CV & Contact info.

 

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TJOOK (Marcel Dekker Devos)

+47 413 22 869

doodleheaven@gmail.com

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CV

Tjook (Marcel Dekker Devos) is a Dutch artist and UX Designer based in Norway. With a diverse portfolio, Tjook owns Tjook Design Fashion,  and Double Cross Publishing. Online presence includes Tjook.com, www.yoloclout.com, Artist_Tjook with 35.5k followers, and Flickr.com/tjook with 2.4 million views. Noteworthy exhibitions include solo shows at Fet Kunstforening and Galleri IKM, as well as group exhibits at Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium. Education: BFA from Art Academy Minerva, Master’s in Art & Psychology

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Publications

Websites:

2021 /… Tjook design fashion at yoloclout.com (owner – lead designer)

2020/…  Double Cross Publishing (Owner) https://doublecross.pub/

2013 /… Tjook.com – blog, promotion, projects, music, content

2013/…  Artist_Tjook – 35,5 k followers

2010/…  Flickr.com/tjook  – Photography/images  2,4 million views

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Literature:

2020   Een bed in straatrumoer – Gedichten 80 – 94 -TJOOK (Dutch Edition)  – Double Cross 2020

2020   De laatste lente – Dutch novel – Double Cross 2020

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Exhibitions 

Solo exhibitions

2016    Tjook –  Fet Kunstforening, NO

2014    Galleri IKM . Oslo Museum.  Oslo, NO

2013    Sparebua Kunstutstilling . Kulturstrømmen.  Fetsund, NO

1994    Glaa Cafe.  Arendal, NO

1987    Gallery Tussen Haakjes . Groningen, NL

1986    Gallery Penguinwool. Groningen, NL

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Group exhibitions

2018    Contemporary Chaos – 60 international artists. Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, NO

2018    Høstutstillingen – Fet Kunstforening . Fetsund, NO

2017    Galleri Vinkelen . Duo Exhibition with Slavomir Polivka. Fetsund, NO

2017    Galleri BKD . Tønsberg, NO

2015    Woodwalk. Kulturfestival. Fetsund, NO

2014    Frogner Stasjonsgalleriet . Sørum kunstforening, NO

2014    Kunstutstilling Frogner . Flerbrukshuset. Sørumfestivalen, NO

2012    ‘Vannmonopol’ Installation .  Exhibition ‘Vann’, Fetsund, NO

2003    Participation «Privat Park I» (Sabina Jacobsson in collaboration with Jan Steinum)Galleri IKM, Oslo, Norway.

1999.    Tjook (Marcel Dekker Devos) created “AXIS”, the first Norwegian interactive art CD-ROM – Axis performance festival and tour – Arendal July 1999 – Frank Busk, John Øivind Eggesbø, Anet van der Elzen, and Tommy Olson, who did performances in Lillesand, Arendal, Mandal, Lyngdal, Farsund, and Flekkefjord.

1997     Summer Exhibition, Arendal Kunstforening . Arendal, NO

1996    Project ‘Helgener’ . Art CD-ROM The Hague. Arendal, NO

1996    ‘Moisture Eater’- Center For Contemporary Art. The Hague, NL

1995    LAK gallery. Leiden, NL

1994    Sørlandsutstillingen, Kristiansand, NO

1991    ’Gender And Identity’ Art video. Birmingham, England

1985   Graduation Exhibition. Academy Minerva. Groningen, EL

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Education

1980 – 1985    Bachelor of Fine Arts. Art Academy Minerva.Groningen, NL

1986 – 1992    Master Art & Personality Psychology.  University RUG/RUL. Leiden. NL

1995 – 1996    Interaction Design & Multimedia Developer.  Digital learning NL

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 Lectures

2017  Photobased Art / Tjook 1980 – 2017 – Oslo kameraklubb – Oslo, Norway

2001.  Aesthetic development In the individual and taste assessments in ‘high and low’ culture – Høy of  Lav – Kunstfestival Arendal, Norway

Photography

TJOOKS 100 QUEER PICS 2010 – 2021

2017  Tjook pictures from Pride parade 2010 – 2022 Acquired by Skeivt Arkiv / Bergen University, NO

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Other activities

• Singer songwriter. Qua dance, Rhubarb (NL) Tjook and the Husjband (No)
• UX design professional I Service designer  1997 – 2022…
• Board member local cultural institutions
• Film and Photography, direction, and production of local tv(KOSTV)