Marlene Dumas (born 3 August 1953) is a South African artist and painter based in the Netherlands.

Dumas began painting in 1973 and showed her political concerns and reflections on her identity as a white woman of Afrikaans descent in South Africa.

Her art focuses on more serious issues and themes such as sexuality and race, guilt and innocence, violence and tenderness.

[14] Dumas likes to use a wet-on-wet technique, that combines thin layers of paint with thick ones.

[18] Dumas taught at the Academie voor Beeldende Vorming (ABV) in Tilburg, Academie voor Kunst en Industrie (AKI) in Enschede, Rijksakademie Van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, and De Ateliers in Amsterdam (Tutorials and Coaching).