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)
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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
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90 x 120 cm
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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
Selected Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
The National Museum of Norway
Kistefos Museum Kunstsilo
Preus Museum
The City of Oslo Art Collection
The Ekard Collection
The Møller Collection
Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection
REV Ocean
Publications
The Hollow Man, Hassla Books, 2023
Exposed, 170 years of photography, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter Forlaget Press, 2021
Conversations on Photography, Kehrer Verlag, 2021
Why Photography? (editor), Skira editore, 2020
Insights 2: Wienerberger Contemporary Photography Collection, Kehrer Verlag, 2019
If, Then, Because, Since and So, Hassla Books, 2017
Un'apparizione di superfici, Apm Edizioni, 2017
GR-09022017, SKREID Publishing, 2017
Sakte Bilder: Samtidsfotografi, Lillehammer Kunstmuseum, 2016
MAR, Cornerkiosk press, 2016
New Scandinavian Photography (editor), Black Dog Publishing, 2015
Cropping the Ocean, Cornerkiosk press, 2014
Grapnel Grapple, Cornerkiosk press, 2014
Entering a Site of Production - MoDERNISM MACHINE, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, 2012
Hose Variations, Studies from Los Angeles and elsewhere, Cornerkiosk press, 2011
Shaping Time, The Polish National Film, Television and Theatre School Press, 2011
Selected Library Collections
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Thomas J. Watson Library
New York Public Library (NYPL)
The Getty Research Institute
Yale University Library
Princeton University Library, Firestone Library
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Stanford University Libraries
University of California, UCLA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
NYU Library
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ingalls Library
Sächsische Landesbibliothek und Universitätsbibliothek
National Library of Norway
University of Southern California
University of Bergen
University of Cincinnati
Virginia Tech, Newman Library