Nina van Duijnhoven
Education & Professional Development
Handshake Upskill workshops 2025
Handshake 7 Mentoring Program 2022
Handshake 6 Mentoring Program 2020-2021
Trier University of Applied Sciences, Germany Sep 2019 – Mar 2020
Whitireia New Zealand 2015 – 2018 Bachelor of Applied Arts (Contemporary Jewellery)
Awards & Special Achievements
2018 Creative New Zealand Quick Response Grant
2018 Ethical Metalsmiths Students USA – Committee Choice Award
2017 Finalist in Friends of Pataka Art awards – Highly Commended Award
2017 Scholarship – Altrusa & Zonta Women’s Suffrage Scholarship
2016 Finalist in ECC NZ Student Design/Craft awards – Highly Commended
2016 Scholarship - CGM+Foster Architects Scholarship
Other Activities
Member and manager of The.See.Here; a micro window gallery in Wellington, NZ
Collections
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, NZ
Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Toowoomba, Australia
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, France
Dallas Museum of Arts, Dallas, USA
Publications
Contemporary Jewelry at the Dallas Museum of Art, p.426
Schmuck 2020, p. 41
NZ House & Garden, May 2023, p. 160
Marzee Magazine #132, p. 32
Marzee Magazine #128, p. 28
Graduate Metal XVI Finalist catalogue 2017-2013, p.32
Graduate Metal XVI Finalist catalogue
Contemporary Wearables ’19, p.43
Contemporary Wearables ’17, p.67
Jewels of Whitireia, p. 90-93
Solo Exhibitions
2025 The See Here, This is how I speak, this is who I am, Wellington, NZ
2024 The See Here, Me and I, Wellington, NZ
2023 The See Here, Mono no aware, Wellington, NZ
2022 The See Here, A conversation, Wellington, NZ
2021 The See Here, Shackles, Wellington, NZ
2018 WORLD, Wellington, NZ
2017 Potocki Paterson Gallery, Cinders, Wellington, NZ
Group Exhibitions
2025
Gdansk Jewellery Week, Turning Point, Poland
Viewfinder Window, Hacked, Nelson Jewellery Week, Nelson, NZ
Atelier studio/gallery, Goodness, Nelson Jewellery Week, Nelson, NZ
Munich Jewellery Week, Goodness, Munich, Germany
2024
Stanley Street Gallery, 67206 Days, 2276 Full Moons, Sydney Australia
Radiant Pavilion, Minumental, Melbourne, Australia
Gallery Central, Graduate Metal XVI, Perth, Australia
Fingers Gallery, 50 years Fingers, Auckland, NZ
2023
Gallery Twentysix, H x W x D, Newtown, Wellington, NZ
Fingers Gallery, Annual group show, Auckland, NZ
Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Burn it all down, Masterton, NZ
The Refinery, Nelson Jewellery Week, Contained/UnContained, Nelson, NZ
Nelson City Framers, Nelson Jewellery Week, Minumental, Nelson, NZ
Kingsroy Gallery, Textile Adjacent, New Plymouth, NZ
2022
The National, Whānui, Handshake Alumni Show, Christchurch, NZ
Galerie Marzee, Handshake 7, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Fingers Gallery, Annual group show, Auckland, NZ
North Art Gallery, Morph, Auckland, NZ
Thistle Hall, Delimit, Wellington, NZ
Coda Museum, Paper Tales, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Pah Homestead, Contained/Uncontained, Auckland, NZ
Anvil House, Textile Adjacent, Wellington, NZ
Whirinaki Whare Taonga Arts Centre, Glimmer, Upper Hutt, NZ
2021
The Refinery, Chain Reaction, Nelson Jewellery week, Nelson, NZ
Radiant Pavilion, Containment Uncontained, Melbourne, Australia
The Jewel and the Jeweller, Preview Kiwi Schmuck, New Plymouth, NZ
Fingers Gallery, Annual Group Show, Auckland, NZ
Galerie Marzee, Jewellery from Aotearoa, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
2020
Internationale Handwerksmesse, Schmuck, Munich, Germany
Weasel Gallery, Handshake in Hamilton, Hamilton, NZ
Te Auaha, Signing in, Wellington, NZ
Te Awahou, Parallax, Foxton, NZ
2019
Fingers Gallery, Graduate Show, Auckland, NZ
Te Auaha, Wellington, NZ
Ethical Metalsmiths Students, Annual online show, USA
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Contemporary Wearables ’19, Toowoomba, Australia
Fingers Gallery, Emerging Artists Show, Auckland, NZ
2018
Thistle Hall, Wellington, NZ
IWA NZ Makers, Frame IHW, Munich, Germany
Marzee, International Graduate Show, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Ethical Metalsmiths Students, Annual online show, USA
Pataka Art+Museum, Friends of Pataka Art Awards, Porirua, NZ
2017
Beijing International Jewelry Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
Bowen House, Shifts, parliament building, Wellington, NZ
Toowoomba Regional Gallery, Contemporary Wearables ‘17, Toowoomba, Australia
Pataka Art+Museum, Friends of Pataka Art Awards, Porirua, NZ
First Site Gallery, Graduate Metal XV, Melbourne, Australia
Ethical Metalsmiths Students, Annual online show, USA
2016
ECC/Friends of the Dowse, Student Craft/Design Awards, Wellington, NZ
Ethical Metalsmiths Students, Annual online show, USA
Thistle Hall, Exit, Wellington, NZ
2015
Quoil Contemporary Jewellery Gallery, Wellington, NZ
Thistle Hall, Flux, Wellington, NZ