(b. 1959, Sittard, the Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam.)
Rineke Dijkstra was trained at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. Her first solo exhibition took place in 1984 at de Moor in Amsterdam. Dijsktra's photographs have appeared in numerous international exhibitions, including the 1997 and 2001 Venice Biennale, the 1998 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Turin's Biennale Internationale di Fotografia in 1999, and the 2003 International Center for Photography's Triennial of Photography and Video in New York. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Kodak Award Nederland (1987), the Art Encouragement Award Amstelveen (1993), the Werner Mantz Award (1994), and the Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize (1998).
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2012
Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2010
Rineke Dijkstra: I See a Woman Crying,” Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
Rineke Dijkstra, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
Rineke Dijkstra, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2009
Park Portraits, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
2006
Rineke Dijkstra, Portraits, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
2005
Rineke Dijkstra – Portraits, Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Fundació la Caixa d'Estalvis Pensions, Barcelona, Spain; Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2011
Photography is Calling, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
2010
Listen Darling… The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Video Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
Pequeña historia de la fotografía, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Steppenwolf – or the Sound of Urban Space, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
Seeing Songs, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
2009
Listen Darling… The World is Yours, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portugal
Video Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
2008
Baby, de ideale mens verbeeld 1840-heden, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
2007
Family Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Dateline Israel, New Photography and Video Art, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York

