Born 1980, Utrecht, the Netherlands, lives and works in Shanghai, exhibits in Shanghai, London and the Netherlands.

Education & Residencies

2006 - 2007 Casa das Caldeiras in São Paulo (Brazil)
1999 - 2004 AKV | St Joost|  Academy for Art and Design Den Bosch (NL)

Solo Exhibitions

2014 Tropism, Occupy my Time Gallery, London (UK)
         (duo show with Lorraine Robbins)
2012 I'm good at being uncomfortable, Braziliality Gallery, London (UK)
2010 Artist Available, Artists with Attitude, Amsterdam (NL)
2007 60m² of Drawing Myself, Casa das Caldeiras, São Paulo (Brazil)
2005 Karin Janssen, Effenaar, Eindhoven (NL)

Group Exhibitions

2016

• Tekenkabinet, This Art Fair, Amsterdam (NL)

2015

• Out to Sea, Aurora Museum, Shanghai (China)
• Tekenkabinet, Kunstenhuis, Amsterdam (NL)
• Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
• Young & Beautiful, Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL)
• 365 Drawings, La Galerie d’Anières (Switzerland)
• Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)

2014

• Chinese Whispers, Gallery Nasty Alice, Eindhoven (NL)
• Chinese Whispers, Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
• Tekenkabinet 2.0 & The Big Draw Amsterdam (NL)
• 365 Drawings The Keep, Reading, Berkshire, exhibition and talk (UK)
• Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
• VANITAS, Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
• SEX, Gallery Nasty Alice in Eindhoven (NL)
• A5, Platform Projects, by Lubomirov - Easton, London (UK)
  at Art Athina (Greece)
• Summer Exhibition, NSH Arts, London (UK)
• RAW Art Fair Rotterdam with Gallery Nasty Alice (NL)

2013 

• Tekenkabinet, Kunstsalon Assen (NL)
• Tekenkabinet, Amsterdam Westpoort (NL)
• Tekenkabinet, Museum Waterland, Purmerend (NL)
• GROWTH in Karin Janssen Project Space, London (UK)
• THOTS and... by Neil Ferguson, at Mile End Art Pavilion, London (UK)
• Raw Skin, Karin Janssen Project Space in London (UK)
• Cold Climate, Occupy my Time Gallery in London (UK)
• Defcon Salon, Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh (UK)

2012 

• Women's Art?, Studio 180, exhibition and talk, in London (UK)
• 70 Artists 7 Days, Braziliality, as part of the Regents Canal Festival, 
  Mile End Art Pavilion in London (UK)

2011 

• I am Braziliality, Forman's Smokehouse Gallery in London (UK)
• Bad Girls, C&H Art Space in Amsterdam (NL)
• Local, Karin Janssen Project Space in London (UK)

2010

• Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)

2009 

• Nieuwe leden, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)

2008

• Aanwinst, BBK, Loods 6 in Amsterdam (NL)
• Tekenen 8, Quartair in The Hague(NL)
• Sugarfactory in Amsterdam (NL)
• Salon, Arti et Amicitiae in Amsterdam (NL)

2007 

• 15 Minutes of Fame, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (NL)
• Nutopia, Chiellerie in Amsterdam (NL)
• Art Aware, Project Aware, in Amsterdam (NL)

2006 

• Tododomingo, Casa das Caldeiras in São Paulo (Brazil)
• Open Studio, Casa do Eletricista in São Paulo (Brazil)
• Self Portrait, Grafisch Atelier in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL)

2005 

• Quantum Vis, Gallery RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden (NL)
• Jong Talent II, Grafisch Atelier in ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL)

2004

• Vanuit de vrouw, Gallery RC de Ruimte in IJmuiden (NL)
• Media Partners in Amstelveen (NL)
• AKV | St Joost Academy for Art and Design Den Bosch (NL)

2002

• Nova Zembla in Den Bosch (NL)

Subsidies & Prizes

2010 Short-listed for stage 2 of John Moores Painting Prize (UK)
2006 Production fund FBKVB/Mondriaan Foundation (NL)
2003 Sandberg Institute, The One Minutes Foundation (NL)

