Michiel Hogenboom

"“Painting these trophy hunters makes me feel alive. The starting point of these fishermen portraits showing their slippery catch, posing for their friends – are images based on amateur pictures found on Spearfishingblogs and communities. My intent is to paint outrageous pietà pictures, some testosteron driven or sexually loaded, some silent and inward-looking.”

The fishermen are the archetypical searching souls, their bravado transcends time and place, they represent our passion, joy, dark dreams and existential fears.





Dutch Art Collections:
AVL-NKI institute, Amsterdam
ABN AMRO, Amsterdam
Academical Medical Centre, Amsterdam
ACHMEA, Zeist
AEGON, Den Haag
AKZO Nobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Boekel de Nerée, Amsterdam
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, Hoevelaken
Dutch Central Bank, Amsterdam
Dexia, Amsterdam
Eneco, Rotterdam
Triodos Bank, Utrecht
University Medical Centre, Utrecht

several private collections, a.o.:
Chadha Art Collection, Wassenaar
Sanders, Haarlem
Michiel Romeijn, Amsterdam
Otto Schaap, Amsterdam

1986 - 1993 University Leiden
1994 - 1998 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Soloshows:
2012
Where The Sun Hits The Sky, AVL-NKI Amsterdam, permanent presentation/commission
2009
Jupiter Room, Steendrukkerij, Amsterdam
New work, Jan van Hoof Galerie, Den Bosch
2008
Old School, Jan van Hoof Galerie, Roozendaal
2007
Slurry Speech, Jan van Hoof Galerie, Den Bosch
2005
Limbo, Galerie Hein Elferink, Staphorst
2004
Jurassic Male, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam
2002
Artificial Moonlight, Wetering galerie, Amsterdam
Great Outdoors, Art Rotterdam, Wetering galerie, Rotterdam
2001
Saltwaterbleeders, Wetering galerie, Amsterdam
2000
Trophy Hunter, Wetering galerie, Amsterdam