Regina Engelina Maria (Giny) Vos (born 30 October 1959) is a Dutch

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and conceptual artist. She has made almost thirty monumental works of art for public spaces.

Life

Vos graduated from the

Gerrit Rietveld Academy The Gerrit Rietveld Academie, also known as Rietveld School of Art & Design and Rietveld Academy, is an art academy in Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was founded in 1924 and offers programs in fine arts and design. History The Instituut voor Kuns ...

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in 1988 and studied sculpture at the

Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (State Academy of Fine Arts) was founded in 1870 in Amsterdam. It is a classical academy, a place where philosophers, academics and artists meet to test and exchange ideas and knowledge. The school supports ...

from 1988 to 1990. In one of the earliest presentations of Dutch

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, Vos was represented in a 1990 exhibition entitled "Imago, fin de siècle" alongside artists

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, Lydia Schouten,

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, and

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among others. In 2004, she received the Witteveen+Bos Prize for Art+Technology for her oeuvre.

Selected works

File:Naturalis Biodiversity Center - Museum - Exterior 09 - Collection Tower with artwork Lust for Life by Giny Vos, 1999.jpg, "Lust for Life," Naturalis Natural History Museum,

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, 1999. File:Giny Vos Light Gig foto Jannes Linders.jpg, “Light Gig,“ Lantaren Venster Theater,

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

, 2013. File:Giny Vos - PASSAGE DE LA BALEINE - foto Ilya Rabinovich 02.jpg, "Passage de la Baleine," Oude Lombardsteeg,

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, 2015. File:Sjamaan van Giny Vos.jpg, "Sjamaan," DordtYart,

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, 2016.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vos, Giny Dutch contemporary artists 1959 births Living people