Ben Zegers

In 1991 Zeger was selected with Ab van Hanegem, Aernout Mik, Kaap, and Lidwien van de Ven for the São Paulo Art Biennial, Eventually the Dutch contribution was redrawn, and ended up at an art fair in Los Angeles.

In 1990 he participated in group exhibitions at Galerie Van Krimpen and Galerie Fons Welters in Amsterdam and at Museum Boymans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, where he regularly returned. He was awarded the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 1994.

In 1990 Zegers was granted an encouragement award by the Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, and in 1993 he received a Charlotte Köhler Price.

In 1988 Zegers settled as a visual artist in Rotterdam, where he has lived and worked ever since. In that year the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Zegers and five other young artists Giny Vos, Nicolaas de Haan, Agnes Roelofse, Hans van Bentem, and Trudi van den Berg were granted an assignment to get their professional practice started.

In 1988 he had his first solo exhibition in the Teylers Museum, Haarlem. In 1989 he was one of the 25 Dutch contemporary artists at the Edinburgh Festival. His work was engaged that year into the city collection of Rotterdam at Museum Boymans Van Beuningen together with the work of other young artist, that had settled in Rotterdam; Geert van de Camp, Allard Budding, and Lidwien van de Ven.

Zegers was born and raised in Utrecht, and from 1980 to 1986 studied art at the St. Joost Academy of Art and Design in Den Bosch. He then continued his studies for two years at the Ateliers '63 in Haarlem from 1986 to 1988.

Bernardus Stefanus Henricus (Ben) Zegers (Utrecht, 3 March 1962) is a Dutch visual artist, active as a sculptor and installation artist, and teacher and coordinator at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy.