Career Profile: Doreen Wittenbols, painter

Doreen Wittenbols is a Dutch/Canadian painter currently working and exhibiting in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She studied in Montreal and has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships over the course of her career. The works of Doreen Wittenbols are often shocking in ways that you didn’t think paintings could be. With heartbreaking humanity, a little girl’s curiosity, and equal parts humour and rage, she trains her eye on sex and gender, holes and mirrors, traditions and transitions, and transforms everything she sees.