Dominique Teufen was born in Davos Switzerland in 1975. After following a two years stone sculpting class in Zürich, she moved to Amsterdam and received her BA in Sculpture from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in 2002. In the following years she worked and exhibited in Melbourne, Zürich, London and New York. After moving back to Amsterdam, she attained her Master of Fine Art in 2010 at the Academy for Art and Design St. Joost in S’Hertogenbosch the Netherlands. Since 2011 she lives and works in Zürich and Amsterdam.

Since 2014 Dominique Teufen is represented by the Christophe Guye Gallery in Zürich Switzerland and exhibits internationally such as the photography biennale in Bogota 2017, the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden the Netherlands 2018, the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf 2018, in the Photo Museum Berlin DE 2019 and in the Kunsthalle Darmstadt DE 2019. She was one of the Winners of the LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2018 and in 2019 she won the HSBC Award for photography in France.