About
Johanna Hoogendyk (b.1988) is a large-scale figurative painter from Western Massachusetts. Her life sized oil paintings are of women whom she knows and shares a connection with, and reflect her own perspective and experience as a woman in 21st century western culture. Her paintings strive to convey a psychological, intimate, and personal moment with one individual, as opposed to the objectified painting of women prevalent throughout the history of western art. Johanna Hoogendyk received her BA from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, and her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA. She was the recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship in 2018, and the Stanley Award for International Research in 2019, when she traveled to the Netherlands to study women painters from the Dutch Golden Age.