Bjarne Melgaard is a Norwegian

Norwegians

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 artist based in New York

New York

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Melgaard was born in Sydney

Sydney

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 by Norwegian parents, raised in Oslo

Oslo

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, Norway, and works and lives in New York. Early in his career Melgaard created controversial installations referencing subversive subcultures such as S&M and heavy metal

Heavy metal music

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 music. Currently, his practice consists of an emphasis on expressionistic

Expressionism

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 painting

Painting

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s and drawing

Drawing

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s, often containing text.

Melgaard studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts

Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts

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, Rijksacademie in Amsterdam

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 from 1991–1992 and at the Jan van Eyck Academie

Jan Van Eyck Academie

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 in Maastricht

Maastricht

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from 1992-1993.

Selected exhibitions

2008

• Bjarne Melgaard, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York

2007

• The Glamour Chase, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen

2006

• Helter Helter, Galerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris
• Les Super, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
• A Weekend of Painting; A novel by Les Super, Galerie Leo Koenig, New York

2005

• Jasmine La Nuit, The Horse Hospital, London

• Hallo Maybe, Haugar Vestfold Museum, Oslo

2004

• Tirol Transfer, Oesterreichisches Kulturforum, Warsaw

2003

• Skam, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
• The End of The Professional Teenager, Sketch, London

2002

• Black Low, MARTa Herford Museum, Hannover
• Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna

2001

• New Heimat, Kunstverein Frankfurt

2000

• Sharing Exoticisms, 5th Biennale de Lyon

Film appearances :
1. 2008 Until the Light Takes us : documentary about the Norwegian black metal scene int the 90's .The film featured in the 15th Athens International Film Festival ( 16–27 September 2009), at Danaos cinema on Thursday 24 September 2009. In the film an exhibition of the artist in a Stockholm gallery is extensively shown, along with his comments on black /death metal .

http://filmguide.afifest.com/tixSYS/2008/filmguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=3639

Externallinks

• Further information from Patricia Low Gallery
• Bjarne Melgaard on ArtNet.com
• Images, biography and texts at the http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/bjarne_melgaard.htm
• Bjarne Melgaard on ArtFacts.net
• Bjarne Melgaard on http://www.fineart.no/kunstner/612/Bjarne%20Melgaard
• Bjarne Melgaard on Lars Bohman Gallery http://www.larsbohmangallery.com/artists/bjarne-melgaard