Satijn Panyigay (b. 1988, Nijmegen) is a Dutch-Hungarian photographer, living and working in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Satijn Panyigay makes photographic work attempting to slow life’s pace down.
Fascinated by the psyche of the human being, she mainly captures vacant locations that are briefly not fulfilling their function. Terrains such as the exhibition rooms of museums and their depots, interiors of newly constructed homes, buildings undergoing renovation, offices and industrial areas out of hours. In strict but poetic analog shot color images she’s suggesting presence in the seemingly empty spaces. Her minimalist work, in absence of any direct human narratives, is surprisingly humane – it addresses the feelings of its observer. 

Satijn Panyigay’s work has been featured in exhibitions at a.o. Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam); Centre D’art Contemporain de Meymac (FR), Escher in het Paleis (Den Haag), Fotomuseum Den Haag, Verwey Museum Haarlem, Museum Tot Zover (Amsterdam); Villa Mondriaan (Winterswijk), Museum W, Museum iCoon, BlueKnowledge Art Collection’s art space, and presentations at art fairs as Art Rotterdam, Unseen Photo Fair, PAN Amsterdam, Amsterdam Art Fair. Panyigay’s artist book VOID is published by Hartmann Books (Germany) in 2023.

Her work is part of such collections as Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museum Tot Zover, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Museum W., DZ Bank, KPMG, Reyn van der Lugt, Sgabello Collection, BlueKnowledge Art Collection, Lakeside Collection and a growing number of private collections.