Jacqueline Hassink


Jacqueline Hassink was a New York City based visual artist.

Early life and education

Hassink was born in Enschede, the Netherlands and received training at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, and the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art.

Career

Hassink was a Dutch visual artist who was based in New York City. She was trained as a sculptor but worked mainly in photography. She created several global art projects on the theme of world economic power. Her first art project, The Table of Power, was followed by projects such as: Female Power Stations: Queen Bees, Car Girls, Haute Couture Fitting Rooms, Paris, The Table of Power 2, View Kyoto and Unwired. Hassink’s work has been exhibited at Huis Marseille in Amsterdam; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur; ICP in New York;Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Guangzhou Museum of Modern Art, Guangzhou.
Hassink participated in the Prix Pictet 2012, a project dedicated to photography and sustainability. Her follow-up book, The Table of Power 2, was nominated for the 2012 Paris Photo/ Aperture Book Award. The book appeared on the shortlist for the PHotoEspaña Best Photography Book of the Year Award, and received special mention though it did not win the award. Hassink's work has appeared in The Financial Times,Le Monde, The New York Times, El Pais, Frankfurter Allgemeine, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Reuters, Financial Times Deutschland, D2, De Standaard, NZZ, Newsweek and Wired.
Hassink was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University in conceptual photography and at the International Center for Photography in New York.
She died of cancer on 22 November 2018.

Books