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Renée Ridgway

Renée Ridgway is an artist, free-lance curator and writer, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Since completing her studies in fine art at the Rhode Island School of Design, (BFA) and Piet Zwart Institute (MA), she has exhibited widely in the Netherlands and abroad (P.S.1 MoMA Hotel New York, Centraal Museum Utrecht, Gouda Museum) She has made numerous public presentations at various conferences and forums and taught at several universities in the Netherlands and abroad. From 2005-6 she served on the board of the former Gate Foundation, whose artists archive and library were given as a gift to the Van Abbemuseum and where in 2007 she organised a panel as part of the Be(com)ing Dutch caucus, entitled Gate Foundation- Past, Present and Future.

Ridgway’s curatorial and collaborational practice has investigated alter egos and constructed identities- (Migrating Identity-Identifying the Migrant 2001, cat.), the unseen other in society- (Migrating Identity-Transmission/Reconstruction 2004, cat.) http://migratingidentity.net, sovereignty- (Third Space in the Fourth World 2003, cat.) and the boundaries of otherness- (available at Revolver Books) Ridgway's writings have been published in Migrating Identity-Transmission/Reconstruction 2004", Paraeducation, and the while maintaining her website: http://reneeridgway.net

As an artist Ridgway presently focuses on the contemporary ‘cultural currency’ of Dutchness in relation to the Dutch colonial past (US, Indonesia, South Africa, Suriname). She is presently preparing a major exhibition at Scheltema in Leiden and a presentation of the first 10-years of her 'Manhattan Project', a series of installations and public interventions at various locations in and around NYC in 2009.

Ridgway is a co-initiator of n.e.w.s.