MANDY FRANCA
b. 1989 | Rotterdam, NL
EDUCATION
2020: Master of Arts (Distinction) | Print | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2016: Bachelor of Arts | Fashion | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam, NL
RESIDENCIES
2022-24: Resident Artist | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026: I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me | Solo exhibition curated by Delany Boutkan | Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Schiedam, NL
2026: De Internet Gids | Dossier ‘Val’ in collaboration with Delany Boutkan | NL
2026: Art Rotterdam | Solo Presentation with Night Café | Rotterdam, NL
2025: Why Do I Stare at the Sky and Long for the Clouds | Solo Exhibition | Night Café | Londen, UK
2025: Independent | Solo Presentation with Night Café | New York, US
2024: On Longing | Two-Person Exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
2024: Acts of Transience | Two-Person Exhibition | Night Café | London, UK
2022: Bone Black | Two-Person Exhibition curated Jeneé-Daria Strand | White Columns | New York, US
2022: CAJU / KASHU / CAYÚ | Solo Exhibition | Harlesden High Street | London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026: Thinking Hands | Noorderlicht Pre-Biennale curated by Musoke Nalwoga and Roosje Klap | Groningen, NL (upcoming)
2026: NN Art Award 2026 | Kunsthal | Rotterdam, NL
2026: In Place | Particular Ideas | London, UK
2025: Sun, Don’t Rush to be Red. Son, Don’t Rush to be Read | curated by Rawad Baaklini | TENT | Rotterdam, NL
2025: Search for Tomorrow | Bernheim Gallery | London, UK
2025: Surface | MIRROR | Plymouth, UK
2025: Surface | Millimetre hosted by Kingsgate Project Space | London, UK
2024: Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames | curated by Vincent van Velsen & Mirelva Berghout | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam, NL
2024: Open Studios | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
2023: Mixed Feelings | Upstream Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2023: Open Studios | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
2023: This has travelled through the night to you | Millimetre hosted by Kingsgate Project Space | London, UK
2023: Held in Flux | In:sight Projects hosted by Soho Revue Gallery| London, UK
2022: Lovely View | Way Out East Gallery | London, UK
2022: SZN - Summer Show | SEASON | London, UK
2022: Paint(comsum)ing | The Function Suite | London, UK
2022: Royal College of Art | 2020 Degree Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2022: International Women’s Day Auction | Fundraising Group Exhibition | Art on a Postcard | London, UK
2022: Artsy - Ones to Watch - 2022 | Open Doors Gallery | London, UK
2021: Wish You Were Here | Fundraising Group Exhibition | Art Refuge | London, UK
2021: Sequences 05 | The Who Gallery | London, UK
2021: Warm Vessels in Search at Sunset | Harlesden High School by Harlesden High Street | London, UK
2021: Hotsheet 2020 | Downstairs Brixton | London, UK
2021: Holding Space | Subject Matter | London, UK
2020: Lick the Future | Where’s the Frame | London, UK
2020: 5 Hours | Sook Spaces | London, UK
2020: London Grads Now - Royal College of Art | Saatchi Gallery | London, UK
2020: Royal College of Art & Slade External Degree Show | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | London, UK
2020: In Touch | Danielle Arnaud Gallery | London, UK
2020: Final, Not Over: Session 3 | Unit 1 Gallery Workshop | London, UK
2020: RCA2020 | Virtual Degree Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2020: Against the Grain | Southwark Park Galleries | London, UK
2019: 20:20 In:sight Projects | Soho Revue Gallery | London, UK
2019: RCA Print Department | Hockney Gallery | London, UK
2019: Work-in-Progress Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2012 - 2013: Blue Jeans | Centraal Museum | Utrecht, NL
COLLECTIONS
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | NL
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | NL
Art Vontobel Collection | CH
AkzoNobel Art Foundation | NL
NN Art Collection | NL
GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2026 : NN Art Award (shortlisted) | NL
2025-28 : Mondriaan Fund - Artist Basic | NL
2025 : Stichting Stokroos | NL
2024 : Machteld Vos and Willem Sijthoff Fellowship | NL
2022 : George Hendrik Breitner Fellowship | NL
2022 : Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | NL
2020 : Augustus Martin Prize | UK
2020 : HIGH prize for Creative Excellence (shortlisted) | UK
2020 : Schuurman Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting | NL
2019 : Distinction for dissertation ‘This is not a journal; these are random thoughts organised neatly’ | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2019 : Koningin Sophiafonds | NL
2019 : Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude | NL
2018 : Koningin Sophiafonds | NL
2018 : Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Peter Paul Peterich Fonds/ Van der Vossen-Delbrück Fonds/ Attje Jacoba Vixseboxse Fonds) | NL
2018 : Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude | NL
2018 : Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | NL
2018 : Stichting Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds | NL
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2026: Glamcult | Online | In I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me, Mandy Franca finds meaning in the obvious | Online