Press & publications

• Interview CN Create, 24 November 2017
  The Extraordinary Machine >>
• Eindhovens Dagblad, 18 December 2014
  Kunstenaars zorgen voor een dubbel feestje >>
• The Culture Trip, November 2014
• London Culture Guide: Hackney's 10 Hip Galleries >>
• Blog Galerie Nasty Alice, November 2014
  Uitgelicht: Karin Janssen >>

• Wall Street International, November 2014
  Chinese Whispers >>

• East End Review, November 2014
  Front cover and "Gallery on Well Street to host Chinese Whispers exhibition" >>

• Hackney Citizen, November 2014
  Front cover Review and article "Chinese Whispering Gallery" >>

• Time Out London, November 2014
• FAD, 7 July 2014
  Top 5 Art Exhibitions to see in London by Tabish Khan (Vanitas) >> 

• Time Out First Thursday 
  Top 5 exhibitions July 2014 (Vanitas)

• The Art Newspaper, 15 June 2014
  Article "Let's talk about sex", Galerie Nasty Alice
• El Mundo, 18 June 2014
  Article "La vida es un Barrio Rojo", Galerie Nasty Alice
• Groot Eindhoven, June 2014
  Article "Nasty Alice doet gewaagd", Galerie Nasty Alice
• Exhibition catalogue by Occupy my Time Gallery, May 2014 
  Title ‘Silent Screams in the Valley of Uncanniness’ 
• Wall Street International, 30 April 2014
  Article ‘Karin Janssen and Lorraine Robbins’ >>
• Inveterate Guide, 27 April 2014
  Article ‘Occupy My Time Gallery: Tropism by Karin Janssen and Lorraine Robbins’ >>
• East End Review - full cover, November edition 2013
  Cover and feature ‘Screaming Out’ >>
• I am like a Wednesday, 13 November 2013
  Interview “Karin Janssen: GROWTH, The Uncanny and The Artist Run Space” by Amelia Murray  >>
• Baleeblu, 14 November 2013 
  Interview “Screaming with Karin Janssen” by Ana Gil Gomez >>
• Hackney Citizen cover, November edition 2013
  Feature ‘It’s a scream!’ >>
• Wall Street International, 7 October 2013
  Article ‘Growth’ >>
• London Artists Quarters, November 2013
  ‘Growth’ exhibition front page
• Artlyst, 19 April 2013
  ‘Raw Skin’ recommended exhibitions  >>
• Trebuchet, 19 March 2013
  Interview ‘Hanging Offence’ >>
• Rough, 23 April 2013
  Article ‘Raw Skin’ 
• The Star, 31 May 2012
  The Enchanted Loft
• Epoca, São Paulo, Brazil, 5 August 2011
  Interview ‘I am Braziliality’ >>
• ArtWake, Italy, August 2011
  Review ‘I am Braziliality’ >>
• Hackney Citizen, August edition 2011
  Review ‘I am Braziliality’
• Time Out First Thursdays, August 2011
  Top 5 with ‘I am Braziliality’
• Hackney Citizen, April edition 2011
  Interview ‘Looking into the Local’ >>
• Self, An Ovenden Contemporary Project, 2009
  Compiled by Craig Kerrecoe, ISBN 978-1-907437-00-7
• Kunst? Kopen! 2007
  by Veronique Baar, QKunst, supported by ArtOlive, funded by Mondriaan Foundation, ISBN 978-90-811888-1-4
• Big is Beautiful Magazine, 2007
  Interview ‘60m² of Drawing Myself’ by Minke Vogel
• Amstelveens Weekblad, April 2006
  Interview ‘Women and Children First’
• Scoop, 2005
  Interview ‘The Art of Becoming Famous’
• The One Minutes, 2003
  On AT5 television, initiative from Sandberg Institute

Projects

• Karin Janssen Project Space, London, founder and curator
  2011-2014
• NIKA Art Projects, Amsterdam, founder and director, 2007-2011 
• Women and Children First, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, 2006-2007
• The Enchanted Loft shown in Almere, Amsterdam, Amstelveen, Nieuw Beijerland and Sheffield, 2007