Born in Oslo 1964, Lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
Member of NBK (Norwegian Visual Artists Association) and the Drawing Center in Oslo and The Drawing Center, New York, Viewing Program

Exhibitions 

2024 Shadow of white, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2021 Close to the line, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo
2020 Two near angles, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
2018  Silent Sounding, Gallery BOA, Oslo with Siri Austeen
2015 Exhibition with artist Nils Olav Bøe, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2012 Flexible Motion with Øyvind Jørgensen, Galleri Trafo, Asker
2008 zone, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2008 areas, Stillscape, Esviken, Norway (Landart project)
2007 White Noise, Kunstbanken, Hedmark Kunstsenter, Norway
2006 White Noise, Art Leauge, Houston, USA
2006 Unmediated Recognition, Galleri Gathe, Bergen
2006 Galleri Semmingsen, Oslo
2002 Between the Lines, Galleri MGM, Oslo
1996 Drawing, Galleri Nebb-X, Oslo

Selected Group Shows

2025 Groupshow, Hovedøya Arthall, Oslo
2022 Sekvence, Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2018 Guilt by Association, Bærum Kunsthall, Norway
2017 Konstruktiv Tendens,  Tomarps Kungsgård, Kvidinge, Sweden
2016 Nonfigurativ reality – different strategies, Kunstbanken Hedmark Artcenter, Norway
2015 Presence -Stillness-Moment-Reflection, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker, Norway
2015 Construction, Bærum Communitiy Art Collection, Bærum Kunsthall.
2014 Spring Exhibition, Charlottenborg Kunsthall, Copenhagen
2014 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo, Norway
2012 Silence, Gallery Masters & Pelavin, New York
2012 Non Figuration, Edsvik Kunsthall, Stockholm
2011 Extended Drawing, Gallery Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2010 Drawing Biennial, Lines on the move, Momentum Kunsthall, Norway
2010 Konstruktive Tendenser, Gallery LNM, Oslo
2009 Apparently Invisible: Spring Selections Show, The Drawing Center, New York
2009 Group show, The Constructivist Tendency Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Abstraktion XXVII, The Constructivist Tendency Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2008 Gallery F15 , Jeløy
2008 Kunst1 
2007 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2006 Spring Exhibition, The Drawing Center, Oslo
2005 Gallery Semmingsen, Oslo
2002 Galleri MGM, Oslo
2001 Tendencies, Galleri JMS, Oslo
2001 Presented in Slideshow, Reykjavik Art Museum
2000 Tendencies, Galleri JMS, Oslo
1999 The Annual Art Exhibition, Høstutstillingen, Oslo
1999 Spring Exhibition, The Drawing Center, Oslo
1998 Drawing Exhibition, The Peder Balke Center, Toten
1996 The Annual Art Exhibition, Høstutstillingen
1995 Sjokoladefabrikken, Oslo
1993 Østlandsutstillingen

Grants

The Artists Consideration Foundation; 2002,2003,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010-2012, 2014,2015.
State grant 2016, State grant 2017-2019.
The Artists Consideration Foundation: 2020-2023.
State grant 2024-2028

Awards

Art Award from the Ministry of Local Government, Baerum, Norway, 2008

Education

1993-94 The National College of Art and Design, Oslo, Norway
1992-93 Parson School of Design, Paris
1990-92 The National College of Art and Design, Oslo, Norway
1989-90 Asker Art School, Norway
1986-87 University of Colorado, Boulder, Fine Art
1984-86 The School of Computer Science, Oslo

Collections

The Oslo municipality’s art collection
Ministry of Local Government, Baerum, Norway
The Norwegian Council of Cultural Affairs, Oslo
HM Queen Sonja´s Collection
Terra Finans, Oslo

Bibliography

When emptiness holds meaning, Janicke Iversen, catalog white noise, 2006
Text by Henning L. Mortensen to the catalogue zone, 2008

Janine Magelssen