Annelies Middel was born in 1973 and grew up in the north of Holland. During the last two years of secondary school, she studied the flute at the Groningen Conservatory, but she quit in 1992. In the same year, she was admitted to the Academy of Arts in Groningen.
       Annelies studied painting and photography and experimented with transitional forms between these two fields. Her final project at the Academy of Arts consisted of a collection of photographs, which was in line with this combination of fields.
        Since 1993 the portrait is an important theme in her work. At the moment she creates portraits that are 'fillable' in the sense that they can be concretized by the viewer himself. Most of her work is painted in black, white and grey, but more and more colors appear.
        Annelies Middel lives and works in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands, and part of the year in the USA.

Exhibitions
1996 'Arts Forum ’96', Oldenburg , Germany
1997 final exhibition Academie Minerva, Groningen, Netherlands
1998 'Spring Salon ’98', Pictura in Groningen, Netherlands
1999 CBK (Centre of Visual Arts), Groningen, Netherlands
1999 'Face the portrait – reflect your mind' , Museum 'Het Kruithuis',                  Hertogenbosch,  Netherlands
2000 'Multiple Means', Gallery 'Noorderlicht', Groningen, Netherlands
2000 exhibition in Skopje, Macedonia
2001 solo exhibition, Gallery 'Uit de kunst in de kerk' ('Art in the church'),           Nijmegen, Netherlands
2001 solo exhibition at the SNS-Bank, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2002 Gallery Arteria, Groningen, Netherlands
2003 Noordelijke Kunsthof (Northern Art Gallery), Appingedam, Netherlands
2003 solo-exhibition 'Faces of Georgia', 'Old Gallery', Tbilisi, Georgia
2004 exhibition with Annemarie Busschers en Joyce Eijkhout in Leer,           Germany
2005 solo-exhibition 'Faces of Georgia and Groningen', Appingedam,           Netherlands
2005 exhibtion "Nieuw klein werk" with Marc Beaudette in Groningen,          Netherlands

2006 Expected exhibition in New York, USA