[5] Rikken has published extensively on Netherlandish art, and particularly concerning artists from the Southern Netherlands.
[6] Some of her notable works include contributions to the "CODART Canon" and the exhibition catalogue "Frans Hals and the Moderns.
"[7] She has also written essays and articles for various journals and books, covering topics from exotic animal paintings to color printing practices in Amsterdam during the seventeenth century.
[8] Rikken began her curatorial career as an assistant curator of seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age painting at the Rijksmuseum from 2006 to 2008.
[13][14][15][16][17] During her time at the Frans Hals Museum, she oversaw several important restorations, including a monumental painting in the collection by Maarten van Heemskerk.