Arno Kramer works as a visual artist and curator in the Netherlands and Ireland. In 2015 he was awarded the Netherlands Artists of the Year award, in the older artists category.
In 2005 Kramer curated Into Drawing Contemporary Dutch Drawing. This show travelled to 5 European countries. In January 2009, he curated Into Irish Drawing, a travelling exhibition in The Netherlands, which then travelled to France and Northern Ireland. For 20 years, he has been a teacher at the AKI Academy of Visual Arts and Design in Enschede, the Netherlands; he has also been a guest lecturer at art colleges in Ireland, England, Scotland, and the USA. He publishes on the visual arts and writes poetry. He is currently the first curator of the Drawing Centre Diepenheim in The Netherlands. Recently, together with Diana Wind, director of the Schiedam Stedelijk Museum, he co-curated All About Drawing: 100 Dutch Artists, in an overview of 50 years of Dutch drawings, presented at the Stedelijk Museum in Schiedam.