Remy Jungerman (1959) lives and works in New York and Amsterdam. He attended the Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Education in Paramaribo, Suriname, before moving to Amsterdam where he studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
In his work, Jungerman explores the intersection of pattern and symbol in Surinamese Maroon culture, the larger African diaspora, and 20th century Modernism.
Over the past 30 years Jungerman has woven thematic threads that are deeply connected to his birthplace, Suriname, placing fragments of the ceremonial textiles used in the Afro-Surinamese religious tradition Winti and other materials found in the African diaspora in direct contact with materials and imagery from 20th Century Modernism. At the core of his practice, Jungerman uses kaolin clay and the gridded Winti textiles, harnessing their symbolic presence in his work. Winti practitioners use the clay on their bodies for purification and wear specific fabric colour combinations that correlate with the four key elements: water, earth, air and forest.
In 2022 Jungerman received the A.H.Heineken Prize for Art.
From November 20, 2021 – April 10, 2022 he was the subject of a career survey show at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam titled Remy Jungerman: Behind the Forest.
In 2019 he represented the Netherlands at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. In 2008 he received the Fritschy Culture Award from the Museum het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands.
Jungerman is co-founder and curator of the Wakaman Project, drawing Lines - connecting dots. Wakaman, which means “walking man,”was born out of a desire to examine the position of visual artists of Surinamese origin and to raise their profile(s) on the international stage.
He is represented by Goodman Gallery in London, New York, Johannesburg and Cape Town in South Africa; Fridman Gallery in New York; and Galerie Ron Mandos in The Netherlands.
His international residencies include Hermitage Artists Retreat in Florida, Art Omi, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP) in New York and Tembe Art Centre, Moengo, SR.
His work has been featured in numerous publications and acquired by various institutions and private collectors worldwide. His first book, Remy Jungerman. Where the RiverRuns, published by Jap Sam Books in 2019, won the 2019 50books | 50covers design award from the AIGA in the US and has received two 2019 30 Best DutchBook Designs awards (as per a student jury from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam). His second book, Remy Jungerman. Behind the Forest, was produced in connection to his solo exhibition at Stedelijk MuseumAmsterdam. His third book, Tracing the Lines: Patterns of the African Diaspora was published by Jap Sam Books in 2024.
He has exhibited works at: Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam, NL; 58th Venice Biennial, Dutch Pavilion, IT; Prospect3, NewOrleans, US; Brooklyn Museum, New York, US; El Museo del Barrio, New York, US; Katonah Museum, New York, US; International African American Museum (IAAM),Charleston, US; Kunstmuseum, The Hague, NL; Mondrian House, Amersfoort, NL; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum,Ludwigshafen, DE, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE; Goodman Gallery, London, GB,Johannesburg and Cape Town, SA; Fridman Gallery, New York, US; Galerie RonMandos, Amsterdam, NL; Dots Gallery, Belgrade, RS; Rennie Museum, Vancouver,CA; Havana Biennale, CU; Museum Bamako, ML; Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam,NL, Amsterdam Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Museum COBRA, Amstelveen, NL; CentraalMuseum, Utrecht, NL; Museum Arnhem, NL; Museum De Domeinen, Sittard, NL; AfrikaMuseum, Berg en Dal, NL; Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden, NL; Zeeuws Museum,Leeuwarden, NL; Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, NL; Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal,NL, Museum Tromso, NO; Stedelijk Museum Aalst, BE; Lumen Travo Gallery,Amsterdam, NL; Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, US; Hudson Valley MOCA, NewYork, US; New Jersey City University, New Jersey, US; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, DE; Schloss Oberdiessbach, CH; Malba, Buenos Aires, AR; Cemeti ArtHouse, Yogyakarta, ID; Gallery Krinzinger, Salzburg / Vienna, AT; Musée Art Contemporain, FR; Air de Paris, FR.
Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam, NL
Academy for Higher Arts and Cultural Studies, Paramaribo, SR
Orientation trip to USA and CUBA, Mondriaan Fund (NL)
Nomination Black Achievement Award (NL)
Winter Residency Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, New York
Mondriaan Fund, Project investering bemiddelaar en kunstenaar (NL)
NY Residency, Marc Straus Gallery, New York
Mondriaan Fund, Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent (NL)
Art Omi Residency, Ghent, New York
Mondriaan Fund, Residency Tembe Art Studio, Moengo (SR)
RAVY, Rencontres d’Arts Visuels de Yaoundé, Musée National Cameroun
Fonds BKVB, Intendant Cultural Diversity Administrator 2007-2009
Fritschy Culture Award, Sittard (NL)
CCA7 Residency, Port of Spain (TT)
TGD4, International Artist Workshop, Tambacounda (SN)
Big River International Artists Workshop, Grande Riviere (TT)
The Soroa International Artists Workshop, Soroa, Pinar del Rio (CU)
Fault Lines, Goodman Gallery, London
Higher Ground, Katonah Museum of Art, New York
FNB Art Jobrurg, Goodman Gallery
The Measurement of Presence, Dutch Pavilion, Venice Biennial
Neap Tide, Galerie Ron Mandos, Amsterdam
In Transit, Expositieruimte 38 CC, Delft (NL)
Winter Artist Residency, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peekskill, New York
AWE, Charles B. Benenson Gallery, Art Omi, Ghent, New York
3rd Atlantic Obeah, Presidents Gallery, New York
FESITEN – first time, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam
Crossing the Water, Kunst Museum, Den Haag (NL)
Open Studio NY Residency, Marc Straus Gallery, New York
KABRA. Descendants Exchange, Kunstverenging Diepenheim (NL)
Adding Up to the West, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam
Limited Edition, Galerie 23, Amsterdam
Positions, Kurt Nahar meets Remy Jungerman, De Hal, Paramaribo (SR)
Remy Jungerman & Folkert de Jong Metis-NL Gallery, Amsterdam
Africourt, during International Short Film Festival of Benin
Desire, Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, NL
Fritschy Culture Award, Museum Het Domein, Sittart (NL)
Afro-Intensity, Kunst Vlaai, Amsterdam
Afro-Blue, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Absolute Truth, Gemak, Den Haag (NL)
Absolute Truth, Buro Leeuwarden (NL)
Territory, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Flattened Toad Force, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
Waardige Zaken, Het Oude Slot, Heemstede (NL)
Sometimes Travelers don’t come back, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Made in India, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Remy Jungerman, Gallery Lumen Travo, Amsterdam
Zuivering, Thalia, Paramaribo (SR)
Tomorrow is a Different day,Collection 1980 – now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Creative Journeys, InternationalAfrican American Museum (IAAM), Charleston, USA
CollectionCentraal, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
A Delicious Dead, Museum tot Zover, Amsterdam
Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, DE
INTERPLAYNO. 3, Das MINSK, Postdam, Berlin, DE
Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
Tomorrow is a Different day,Collection 1980 – now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Maps Unfolded – From Atlas to Street Map, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam
Miami Seasonal Gallery, Goodman Gallery, Miami
Mondrian Moves, Kunstmuseum, the Hague, (NL)
We is an other; for a poetics of Relation, Video festival Fuso Insular, MNAC/Museu do Chiado, Lisboa, Portugal
The Breath of the Ancestors, Congo Biennale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic Congo
The Agreement: Chromatic Presences. Curated by William Corwin, ZÜRCHER Gallery, New York
The same space in tree times, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town
Udubaki part 2, Ready Tex Gallery, Paramaribo, SR
Freethinkers: from Spinoza to Now, Amsterdam Museum
Tomorrow is a Different Day, Collection 1980 – Now, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Small World Real World, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Healing Power, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam
Reflections beyond the Surface, AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam
Hot/Cold – Dry/Wet: On Art and Latitude, Schloss Oberdiessbach, Switzerland
Young Artists: One, Fridman Gallery, New York
In the Presence of Absence, proposals for the Museum Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Healing Power, Museum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden
Dis/location: mapping Black Europa, New Jersey City University, New Jersey
Revival: Contemporary Pattern and Decoration, El Museo del Barrio, Longwood Art Gallery @ Hostos, the Bronx, New York
Spring Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York
Fall Open Studios, International Studio & Curatorial Program, Brooklyn, New York
