| Rein Jelle Terpstra, lives and works in Amsterdam |
| Education | |
| 1984 – 1988 | AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, Enschede |
| 1989 – 1991 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten te Amsterdam |
| 1990 | Artist in Residence Madrid (workshop by John M. Armleder), Barcelona, Cuenca, Spain |
| 1998 | Workshop Philosophy in the Arts, lector: Dr Antoon Van Den Braembussche |
| 2015 – 2018 | Research periods in the USA |
| 2017 | Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, Washington, D.C. |
| Exhibitions (selection) | |
| 2025 | MAMbo Museum of Contemporary Art, Bologna, Italy (solo) |
| 2024 | The Lithuanian Society of Art Photography, Prospektas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania (solo) |
| 2022-2023 | The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland (solo) |
| 2022-2023 | Dark Dunes, Fotomuseum Den Haag (solo) |
| 2022-2023 | The Setting of Violence, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede |
| 2022 | The Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona – Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain (solo) |
| 2020 | Mourning, On loss and change Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (with Bas Jan Ader, Christian Boltanski, Andy Warhol a.o.) |
| 2020 | Winter Garden photograph project 40 years Camera Lucida, by Roland Barthes, curator Odette England, Houston Center for Photography, USA |
| 2020 | Geografías del viage (a.o. Francis Alÿs, Adrian Paci, Christina de Middel). Curator: Pedro Vicente, Visiona Huesca, Spain |
| 2019 | Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (solo) |
| 2019 | IFFR-International Film Festival Rotterdam |
| 2019 | American Presidents Film and Literary Festival, Fremont, Ohio |
| 2019 | Paris Short Film Festival |
| 2018 | The Train, SFMOMA, Museum of Modern Art, met Paul Fusco en Philippe Parreno. Curator: Clément Cheroux. San Francisco |
| 2018 | The Train, Les Rencontre d’Arles, with Paul Fusco and Philippe Parreno. Curator: Clément Cheroux. France |
| 2018 | ICP, International Center of Photography, New York City (solo) |
| 2018 | Foam Editions, book launch, June 22th Amsterdam |
| 2018 | EYE Filmmuseum, 1968, Amsterdam |
| 2014 | Van Gogh’s 3rd dimension MOTI, Museum of the Image, Breda. Curator Cornel Bierens |
| 2015 | Sequence 1, Dutch artist’s books an international perspective. Exhibition of the collections of the Groningen Museum and Henk Woudsma, Academy Minerva, Groningen |
| 2014 | Songs from the Heart, BredaPhoto International Photofestival |
| 2014 | Thinking (out of) the box, Marres, Maastricht |
| 2014 | Nomination Dutch Doc Award (documentary photography), Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 2014 | Nothing to see, nothing to hide, Punt WG Artist’s books and slideshow. Curator: Frank Mandersloot, Amsterdam |
| 2013 | Johan Deumens Gallery |during PhotoFestival Unseen, Amsterdam |
| 2012 | Looking at seeing Night of Art and Science. Curator: Rune Peitersen. Groningen |
| 2011 | Grand 044 Mondrian Fund (Fonds BKVB), Amsterdam |
| 2011 | This is the right spot i.c.w Maria Barnas, De Appel, Amsterdam |
| 2010 – 2014 | After Images, about the photograph not taken, semi-permanent installation Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
| 2008 | One image says more than a thousand words, De Zaal, Gent |
| 2007 | Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam (solo) |
| 2007 | Festival of Photography Naarden |
| 2006 | Time Floating, installation in bridgemaster’s house, Voorschoten |
| 2005 | Constructed Moment KW14 Den Bosch |
| 2003 | Stadsgalerij, Het Glaspaleis, Heerlen |
| 2003 | De grote vakantie, Arti et Amicitae, Amsterdam. Curator Frank Starik |
| 2003 | De Inrichting i.c.w. Maria Barnas, Art manifestation in a mental hospital, St. Willibrordus, Heiloo |
| 2002 | After Images, about the photograph not taken Nederlands Foto Instituut, Rotterdam (solo) |
