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Available works:

Exhibition: Arguineguín
Exhibition: Tell Me What I Want to Hear
Siesta (Screen Print)
Atelie.art

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Rights and Reproductions:

Please send all requests concerning the use of images of Lena Trydal's works to
Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society (BONO)

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Lena Trydal, b. 1994, Kristiansand, Norway
Currently living and working in Oslo, Norway

EDUCATION

2016–2019: University of Oslo BA Aesthetic Studies (Oslo, Norway)
2014–2015: Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) Fine Arts (The Hague, Netherlands)
Spring 2014: International Workshop, Metafora Foundation program in Fine Arts (Barcelona, Spain)

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026: Galleri Kobbel Arguineguín (Kristiansand, Norway)
2026: K-U-K, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst Tell Me What I Want to Hear (Trondheim, Norway)
2025: Møllergata 13b, Statsbygg TAKE OUT (Oslo, Norway)
2025: Mikey Laundry Art Garden (MLAG) NEVER FELT LIKE THIS (Bergen, Norway)
2018: Arteriet Nice paintings & dead(ly) fires, Duo-exhibition with Thyra Dragseth (Kristiansand, Norway)
2016: GalleriNeuf The Real Deal (Oslo, NO)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

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Galleri Kobbel ARK, curated by Marius Martinussen (Kristiansand, Norway) (catalogue)
Arendal Kunstforening ARKEN, curated by Marius Martinussen (Arendal, Norway) (catalogue)
69 Group-crit 3, curated by Luca Sørheim and Nora Stangebye Kuvaas (Oslo, Norway)
K-U-K, Kjøpmannsgata Ung Kunst Uten Filter (Trondheim, Norway)

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Kunstnerforbundet The Christmas Exhibition 2025 (Oslo, Norway)
Galleri Kobbel Summer Exhibition (Kristiansand, Norway)

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IRL Gallery FRITTO MISTO VOL. 2 (New York, US)
KöSK OFF THE WALL (Summer) (Oslo, Norway)
Søgne Old Vicarage I choose April (Søgne, Norway)

²⁰²³ Den Frie Udstilling Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (KE) 2023, curated by Ida Sønder Thorhauge, Ida Kvetny, Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Susan Hinnum and Maja Malou Lyse (Copenhagen, Denmark) (catalogue)
KöSK OFF THE WALL (Summer) (Oslo, Norway)
Platform Projects, Vulkan 13 Fusing Forms: Nostalgic Innovation, curated by Bernhard Bratsberg (Oslo, Norway)

²⁰²² BO (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo) Mistakes Were Made: Members Galore, curated by Una Mathisen Gjerde (Oslo, Norway)
Kunstnernes Hus The 135th Autumn Exhibition (Oslo, Norway)
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design I Call It Art, curated by Geir Haraldseth and Randi Godø (Oslo, Norway) (catalogue)

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Den Frie Udstilling Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (KE) 2021, curated by Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl, Anna Bak, Jeuno JE Kim, Hugo Hopping og Malene Landgreen (Copenhagen, Denmark) (catalogue)

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Podium Trafo 15 år (Oslo, Norway)
Gallery Different STOPJECTIFY, curated by Jess de Wahls (London, UK)

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Agder Kunstsenter Stipendutstillingen 2015 (Kristiansand, Norway)
Galleri TM51 Juvenarte 2015: Artistic Trajectories (Oslo, Norway)
Project VIA Barcelona Roleplay, curated by Monica Tolia (Barcelona, Spain)
International Workshop, Metafora No One Good Language, Student exhibition (Barcelona, Spain)
Project VIA Barcelona Hers, His, Yours, Theirs, curated by Monica Tolia (Barcelona, Spain)
Roodkapje Rot(t)terdam Winterwolven Radicals (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

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International Workshop, Metafora We can't Drive to Africa, Student exhibition (Barcelona, Spain)
Espacio Practico Am I the Walrus?, curated by Juan Canela (Barcelona, Spain)
Untiteled BCN Artistic Books (Barcelona, Spain)

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Equinor Art Programme (Norway)
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design (Oslo, Norway)

GRANTS

Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV)) – Project grant 2026
Fritt Ord 2025, 2026
Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (BKV)) – 1-year work grant 2023, 2024, 2025
Ingerid, Synnøve and Elias Fegersten's Foundation for Norwegian Visual Artists – 1-year work grant 2024
Cultiva Ekspress 2023

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

2024 Book cover: Marco Reinertsen. Jeg har fått 48 timer på meg av den indonesiske ambassaden til å få løs foten min fra deres toalett (2024). Oslo: Nieu Forlag.
2017 Production of booklet and cover for Gard Nergaard and Michael Krumins folk album "Å Legge På Svøm".

