Zaida Oenema (1980) is a Dutch/Finnish visual artist who lives and works in The Hague, the Netherlands. Oenema studied Nordic Arts and Crafts at Ålands Folkhögskola, Finland; earned a BFA in Photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague (2004); and an MFA in Photography at St. Joost School of Art and Design in Breda (2009). In the past decade, she has moved from photography and video performance to drawing with various tools and materials including graphite and pastel, scalpel and soldering iron, paper and wood.
Oenema exhibits her work regularly at galleries, fairs, and museums in the Netherlands. She has shown with Galerie Helder, The Hague; Art Rotterdam with We Like Art; KunstRAI Amsterdam; Art on Paper Amsterdam; Papier Biënnale, Museum Rijswijk; and CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, among others. She has shown widely in Germany, including at Kunsthaus Erfurt; Galerie Ursula Walter, Dresden; Projektraum Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin; and Art Fair Blooom, Cologne. In the US, she has presented solo exhibitions and participated in group shows with Municipal Bonds, San Francisco. Her work is held in many private and public collections, notably the permanent collection of CODA Museum, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam. Recently, Oenema received a prestigious grant from the Mondriaan Fund for established artists to support her work for four years (2022-2025). She is represented by Municipal Bonds.