Born in 1979, Borculo, The Netherlands
Lives and works in The Netherlands
Education
2003 Design Academy Eindhoven (cum laude), Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018 Joris Laarman Lab: Gradients, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston US Joris Laarman Lab:Design in the Digital Age , High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
2017 Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age , Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, US
2014 Joris Laarman Lab: Bits & Crafts, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US
2013 Solo exhibition, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Rovereto, Italy
2012 Solo Exhibition, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Joris Laarman, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Future and the Arts: AI, Robotics, Cities, Life - How Humanity Will Live Tomorrow, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Japan Designs for Different Futures, Philadlphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US La fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France An Accelerated Culture, Friedman Benda, New York, US
2018 Design et Merveilleux, Musee d'art moderne, Saint-Priest-en-Jarez, France When Attitude Become Chairs, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, US
2017-18 Mind the Digital, Design Society, Shenzen, China
NGV Triennial, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
2017 Minding the Digital, Design Society, Shenzhen, China Printing the World, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Le Grand Detournement, Galerie Poirel (CNAP), Nancy, France DNA10, Friedman Benda Gallery, NYC, US Wood, Revisited, The Centre for Art in Wood, Philadelphia, US Channeling Nature by Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US 3D Print: NOW!, Cube Design Museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands
Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Mutation-Creations/Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidiou, Paris, France 3D. Print the world. Espacio Fundacion Telefonica, Madrid, Spain Hello, Robot. Design between Human and Machine, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2016 Dutch Art & Design, The Penthes Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
2016-17 Prototype/Production, The Museum of Fine art, Houston, US Lightoptia, Center for Arts and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Lightoptia, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico
2015-6 New Dutch Masters, Chateau de Penthes Museum, Geneva, Switzerland Lightopia (traveling exhibition), Hofmobiliendpot Vienna, Austria Out of Hand, Museum of Applied Arts and Science, Sydney, Australia Atoms + Bytes: Redefining Craft in the Digital Age, Bellevue Ars Museum, Bellevue, US
2015 Crosscurrents, Design Miami/Miami, Friedman Benda, Miami, US Berlage, Godfather of Dutch Design, Beurs van Berlage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands A 21st Century Show Home, Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, Swiss Institute, New York, US Lightopia (traveling exhibition), Design Museum Gent, Gent, Belgium How We Work, Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands What is Luxury, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2014-5 Collection of Ideas, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2014 GO3D, Museum voor Communicatie, Den Haag, The Netherlands Dragon Bench, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US Sense Nonsense, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Slow Tech, WOW-Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Van stoelen bezeten, Gorcums Museum, Gorchum, The Netherlands What would Mrs. Webb do? A Founder’s Vision, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US Lightopia (travelling exhibition), Espace Fondation EDF, Paris, France
2013-14 Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Rovereto, Espoo, Finland Out of Hand: Materializing the Post Digital, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, US Archilab 9: Naturalizing Architecture, FRAC Centre, Orleans, US Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Museum of Modern Art Finland, Helsinki, Finland
2013 Save the Arctic Project, in collaboration with Greenpeace, The North Pole Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy Anti- Gravity Object Modeling, Institude of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona Spain The Future is Here, a New Industrial Revolution, Design Museum, London, UK Biodesign, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Reopening 2013, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Harrie Tillieprijs, Cuypershuis, Roermond, The Netherlands Light-Exhibition, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany Archilab 2013, Centre Pompidou/ Frac Centre Orleans, Orleans, France Contemporary Jewelry, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
2012 Topstukken, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands Winter Groupshow, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, US DESTRØY DESIGN, The Taipei ne Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan New Acquisitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK Bio.23, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia Dutch Design - House of Orange, Royal Palace Oranienbaum, Germany
2011-12 Water, Zuiderzeemuseum, Enkhuizen, The Netherlands New Energy in Design and Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany
2011 Now, Perceptions of Time and Contemporary Design, Museum MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the everyday (traveling exhibition), MAK Vienna, Vienna, Austria Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the everyday (traveling exhibition), Kunsthal Stuttgart, Stuttgart, The Netherlands Ideen sitzen, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany Modern by Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US New Energy in Design and Art, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Creative Junctions, National Museum of China, Beijing, China Material World, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands 100 Masterpieces of Design, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Temporary Stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands New Acquisitions, Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain Over leven, Grenswerk art festival, Enschede, The Netherlands Hyperlinks: Architecture and Design, Art Institute Chicago, Chicago, US Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation, Design Museum Holon, Holon, Israel High Design, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US