SELECTED PRESS

2026 Frida Forsgren, “Sydenturen som sydenpop” FVN, August 25, 2026
2026 Tommy Olsson, “Babelsk tårn i lyn og torden” Klassekampen, April 15, 2026
2025 Podcast: Hva er kunst? #57 Lena Trydal”
2024 Dominique Catherina Foertig, “Laugh, Think, And Gaze: Dive Into Lena Trydal's World Of Witty And Provocative Painting” Munchies Art Club, January 15, 2024
2023 “30 under 30: Navnene du bør følge med på nå” Subjekt, April, 24, 2023
2023 Hanna Hattrem, “Y2K-nostalgi inntar kunsten. Med blandet suksess” Subjekt, January 16, 2023
2022 Silje M. Engja Sigurdsen, “Lena Trydal om at hele Norge skulle se kunsten hennes, og kritisere den høylytt” Kunzt.no, October 20, 2022
2022 Yngve Sikko, “Høstutstilling som tar litt stilling“ Tidens Ånd, September 28, 2022
2022 Eva Furseth, “Debutantane løftar haustutstillinga” DAG OG TID, October 7, 2022
2022 Aurora Henni Krogh, “Lena (28) kjøpt inn av Nasjonalmuseet” Subjekt, September 14, 2022
2022 Mina S. Haufmann,“Er det mulig å gi barn og unge innpass i årets Høstutstilling?” Periskop, September 15, 2022
2022 Lars Elton, “Protest og politikk tilbake i Høstutstillingen“ Dagsavisen, September 6, 2022.
2022 Mina Ræge, “Skjønte hun kom til å få kommentarer for «Kongefamilien», men mengden kritikk var hun ikke forberedt på“ Dagsavisen, July 22, 2022
2022 Dominique Catherina Foertig, “11 ARTISTS AND THEIR PAINTINGS OF SWIMMING POOLS” Munchies Art Club
2022 Podcast: “Lena Trydal (28) om å stille ut på Nasjonalmuseet” Finansavisen
2022 Frans Josef Petersson, “När borgerlig konst ska samsas med mångfald” Aftonbladet, June 11, 2022
2022 Vilde Bratland Hansen, “Hennes portrett av Kongefamilien skaper reaksjoner: – Jeg har ideer som er ganske mye drøyere” Aftenposten, June 12, 2022
2022 Xin Li, “Mener Lenas (28) maleri gjør narr av kongefamilien“ NRK, May 24, 2022
2022 Xin Li, “Der kunsten skapes” NRK, April 24, 2022
2020 Margrethe Hegnar, “Møt fem av kunstnerne som skal åpne Nasjonalmuseet” Finansavisen, October 31, 2020
2019 "Om tilblivelse" Artist anthology, Lik Forlag

See complete presslist here
Click here to access PDF with a selection of articles (Norwegian)

SELECTED WRITING

Editorial work

Kunst Pluss 3/2020
Kunst Pluss 2/2020
Kunst Pluss 1/2020

Criticism and writing

“TREE ART ETHICS” in UNG URO: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design (2021). Oslo: Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
“Kunstnerportrett: Admir Batlak” Kunst Pluss 3/2020
“Kunstnerportrett: Joar Nango” Kunst Pluss 2/2020
“Kunstnerportrett: Tiago Bom” Kunst Pluss 1/2020
"Cancelled memorials, subtle billboards and the Y-block: OsloBIENNALEN launches its new Program" NOAR
"Review: Lofoten International Art Festival 2019" NOAR
"5 must-see exhibitions in Oslo this fall" NOAR
“Y-blokka er ikke den eneste. Nå står Økernsenteret for tur“ Subjekt
"Den hvite kuben er ut" Subjekt
“Først dødsdømt, så avkledd. Nå er kvinnen fra Oslos sexistiske byvåpen fjernet“ Subjekt
“Til Stiv Kuling Arkitekters LIGHT/HOUSE/GARDEN” Sørlandsutstillingen 2019
“Til Marit Viljugreins Ocean Diary” Sørlandsutstillingen 2019
"A Vault Protecting Humans from Humans" Oslo Form Lab
"Thank You Socialism" Oslo Form Lab
"The Life of the Logs" Oslo Form Lab

MEMBERSHIPS

Landsforeningen Norske Malere (LNM) / The Norwegian Association of Painters
Norske Billedkunstnere (NBK) / Association of Norwegian Visual Artists
Billedkunst Opphavsrett i Norge (BONO) / Norwegian Visual Artists Copyright Society
Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling (KE) 2021–2027

Resources

Bio
Artist Statement
Texts
Catalogues
Press-kit
Selected press (PDF)
Complete presslist

Lena Trydal

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