PAUL DERREZ
1950, Sittard, the Netherlands
woont en werkt in Amsterdam / lives and works in Amsterdam

1968 - 1970 Academie voor industriele Vormgeving te Eindhoven
1972 – 1975 MTS Vakschool Schoonhoven
1974/75 Stage/Traineeship galerie Sieraad, Amsterdam (Hans Appenzeller/ Lous Martin)
1976 Opening Galerie Ra, Amsterdam
1980 Françoise van den Bosch Prijs
1986 Fine Works Prize, International Jewellery Art Exhibition of the Japan Jewellery Designers Association, Tokyo.
1991 - 2000 Voorzitter/Chairman Stichting Francoise van den Bosch
Paul Derrez is a visting lecturer all over the world, he is a writer, an external examiner and member of jury’s and art councils.

Opdrachten/Selected commissions:
Many commissions, including a chain of office for the mayor of the city Sittard (1987), a trophee for the Alexandra Radiusprijs (1992), a pin for the members of the Amsterdam City Council (1993), a trophee for podiumprijs/Talentprijs (1994,1995,1996)

Solotentoonstellingen /Solo exhibitions:
1980 Paul Derrez, winnaar Françoise van den Bosch Prijs, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam / 1985 Paul Derrez, Jewellery, Bowls and Plates, Aspects, London / 1985 Paul Derrez, tien jaar sieraden, Kritzraedthuis, Sittard / 1998 Paul Derrez, Cool Creator, Galerie Biro, Munchen (cat.) / 1999 Paul Derrez, Cool Creator, Galerie Lous Martin, Delft / 2000 Gallery Funaki, Melbourne Australia (samen met Nel Linssen, Lucy Sarneel, Annelies Planteijdt) / 2004 Galerie Biro Munich.

Groepstentoonstellingen /Group exhibitions :
1975 Sieraad 75, Galerie Het Kapelhuis, Amersfoort (cat.) / 1982 Tendenzen ’82, Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany (cat.) / 1983 The Jewellery project, Crafts Council Gallery, London (cat.) / 1984 Cross Currents, Power House Museum, Sydney, Australia (cat.) / 1984 Contemporary Jewellery, the Americas, Australia, Europe and Japan, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan (cat.) / 1987 Joieria Europea Contemporania, Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain (cat.) / Concepts, comments, process – Dutch jewellery 1967-1987, Netherlands Office for Fine Arts, touring exhibition (cat.) / 1990-1991 Fremd-Körper, Schmuck der Avantgarde aus der Sammlung Teunen, Wilhelm Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (cat.) / 1993 Kunststoff Schmuck Kunst 1923-1993, Galerie Biró München. (cat.) / 1996 Jewelry in Europe and America – new times, new thinking, Crafts Council Gallery, London / 2000 Het Versierde Ego, het kunstjuweel in de 20ste eeuw/The Ego Adorned, 20th Century artists’ jewellery, Konigin Fabiolazaal Antwerpen. (cat.) / 2000-2001 Op de huid, sieraden uit de collectie, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem (cat.) / 2000 – 2002 rondreizend/travelling: Jewels of Mind and Mentality, Dutch Jewelry Design 1950-2000, Museum Het Kruithuis, ’s-Hertogenbosch (cat.) / 2001 Mikromegas, Bayerische Kunstverein Munich + touring New York, Geneva, Sydney, Auckland (cat.) / 2004 Lesley Craze Gallery, London / National Museum of Ireland, Dublin.

Collecties/Collections:
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Gemeente Amsterdam; Joods Historisch Museum Amsterdam; Rijksdienst Beeldende Kunst Den Haag; Centraal Museum Utrecht; Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem; Nederlands kostuummuseum Den Haag; Van Reekummuseum Apeldoorn; Museum Het Kruithuis Den Bosch; Cleveland County Museum Middlesborough UK; Power House Museum Sydney Australia; The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto Japan; Nordenfeldske Kunstindustriemuseum Trondheim Norway; Museum für Kunsthandwerk Hamburg; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen Rotterdam; Danner Stiftung München; Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim .

Bibliografie / Bibliography:
Peter Dormer, Ralph Turner, The New Jewelry – Trends and Traditions, London 1985.
Helen W.Drutt English, Peter Dormer, Jewelry of our Time – art, ornament and obsession, London 1995.
Ralph Turner, Jewelry of our Time – new times, new thinking, London 1996.
Liesbeth den Besten, Paul Derrez – Cool Creator, Amsterdam 1997.
Marjan Unger, Het Nederlandse sieraad in de 20ste eeuw, 2004