Rudolf Bikkers, Radio Corporation of America is a Canadian painter, printmaker, educator and entrepreneur.
Education
In 1960 at the age of 17 he was the youngest student to be admitted to the January Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on a six-year scholarship and graduated with honours in 1966. He studied the cello with Bob Reuling for two years, followed by four years with Chrétien Bonfrère at the Conservatorium of Maastricht.
Career
Bikkers has had 23 solo shows and participated in 20 group shows in Canada, the United States, Europe, South Africa, China, Japan and Russia. In the summer of 1966 he emigrated to Canada. From 1967–1969 he taught drawing at H.B. Beal Secondary School in London, Ontario.
From 1969–1976 he was Chair of the Printmaking Department at Fanshawe College in London, Ontario.
In 1975 he established the Master Print Studio “Editions Canada Incorporated.”, custom printing and publishing many Canadian and international artists, among them Greg Curnoe, Jack Chambers, Edward Bartram, Clark McDougall, Walter Redinger, Claude Breeze, Karel Appel and Paul Jenkins. In 1983 he became the Chair of Printmaking at OCA, (now OCAD University) in Toronto where he taught until July 1, 2012.
His work is part of many public collections at the AGO, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Banff Arts Centre, National Archives, Art Bank Canada Council, Art Gallery of Windsor, Hamilton Art Gallery, Museum London, Gallery Stratford, Metro Toronto Reference Library, OCAD University, McIntosh Gallery Western, Art Gallery of Mississauga, and Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation. Among his fundraising initiatives was in 2000 the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Artists International Direct Support) Portfolio for Sub-Saharan children affected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and in 2002 the Radio Corporation of America/EPSON Painters Portfolio.
Membership
Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.