Rineke's large-scale colour photographs and videos encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed.

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Since the early 1990s, Rineke Dijkstra has produced a complex body of photographic and video work, offering a contemporary take on the genre of portraiture. Her large-scale colour photographs and videos, mainly of young, typically adolescent subjects, show subtle, minimal contextual details and encourage us to focus on the exchange between photographer and subject and the relationship between viewer and viewed.

Dijkstra was born in Sittard, The Netherlands in 1959. She attended the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam from 1981-1986. She has been honored with the Johannes Vermeer Prijs (2020), the Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2017), SPECTRUM, International Prize for Photography of Stiftung Niedersachsen (2017) and The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (1999).

She has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions at institutions including The Photographer’s Gallery, London (1997), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam (1998); Folkwang Museum, Essen (1998); The Art Institute of Chicago, (2001); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2001); Jeu de Paume, Paris (2005); La Caixa, Barcelona (2005); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2005); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006 and 2017); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2012); the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2012); Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2013); Milwaukee Art Museum (2016); Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark (2017); and De Pont in Tilburg, Netherlands (2018); Sprengel Museum, Hannover (2018); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2019); Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg (2022); Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (2023); Espace Louis Vuitton, München (2024), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin (2024)