Hellen van Meene born in Alkmaar, Holland in 1972, she attended the Gerrit Reitveld Academie, Amsterdam and College of Art, Edinburgh Scotland, and has exhibited internationally. Her work is held in the collections of major museums worldwide including the Stedelijk Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, MoCA Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2001 she was short-listed for the Citibank Photography Prize. Previous publications include Hellen van Meene: Portraits (Aperture, 2004) and Hellen van Meene: Japan Series (The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago and De Hallen, Haarlem, the Netherlands, 2002).
