Gallery affiliations:
Galerie Floss & Schultz, Cologne
Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Gallery, New York
International Fine Arts Consortium, New York and Athens, Greece
Member
Film-makers Cooperative, New York
Artist Rights Society, New York
Noeske Billedkunstnere / UKS, Oslo
Anne Katrine Senstad is an internationally working visual artist, researcher, curator, and film-maker. Her multi-disciplinary practice spans over 2 decades and is anchored in the intersection of installation art, photography, film and video, neon sculpture and light based spatial installations, text based art, land art, and site specificity, with a focus on the phenomena of perception and the language of our cognitive system in response to the properties of light, sound, and color. She is concerned with semiotic narration, sensorial aesthetics, ethics, and criticism, – the transformative and the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practices. Senstad’s long term research and critical projects, are concerned with the humanities, social-political spaces, and culture, seeking an amalgamation for a new folklore.
Senstad has exhibited widely internationally since the mid 1990’s. Notable exhibitions include Galleri Melk, Oslo (2026), Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Foundation, New York, (2026), Galerie Floss und Schultz, Germany, (2025), Temporal Spaces, New York, (2025), Elza Kayal Gallery, New York (2025), Château de Montsoreau Museum of Contemporary Art, France (2024), International Fine Art Consortium, New York and Athens, Greece (2024), Proyectos Raul Zamudio, New York (2024), Buer Gallery, Norway, (2024), Skog Art Space, Norway, (2024), Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark (2023), Norway’s Permanent Mission to the UN and Norway’s Presidency to the Security Council (2021-2022), New York, Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Estonia (2020), Freight & Volume Gallery, New York (2020), Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, (2020-2022), 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), Zhulong Gallery, Dallas, Texas (2016), ThisIsNotAGallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), Kunsthall 314, Norway (2011), Zendai MoMa, Shanghai (2008, 2009), Houston Center for Photography, TX (2007), Gallery Nine5, New York,(2010-2014), Bjørn Ressle Gallery, New York, (2007-09), Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York (1997-2003), Galleri JMS, Norway (2001,2003). 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 exhibitions, festivals and biennials, as well as site specific installations: 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 Brigids Center for the Arts, Ottawa, 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), Utsikten Kunstsenter (2011), Shoot Gallery (2015), and K4 Galleri in Oslo (2018), Norway, A:Code:Nordic DeLights, London, UK (2017), SALT, Oslo (2013), with KK Projects during Prospect 1, and part of Prospect 3+ New Orleans Biennial (2008, 2014), Reinventing Asir, organized by Dar Al Hekma University – the first ever site-specific public light art initiative in Saudi Arabia,(2015), ISEA Dubai and Abu Dhabi Art Hub, in UAE,(2014), VIEWS, Kingdom of Bahrain, under the patronage of Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa al Khalifa(2016), at The Lockerplant at Chinati Foundation, Marfa,Texas,(2010), the Edward James Foundation at Las Posas/The Surreal Gardens, Mexico (2012), MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, (2013), Semana Arabe Festival, Mexico City, (2018), The Joshua Treenial, California (2016), High Desert Art Fair, California(2024), Film-makers Cooperative, New York, (2023, 2024, 2025), IFAC Athina, Greece, (2024), Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece (2025), Elza Kayal Gallery, New York, (2025),Temporal Spaces, New York (2025). 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 2010 she completed a major public art commission entitled ETERNAL, for the Wolfe Center for Performing Arts at BGSU, Ohio, designed by the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, commissioned by Ohio State Percent for Art Program (OAC). The architecturally integrated art work consists of a 28′ x 86′ /10 meter x 30 meter Photography based mural covering the entire lobby. The art presents the experiential immensity of the infinite as a measurable space, the eternal, enveloping horizon, in dialogue with the building’s design. She has been shortlisted for numerous major public art commissions internationally.
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 many more, and is available to stream on PBS.org until 2040. Created and produced by Producing Partners, Allarts.org and WNET.
Senstad 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(emergency grant), and Foundation for Contemporary Art New York.
In 2022 a monograph on her light and space practice, Neon Guides Me, was published on Praun & Guermouche, and includes essays by Senstad’s collaborators; acclaimed composer JG Thirlwell, the late composer and polymath Catherine Christer Hennix(1948-2023), as well as 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).
GOLD GUIDES ME, 2015 – Bruges Art and Architecture Triennale, Belgium.
Lectures and talks:
Bowling Green State University,Ohio, USA/ On Senstad’s public Art Commission in collaboration with Snøhetta Architects, BGSU, and OAC Percent for Arts Program, 2009
ArtTalks: Anne Senstad. St Brigid’s Art Center,Ottawa, Canada, 2012
Bærum Kunsthall, Norway, 2016
The Mosaic Rooms, London, UK. On Senstad’s initiative “Time Beyond Place“, 2017.
Corcoran School of Art and Design George Washington University, Washington DC. On Senstad’s initiative,”Time Beyond Place“, 2017
Beckoned to Blue, Anne Senstad in conversation with Sarah Walko, SL Gallery, New York, 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, 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, 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, 2022.
Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark. POIESIS – artist talk with Anne Katrine Senstad and curator Simon Thykjær, including book launch NEON GUIDES ME, 2023.
Galleri Balder, Oslo, Norway – NEON GUIDES ME book launch and artist talk with Anne Katrine Senstad and Per Hess. 2023.
American-Scandinavian Society, New York – artist talk: Anne Katrine Senstad and Tine Lunsdfryd, moderated by art historian Anita Alvin Nilert, 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, 2023.
On Light, Sound and the Experimental – a conversation with New Orleans Neon, in conjunction with Senstad’s solo exhibition MAL EDUCACIÓN at Good Children Gallery(2023). Supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Kunstfagskolen i Bærum, Norway, video lecture, 2024.
Sandefjord Folkehøyskole, Norway, 2025
Elza Kayal Gallery, New York – In the Mirror – a conversational happening with Fluxus artist Mark Bloch and Anne Katrine Senstad on the occasion of her solo exhibition The Jaguar in the Mirror, supported by Office for Contemporary Art Norway.
Senstad is a member of the Association of Visual Artists, Norway (NBK), The Film-makers Cooperative, New York, and Artists Rights Society, New York. She is the founder of Temporal Spaces, an artist organized gallery and curatorial platform (2025-). Her work is represented internationally in gallery, institutional, corporate and private collections.
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