Reinder Oldenburger

Reinder Oldenburger is an artist born in Fryslân, The Netherlands, 1984. As a child, color and sound proved to be the two things that moved him the most. In 2003, Reinder moved to Amsterdam to study guitar at the Royal Conservatory of Amsterdam where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 2007. His strong interest in art and painting, in particular, found expression when he first started painting at age 27. Although Reinder has extensive training in music, as a painter he is self-taught.

Fueled by a drive to explore and expand, Reinder relocated to New York City in 2011, where he continued to develop and establish himself as a painter.  A high and consistent output from his Long Island City studio attracted the attention of collectors and art critics resulting in publications and several group shows in New York.

Reinder became the top-selling artist with Vango, a pioneering San Francisco-based online art gallery. Shortly thereafter he acquired his first cover feature for London-based online art platform Artfinder in their annual catalog named The Edit for the year 2016/2017. Later that year he was commissioned by prime real estate developers in Manhattan to produce a conceptual painting to promote the opening of a top-level penthouse in an iconic Madison Avenue skyscraper property.

In 2017, Reinder relocated to Los Angeles, where he set up his current studio. Shortly after relocating to California he was named as one of Artists to know in 2019 by Palm Springs / Laguna Beach art magazine Art Patron.

Today Reinder's paintings can be found in collections in over a dozen countries.

Reinder is also an active musician, writing, recording and playing with the group The Neptune Darlings, and the new Los Angeles-based rock band Ocean Hills.

(Photo by Shaun Michael Eliades, Los Angeles 2020)