Colette Cleeren

Colette Cleeren (1953, Hasselt) is printmaker, draughtsman and painter. Colette Cleeren studied Graphic Arts at the Sint-Lucaspaviljoen in Antwerp and Graphic Arts and Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hasselt. She completed her training in various studios such as the International Frans Masereel Centre for Printmaking. She has been invited for a residency in The Guanlan Original Printmaking Base in China. Her work has been selected for many national and international exhibitions. She received many national and a number of international awards. She supplied visual artwork for “Blindganger”, a collection of poems by Gerda De Preter, participated with literary men and women in several projects and has publications to her name in poetry and art magazines.

She lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.