Ruth van Beek (b. 1977) lives and works in Koog aan de Zaan, Netherlands. Her work has been exhibited internationally with Post Books (Tokyo), The Ravestijn Gallery (Amsterdam), De Warande (Brussels), Fraenkel Gallery (San Francisco), Foam (Amsterdam), Les rencontres d’Arles, and Fotomuseum Antwerp.
She has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam since 2014. Her work has been featured in publications such as De Gids, The New Yorker, Vogue, Centrefold, Foam, IMA, The British Journal of Photography, The New York Review of Books, The Aperture PhotoBook Review, Elephant, and The New York Times.
She has published numerous artist books including The Arrangement (RVB Books, 2013), which was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook of the Year Award in 2014, The Cast (New Documents, 2017), and How To Do The Flowers (APE & Dashwood Books, 2018). Her most recent books, Eldorado (2020) and The Oldest Thing (2023), were both published by Van Zoetendaal Publishers. The Oldest Thing was shortlisted for the Aperture PhotoBook of the Year in 2023.
Ruth is represented by The Ravestijn Gallery in Amsterdam.