Jan van der Ploeg, born in 1959 in Leiden, is a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and of the Croydon College of Art (London).
Jan van der Ploeg, born in 1959 in Leiden, is a graduate of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) and of the Croydon College of Art (London). A resident of the Rijksakademie, he received the Royal Award for Modern Painting in 1990 and founded PS projectspace in 1999, an artist-run art space in Amsterdam.