Frank Koolen (1978, Maastricht) is a visual artist. He studied Autonomous Visual Arts at the HKU and was a resident at De Ateliers and the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam.

His way of working is characterized by sudden hunches and associations related to a place, an encounter, a question, which are then translated as directly as possible into an image, installation, performance, video, audio work, or text. An ongoing and context-related search for unexpected logic in which play and humor play a major role. In recent years Koolen developed a multifaceted practice as an artist, teacher, writer, visual arts consultant, and curator.