Alice Wielinga graduated from the School of Fine Arts, St. Joost Breda (the Netherlands) as a documentary photographer. As she gradually felt constrained by the restrictions of the craft, she started to devise ways of composing images that better visualized the experiential beyond the immediately visible.

She initiated projects in China, Cuba, and more recently in Pakistan and North Korea. 

With North Korea, a Life Between Propaganda and Reality, she won the Photo Folio Review at the Rencontres d’Arles 2014 and the first prize at the Fine Art section of the Moscow International Foto Award in 2015. North Korea, a Life Between Propaganda and Reality was part of the group show North Korean Perspectives at the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Chicago, USA) and the Drents Museum (Assen, the Netherlands). It was also part of (Im)possible to see: North Korea at The Lumière Brothers Center of Photography (Moscow, Russia). The workbook of this project was part of the exhibition L’Art se livre at the Musée des Beaux-Arts Le Locle (Le Locle, Switzerland). 

In September 2017, her work was part of Donne & Fotografia in Udine (Italy), an exhibition on the "150 female photographers, who have profoundly revolutionized and influenced the history of twentieth century photograph" .

Since 2017 Alice regularly travels to North Korea, where she works on a collaborative art project The Artist Perspective together with six North Korean artists. She has given a first insight of this project on prestigious stages from National Geographic (Washington DC, USA), TEDx (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), and Xposure (Sharjah, United Arab Emirates). 

During 2018 en 2019 Alice exhibited Ode to Nebuta about an historic light festival in Aomori (Japan) in Leeuwarden (Netherlands), Valetta (Malta) and Hachinohe (Japan) in collaboration with Noorderlicht Photography and European Eyes on Japan.