| 2001 | Lost and Found, De Waag, Amsterdam |
| 2001 | A Public Space Odyssey, selection of art in public space, Amsterdam |
| 2000 | Selection of Vedute-manuscripts, Parsons School of Design, New York |
| 1999 | Design anthology composed by writer and poet Gerrit Komrij |
| 1997 | Galerie Streetvoice, Keulen |
| 1996 | Incestuous, Thread Waxing Space. Curator: Tiong Ang, New York |
| 1994 | Between tradition and experiment, Museum for the Book / Rijksmuseum Meermanno en Westreenianum, The Hague |
| 1993 | Five Centuries Landscape, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
| Nominations, awards | |
| 2019 | Gold medal for The Most Beautiful Book of the World, Stiftung Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2019 | The Best Dutch Book Design 2018, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam |
| 2019 | Best of Selected Artist Moving Images 2018 Eye on Art, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 2019 | Best Photography Book Award nomination, The Kraszna-Krausz Book Award, Somerset House, London |
| 2019 | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, longlisted: exhibition Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train, Nederlands Fotomuseum |
| 2018 | Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, longlisted: book Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train |
| 2019 | Lucie Photo Book Award, finalist, New York |
| 2019 | Prix Livre d’Artiste nomination, Association Bob Calle, Library of Beaux-Arts, Paris |
| 2019 | Best text-image Dutch Photobook 2019, nomination |
| 2014 | Dutch Doc Award documentary photography, nomination Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam |
| 1993 | Aanmoedigingsprijs Fotografie nomination (with a.o. Rineke Dijkstra, Otto Snoek), Amstelveen |
| Publications, reviews | |
| 2025 | Rijksmuseum Amsterdam book American Photography, by Hans Rooseboom |
| 2024 | Magnum Foundation site- The Reversed Perspective |
| 2022 | Mourning, On loss and change book publication (with Bas Jan Ader, Christian Boltanski, Andy Warhol. e.a.) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Duitsland |
| 2022 | Podcast The Setting of Violence, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, interviewed by Luuk Heezen |
| 2020 | Het is oorlog, maar de fotograaf kijkt weg Trouw, by Joke de Wolf |
| 2020 | Een vergezicht of mooie bloem in de oorlogsjaren Het Parool, by Jan Pieter Ekker |
| 2020 | Gifzwarte tinten en melancholiek licht in drie rijke fotoboeken De Volkskrant, by Arno Haitjema |
| 2020 | Collectordaily.com, by Olga Yatskevich |
| 2020 | Nearest Truth Podcast, interview by Brad Feuerhelm |
| 2020 | Kunst is lang Podcast Mister Motley, interview by Luuk Heezen |
| 2019 | Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View Metropolis M, by Manus Groenen |
| 2019 | Langs het spoor De Groene Amsterdammer, by Jan Postma |
| 2019 | Rouw langs de spoorlijn Nederlands Dagblad, by Arjan Glas |
| 2019 | De laatste reis van Robert Kennedy, Het Financieele Dagblad, by Hilda Bouma |
| 2019 | Robert F Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View, Focus, by Jelle Verhoeks |
| 2019 | De mensen langs het spoor Pf, by Diana Bokje |
| 2019 | Mille et un Photographes La Couleur de Jours, by Jean Perret (Switzerland) |
| 2019 | The funeral of Robert Kennedy, the train and the onlookers Trouw, by Joke de Wolf |
| 2019 | Through the eyes of the viewer Het Parool, by Jan Pieter Ekker |
| 2019 | Nooit meer slapen VPRO, interview by Pieter van der Wielen |
| 2018 | ArtForum by Gwen Allen |
| 2018 | The Best Works of Art in 2018 NRC Handelsblad, by Sandra Smallenburg |
| 2018 | The most beautiful Photobooks of 2018 De Volkskrant, by Mark Moorman |
| 2018 | NRC Handelsblad by Sandra Smallenburg (May 2th) |
| 2018 | De Volkskrant by Merel Bem |
| 2018 | The Train essay and interview by Clement Cheroux, SFMOMA Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, publisher Editions Textuelle |
