Cees Krijnen

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Cees Krijnen (Cornelis Hendrik Krijnen), born 29 May 1969 in Velsen, is a Dutch artist. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the DasArts program in Amsterdam. In 1999 he won the Prix de Rome in Theatre/Visual Arts for a project called Financing my Parents Divorce. This led to the Woman in Divorce Battle on Tour, with exhibitions and performances in New York, London, Paris, Luzern, Milan and Montreal, among other cities. He collaborated with Pininfarina, Selfridges, the Fondation Cartier, and Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. Krijnen also works as a theatre actor. His 2012 international project was The Ultimate Selfportrait. He lives in Haarlem and is represented internationally by Reuten Galerie in Amsterdam, studio1.1 in London, and Very Up & Co in New York. One of his projects explored Kenau Simonsdochter Hasselaer, a legendary brave woman in Haarlem’s history. In 2015 he contributed two photographs to O Muse! at De Hallen, the Frans Hals Museum’s modern art annex in Haarlem. In 2018 an autobiography and a graphic novel about his life and work appeared.