Iris Box is a multidisciplinary artist born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1987).
My work often begins with silence. With standing still, with looking—really looking—at what surrounds me. It begins with the understanding that the human being is nature — not an outsider, but a living part of a constantly shifting whole. The perceived boundary between human and nature is, to me, a cultural construct shaped by systems that categorize, control, and separate. Against that backdrop, my work seeks connection, fluidity, and embodied experience.
By observing, rearranging, and translating my natural surroundings into image, I create compositions that hold stillness and invite reflection. I work intuitively, attuned to the rhythm of light, space, stillness, and time. My images seek a balance between stillness and motion — a space where looking becomes slower, and presence becomes tangible.
Ecological awareness plays a quiet yet essential role in my practice. Not as a direct activist message, but as a way of being: attentive, connected, open to what lives and fades. Art may not offer solutions to the crisis we face, but it can remind us — of our place within a larger whole.
From 2006 to 2010 she studied photography at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. After starting her own photo studio, she decided to do her master’s at the Sandberg Institute (Materialization in Art and Design) from 2015 to 2017.
Her work has been exhibited in art spaces such as Kunstrai, BIG ART, Looiersgracht 60, EYE Amsterdam, De Vishal, Burgerweeshuis, Vishal, Projectspace Lauriergracht 160, Zoete-Broodjes. Temporary Art Center, Antiques Fair “S Hertogenbosch and & Foam.
Her work has been published in Hollands Diep and Volkskrant Magazine. She has done commissioned work for advertising agencies and organizations such as Nederlands Dans Theater, Pakhuis de Zwijger, Kessels Kramer, Cloudfactory, Rituals and smaller companies.