Bobbi Essers (b.2000) was born in Enschede, Netherlands and currently lives and works in Groningen, Netherlands. She won the Buning Brongers Prize for Painting (Amsterdam) in 2022, the same year she graduated with a Fine Art degree from the HKU in Utrecht. In 2023, Essers won the Royal Award for Dutch Painting.
Recent solo exhibitions include I’ll meet you at nightfall, Allard Wildenberg Projects, Naarden, Netherlands (2023); Living in a daydream, Oever Gallery, Oostende, Belgium (2023) and Living in a daydream, Oever Gallery, Oostende, Belgium (2022).
Her works were featured in group exhibitions with Marian Cramer Projects, Los Angeles, USA (2023); The Preuss Collection, Better go south gallery, Berlin (2023); Gallery StigtervanDoesburg, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2023) and Museum More, Gorssel, Netherlands (2022), among others. In 2024 her work will be featured in a group exhibition with Centraal Museum in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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