Bjarne Melgaard

Bjarne Melgaard (born 1967) is a Norwegian artist based in New York.

Melgaard was born in Sydney by Norwegian parents, raised in Oslo, 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 music. Currently, his practice consists of an emphasis on expressionistic paintings and drawings, often containing text.

Melgaard studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1991–1992 and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht 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

External links

• Further information from Patricia Low Gallery
• Bjarne Melgaard on ArtNet.com
• Images, biography and texts at the [1]
• Bjarne Melgaard on ArtFacts.net
• Bjarne Melgaard on [2]
• Bjarne Melgaard on Lars Bohman Gallery [3]