Anne Vincent Dijkstra

From May 11 to August 25, 2024 I will be participating in the exhibition "Miniartures", an initiative of FIKVA (Figurative Art Today) and the WG Gallery in Dordrecht where the show takes place. For further information see

A few years ago Iwas honoured with a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York! (#pk-recipients) "Because of the exceptional quality of your work and the extent of your artistic achievements"; as they put in the grant letter. I am very proud to have been selected by this renowned institution.
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I am working as a professional artist since 1991. I've 'participated in many exhibitions over the years, mainly in Holland.

For a number of years now I am creating works that are painted by using graduations of only one color: Prussian blue (mixed with titanium white).
With them I make all the tones from deep dark blue to almost white.
This self-imposed restriction is aimed at the coherence of different shapes within a painting and also to give the work a less anecdotal and more monumental character.

The largest part of my work consist of a series of paintings that are called “Ruins”. They show the results of war for instance, but also th...

Art Academy: Hogeschool voor de Kunsten
'Constantijn Huygens', Kampen-Zwolle, 1983-1988.

2024 "Miniartures", WG Gallery, Dordrecht
2023 "Unicolor", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2022 "Klimaatexpo '22", Museum de Fundatie/Academiehuis Grote Kerk, Zwolle
2022 "Disturbed", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2021 "Ieder.een", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2020 "Appèl", 5th edition, Werkwarenhuis, Den Bosch
2020 "The blue room", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2018 "Hitchcock", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2017 "KunstRAI 2017", Amsterdam
2017 "Into the blue", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2016 SBK, Breda (with Femke Dekkers / Ruth de Vos)
2015 "Woest", Galerie Nasty Alice, EIndhoven
2014 "KunstRAI 2014", Amsterdam
2013 "WOW", Galerie Nasty Alice, Eindhoven
2013 "Kunstschouw 2013", Burgh-Haamstede
2011 "De briefwisselaars" (withKarin van Pinxteren), Basement KIK, Kolderveen
2010 "Relations", De Ruimte, Geldrop
2010 "(Con)textual - What do we really read?" (with Peter Koole), Onomatopee, Eindhoven
2009 "Flat" (with Frans Smit), Ateliers Kraijenhoff, Amsterdam
2007 "The ironic twist", DeFKa, Assen
2004 "T.A.F.K.A.P. - The Artform Formerly Known As Painting", 't Langhuis, Zwolle
2004 'Fecit', DeFKa, Assen