Born 1981 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Anouk Kruithof is a visual artist.
Her multilayered, transdisciplinary approach encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, artist-books, text, performance, video, animation, websites and (social) interventions in the public domain. Kruithof’s work explores a ‘contemporary schizophrenia’ which can be seen as an indelible mental disease of contemporary life. By continually navigating between the digital and physical experiential sphere, Kruithof investigates a collective state of mind that is not solely grounded in the material world, but more and more often in the relentless flow of images in an amorphous digital world.

Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as: Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museum Folkwang Essen, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, VOO?UIT, Ghent Belgium, TATE London, Kunsthaus Vienna, MBAL Switzerland; The Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen China; Multimedia Art Museum in Moscow, Culture and Arts Center, Daegu Korea; Capitain-Petzel Gallery, Berlin: KIT (Kunst Im Tunnel) Düsseldorf, Museum het Domein Sittard, MARCA Museum Catanzaro, Italy; MAMAC (LA Boverie) Liege, Belgium, FOAM, Amsterdam, Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam among others.

Anouk Kruithof’s work was selected for The Gallery of Honour of Dutch photography at Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam in 2021 and she was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize in 2019 & Cinekid Media Award in 2018 and won the public prize of the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunstprijs in 2016, the Meijburg Art Commission in 2015 and won in 2014 the Charlotte Köhler Prize in the Netherlands. She has also received an Infinity Award of the International Center for Photography in New York in 2012 and the Jury Grand Prize of Festival International de Mode et de Photographie in Hyères in 2011.
Her work are included in public collections such as; SF MoMA San Fransisco, Het Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland, Museum Folkwang Essen, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Aperture Foundation New York, Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA), MoMA, ICP& New York Public Library, among many others.

In addition to her art practice Anouk Kruithof also writes, lectures, gives workshops, teaches, curates, and participates in social projects. She is co-creator, director and jury member of The Anamorphosis Prize, which awards $10,000, no strings attached, to the creator of the best self-published photo-book from the previous year. The prize was launched for the first time in spring 2015 and celebrated 3 editions. She is a frenetic artist-bookmaker and published 13 books so far.
She lives and works between Brussels Belgium, the Netherlands and her wooden house in the middle of the Amazon Rainforest in Botopasi Surinam.