2026: ArtDaily | Mandy Franca explores the shared infrastructure of breath in new exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Online
2026: Damn Magazine | “I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me” by Mandy Franca opens at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Online
2026: De Internet Gids | Online | Dossier ‘Val’ in collaboration with Delany Boutkan | NL 2026: Metropolis M |
2026: Metropolis M | Introducing: Mandy Franca | Issue 2, april - may | Print | NL
2026: Metropolis M | and and and or or or – 15 exhibitions and events to look forward to in 2026 | Online
2026: Phaidon Press | Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting | Print | UK
2026: Art Rotterdam | Meet the nominees for the NN Art Award 2026: III Mandy Franca | Online
2026: Palette Talk | Mandy Franca’s Mixed Media Paintings Reflect on Freedom and the Everyday | Online
2025: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Stedelijk acquires works by 7 artists | Online
2025: Financial Times | ‘Getting rich quick is out of the question’: what does it take to open a gallery in London these days? | Online
2025: Impulse Magazine | Standout Booths at the Independent Art Fair 2025 | Online
2025: The Other Art Girl | Review: “Why Do I Stare at the Sky and Long for the Clouds” | Online
2025: Night Café | Mandy Franca - On Being Light and Liquid | publication in collaboration with Night Café | Print | UK
2025: Mister Motley | Where technology and tenderness come together - in conversation with Mandy Franca | | Online
2024: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames | Exhibition Catalog | Print | NL
2024: Het Parool | Review: Circulate at the Stedelijk shows that a photograph is no longer just about a picture. | Online
2024: Harper’s Bazaar - Art & Interior Special | Edition 2 | Print | NL
2024: Metropolis M | On Each Other’s Rhythm — Open Studios 2024 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam | Online
2024: NRC | In the open studios of the Rijksacademie, you feel the turbulence of the world. | Print & Online | NL
2023: Het Parool | Children are more than welcome at Amsterdam Art Week: ‘If you want to remove barriers, you have to start early’ | Print & Online | NL
2022: Elle Magazine | Edition 2 | Print | NL
2022: émergent magazine | Mandy Franca at Harlesden High Street | Online
2021: Isovist | Online | UK
2020: Where’s the Frame | Online | UK
2020: Hot Sheet | Exhibition Publication | Print | UK
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020: Curator | London Grads Now - Royal College of Art | Saatchi Gallery | London, UK
2020: Curator | RCA x Slade Graduate Show | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | London, UK
b. 1989 | Rotterdam, NL
EDUCATION
2020: Master of Arts (Distinction) | Print | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2016: Bachelor of Arts | Fashion | Willem de Kooning Academy | Rotterdam, NL
RESIDENCIES
2022-24: Resident Artist | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026: I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me | Solo exhibition curated by Delany Boutkan | Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Schiedam, NL
2026: De Internet Gids | Dossier ‘Val’ in collaboration with Delany Boutkan | NL
2026: Art Rotterdam | Solo Presentation with Night Café | Rotterdam, NL
2025: Why Do I Stare at the Sky and Long for the Clouds | Solo Exhibition | Night Café | Londen, UK
2025: Independent | Solo Presentation with Night Café | New York, US
2024: On Longing | Two-Person Exhibition | Galerie Caroline O’Breen | Amsterdam, NL
2024: Acts of Transience | Two-Person Exhibition | Night Café | London, UK
2022: Bone Black | Two-Person Exhibition curated Jeneé-Daria Strand | White Columns | New York, US
2022: CAJU / KASHU / CAYÚ | Solo Exhibition | Harlesden High Street | London, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026: Thinking Hands | Noorderlicht Pre-Biennale curated by Musoke Nalwoga and Roosje Klap | Groningen, NL (upcoming)
2026: NN Art Award 2026 | Kunsthal | Rotterdam, NL
2026: In Place | Particular Ideas | London, UK
2025: Sun, Don’t Rush to be Red. Son, Don’t Rush to be Read | curated by Rawad Baaklini | TENT | Rotterdam, NL
2025: Search for Tomorrow | Bernheim Gallery | London, UK
2025: Surface | MIRROR | Plymouth, UK
2025: Surface | Millimetre hosted by Kingsgate Project Space | London, UK
2024: Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames | curated by Vincent van Velsen & Mirelva Berghout | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam, NL
2024: Open Studios | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
2023: Mixed Feelings | Upstream Gallery | Amsterdam, NL
2023: Open Studios | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | Amsterdam, NL
2023: This has travelled through the night to you | Millimetre hosted by Kingsgate Project Space | London, UK
2023: Held in Flux | In:sight Projects hosted by Soho Revue Gallery| London, UK
2022: Lovely View | Way Out East Gallery | London, UK
2022: SZN - Summer Show | SEASON | London, UK
2022: Paint(comsum)ing | The Function Suite | London, UK
2022: Royal College of Art | 2020 Degree Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2022: International Women’s Day Auction | Fundraising Group Exhibition | Art on a Postcard | London, UK
