George Struikelblok

Basic information
Name: George Struikelblok, 22 September 1973
Place of birth: Paramaribo, Suriname
Based in: Paramaribo, Suriname
Discipline: Painting, sculpture, installation and public art

EDUCATION
Nola Hatterman Art Academy, Paramaribo, Suriname
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2015  Art without Borders: From Suriname to Curaçao, Landhuis Bloemhof, Curaçao
2014  Circus Terminal, international travelling exhibition, De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname
2013  Guyanes > Pigments, Habitation Clément, Martinique
2012  Sunchi i Brasa, Gallery Alma Blou, Curaçao (solo)
2012  Lob’ Makandra, Galerie Huijs Basten Asbeck, Groenlo, the Netherlands (solo)
2011  Lob’ mi tu tamara, Readytex Art Gallery / De Hal, Paramaribo, Suriname (solo)
2010  Paramaribo SPAN, Paramaribo, Suriname
2010  Paramaribo Perspectives, TENT Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2010  PAN Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2010  Lob Makandra, Landhuis Bloemhof, Curaçao (solo)
2008  Olympia International Art & Antiques Fair, United Kingdom
2007  Rakhi, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (solo)
2006  Adarsh, Readytex Art Gallery & Atelier Struikelblok, Suriname (solo)
2003  De erfenis van de slavernij, Wereldmuseum Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2003  Verlichting, Readytex Art Gallery, Suriname (solo)
2001  Art of the Americas, United States
2001  Memory, Nola Hatterman Gallery, the Netherlands (solo)
2000  Hadfield Foundation, Guyana (solo)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2016 The Struggle to Success, autobiography
Additional catalogues, monographs and press publications 

AWARDS
2010 The One Minutes Tommy Award, Shanghai, China, for Portretten van Paramaribo

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Inter-American Development Bank Cultural Center, Washington, D.C., United States
Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, Kingston, Jamaica