Anna Clawson (b. Donaghadee, N.IRE) completed her Masters in Fine Art in spring 2023 at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She is an alumni of School of the Damned (2017), an autonomous free art school in the UK. She received her BA (Hons) in Fine Art from University College Falmouth, UK, in 2009.

Since 2010 she has mostly been working as part of a collaborative duo with fellow artist Nicole Ward, under the moniker Clawson & Ward. Since moving into Kunstnernes Hus she has been included in the exhibition Dizzy Spells curated by Thora Dolven Balke, at Melk and in 2024 will have a solo exhibition at Atelier Nord.

Previous Clawson & Ward activities include exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; CCA Derry~Londonderry, N.IRE; Tenderpixel, London, UK; Royal West Academy, Bristol, UK; Glasgow International, Scotland, UK; Ormston House, Limerick, IRE; Guest Projects, London, UK, Malonioji 6, Vilnius, LT; CRATE, Margate, UK. Previous residencies include RUPERT, Vilnius, LT; Studio Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AU; Nida Art Colony, LT; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; KARST, Plymouth, UK.

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Doris Guo (b. 1992, USA) lives and works in Norway and is an MA graduate from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Working with a variety of materials and media, the bodies of work she produces often come from a journalistic approach to the feelings and affects of lived experience.

The ambiences of the day-to-day, and the distances between and how we come to identify what we see remain a starting point of her practice as she works with readymades and the visual languages of interior spaces.

Previously her work has been presented at VI, VII, Oslo; Crèvecoeur, Paris; Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich; and the galleries 47 Canal, Bodega (Derosia), Fisher Parrish and Real Fine Arts in New York.

https://www.dorisguo.biz/

"I remember listening to a radio program several years ago, that attempted to bring together astronomy and philosophical or at least existential themes. The astronomer in the program explained that to get a better image of how space is actually laid out, I could lie down on my back outdoors on a starry night, look up towards the stars but know that it was actually downwards I was looking."

Johan Andrén (b. 1991, Sweden) works mainly with photography, both my making images with a camera, and with found image materials. In addition to photography Andrén also utilizes other media, such as text, publishing, video/film and installations. Lately Andrén has started exploring bodily presence in relation to photography, and how images imply bodies. The body that is depicted in the photograph, the body of the viewer of the image, and the body of the photographer.

Andrén holds a BFA in photography from Valand Academy in Gothenburg (2017), and a Master in Fine Arts from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2023). Since 2017 Andrén is also part of running NEJD, a space for sound and art in Gothenburg.

www.johanandren.se

Mariusz Maslanka (b. 1992, Poland) lives and works in Oslo, where he recently completed his MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. He previously earned a Master's degree in Printmaking from the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw. Maslanka works primarily with sculpture, installation, and image, negotiating between digital and analog techniques.

Drawn to phenomena at the intersection of the mental, physical, and digital, he plays with human and technological perception. His work, juxtaposing different temporalities, often touches upon feelings of alienation, anxiety, and melancholia, characteristic of his generation.

Recent solo exhibitions include HULIAS, Oslo (2023), I am you, but stronger at Gallery SIC BWA Wroclaw (2020), Quake at Cave Gallery during PSF Berlin (2019). Recent group exhibitions include Statens 135. kunstutstilling, Høstutstillingen at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2022), Psychopomp at The National Ossolinski Institute, Wrocław (2021), The night will drive a heart at Contemporary Museum, Wroclaw (2021).

Mathew Lacosse was born in 1990 in Amiskwacîwâskahikan/ Edmonton, Canada and now lives in Oslo, Norway. Lacosse completed his MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2023) and BFA from the University of Manitoba (2018). Selected exhibitions include Heerz Tooya (2023, BG); Clink at Guttormsgaards Arkiv (Solo, 2023, NO); FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL: It’s not too late to change your mind at Kunstnernes Hus (2023, NO); and still-likeness: reworking the photographic medium at Platform Centre for Photographic and Digital Arts (2018, CA). Additionally, Lacosse has been artist in residence at ARV.International (BG), PRAKSIS, Oslo, (NO) and held mentorships with Shep Steiner and Jenifer Papararo.

Naeun Kang (b. Changwon, South Korea) is an artist based in Oslo. She works with painting, sculpture, installations, and ceramics. She is interested in exploring the nuances of human experiences, irrationality, daily conundrums, various coping mechanisms, the general messiness and awkwardness of life. She often draws from personal interactions, social observations, bodily experiences, eavesdropped anecdotes, popular culture and mythologies. She holds an MA in Fine Arts from the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo (KHiO) and a BA from the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, Netherlands.

"I am attracted to the immediacy of working with analogue materials & tangible processes. Whether film or sculpture, my work is shaped by repetition. I work intuitively, gathering textures, sounds, & gestures found in my immediate environment."

Nicole Ward (b. Belfast, N.Ireland) earned an MFA from Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2023), an alternative education from School of the Damned (2017), and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from University College Falmouth (2009). Since 2010 she has mostly been working as part of a collaborative duo with fellow artist Anna Clawson, under the moniker Clawson & Ward.

Previous Clawson & Ward activities include exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK; CCA Derry~Londonderry, NI; Tenderpixel, London, UK; Royal West Academy, Bristol, UK; Glasgow International, Scotland, UK; Ormston House, Limerick, IRE; Guest Projects, London, UK, Malonioji 6, Vilnius, LT; CRATE, Margate, UK. Previous residencies include RUPERT, Vilnius, LT; Studio Das Weisse Haus, Vienna, AU; Nida Art Colony, LT; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; KARST, Plymouth, UK.

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"I believe that personal memory is a vital material, in order to recognise in one's own experience everything that is outside of me, perhaps distant or almost imperceptible. I find in this a deep motivation to investigate material culture and its linkages between the coloniality of nature and emotions. I propose a form of anarcheology of consumerism; using material that represent the interstice between the new and the used, to search within the endemic relationships where the natural is confused with the artificial."

Reyes Santiago Rojas Figueroa (b. 1981, Bogotá, Colombia) holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Oslo National Academy of Fine Arts (2021-23), a Master in Artistic Production from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (2014-15) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the National University of Colombia, Bogotá (2007-12).

Solo exhibitions include PODIUM, Oslo (upcoming, 2024); Swept, Skylight, KHiO, Oslo (2023), To Earth, Skylight, KHiO, Oslo (2022), Tabaco, Tobacco, Tobakk., K.O.SA. Oslo (2021), Gratis, FORO SPACE, Bogotá, Colombia (2019) and Lote 11.900, MIAMI Prácticas contemporáneas, Bogotá, Colombia (2016).

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Sara Guldmyr (b. 1990 in Sweden, based in Oslo) works with video, sculpture and installation. The combination of working with both video and sculpture gives her the opportunity to use different types of timelines: A linear one in video and a physical one in sculpture. Sara works with time in relation to the body, technology and interpersonal relationships. In a present time that likes to measure all things to calculate how to be more efficient, Sara works with time measurement to illuminate time from a different perspective.

Guldmyr has a bachelor's degree from Trondheim Academy of Fine Arts and a master's degree from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Her works have been shown, among others, at Trøndelagsutstillingen in Trondheim, Atelier Nord and at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo.

https://saraguldmyr.com