Jan Hendrix's career is linked to the graphic arts from an early age. After leaving his life as a member of a family of farmers, he was trained in the conceptual environment of the Jan Van Eyck Academie from Maastricht, a school that shares strong ties with the group of artists who worked in Düsseldorf such as Joseph Beuys, Gerard Richter or Bern and Hilla Becher, but it was when he began his travels and his itinerant life that he met nature again, taking it as the guiding thread of his work.
Settled in Mexico DF since 1978, he has been active in exhibitions, notably at the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), the Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico DF), the Archives of the Forbidden City (Beijing), the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), MACO (Oaxaca), La Calcografía Nacional de la Real Academia de San Fernando (Madrid) and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin).
Ha collaborated with writers such as the two prize-winners Nobel Prize in Literature Gabriel García Márquez and Seamus Heaney in the publishing of author's books, also carrying out in recent years projects in the field of architecture.
Jan Hendrix has the National Engraving Prize of the Royal Academy of San Fernando (2008) and on 15 February 2012 the Mexican Government awarded him its highest award, the Order of the Aztec Eagle, The insignia degree, for outstanding services to the Mexican nation and to mankind.
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