Femmy Otten b. Amsterdam, 1981, lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands
Femmy Otten studied at the HISK Higher Institute for Fine Art in Ghent and was a resident artist at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam and Atelier Holsboer, Cité Internationales des Arts in Paris. In 2013 Otten was awarded the de Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs. In 2014 she was one of three artists who were selected by the Dutch government to make an official portrait of King Willem-Alexander.
Recently her work was on view in the following exhibitions: We Once Were One, stedelijk Museum Schiedam, ’Rainbow Woman’ , De Warande, ‘One way or another’, SMAK, Gent, ‘EURAZIE’ M HKA, ‘One tear at a time’, Fons Welters. ‘Wistful Eye’ Drents Museum. ’Minor Heroïsm’, Zilberman Gallery, group show during the 14th Istanbul Biennial. ‘. Een nieuwe koning, een nieuw portret’, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. ’De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs’, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam. ‘Yellow Minutes’, P///akt, Amsterdam. ‘Royal Award for Modern Painting’, Royal Palace, Amsterdam. ’Hydrarchy: Power and Resistance at Sea’, Gasworks, London. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the collections of SCHUNCK* Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Museum Voorlinden, collection of the M HKA , Drents Museum and the AkzoNobel Foundation.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
'We once were one', Stedelijk museum Schiedam, NL
'We once were one', Kunsthal, Gent, BE
'Rainbow Woman', De Warande, Turnhout, BE
'One tear at a time', Fons Welters, Amsterdam, NL 'De nieuwe rechtbank', permanent work commissioned by rijksbouwmeester, Amsterdam, NL
'Independent', Brussel, BE 'Wistful Eye', Drents Museum, Assen, NL 'Mural', Schunck, Heerlen, NL
'The Wall of She’, Sofie Van de Velde, Antwerpen, BE
'The Parlement of Marmots', Bienale Gherdeina, Val Gherdeina, IT 'Beaufort 2024', permanent sculpture, Oostende, BE 'True Colors', Kunstmuseum, Den Haag, 2024
'tot hier en verder', museum Voorlinden, NL 'kiss my soul', Dordrechts museum, NL 'paper cuts', Keteleer, Antwerp, BE
'De nieuwe vrouw', Singer, Laren, NL 'The circus we are', Musée des Arts Anciens , Namur, BE
'One way or another', SMAK, Gent, BE 'EURAZIE', M HKA, Antwerp, BE 'And I began to forget where I came from', Duo with Gijs Frieling, DMW, Antwerp, BE
'Other worldly', Fries Museum, NL 'Animalia', Garage Rotterdam, NL
'Wij Vikingen', Fries Museum, NL