Cultuurcentrum Knokke-Heist, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2002 Paradise - B & D Tomasorenol Di Bracco ContemporaryArtVision, Milano, Italy
2002 Booby Trap - Museo D’Arte Provincia Di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy
2001 Royal Blood - Bilbao Art Centre, Bilbao Grand prix de l’affiche, Humour & Pub, ‘Charal advertising’
2001 Silver Lion - commercial-festival for Heineken ‘Corner’, Cannes
2001 Action (Erwin Olaf & Paul Smith) - Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2001 Mature - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
2001 Retrospective - Museum of Modern Art, Hasselt; Crown Gallery, Brussels
2000 Mature & Royal Blood - Paris Photo/Flatland Gallery, Paris
2000 Fashion Victims - Il Ponte, Roma
2000 Retrospective - Arsenal, Prague
2000 Mature - Kunst Rai / Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam
2000 Mature - Il Ponte, Rome
1998 Chessmen - La Bonbonniere, Maastricht
1996 Stars in Black, White & Color - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sidney, Australia
1995 Mind of their Own - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
1995 Erwin Olaf Fotografien ‘84 -’95 - Museum, Erlangen.
1994 Tafel Van Tien - Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, The Netherlands
1993 Joy - Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1993 Erwin Olaf - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1990 Blacks: Seventeen Royal Portraits - Fodor Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Why Look at Animals? - Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2008 Short Stories in Contemporary Photography - Zurich Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
2007 Dangerous Beauty - Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2007 The Constructed Image - Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2007 The Veil/ Il Velo - CeSAC (Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee Caraglio), Caraglio, Italy
2006 Spirit of the Nord - Maison Europeenne De La Photographie, Paris, France
2006 Why Look at Animals? - George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
2005 Baroque and Neo-Baroque. The Hell of Beautiful - Salamanca Arts Center, Salamanca, Spain
2005 BAC !05 - International Festival of Contemporary Art, Barcelona
2005 Going Dutch - Museum of New Art, Pontiac, USA
2004 Foto America 2004, The Cultural Centre Espantagruelico, Santiago, Chile
2004 Lies, lust Art & Fashion - Signale der kleidung, Podewil, Berlin, Germany
2003 Melting Pop - Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siene, Italy
2003 Fundancion Foto Colectania - Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporaneo, Vitoria-Gazteis, Spain
2002 The Mask, Il Volto Plurale - La Giarina Arte Contemporanea Verona, Verona, Italy
2002 Shock & Show - Mostra internazionale d’arte contemporanea a Trieste, Trieste, Italy
2001 Action (Erwin Olaf & Paul Smith), Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
2002 Attention Please, Man Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro
2001 The Body of Art - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
2000 Bodies, Clothing, Surfaces - Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
1999 Haks was here, Groninger Museum, Groningen
1998 The Deadly Sins, Amsterdams centrum voor de fotografie, Amsterdam
1997 Triptych, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo
1996 Home is where the Heart Is, Fremdkörper Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam
1995 Girls 1985 – 1995, Galerie Steltman, Amsterdam,
1995 Girls 1985 – 1995, Galerie Steltman New York
1994 10 Years of European Photo Prize - Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Homburg, Germany
1993 Manipulation - Staten Gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands
1992 Style Shapes Function, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1992 Double Dutch, Sala Uno, Rome, Italy
1992 Illusions and Travestissements, AB Gallery, Paris, France
1991 The Fourth Wall, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1989 Exuberance Now!, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
1988 Behold the Men - The Photographer’s Gallery, London, England
1987 Nudity in Front of the Camera - Meervaart Theater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1986 Männer sehen Männer - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1985 The Art of Seduction - Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1984 Foto 1984 - Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
FILM
2007 Fotomuseum: Creation and Direction: ‘Toms Space’, Antwerp
2007 Rouge (2005) and Le Dernier Cri (2006), Detroit’s 10th International Film Festival
2005 New Videoworks Erwin Olaf, Gallery Espacio Minimo, Madrid
2005 Videoworks of Erwin Olaf, Montevideo, Amsterdam
2002 FFF Videoshow!, Centraal museum, Utrecht
2002 Cinema Sculptuur, Nederlands foto instituut, Rotterdam
2002 Film by the sea, Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Vlissingen
2000 Volumia, Direction, Music Video
1999 Het, VPRO Broadcasting Company
BOOKS
“Erwin Olaf,” Aperture, 2009
“The Golden Age” commissioned by The People Of The Labyrinths, 2005
“Booby Trap” catalogue for Museo d’Arte Provincia di Nuoro, 2003
‘Silver’, catalogue for the Groninger Museum
AWARDS
2009 Photographer of the Year, Px3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
2008 Deutsche Borse Prize - Nominee
2005 PDN Award - Photography Annual New York, Hasted Hunt Gallery, for “Hairdresser” from Rain, Winner
2005 PDN Award - Photography Annual New York, for Lavazza Calendar, Winner
2002 Commercial Prize - Festival New York, for Heineken ‘Line-up’, New York, Winner
1998 Silver Lion Award, commercial-festival for Diesel Dirty Denim, Cannes, Winner
1995 ‘Woord en Beeld 1995’ Applied Photography, Assoc. for Parents of the Mentally Disabled, Winner, First Prize