2022: Artsy - Ones to Watch - 2022 | Open Doors Gallery | London, UK
2021: Wish You Were Here | Fundraising Group Exhibition | Art Refuge | London, UK
2021: Sequences 05 | The Who Gallery | London, UK
2021: Warm Vessels in Search at Sunset | Harlesden High School by Harlesden High Street | London, UK
2021: Hotsheet 2020 | Downstairs Brixton | London, UK
2021: Holding Space | Subject Matter | London, UK
2020: Lick the Future | Where’s the Frame | London, UK
2020: 5 Hours | Sook Spaces | London, UK
2020: London Grads Now - Royal College of Art | Saatchi Gallery | London, UK
2020: Royal College of Art & Slade External Degree Show | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | London, UK
2020: In Touch | Danielle Arnaud Gallery | London, UK
2020: Final, Not Over: Session 3 | Unit 1 Gallery Workshop | London, UK
2020: RCA2020 | Virtual Degree Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2020: Against the Grain | Southwark Park Galleries | London, UK
2019: 20:20 In:sight Projects | Soho Revue Gallery | London, UK
2019: RCA Print Department | Hockney Gallery | London, UK
2019: Work-in-Progress Show | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2012 - 2013: Blue Jeans | Centraal Museum | Utrecht, NL
COLLECTIONS
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | NL
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten | NL
Art Vontobel Collection | CH
AkzoNobel Art Foundation | NL
NN Art Collection | NL
GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2026 : NN Art Award (shortlisted) | NL
2025-28 : Mondriaan Fund - Artist Basic | NL
2025 : Stichting Stokroos | NL
2024 : Machteld Vos and Willem Sijthoff Fellowship | NL
2022 : George Hendrik Breitner Fellowship | NL
2022 : Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | NL
2020 : Augustus Martin Prize | UK
2020 : HIGH prize for Creative Excellence (shortlisted) | UK
2020 : Schuurman Schimmel-van Outeren Stichting | NL
2019 : Distinction for dissertation ‘This is not a journal; these are random thoughts organised neatly’ | Royal College of Art | London, UK
2019 : Koningin Sophiafonds | NL
2019 : Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude | NL
2018 : Koningin Sophiafonds | NL
2018 : Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds (Peter Paul Peterich Fonds/ Van der Vossen-Delbrück Fonds/ Attje Jacoba Vixseboxse Fonds) | NL
2018 : Fundatie van de Vrijvrouwe van Renswoude | NL
2018 : Hendrik Muller's Vaderlandsch Fonds | NL
2018 : Stichting Bekker-la Bastide-Fonds | NL
PRESS & PUBLICATIONS
2026: Glamcult | Online | In I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me, Mandy Franca finds meaning in the obvious | Online
2026: ArtDaily | Mandy Franca explores the shared infrastructure of breath in new exhibition at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Online
2026: Damn Magazine | “I Breathe an Endless Universe in Me” by Mandy Franca opens at Stedelijk Museum Schiedam | Online
2026: De Internet Gids | Online | Dossier ‘Val’ in collaboration with Delany Boutkan | NL 2026: Metropolis M |
2026: Metropolis M | Introducing: Mandy Franca | Issue 2, april - may | Print | NL
2026: Metropolis M | and and and or or or – 15 exhibitions and events to look forward to in 2026 | Online
2026: Phaidon Press | Vitamin P4: New Perspectives in Painting | Print | UK
2026: Art Rotterdam | Meet the nominees for the NN Art Award 2026: III Mandy Franca | Online
2026: Palette Talk | Mandy Franca’s Mixed Media Paintings Reflect on Freedom and the Everyday | Online
2025: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Stedelijk acquires works by 7 artists | Online
2025: Financial Times | ‘Getting rich quick is out of the question’: what does it take to open a gallery in London these days? | Online
2025: Impulse Magazine | Standout Booths at the Independent Art Fair 2025 | Online
2025: The Other Art Girl | Review: “Why Do I Stare at the Sky and Long for the Clouds” | Online
2025: Night Café | Mandy Franca - On Being Light and Liquid | publication in collaboration with Night Café | Print | UK
2025: Mister Motley | Where technology and tenderness come together - in conversation with Mandy Franca | | Online
2024: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam | Circulate – Photography Beyond Frames | Exhibition Catalog | Print | NL
2024: Het Parool | Review: Circulate at the Stedelijk shows that a photograph is no longer just about a picture. | Online
2024: Harper’s Bazaar - Art & Interior Special | Edition 2 | Print | NL
2024: Metropolis M | On Each Other’s Rhythm — Open Studios 2024 Rijksakademie, Amsterdam | Online
2024: NRC | In the open studios of the Rijksacademie, you feel the turbulence of the world. | Print & Online | NL
2023: Het Parool | Children are more than welcome at Amsterdam Art Week: ‘If you want to remove barriers, you have to start early’ | Print & Online | NL
2022: Elle Magazine | Edition 2 | Print | NL
2022: émergent magazine | Mandy Franca at Harlesden High Street | Online
2021: Isovist | Online | UK
2020: Where’s the Frame | Online | UK
2020: Hot Sheet | Exhibition Publication | Print | UK
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2020: Curator | London Grads Now - Royal College of Art | Saatchi Gallery | London, UK
2020: Curator | RCA x Slade Graduate Show | Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery | London, UK