Rineke Dijkstra
Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959) is a contemporary award-winning Dutch photographer best known for her portraiture, focusing on groups like teens, mothers, bullfighters, refugees, and soldiers in moments of transition and vulnerability. Her seminal body of work, Beach Portraits, comprises life-sized color photographs of adolescent bathers on American and European beaches.
Dijkstra has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including a retrospective organized by the Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is collected by institutions such as the Tate Gallery (London); the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC); the Goetz Collection (Munich); and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), among others. She’s been honored with the Johannes Vermeer Prize (2020), Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography (2017), SPECTRUM, International Prize for Photography of Stiftung Niedersachsen (2017), The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (1999), the Werner Mantz Award (1994), and the Kodak Award Nederland (1987). She currently resides in Amsterdam.