Ellen Gronemeyer (born 1979 in Fulda) is a German contemporary painter and has held a junior professorship at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, the academy of fine arts of Germany's federal state of North Rhine Westphalia, since 2017.
Gronemeyer grew up in Fritzlar, a small German town in northern Hesse with a storied history. After finishing her secondary education in 1998 she took up studies of Free Art at the , the University of Fine Arts of Hamburg. Amongst her mentors there were Stephan Dillemuth, Werner Büttner, Bogomir Ecker, Sabeth Buchmann and Daniel Richter. She graduated in 2005 with a diploma.
From 2006 until 2009, Gronemeyer held a teaching position at the Chelsea College of Arts and Design in London.
In 2014, Gronemeyer had her first solo exhibition in a museum at the Ludwig Forum for International Art in Aachen.
In 2017, Gronemeyer was appointed to a junior professorship for painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.
Since 2009, she has been living in Berlin.