Grenswerk (art festival), Enschede Boijmans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2010 European Design Since 1985 Shaping the New Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US Rudolf Steiner: Alchemy of the Everyday (traveling exhibition), Kunsthal Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, The Netherlands Action! Design over Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Hyper:Links between Architecture and Desin, Art Institue Chicago, US EcoDesign, Helsinki Exhibition and COnvention Centre, Helsinki Finland Utopias of Everyday, Porzelanikon, Selb, Germany The State of Things, Design and the 21st Century, Design Museum Holon, Israel European Design since 1985: Shaping the New Century, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, US Post Fossil: Excavating 21st Century Creation, 21_21 Design, Tokyo, Japan Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2009 Design High, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK European Design since 1985, Shaping the New Century Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design, Victoria & Albert Museum, London UK Extreme Frontiers, Urban Frontiers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Valencia, Spain
2008 Design and the Elastic Mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Rococo: The Continuing Curve, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, US Family of Form, Designhuis, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Small Show. Huge Talent, by Janice Blackburn, London, UK
2007 Design contre Design, Le Grand Palais, Paris, France Nature Design: From Inspiration to Innovation, Museum of Design, Zurich, Switzerland
Designtide, Tokyo, Japan Rotterdamn Antwerpt: 400 Years of Design in Rotterdam, Historic Museum of Rotterdam, The Netherlands Rotterdam Design Port, Milk Gallery, New York, US Human Touch, The New Dowse Museum, Lower Hutt, New Zealand Design Prijs Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2006 Simply Droog: 10 + 3 years of creating innovation and discussion, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY Bone Series, Design Miami, with Barry Friedman Ltd. and Droog Design, Miami, US Ideal House, The International Furniture Fair IMM Cologne, Germany GEBORDUURD exhibition, Textiel Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands Cut for Purpose, Fruitport studios, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Human Touch, Droog Design Exhibition, Shanghai, China; Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia Design Museum London, Traveling European design show Mutations Ceramiques, Musee de la Ceramique de Rouen, Rouen, France MISS/FIT, Pure Austria Design, Vienna, Austria
2005 Over de Mensen en de Dingen, Museum Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
Biennale de Ceramique Contemporaine de Chateauroux, France Arco 12, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem, The Netherlands Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design, Museum Mudac, Lausanne, Switzerland New Dutch Designers, Droog Design Gallery, The Netherlands European Design, Design Museum London, UK The Value for Money, Exhibition of Droog Design, Stakhanov ceramics, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy Chi ha paura…? Exhibited Credit Brooch. Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy Simply Droog: 10 years of Droog Design, Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, The Netherlands 100 jaar Arco, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2004 Go Slow, Droog Design, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy Concrete Poetry, Design Academy at the Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy Improvisare, Chelsea Hotel, New York, US Just what it is. Lille 2004, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Lille, France 10 + 1 Years Simply Droog, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
2003 Ceramics exhibition, Bijenkorf Maastricht, The Netherlands
Graduation show, Eindhoven Design Academy, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Lekker Decadent, Museum Princessehof Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Painfully Beautiful and Ivy, Traveling Exhibition Reinventing Functionality, The NAI (Dutch Architecture Institute) Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Selected Awards
2016
Amsterdam Prize of the Arts
2013
Harry Tillieprijs nomination
2011
Wall Street Journal Innovator of the year
2009
Woon Award
2008
International Elle Decoration award
2007
Woon award
2006
Red Dot design award
2004
Interior Innovation award, International furniture fair in cologne
2004
Young Designer of the Year award, Wallpaper magazine
2004
Domestic product of the year (heatwave)
2004
Winner of the Brabantse spelen competition Hertogenbosch
Nomination (Heatwave), Domestic Product Design of the Year. Wallpaper Magazine
Interior Innovation Award 2004. The International Furniture Fair, IMM Cologne
Red Dot design award
Winner of the Brabantse spleen competition Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
2003
Rene Smeetsprijs nomination
Selected Public and Private Collections
Victoria & Albert Museum, UK
MoMA , New York, US
Centre Pompidou, France
Cooper-Hewitt, US
FNAC, France
Groninger Museum, The Netherlands
High Museum Atlanta, US
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada
Centro de Arte Caja Burgos, Spain
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, US
LACMA, Los Angeles, US
Vitra Design Museum, Germany
Museum voor Communicatie, The Netherlands
Art Institute of Chicago, US
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Kunst Paviljoen Groningen, The Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, US
Philadelphia Museum of Art, US
Museum of Art and Design, NYC, US
Boymans van Beuningen, The Netherlands
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France
Metropolitan Museum of Art, US
Droogdesign collection, The Netherlands
Museum of Modern Art Den Bosch, The Netherlands
DSM art foundation, The Netherlands
Textiel Museum Tilburg, The Netherlands
Denver Art Museum, Denver, US
Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Rouen, France
Centraal Museum, The Netherlands
Milwaukee Art Museum, US
Indianapolis Museum of Art, US
CNAP, France
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, US
Musee des arts decoratifs, Paris, France
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel