Sanne de Wilde

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Biography

Sanne De Wilde (Belgium, 1987) is a visual artist working with the medium of photography, film, installation, and painting to create long-term work on systemic violence, mythology, genetics, identity, and perception while experimenting with collaborative approaches in storytelling.
Sanne graduated as a Master in the Fine Arts at KASK in Ghent (BE) with great honours in 2012. Her work The Dwarf Empire was rewarded with the Photo Academy Award 2012 as well as the International Photography Award Emergentes DST in 2013. Her series Snow White was awarded 16ème Prix National Photographie Ouverte and NuWork Award for Photographic Excellence. She was awarded the Nikon Press Award in 2014 and 2016 for most promising young photographer. The British Journal of Photography selected De Wilde as one of “the best emerging talents from around the world” in 2014 and in 2016 she received the Firecracker Grant, PHmuseum Women's Grant and de Zilveren Camera award for The Island of the Colorblind. Land of Ibeji, her project with Bénédicte Kurzen, won the World Press Photo Award, Rovinj Photoaward, Liangzhou Award, CAP Prize, Prix Voies OFF and was nominated for the ZEISS photography award in 2019. Her work has been internationally published (Nat Geo, The Guardian, New Yorker, Le Monde, CNN, Vogue) and exhibited (Rencontres d’Arles, Voies OFF, Tribeca Film Festival, Circulations, Lagos Photo, Lodz Fotofestiwal, IDFA, STAM and EYE).
The Island of the Colourblind interactive installation was developed for IDFA Doclab in 2017 and became part of Tribeca Film Festival, was shown in PHI center in Montreal, EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and in the Watershed/Undershed in Bristol.
Since 2013, De Wilde has worked with the Dutch newspaper and magazine De Volkskrant in Amsterdam (the Netherlands) and de Standaard in Belgium. De Wilde became a Nikon ambassador in 2017. She completed a two-year professorship at the University of Applied Science and Arts in Dortmund, Germany, and teaches at the International Centre for Photography (ICP) New-York, USA, and the Houston Center for Photography (HCP), Houston, USA. She is represented by East Wing Gallery (Doha/Berlin) and INSTITUTE Artist (UK/US).