Barbara Visser

Barbara Visser (born May 20, 1966 in Haarlem) is a Dutch artist, who works as conceptual artist, photographer, video artist, and performance artist. Biography Visser studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam from 1985 to 1991, and in this period at the Cooper Union University in New York in 1989, and later at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht in 1998. After her graduation, she settled in Amsterdam as independent artist. Since 1998 Visser has exhibited her work at various exhibitions at home and abroad in solo and group exhibitions, most recently at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead (England). In 2006 Museum The Pavilions in Almere presented a retrospective her work. That year the monograph was published, entitled "Barbara Visser is not there" (Barbara Visser is er niet). Work by Visser is present in museums, such as the Netherlands Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in The Hague, the Museum of Modern Art Arnhem, the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. In addition to her work at the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp (Belgium) and the FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais to Dunkirk (France).