| Birth Name: | Rajacenna van Dam |
| Birth Place: | Vlaardingen, South Holland, Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| Known For: | Ambidextrous hyperrealistic pencil drawings |
| Website: | https://www.rajacenna.com |
Rajacenna van Dam, who works under the name Rajacenna (born January 24, 1993), is a Dutch hyper realistic pencil drawing artist.[1] She is ambidextrous and is known for using both hands to draw different portraits at the same time.
Rajacenna van Dam was born in the Netherlands on January 24. Her first name is a combination of the names of her mother and father and, as such, had to be officially approved.[2]
As an actor, she played Remco's daughter for two episodes of the Dutch program (later called Serious Crimes)[3] [4] and worked as a model and a TV host.[5] She began as a presenter of the first Dutch Web TV for children when she was 12 years.[6]
When Rajacenna was 16 years old, she took up pencil drawing seriously, inspired by an Italian street artist.[7] [8] After three months her work was published in the art book Amazing Pencil Portraits 2. In 2012, she was published again in Amazing Pencil Portraits 3.
In May 2015, she worked with the band Owl City singer-songwriter Adam Young, for whom she made a promotional drawing and a time lapse video of the cover art of his album, Mobile Orchestra.[9]
Rajacenna states that she was inspired to use her feet to create art after joking about it with a reporter during an interview.[10] In 2023, Rajacenna posted a video to her YouTube channel in which she creates eight different portraits simultaneously using both of her hands as well as both of her feet.
She was awarded by CosmoGirl "Born to Lead award"[11] and she was awarded as one of the 400 most influential women in the Netherlands according to Viva magazine.[12]