Curriculum Vitae
Simone Bennett -Multimedia artist / Co-head Moving Image department VAV Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
• All is not lost, NL=US Gallery Art Rotterdam 2022
• Hearth and Home, Museum Hilversum 2020
• Lost Films, Bravis collection Hospital, Bergen op Zoom 2017
• You can’t wrap your arms around a memory, C&H Gallery Amsterdam 2017
• Lost Films, de Balie, Amsterdam 2016
• Come Home, Berm Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
• 1 +1=1 Arti et Amicitiae with Machteld Aardse. Amsterdam 2024
• I am not a Robot het Archief no 2. Rotterdam 2023
• Nieuwe Vrijheidsbeelden with Robbert van Hulzen Museum Alkmaar 2022
• Festival in de Branding Den Haag 2019
• Big Art 2019/2021
• DNA of Water Newhouse Center for contemporary art, New York 2017
• Unland CBK zuidoost 2016
• Museum night Arnhem Rozet Studio Omstand 2018
• Pulse exhibition Studio Omstand, Arnhem 2017
• Lievensberg Hospital Dordrecht, Work part of the Bravis collection Netherlands 2014
• MN8 Lieve heer op Solder with Peter Vandrie, Netherlands 2013
• W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2009
• Arttransponder gallery, Berlin, Germany 2006
• Culture night, Den Haag, Netherlands 2005
• Sign Gallery, Groningen, Netherlands 2002
FILM SCREENINGS
• Pavilion artist moving image network Leeds 2023
• Photo North Festival Leeds UK 2023
• Fine arts film fest Santa Barbara 2022
• Birzarrya Filmfestival Portugal 2022
• Fescisa Filmfestival San Antonio Independent film Ecuador 2021
• Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival Greece 2021
• Prague International Film Festival Czech Republic, 2021
• Apex film awards UK 2021
• Anatolia International film festival Turkey 2021
• Vienna indie short film festival Austria 2021
• Dumbo film festival New York US 2021
• London indie short film festival UK 2021
• Florida Shorts US 2021
• Art Film Awards Macadonia 2021
• Seasonal short Film Festival UK 2021
• Eye film poule Lumiere Maastricht 2018
• International Kansk Video Festival, Siberië 2015
• Exbunker Festival Utrecht, Netherlands 2015
• Experimentele film De Uitkijk Amsterdam, Netherlands 2014
• Riga film festival, Letland 2014
• Metro movies Bullewijk station Amsterdam, Netherlands 2013
• Short films Anthology Film Archives New York, United States 2013
• Best Dutch shorts 2012 DVD EYE 2013
• Signes de Nuit Television Bocal, France Paris 2013
• France Arts channel, Amsterdam Rotterdam, Netherlands
• International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands 2012
• EMAF Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany 2012
• EYE Film museum, Amsterdam Netherlands 2012
• Nederlands Film Festival, Utrecht Netherlands 2012
• 2inOne Film Festival Moskou, Russia 2012
• KasselerDokfest, Kassel, Germany 2012
• ZwergWERK – Oldenburg Short Film Days, Germany 2012
• International Festival Signes de Nuit, Paris, France 2012
• International Experimental Film Festival BIEFF, Bucharest 2012
• Incubate Tilburg, Netherlands 2012
• Einstürzende Neubauten Festival, Melkweg Amsterdam, 2010
• Union docs, New York, United States 2010
• Eye Film museum Amsterdam, Netherlands 2010
• Dziga Nijmegen, Netherlands 2010
• International Exhibition of Video Art and Cinema Beyond, Milan, Italy 2009
• Bornshorts, Denmark 2009
• The Hispanic Society of Dia Foundation, New York, United States 2009
• Videoholica festival, Milan, Italy 2009
• Klirszyft festival, Warschau, Poland 2008
• Crossing Border Festival, Den Haag Netherlands 2008
• Interfilm, Berlin, Germany 2008
• Curtocircuito Film festival, Spain
• CapalbioCinema Filmfestival, Rome Italy 2008
• Lost & Found, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2008
• Amsterdam Shorts Festival, De Balie, Kriterion, Netherlands 2008
• O&O Celluloid / Digitaal #7 De Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2008
• Kenya International Film Festival, Kenya 2007
• Goethe Instituut in Los Angeles and Mexico 2007
• Enntzaubert Queer, Berlin, Germany 2007
• Filmbank ‘Cinema at Home’, Velp, Netherlands 2007
• Girls on Film, Manchester, United Kingdom 2007
• Star and Shadow cinema, Newcastle, United Kingdom 2007
• Fast Forward, Room with a View 5, Antwerp, Belgium 2007
• Ladyfest, Rotterdam and Berlin 2006
• Thiswasnotsupposedtohappen Film Fest, Berkshire, United Kingdom 2006
• Queer Film Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom 2006
• Chicks on Speed Kevin Blechdoms and PTR record release, Website
• Heldinnen des Alltags short film festival, Bielefeld, Germany 2006
• Flaming Film Fest, Minnesota, United States 2006
• Queer Feminist Film Festival, Zürich 2006
• Reclaim the Streets, Munich, Germany 2003
• The Side Cinema, Newcastle, United Kingdom 2003
• Netherlands National Film Festival, Utrecht, Netherlands 2002
AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
• Winner Gentle Wildfire Maracay International Film & Video Festival Venezuela 2022
• Nominated best experimental short Lisbon film festival Portugal 2021
• Winner Gentle Wildfire Short to the point festival Romania 2021
• Nominated Hollywood International Golden Age festival 2021
• Finalist New York International Women Festival US 2021
• Nominated best short film Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival UK 2013
• Nominated best film Guanajuato International film festival, Mexico 2012
• Nominated Truth Machine Media Art Biennale WRO, Poland 2009
• Winner Truth Machine Best Experimental Short Concorto Film Festival Italy. 2008
• Nominated Truth Machine Amsterdam Hero award best Dutch short IAFF 2008
RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/ COLLECTIONS/ PUBLICATIONS
• Mondriaan fund Stichting Strand links Dutch embassy UK Tender Giant 2025/2026
• Stephen Cripps Henry Moore Research Centre The Cultural Participation Fund 2024
• Leeds23 EastStreet Arts & Dutch Embassy for Leeds23. 2023 / 2024
• Filmfund Stichting Strand links Gentle Wildfire 2022
• AFK, Lost Films, de Balie, Amsterdam 2016
• Rotterdam media fund, Mondriaan fund, Filmfund Motor 2011
• Filmfund, Mondriaan fund, Truth Machine 2007
• Residency-Fish Factory Cornwal 2022
• Private residency Dordogne France. 2021
• Selected films are part of Eye Film Museum collection.
• Selected work is part of the Bravis collection.
• Lightboxes are part of the Museum Hilversum Collection.
• Publication – Soanyway magazine with Boff Whalley 2025
• Publication – Hearth and Home Museum Hilversum foreword by Paula Albuquerque 2020
• Publication – Still Film Photobook designed K. Hero, foreword by Mirthe Berentsen
• Publication – Spread in Parking Lot Magazine with artist Tom Mason 2015
RESUME
• Teaching and Basic Examiner QC for universities of applied Sciences 2021
• Audio-Visual Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam 1998-2002
• Course Scriptwriting Script School Amsterdam 2010
• Berlinale (talent campus program) Berlin, Germany 2007
• Course Directing Actors Raindance institute London 2009
• Bachelor Fine art Hogeschool van de Kunsten Utrecht 1998