| 2018 | Collectorsdaily.com by Olga Yatskevich |
| 2018 | Uit velen veel/The people’s View and popular photography essay by Wilco Versteeg, museum magazine EXTRA, publisher Fotomuseum Antwerpen |
| 2018 | The Photograph that took the place of a Mountain selection of essays by Taco Hidde Bakker, publisher Fw:Books |
| 2018 | Mister Motley best photobooks of 2018 |
| 2018 | Le train fantome de Bobby Kennedy Le Monde, by Chloé LePrince |
| 2018 | El último viage de Robert Kennedy, El Pais, by Alex Vicente |
| 2018 | The Washington Post by Sebastian Smee (April 6th) |
| 2018 | The New Yorker by Louis Menand (April 3rd) |
| 2018 | The Wall Street Journal by Richard B. Woodward (March 20th) |
| 2017 | The New York Times, by Phyllis Tuchman (October 30th) |
| 2018 | The Baltimore Sun by Mary Mc Couley (June 20) |
| 2015 | dankzij Sem Presser Archief, Dutch photography 2000-2015 |
| 2014 | The Photographer’s Playbook, edited by: Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern Aperture Foundation, New York |
| 2013 | The Huffington Post Stuart Forster |
| 2013 | The Best Photobooks of 2013 Willem van Zoetendaal |
| 2012 | Mentioning Photobooks 2013 Volkskrant, Merel Bem |
| 2013 | New Books section (Dec issue), Camera Austria |
| 2014 | Eyecurious by Marc Feustel |
| 2013 | The Photobook Club Matt Johnston |
| 2013 | Remembering what you see Colin Pantall |
| 2013 | theloggingroad, Mirelle Thijssen |
| 2013 | Signalement Unseen Book Market, Daria Tuminas |
| 2012 | The recent history of the Netherlands, told by the arts., Mr. Motley nr32 |
| 2011 | Museumtijdschrift nr 1, by Robert-Jan Muller |
| 2011 | De Avonden, Hans de Geus, VPRO |
| 2010 | Kunstbeeld, nr. 11, by Anna van Leeuwen |
| 2009 | Kunstbeeld, nr. 10, by Sandra Spijkerman |
| 2008 | Een foto zegt meer dan duizend woorden, concept Joachim Naudts, Maarten Dings en Egon Van Herreweghe |
| 2007 | Emoticon, FotoFestival Naarden |
| 2006 | Kiek, NRC Handelsblad, CS, Rosan Hollak 2-6-2006 |
| 2005 | Constructed Moment KW14. Curator: Marjan Teeuwen |
| 2001 | A Public Space Odyssey, selection art in public space, Amsterdam |
| 1998 | four artworks in the court, text: Hanne Hagenaars, Rijksgebouwendienst |
| 1993 | Five Centuries Landscape, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
| 1993 | Encouraging Award Photography and Art , catalogus Amstelveen |
| Own publications/contributions of images and texts | |
| 2021 | My Mental Image Archive (working title), short film and text contribution. Edited by Jason Fulford, Aperture Publishing House, New York |
| 2020 | Donkere Duinen, self published, i.c.w. Van Zoetendaal Publishers |
| 2020 | Keeper of the hearth picturing Roland Barthes’ unseen photograph 40 years Camera Lucida, door Roland Barthes. Editor Odette England. Publisher Shilt Publishing |
| 2020 | Wicked Assignments, Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education Uitgeverij Valiz, Amsterdam |
| 2018 | Robert F. Kennedy Funeral Train – The People’s View (publisher Fw:Books) |
| 2015 | Sequence 1, Dutch artist’s books in an international perspective. Exhibition of the collections of the Groningen Museum and Henk Woudsma, Academy Minerva, Groningen |
| 2014 | The Photographer’s Playbook 307 Assignments and Ideas on Photography, Edited by Jason Fulford and Gregory Halpern, Aperture Publishing House, New York |
| 2013 | Retracing (uitgever post editions) |
| 2008 | On amateur photography, part 1, 2, and 3, self-published |
| 2006 | NRC-Next, a column with choices out of own amateur-photo archive and texts, daily in July/August |
| 2010- 2014 | After Images, about the photograph not taken, semi-permanent installation Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
| 2002 | Talking to you, catalog for youngsters. Texts on a.o. Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| 2001 | Re-Magazine#7, image and text, publisher Artimo |
