Guido van der Werve (Papendrecht, 1977) is a Dutch video artist, photographer, performance artist and composer. He studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 1998 to 2003, and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten (‘National Academy of Visual Arts’) in Amsterdam from 2006 to 2007. From 2008 until 2009, Guido van der Werve worked in Brooklyn, New York, and now lives and works alternately in Amsterdam, Berlin and Hassi (Finland).

Guido van der Werve has won several prizes, including the René Coelho Award in 2003, the Volkskrant Fine Art Prize in 2007, and the Charlotte Köhler Prize in 2012. In 2013, he was awarded the Netherlands Film Festival’s Golden Calf for best short film.