Awoiska Van Der Molen was born in 1972 in the Netherlands she lives and works in Amsterdam she has participated in numerous group exabitions at institutions including pier 24 in san Francisco Huis Marseille in Amsterdam, FoMu in Antwerp, Nederlands Fotomuseum in Rotterdam and Kyotographie in Kyoto. In 2016 van der Molen has held her first major museum solo show at FOAM Amsterdam. Her work is represented in public and museum collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Museum of Photography in Seoul and The Hague Museum of Photography. Van der Molen is the recipient of the Larry Sultan Photography Award in 2017, received the Japanese Hariban Award in 2014 and was finalist at the Hyères Festival International de Mode et de Photographie in France in 2011. Her monograph Sequester was nominated for the Paris Photo / Aperture First Book Prize in 2014. Awoiska van der Molen graduated with a MFA in Photography at the St. Joost Academy, Breda in the Netherlands. Her practice is informed by an intuitive approach to image making, and her interest in the intangible qualities of her subjects. 

Awosika van der molen early work includes portraits of women on the street of new York, families sitting together or other works where her sitters attention lies beyond the camera she uses this approach in her work of urban environments producing uncanny pictures of ominous houses and streets since 2009. Awosika van der molen has also taken black and white abstract images in nature spending long periods of time in solitude in remote landscapes she slowly uncovers the identity of the landscape she in she searches for a state of being in which the boundaries between herself and her blur I don’t really understand this however I think she’s trying to get photos that express the landscape in a different way from the norm and its definitely different in sense that you don’t know what your looking at until you look closer I quiet like it, it looks very unique and there’s not a lot of uniqueness in todays photography.

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