| 2001 | De nieuwe Maatschappij nr. 4, image and text A Public Space Oddyssey |
| 2001 | StuffIt!, essay on space in Decennia, publication Foundation Vedute |
| 2000 | Report of a day, publication Raad van Cultuur 1999 |
| 2000 | Mobile n.a.v. artwork for De Canadas en De Schelven |
| 1991 | Celosias artist’s book, self-published |
| Lectures, artist talks | |
| 2025 | Expended Photography Course, Vytautas Magnus University / Faculty of Arts, Kaunas, Lithuania |
| 2025 | Lecture and guest teacher at Escola Massana, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2024 | REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE International Conference on Photography & Visual Culture Archivo Platform |
| 2024 | Hunter College, New York City |
| 2024 | IPMA International Photography and Media Art Festival, Kaunas, Lithuania |
| 2022 | Uniarts – University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland |
| 2022 | AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, Enschede |
| 2021 | Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam |
| 2020 | Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Art, Media, Design St. Joost School |
| 2019 | PI.lab’s Data and Truth Symposium collaboration of Radboud University, Tilburg University, and TNO, Utrecht |
| 2019 | AKI ArtEZ University of the Arts, Enschede |
| 2019 | Willem de Kooning Academy of Fine Arts, Rotterdam |
| 2019 | Sint Lucas Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp |
| 2019 | Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
| 2018 | SFMOMA, Museum of Modern Art Crowdsourcing History, June 7th, San Francisco |
| 2018 | Magnum Foundation i.c.m. 10×10 Photobook Salon, in conversation with Brian Wallis, New York |
| 2018 | Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History |
| 2018 | Hunter College Master, New York |
| 2018 | School for Journalism, New York |
| 2018 | Fotodok, interview by Rob Hornstra, Utrecht |
| 2018 | Radboud University, Nijmegen |
| 2015 | Hunter College Master, New York |
| 2015 | MICA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore |
| 2015 | On memory and photography, Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam |
| 2014 | Lecture, tutorials in National College of Art and Design Bachelor and Master, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2011 | Looking at Seeing. Moderator: Rune Peitersen, Galerie Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS. |
| 2011 | Mushroom Collection, The Soon Institute. Moderator: Jason Fulford, Amsterdam |
| 2009 | Foam Editions, Amsterdam |
| 2008 | Foam Editions, Amsterdam |
| 2008 | Forum debate on art and archive, a.o. Laurence Aëgerter, Hans Aarsman, Katrin Korfmann en Taco Hidde Bakker. Moderator: Esther Vossen |
| 2007 | Nederlands Fotomuseum, The Past in the Present, Rotterdam |
| 2004 | Participation symposium on photography and psychiatry, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam |
| Grants | |
| 2024 | Project Grant, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2020 | Depth Development for Artists and Mediators, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2017 | Smithsonian Artistic Research Fellowship, Washington, D.C. USA |
| 2017 | Filmic Experiment-New Screen NL, Film Fund |
| 2017 | Depth Development for Artists and Mediators, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2017 | AFK, Amsterdam Fund for the Art |
| 2015 | Depth Development for Artists and Mediators, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2012 | Publication grant, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2012 | SNS REaal Fund |
| 2012 | Foundation Sem Presser Archive |
| 2012 | De Gijselaar-Hintzenfund |
| 2008 | Projectsubsidie LIVE, Fund for the Arts, Design and Architecture |
| 2001 | Prins Bernhard Cultuurfund |
| 2001 | Project support, Fund for the Arts, Design and Architecture |
| 1991-2012 | Grants, Fund for the Arts, Design, and Architecture, Amsterdam |
