Torbjørn Rødland
°1970, Stavanger (NO) – lives and works in Los Angeles (US) and Oslo (NO)
Torbjørn Rødland is an LA-based Norwegian artist. Informed by the Pictures Generation’s self-reflexive use of commercial media and its embrace of the Barthesian “birth of the reader,” Rødland takes up the conventions of genre photography. But as the viewer registers the image, the semiotic constellations do not resolve; rather, the viewer is pinned by the weight of her own subjective projections.
(courtesy of Texte Zur Kunst)
Torbjørn Rødland had solo exhibitions at Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London; C/O, Berlin; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima; and P.S.1 MoMa, New York. Group exibitions include MCA, Chicago; MOSTYN, Wales; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid. Rødland also participated in projects such as MANIFESTA 11, Zürich and the 9th Berlin Biennale.
Torbjørn Rødland is represented by the following galleries;
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