Lydia Schouten
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| birth_date = 1948
| birth_place = Leiden, Netherlands
| nationality = Dutch
| education = Free Academy in The Hague, Academy of Fine Arts
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File:Muurschildering Eendrachtsstraat Rotterdam.jpg in Rotterdam, 2002-2005. ]]
Lydia Schouten (born 1948, Leiden, Netherlands) is an internationally-known Dutch performance and video artist.{{cite web|title=Lydia Schouten, Artist in distribution, Netherlands, 1948|url=http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/agent/lydia-schouten/66|website=LIMA preserves, distributes and researches media art|accessdate=13 February 2017}} Early in her career she critiqued traditional women's roles and the portrayal of women as sex objects. More recently, her work considers themes of loneliness, sex and violence.{{cite web|title=Lydia Schouten|url=http://www.cultureelwoordenboek.nl/index.php?lem=7164|website=CULTUREEL WOORDENBOEK|accessdate=13 February 2017}} As of 2004, she lives in Amsterdam.{{cite web|title=Lydia SCHOUTEN|url=http://www.ewva.ac.uk/lydia-schouten.html|website=EWVA European Women's Video Art|accessdate=13 February 2017}} Her work has been exhibited internationally and she has held artist in residencies in several countries. Schouten received the Maaskant Award from city of Rotterdam
in 1975.
Education
Schouten studied at the Free Academy of Visual Arts in The Hague from 1967 to 1971 and at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam from 1971 to 1976.
Work
File:20160917 Broederenkerk met kunstwerk Lydia Schouten Zutphen.jpg
From 1978 to 1981 she was mainly concerned with performance art, from 1981 to 1988 mainly with video art. She frequently appears in her videos, e.g. Romeo is bleeding (1982).{{cite web|title=Romeo is Bleeding Lydia Schouten, 1982, 11'18"|url=http://www.li-ma.nl/site/catalogue/art/lydia-schouten/romeo-is-bleeding/778|website=LIMA|accessdate=13 February 2017}} In 1984, her work was included in The Luminous Image, an international exhibition of video art at the Stedelijk Museum.{{cite book|last1=Lopez|first1=Sebastian|title=A short history of Dutch video art|date=2005|publisher=Episode Publ.|location=Rotterdam|isbn=9789059730311|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1YNVsYlCnwC&pg=PA22|accessdate=13 February 2017}} She was a member of the Time Based Arts Foundation, an organization of video artists.{{cite web|title=The story of the collection|url=http://www.li-ma.nl/site/distribution/collection|website=LIMA|accessdate=13 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=History of the Collection|url=http://nimk.nl/eng/collection/history-of-the-collection|website=Netherlands Media Art Institute|accessdate=13 February 2017}} Since 1988 she has focused on installations with photography, sound and video as key components. Her work has been described as "a rhetorical corruption of the icons of popular culture"{{cite web|title=Please wait... The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands: 1970-1985|url=http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=190|website=Daniel Langlois Foundation|accessdate=13 February 2017}} which is at times both "shocking" and "poignantly beautiful".{{cite web|last1=Perrée|first1=Rob|title=Lydia Schouten: Le Jardin Secret (E)|url=http://robperree.com/articles/358/lydia-schouten-le-jardin-secret-e|website=Rob Perrée : Art and Literature|date=2006}} She herself has said that her work often involves overcoming her own fears.{{cite web|last1=Westen|first1=Mirjam|title=The Beauty of Both & A Song for Mannahata|url=http://witteveenvisualart.nl/The-Beauty-of-Both-A-Song-for-Mannahata|website=Witteveen Visual Art|accessdate=13 February 2017|date=2015}}
She has received travel grants from the Ministry of Cultural Affairs (1981, 1982) and has been an artist in residence in Curaçao, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, and Germany as well as her native Holland.{{cite web|title=Study and residencies|url=http://www.lydiaschouten.com/7_BIOGRAPHY.html|website=Lydia Schouten|accessdate=13 February 2017}} Her work has been exhibited at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne,{{cite web|title=Lydia Schouten: A titkos kert 2006. május 11 - 2006. július 2.|url=http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/site.php?inc=kiallitas&menuId=10&kiallitasId=283|website=Ludwig Museum|accessdate=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320052257/http://www.ludwigmuseum.hu/site.php?inc=kiallitas&menuId=10&kiallitasId=283|archive-date=20 March 2017|url-status=dead}} the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Torch Gallery in Amsterdam, the Institute of Contemporary Art in New York City and the Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo.{{cite web|title=Lydia Schouten|url=http://www.galeries.nl/kn.asp?artistnr=1422|website=Galeries.NL|accessdate=13 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170320143722/http://www.galeries.nl/kn.asp?artistnr=1422|archive-date=20 March 2017|url-status=dead}}
Her travels to New York, which was originally settled by the Dutch in 1609, have inspired works such as her media installation A Song for Mannahata.
Lydia Schouten has done work for public spaces, such as the Monument voor de Verdronken Dorpen in Zeeland ('Monument to the Drowned Villages') in Colijnsplaat. The monument includes a tower with speakers and a sound installation which serves as a reminder of the 117 villages, and their populations, which were flooded during the Flood of 1953.{{cite web|title=Monument for the drowned villages of Zeeland (2009)|url=http://www.lydiaschouten.com/img/comm/01_co06_monument2.html |website=Lydia Schouten|accessdate=13 February 2017}}{{cite web|title=Monument for the drowned villages of Zeeland (2007)|url=http://www.lydiaschouten.com/img/comm/01_co06_monument.html|website=Lydia Schouten|accessdate=13 February 2017}}
Exhibitions
Schouten is in the show "Feminist Avantgarde from the Seventies” which has been traveling around the world since 2016.{{Cite web|url=http://www.lydiaschouten.com/7_BIOGRAPHY.html|title=L y d i a S c h o u t e n {{!}} Biography|website=www.lydiaschouten.com|access-date=2019-03-01}}
Awards
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Category:Dutch performance artists
Category:Women performance artists
Category:20th-century Dutch artists
Category:21st-century Dutch artists