Viviane Sassen

Viviane Sassen (b. 1972) is a Dutch artist living in Amsterdam.

Sassen lived in Kenya as a child and often works in Africa. She is a photographer who works in both the fashion and fine art worlds.

She first studied fashion at Arnhem, but soon turned to photography and completed a Masters degree in fine art. She has been widely published and exhibited all over the world, including a solo exhibition in 2017 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

She was nominated for the Deutsche Borse Prize in 2015 and awarded an Honorary Fellowship by The Royal Photographic Society in the same year, and won the Prix de Rome (2007), The Netherlands. She has created fashion campaigns for Miu Miu, Stella McCartney, and Louis Vuitton, among others.

Her 2018 presentation at The Hepworth Wakefield will be her first major UK exhibition focusing on her fine art photography from the past decade.