About

Zara Glaser (Amsterdam, 1995)  is a visual artist working with illustration and photography.

Currently residing in Amsterdam.

 
After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2019 with a BA in photography, I moved to Toronto, Canada. It was during there, during pandemic lockdowns, that I reconnected with my passion for drawing and painting. Since moving back to Europe, spending time in Dublin before moving back to Amsterdam, my inspiration is often drawn from observing city life, as well as camping trips in nature.

In my work I seek to capture moments from daily life, am drawn to the interaction of light and shadow, and mostly use my own photographs for reference.

• exhibitions

SBK Sprouts Young Talents 2019
Best Young Art Graduates, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October 2019

Rietveld at FOAM Fusion, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 2017

Rietveld Uncut at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 2017

Artist in Residence at Het Vijfde Seizoen, The Netherlands
Winter 2016

 

• publications

De Duiven
Illustration for a short story by Silke Beurms
2024

Swinging Limbs
Collaboration – Graduation project by Xanthippe Partsakoulaki
2019

A March Issue
Collaboration – Graduation project by Line Arngaard and Sonia Oet
2018

GRAPHIC #42
Collaboration – Photography for Elina Birkehag
2018

 

• education

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Photography, BA Art and Design
2016 – 2019

University of the Arts Utrecht, 2D Animation
2013 – 2016

University of the Arts Utrecht, Basic Year Art and Design
2012 – 2013