Frans van Lent (1955) is a Dutch performance artist based in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, who has researched during his many years of distinguished career the borders and possibilities of performative art. He graduated with a MA Fine Arts from the MaHKU academy in Utrecht, and beside his artistic practice, he’s a lecturer at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Van Lent has questioned all of the above mentioned themes in several exhibitions, gallery shows and performance event both on local Dutch and international scale in the past decade of artistic practice.