biographical notes

Wessel Huisman was born in Breda, in the south of the Netherlands, in 1954. He followed High School in Arnhem and went to university in Nijmegen in 1973 to study history. In 1981 he graduated cum laude in the department of Economic and Social History. Already in 1979 he had started to attend the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Arnhem, where he graduated in 1984. In that same year he became deputy-director of the institute where he just had finished studying a few months before. Since 1984 he had several exhibitions in the Netherlands and abroad, especially in Germany and Italy. Since 1990 he is member of the famous artist association Malkasten in Düsseldorf. In 2005 he got the price of the town of Doetinchem to honour him for his master plan to implement art in public space. Since 2006 he works fulltime as an artist, living in The Netherlands and Italy.