Farren van Wyk

Artist with Visionary Agency
For bookings and inquiries, please contact Monique van Hooff
Contact me at farrenvwyk@gmail.com

Prizes & Grants
2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize, England
2023 De Zilveren Camera Arts & Culture
2023 Women Photographer x Leica Grant
2023 Fonds Anna Cornelis Grant
2022 PH Museum Women Photographers Grant

Exhibitions
2025 States of Rebirth, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2025 Gen Z: Shaping a New Gaze, Photo Elysée, Switzerland
2024 Can’t We All Just Get Along? with Stevenson Gallery
2024 Jaou Tunis Festival, Tunisia
2024 Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery, London
2024 CAPE X NL, The Black Archives & Camissa Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
2023 Der Greif Past & Present 15th Anniversary, Germany
2023 Photo Vogue x Levi’s Your 501 Story
2023 Utrecht x The Cape with The Black Archives, the Netherlands
2023 Decolonial Dialogues Humanitas with Amsterdam Museum
2021 Through the Lens Collective, South Africa
2022 Photo Vogue Festival, Italy

Features
2025 Harper’s Bazaar, States of Rebirth Exhibition
2025 Vogue Italia, States of Rebirth Exhibition
2025 Der Greif Guest Room: Hellerau Photography Award
2024 Der Greif Uprising Narratives at Jaou Biennial 2024
2023 Tender Photo interview with Emmanuel Imuda
2023 Photo Vogue interview with Alessia Glaviano
2023 De Volkskrant Newspaper
2023 The Washington Post
2023 The Times UK
2023 Patta Magazine interview with Violette Esmeralda

Farren van Wyk (1993) is a South African and Dutch Photographer and Educator. She holds a BA in Photography and an MA in Cultural & Visual Anthropology. Her research-based work centres around decolonial methods of historical and cultural misrepresentations of people of colour.

Van Wyk is a member of the African Photojournalist Association with World Press Photo, Black Women Photographers, PH Museum and Women Photograph. She currently holds two positions as a Research teacher at the University of Arts in Utrecht (HKU) and a Web- & Photo Editor at ZAM.

With Merit Scholarships, she attended the Charcoal Bookclub Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review in 2022 and the Portfolio Review in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 2023. In the Netherlands, she is part of the 2024 Fotodok Talent Embassy Program with the funding of the Pictoright Fund. She is an emerging artist with the European-based FUTURES.

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Farren van Wyk (1993) is a South African and Dutch Photographer and Educator. She holds a BA in Photography and an MA in Cultural & Visual Anthropology.

Van Wyk is a member of the African Photojournalist Association with World Press Photo, Black Women Photographers, PH Museum and Women Photograph.

She currently holds two positions as a Research teacher at the University of Arts in Utrecht (HKU) and as a Website & Photo Editor at ZAM.

Portfolio click here

Education
2021 – 2022 Master's Degree in Social Sciences, Visual Anthropologt, University of Amsterdam
2012 – 2016 Bachelor of Arts, Photography University of Arts Utrecht

Group Exhibitions
2025 Gen Z, Photo Elysée, Switzerland
2025 States of Rebirth, Deichtorhallen, Germany
2024 Can't We AllJ ust Get Along? Stevenson, Netherlands
2024 Cape X Netherlands, Camissa Museum, South Africa
2024 Jaou Tunis Biennale, Tunisia
2023 Photo Vogue x Levi's 501
2022 Photovogue Festival, Italy

Prizes & Grants
2025 Cultuurfonds, Netherlands
2024 Fonds Anna Cornelis Grant
2023 De Zilveren Camera Arts & Culture
2023 Women Photographer x Leica Grant
2022 PH Museum Women Photographers Grant

Features
2025 Der Greif Guest Room Hellerau
2025 Vogue Germany
2025 Harpers Bazaar Germany
2024 Der Greif Uprising Narratives at Jaou Bienniale
2023 Tender Photo with Emmanuel Imuda
2023 Vogue with Alessia Glaviano
2023 Patta Magazine with Violette Esmeralda
2022 Photo Vogue Festival, Italy

farrenvwyk@gmail.com