Marja van Kampen was born in The Netherlands. She is a full-time painter and printmaker. She received her degree for Painting, Printmaking and Art History from the Akademie voor Beeldende Kunsten in Arnhem, The Netherlands in 1972. After pursuing her art, there, for a number of years Marja traveled through Europe and settled for a while in the South of France before moving to Ireland permanently in 1982.

She is a co-founder of Artspace Studios, Galway, and was a driving force in its development, before setting up her own studio. Her work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions in Ireland, Europe and as far away as China. Solo shows include the Irish Museum of Modern Art, (IMMA), Dublin, a National Touring Exhibition, Centre D’Art Azilien, France, Worpswede, Germany, Galway Arts Centre, among others. She represented Ireland in the Aalborg Triennale in Denmark..

Her work is in many public collections including The Arts Council of Ireland, The Department of the Taoiseach, Office of Public Works, Microsoft Irish Art Collection. Some of her very large paintings are in the Radisson SAS Hotel Collection and the University College Hospital Galway Collection.

She is the recipient of Arts Council Awards, a DAAD Scholarship for a residency in Worpswede, Germany and, a Travel Award from the Department of Foreign Affairs. In 2008 she received an Arts Council Travel Award to visit Museums and Galleries in New York.

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