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Anne Katrine Senstad is an internationally working visual artist, researcher and film-maker. Her multi-disciplinary practice is anchored in the intersection of installation art, photography, film and video, neon sculpture and light based spatial installations, land art and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and our cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with aesthetics, ethics and criticism, – the transformative and the transcendental ideas of art, society and philosophical practice.
Senstad was educated at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research, New York, 1990- 94, and 1999. She has exhibited widely internationally since the mid 1990’s. Notable exhibitions includes the upcoming solo exhibition with Momentum, Miami(2024), Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark (2023), Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallin, Estonia (2020), Freight & Volume Gallery, New York (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2019), ATHR Gallery (alongside James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Leo Villarreal), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2018), Octavia Gallery, New Orleans + Houston, (2018), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, (2017, 2023), Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2017), Bærum Kunsthall, Norway (2016), ThisIsNotAGallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), Zendai MoMa, Shanghai (2008), Houston Center for Photography, TX (2007), Bjørn Ressle Gallery, New York, (2007-09), Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York (1997-2003). Biennales and Triennales include; Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015).
Her short films and video works have been screened internationally as part of notable exhibitions, festivals and biennials: Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haus Der Kultur Der Welt, Berlin, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon as part of Rencontres Internationales, 2010-11), The Canadian Museum of Nature (2011), St Bridgids Center for the Arts, CA, (2011), Museum of Modern Art Ukraine in Kiev, (2011), Dallas Aurora, Texas (2013, 2016), Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires and Eva Peron Museum, Argentina (2009), Oslo Screen Festival (2007) and K4 Galleri in Oslo (2018), Norway, A:Code:Nordic DeLights, London, UK (2017), with KK Projects during Prospect 1, and part of Prospect 3+ New Orleans Triennale (2008, 2014), Reinventing Asir, organized by Dar Al Hekma University – the first ever site-specific public light art initiative in Saudi Arabia,(2014), at Liwa Art Hub, Abu Dhabi Art Hub, and ISEA Dubai 2014 in UAE , (all 2014), as part of VIEWS, Kingdom of Bahrain, under the patronage of Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa al Khalifa (2016), site specific installations at the Edward James Foundation / The Surreal Gardens, as part of Senstad’s artist residency at the foundation,(2012), MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, (2013), Semana Arabe Festival, Mexico City, (2018). New Year New Video festival, at the Film-makers Cooperative, New York, (2023, 2024). Select short films by Senstad are represented by The Film-makers Cooperative, New York and The National Video Art Archive at the National Museum of Norway.
In 2011 she completed a major public art commission entitled ETERNAL, in collaboration with the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, at The Wolfe Center for the Arts, BGSU, Ohio, commissioned by Ohio State Percent for Art Program (OAC). The commission consists of a 28′ x 86′ /10 m x 30 m Photobased mural covering the entire lobby, based on her photographic practice on light and color. The art presents the experiential immensity of the infinite, eternal horizon in dialogue with the building’s design.
Senstad is featured in the EMMY award winning WNET/PBS TV documentary series IMMERSIVE WORLD, (S1, E7 IMMERSIVE LIGHT), alongside James Turrell, Dan Flavin/DIA Foundation, and Anthony McCall. Senstad’s episode, Immersive Light – Sculptors of Light, has been aired on Canal+, France, RAI 5, Italy, Canal+ Arte, Brazil, and is available to stream on PBS.org until 2040. Created and produced by Producing Partners, Allarts.org and WNET.
She is the recipient of numerous awards and grants from Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Association of Visual Artists, Norway, Fritt Ord, Norway, Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Norway, NYFA/Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (2022), and Foundation for Contemporary Art New York,(2020,2021), (emergency grants).
In 2022 a monograph on her light and space practice, Neon Guides Me, was published, and includes essays by Senstad’s collaborators; acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell, the late composer and polymath Catherine Christer Hennix, and thinkers, historians and writers: Andres Kurg (EE), Marianne Solberg (NO), Erik Meling (NO), Dr Aura Seikkula (FI), Sanna Karimaki-Nuutinen (FI), Sarah Walko(US), Patrick Rolandelli (US). (Praun + Guermouche Books)
GOLD GUIDES ME, 2015 – Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium.
Lectures and talks: Bowling Green State University,Ohio, USA, 2009: ArtTalks: Anne Senstad. St Brigid’s Art Center,Ottawa, Canada, 2012 – On installation and Projection, 2011. Bærum Kunsthall, Norway, October 27 2016: Artist talk with curator Sarah Walko in conjunction with the exhibition And Everything Else is Too Narrow. The Mosaic Rooms, London, August 24th, 2017. Lecture on TIME BEYOND PLACE – The Cultural Bridge, a cross cultural platform for women artists established by Anne Katrine Senstad in Saudi Arabia in 2016-17. Corcoran School of Art and Design George Washington University, Washington DC, on TIME BEYOND PLACE as part of WISAL symposium on cross cultural initiatives. Organized by ITHRA Dec 4, 2017. Blue is the calmest color – SL Gallery, New York, An artist dialogue with Sarah Walko and Anne K Senstad on the occasion of UNESCO’s International Day of Light, May 16, 2019. Trafo Kunsthall Norway, On Light Art, an educational lecture series organized by Arts Council Norway, National Museum of Norway and Trafo Kunsthall, Nov. 2020. Music for Plutocracy, S12 Gallery. Norway. A conversation between Anne K Senstad and art historian Erik Meling, streamed live. January 2021. Turku UAS Arts Academy, Turku Museum Centre and Arts Promotion Centre Finland: Expanding Horizons – New Artistic expertise: Anne K Senstad in conversation with curator Aura Seikkula, February 2022. Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, Neon Guides Me – Book release event and artist panel with Anne Katrine Senstad + JG Thirlwell, moderated by art critic and Editor at Large Tom McGlynn, Brooklyn Rail. Nov 5, 2022. Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark. POIESIS – artist talk with Anne Katrine Senstad and curator Simon Thykjær, including book launch NEON GUIDES ME. February 11, 2023. Galleri Balder, Oslo, Norway – NEON GUIDES ME book launch and artist talk with Anne Katrine Senstad and Per Hess. February 16, 2023. American-Scandinavian Society, New York – artist talk: Anne Katrine Senstad and Tine Lunsdfryd, moderated by art historian Anita Alvin Nilert. March 5th, 2023. Jamestown Art Center, Rhode Island, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – An intersection of Art and Science, curated by Lara Pan, artist panel discussion and lecture, Anne Katrine Senstad, Anita Giesta, Rafael Suarez-Universal, Carla Gannis, Rafael Attias. April 23, 2023. High Desert Art Fair with MOMENTUM FINE ART - How We Live Together video art artist talk, Anne Katrine Senstad in conversation with Momentum Fine Art curator Vincent Milner, February 24, 2024.
Senstad is currently working on an experimental documentary film on her 30 year light art practice and conceptual approaches to space, philosophy, aesthetics and ethics. She is a member of the Association of Visual Artists, Norway and The Film-makers Cooperative, New York. Senstad’s work is represented internationally in gallery, institutional, corporate and private collections.
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