| 1990 | Startstipendium, Fund for the Arts, Design and Architecture |
| Activities as an advisor, curator, tutor, mentor, membership jury | |
| 2025 | Week of Failure, organizing and moderating i.c.w. Noor Nuyten, Academy Minerva, Hanze University for Applied Science |
| 2021 | Initiator and moderator OpenUp Artist Talks, Academie Minerva en Master Frank Mohr Insitute |
| 2020-2022 | Co-chairman Foundation Artisbook, Groningen |
| 2020 | Master Institute of Visual Cultures in Art, Media, Design St. Joost School |
| 2019 | Portfolio Reviews, the Nederlands Fotomuseum i.c.w. Nationale-Nederlanden, Rotterdam |
| 2019 | PI.lab’s Data and Truth Symposium collaboration of the Radboud University, Tilburg University and TNO, Utrecht |
| 2015- present | individual artist coaching trajectories |
| 2015 | Curator Dutch Artist’s Books in international perspective, (i.c.w. Henk Woudsma and Barthold Boksem) Academy Minerva, Groningen |
| 2014 | Guest tutor Academy of fine Arts HKU, Utrecht |
| 2014 | Guest tutor Academy of Architecture, Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten |
| 2013-2016 | Mentor at Werkbijdrage Jong Talent, Mondriaan Fund |
| 2013-present | Member of the research group Readership PRICCA Practice |
| 2013 | Jurylid George Verberg Stipendium |
| 2012 | Co-curator program Studium Generale, Royal Academy, The Hague |
| 2011-2015 | Member Curriculum Committee, Fine Arts Academie Minerva, Groningen |
| 2010-2011 | Tutor excellence program, Visual Art and Photography, Hanze University, Minerva Academy, Groningen |
| 2009-2012 | Advisor, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam |
| 2008-2017 | Mentorship and coaching Cultuur en Ondernemen, Amsterdam |
| 2007 | Guest curator Festival of Photography, Naarden |
| 2006-present | Tutor Visual Art and Photography, Hanze University, Minerva Academy, Groningen |
| 2006 | Extern expert Photography at the Hanze University, Minerva Academy, Groningen |
| 1999-present | Start archive amateur images (55.000 slides)* |
| 2006 | Lecture photography, Broeikas, Deventer |
| 2005 | Participation workshop on photography and reminiscence, SKOR i.c.w. Rivas, Gorkum |
| 2002-2004 | Advisor, Fund for the Arts, Design and Architecture, Amsterdam |
| 2002-2010 | Advisor art in public space, CBK Rotterdam |
| 2002 | Lecture Graphic Design, Gerrit Rietveld Academy |
| 2002 | Advisor art in public space, Kunstgebouw Z-Holland |
| Projects in public space (selection) | |
| 2009 | Porcelain roof of foliage, Den Bosch |
| 2008 | Design of the coin of the Netherlands, Ministry of Finance |
| 2008 | Waves on IJburg, housing Ymere, Amsterdam |
| 1999 | Flat Groeneveen, Bijlmermeer, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts |
| 1999 | Courthouse, Groningen, Rijksgebouwendienst |
| 1998 | Sophia Child Hospital, Rotterdam, Rijksgebouwendienst |
| Collecties (selection) | |
| SFMOMA-Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco | |
| MoMA Library, Manhattan and Queens, New York | |
| ICP- International Center of Photography Library, New York | |
| The Metropolitan Museum Library, New York | |
| Princeton University Library, Princeton, USA | |
| The Yale University Library, New Haven | |
| Getty Research Institute Library, Los Angeles | |
| New York Public Library Special Collections, New York | |
| EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam | |
| Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Artists’ book collection | |
| Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam | |
| Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam | |
| Museum van de Geest, Haarlem, Amsterdam | |
| ABN-Amro Bank, Amsterdam | |
| Rijksmuseum Meermanno Westreenianum, | |
| Museum voor het boek, Den Haag | |
| Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris | |
| Prix Livre d’Artiste, Association Bob Calle, Library of Beaux-Arts, Paris | |
| The Royal Museum of Arts, Brussels, Belgium |