Background
Jeanne van Heeswijk was born in 1965 in Schijndel, The Netherlands.
Jeanne van Heeswijk was born in 1965 in Schijndel, The Netherlands.
From 1983-1988 she attended the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming in Tilden, The Netherlands. From 1988 to 1990 she attended the January Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Her work often focuses on social practice art, or the relationship between space, geography and urban renewal. She currently lives and works in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. In 2005 she created a temporary artwork at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in Amsterdam, entitled Face Your World, which allowed young people to re-imagine and design their surrounding neighborhood.
In 2008 she participated in the Seventh Shanghai Biennale, which was themed "Translocalmotion".
In 2010 she was commissioned to create a project for the Liverpool Biennial, which was entitled 2Up 2Down. Foreign this project, van Heeswijk worked with local Liverpool residents to repurpose derelict housing.
In 2014 it was announced the van Heeswijk would be the inaugural Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism at Bard College. Hendrik Chabot Award, 2002
Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change, 2011.
Curry Stone Design Prize, 2012.