FRANCIEN KRIEG — CV / ARTIST RÉSUMÉ
EDUCATION
1999–2003 · Free Academy The Hague — Painting
1993–1998 · Royal Academy of Art, The Hague — Monumental Design
ARTIST RESIDENCY
2019 · Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Masters of Realism NL
International Guild of Realism
Portrait Society of America
Poets & Artists
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS (SELECTED)
2024 · Nominated — EICAS Museum AI Contest
2023 · Best Art Awards — 2nd Prize (Nude Category)
2023 · Nominated — Painting of the Year (NL)
2023 · Honourable Mention — BoldBrush Award
2021 · Nominated — Painting of the Year (NL)
2021 · Honourable Mention — Blue Review Art Prize
2021 · Finalist — Contemporary Award @contemporary.paintings
2021 · Nominated — Figurativas 2021 (MEAM Barcelona)
2021 · Nominated — MOD Portrait, Spain
2020 · 2nd Prize — Painting of the Year NL
2020 · Winner — BoldBrush Award (December)
2019 · Nominated — Artist of the Year (Public Vote)
2019 · Pre-selection — Figurativas, MEAM
2019 · Honourable Mention — Competition.net
2018 · TRAC Exhibition, Leeuwarden
2017 · Nominated — Figurativas MEAM Barcelona
2017 · Nominated — Dutch Portrait Prize
2010 · Talens Prize Pulchri — 2nd Prize
2006 · Talens Prize Pulchri — 3rd Prize
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)
2024 · EICAS Museum, Deventer — AI Contest Nomination
2022 · Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt — Unblock Gaudí (Digital Art via Blockchain)
2021 · Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art, USA — Iconic
2021 · MEAM Barcelona — Women Painting Women
2021 · MEAM Barcelona — MOD Portrait Finalist
2021 · MEAM Barcelona — Painting Today
2020 · Wausau Museum, USA — Painting the Figure Now
2019 · MEAM Barcelona — Painting Today
2019 · Museum Møhlmann, Appingedam — Group Exhibition
2018 · Wausau Museum of Contemporary Art — Painting the Figure NOW
2018 · Museum Møhlmann — The Feminine Touch
2015 · Museum De Koperen Knop — Aging Men
2014 · Museum Van Lien — Surprising Visit
2012 · Gemeentemuseum Den Haag — Public/Private
2012 · Gemeentemuseum Den Haag — XXS
2011 · Museum Van Lien — From K to Z
2009 · Scheringa Museum — Permanent Collection Exhibition
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2024 · WG Gallery, Dordrecht — Solo
2017 · Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Australia — Duo (with Effie Pryer & Ville Loponen)
2011 · Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam — Solo
2011 · Galerie Pinsart, Bruges — Above the Couch (Duo)
2009 · Galerie Pinsart, Bruges — Solo
2008 · Pulchri, The Hague — Beautiful Person — Solo
2004 · Galeria Entropia, Wrocław, Poland — Solo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS ABROAD
2026: Arcadia gallery contemporary NY : Five and under group exhibition
2026: James Baird gallery: Woman , groupsshow
2026: 33contemporary Florida US: 2024 Venus reclaimed
2024 · Bliss, New York — Curated by Laurence Fuller (AI work)
2024 · Women 2024 — James Baird Gallery
2023 · AI Surrealism, Superchief Gallery NFT — World Trade Center, NYC
2023 · Reflections, New York — cur. ArtMatr & Tender
2022 · Quantum Gallery LA — NFT Works
2022 · Superchief Gallery NY — NFT Works
2021 · Stone Sparrow NYC — Urban Portrait
2020 · Various exhibitions — An Arte Gallery, James Baird Gallery, Abend Gallery, Stone Sparrow NYC, 33 Contemporary Gallery Chicago
2017 · Gallery Abend, Denver — Sight Unseen
2016 · Zhou B Art Center, Chicago — Freak Out Show
2016 · Mas de les Gralles, Barcelona
2013 · Galerie van Campen & Rochtus, Antwerp — Begeerte, cur. Natasja Bennink
2013 · Townsend Atelier, Chattanooga — Women Painting Women [r]evolution
GROUP EXHIBITIONS — NETHERLANDS (SELECTED)
2024 · WG Gallery (Miniatures Nomination — Fikva)
2024 · Gallery Roermond — Painting of the Year Nominee Exhibition
2020 · Stories of the Skin — DSG Exhibition
2019 · Huidhonger — Karmelklooster Drachten
2019 · Gallery Bonnard — Grenzeloos
2018 · TRAC Exhibition, Leeuwarden
2015 · Galerie Nasty Alice — Young and Beautiful
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
ING Collection
Tezos Foundation
Former Scheringa Collection
Van Lien Collection
Tullman Collection, Chicago
Tiny Museum, Reflex Modern Gallery, Amsterdam
Museum Møhlmann
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Numerous private collections worldwide (Netherlands, USA, UK, France, Spain, Australia, etc.)
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PUBLICATIONS & PRESS (SELECTED)
2024 · 365+ Magazine Japan
2024 · WhitepaperBy — Pilar Gómez Rodríguez
2024 · Times Square, New York — Public projection of AI work Weightless Memories
2023 · Die Zeit — feature with Iris Radisch
2023 · Culture3 — Tezos Foundation
2023 · Mutual Art — Michael Pearce, “Age and Interface”
2021 · Beautiful Bizarre Magazine — Interview
2021 · MEAM Catalog — Women Painting Women
2019–2020 · Artelibre, Fine Art Connoisseur, Artistmagazine, Dutch Art Newspaper, etc.
ONLINE / NFT EXHIBITIONS
2024 · EW Collective — Superchief Gallery (Online AI Shows)
2024 · Reflections (ArtMatr, Tender, TransientLabs)
2023 · Foundation STROKE — curated by VIC
2023 · NFT Europe — curated by Danielle King
PODCASTS / TALKS
2023 · Culture3 (Tezos Foundation) — with Leo Naskau
2023 · BoldBrush Show
2023 · Zintuig — Titus Meeuws
2023 · Arts & Design — John Bezold
2023 · John Dalton — Gently Does It
DIGITAL / NFT PLATFORMS
Objkt (Tezos)
Foundation (Ethereum)
Rodeo (Tezos)