‘I AM A NATIVE FOREIGNER’ Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Bye Bye de Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL
Private room: Artists from the Gallery, C&H Gallery, Amsterdam
Nadia Naveau & Remy Jungerman, I Presume, DAK@ galerie Sanaa, Utrecht, NL
Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada
Arrows Shot From the Bow, Rietveld Cordemeyer Huis, Apeldoorn, NL
This is not a show, Marc Straus Gallery, NY
Expo Chicago, Marc Straus Gallery, Chicago, USA
Global Inspirations, LUMC, Leiden, NL
Tembe fu Libi, Moengo Festival of Visual Arts, Moengo, Suriname (cat)
Exclude/include. Alternate Histories Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
Zomertentoonstelling Kunstverenging Diepenheim, NL
Prospect.3 Notes for Now, New Orleans Contemporary Art Biennial (cat)
I am not doing anything until I feel the need, De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam (cat)
Art Fair, Amsterdam Drawing, C&H Art Space Gallery, NL
The Daylight Show, Galerie Ton de Boer @ Dresselhuyspaviljoen, NL
Spirit Levels, CCA Glasgow, Scotland
Flow, IDB Cultural Center Art Gallery Washington, DC
Art Rotterdam with C&H Art Space, NL
BIAC, International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Martinique
Van God Los? Je geest in balans, Museum het Dolhuys, Haarlem, NL
First Biënnale Of The South in Panama, Panama City
The World of Extraordinary Objects, October Gallery, London
Gallery Artists + Guest, C&H Art Space, Amsterdam
‘Who More Sci-Fi Than Us?’ Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, NL (cat)
More to Tell, Recent Acquisitions, Museum het Domein, Sittard, NL
Running Tread (Wakaman), C&H Art Space, Amsterdam
Gallery Artists Show André Simoens Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Art Brussels and Art Paris with Gallery Andre Simoens
Mi Art Milano, Metis-NL Gallery
10th edition of the Havana Biennial, Cuba (cat)
Droog Shop NYC, New York
Higher Ground, curated by Astrid Honold, Metis-NL Gallery, Amsterdam
Licht aan Zee, Born on Wednesday, Kunsthal 52, den Helder, NL
The Rhetoric of Doubt, Galerie André Simoens, Knokke, Belgium
Black is Beautiful: Rubens to Dumas, Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (cat)
Exoten, Belmonte Arboretum, Wageningen, NL (cat)
Arco 08, 27th International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
Infinite Island, Contemporary Caribbean Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York City (cat)
The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
By The Way, Museum Tongerlohuys, Roosendaal, NL (cat)
Nederland 1, Museum het Catharina Gasthuis, Gouda, NL
Papier. Beeld & Basis: Cartografie, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
Bison Caravan, Museum Bamako, Mali, Africa
Four by Four, Kashi Art Gallery, Fort Cochin, India (cat)
Flatscreen project, Polvo, Chicago, USA
Rendez-vous 2005, Musée Art contemporain, Lyon, France
Wakaman, TENT. Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, NL
la Planck, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
Gekleurde Vormgeving, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
Black & White and a little bit of color, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL (cat)
Utopia, Gorcums Museum, NL (cat)
Grid 2, Gallery éof, Paris, FR (cat)
Secrets of the 90’s, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, NL
Wish You Were (T)here, Stedelijk Museum Aalst, Belgium
Art Fair, 31st Fiac, Paris Expo-Porte de Versailles, Paris
Objects in Mirror are closer than they appear, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat)
Armour / Asperen, Ford Asperen, Acquoy, NL (cat)
Black My Story, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, NL (cat)
Political Correct, Dutch?, Gallery Krinzinger, Salzburg / Vienna, Austria (cat)
Grid, Cemeti Art House, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (cat)
No ID, Sakshi Gallery, Bombay, India
European Living, The Hague Sculpture, The Hague, NL (cat)
Politics of Difference, Malba, Buenos Aires, Argentina (cat)
Politics of Difference, Palacio de Congresos, Recife, Brazil (cat)
Bank Secrets in the Attic, Museum Amstelkring, Amsterdam
We are always on the edge of the wilderness, W139, Amsterdam
Closer to One Another, Biennial of Havana, Cuba (cat)
The Container, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany
Glad ijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat)
Big River, National Museum, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (cat)
Power Up, Museum Arnhem, NL (cat)
Gate way to the Arctic, Museum Tromso, Norway
In the Ditch, Out of the Ditch, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat)
Around Europa, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
20 years of fine Arts In Suriname, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (cat)New Light, Peninsula, Eindhoven, NL (cat)
20 years of fine Arts In Suriname, Ford Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname (cat)