Artists
Bio
Bjarne Bare (b. 1985, Poznań) holds a BFA from the Oslo Academy of Fine Art and an MFA from UCLA. He works with photography as a critical and conceptual practice that interrogates the medium’s material, technological, and institutional conditions. Through abstraction, layering, and symbolic reframing, his work foregrounds photography’s instability. Treating the image not as a fixed object but as a provisional proposition shaped by systems of production, circulation, and perception. Engaging technology, nature, and human relations as entangled forces.
His practice has been presented internationally and is included in the permanent collections of institutions such as the National Museum of Norway and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
Bjarne Bare
Selected Works
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition of 3 + 1AP
BB16-06
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition of 3 + 1AP
BB16-05
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 1 of 3 + 1AP
BB16-04
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
150 x 100 cm, 151,5 x 101 cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
100 x 150 cm, 101 x 151,5cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
100 x 150 cm, 101 x 151,5cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
100 x 150 cm, 101 x 151,5cm (framed)
Edition 5 + 2 AP
50 x 70 cm
Edition of 5 + 2AP
80 x 100 cm
Edition of 5 + 2AP
90 x 120 cm
Edition of 5 + 2AP
Gallery Exhibitions
CV
Born 1985. Lives in Oslo and Los Angeles.
Education
2015 – 2017
MFA UCLA Los Angeles. Professors Catherine Opie & James Welling
2010 – 2013
BFA Academy of Fine Art Oslo. Professor Dag Erik Elgin
2007 – 2008
Oslo Fotokunstskole
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Latent Eclipse. OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2025
Sketch for Totality. The Reef, Los Angeles, California
2023
Moral Hazard, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Risør, Risør Kunstpark, Norway
Jewel and a Shell, Michael Felix, Los Angeles, California
2021
2021
2021
Anamnesis, Salonul de proiecte, Bucharest, Romania
The Itch, No Moon LA, Los Angeles, California
2020
Breathing, Together, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2017
If, Then, Because, Since and So, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
2016
Syzygy, Louise Dany / UKS, Oslo
2015
Bivouacked, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway - with Tiril Hasselknippe
The Pineappleweed.Kunstparken, Risør, Norway
2015
The Pineappleweed, Kunstparken, Risør, Norway
2014
Outboard Swaddle, Fondazione Bevialcqua La Masa, Palazzo Tito, Venice
Duo-Exhibitions
2024
Amber Waves of Grain, with Sessa Englund. Institute of the Sun, High Desert, California
2015
Bivouacked, with Tiril Hasselknippe. OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibitions
2025
Some light turbulence may occur, MELK, Oslo, Norway
En kunstsamling på vei, Oslo kommunes kunstsamling, Gamle Munch, Oslo, Norway
2021
Rites of Passage, Kunstnernes Hus and Norway's National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
Exposed, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway
As far as my Eye can Sea, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
2020
There Is No Place Like Home, OSL contemporary, Oslo, Norway
Let's Talk About Images 2.1.0, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2019
Pointed Consciousness, QB Gallery, Oslo, Norway
2018
If, Then, Because, Since and So, Sparebanken Sør Art Award, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
ANNEX, Del Vaz Projects, Los Angeles, California
2017
The Young Lions, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
2016
Roaming, Louise Dany / UKS, Oslo, Norway Sakte bilder, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, Lillehammer, Norway
2015: Distant shadow, Jimei X Arles, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China 2012: MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway Voies-Off. Arles, France. La Photographie du Nord en 3 actes. Hosted by the Finnish Museum of Photography
Publications
2023
The Hollow Man, artist book, Hassla Books
2017
If, Then, Because, Since and So, artist book, Hassla Books
2016
MAR, artist book, Cornerkiosk press
2014
Grapnel Grapple, Cornerkiosk press
Cropping the Ocean, Cornerkiosk press
2012
Entering a Site of Production, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
2011
Hose Variations, Cornerkiosk press
Shaping Time, Polish National Film, Television and Theater Press
Collections
Preus Museum for photography
St. Olavs Hospital
Johan Strai Stiftelse
Grants
Arts Council Norway, two year work grant, 2014 - 15
Janson Legat 2015
OCA, Three month residency in Venice 2014
Norwegian Government project grant 2013
City of Risør 2013
City of Oslo 2011
Arts Council Norway 2011, 2012
Norwegian Photographic Fund 20124
Embassy of Norway in The UK 2013
Embassy of Norway in France 2012
Embassy of Japan in Norway 2009
Embassy of Sweden in Norway 2011