Torbjørn Rødland is a Los Angeles based photographer from Norway. He studied Photography at the National College of Art and Design in Bergen (Norway) and Cultural Studies at the Rogaland University Centre in Stavanger (Norway). He lives and works in Oslo and Los Angeles.
Torbjørn Rødland’s photography is focused on portraits, still lives and landscapes, with a clean aesthetic balance, which trascends from everyday imaginary into lyricism and bizarre declinations.
Between 2004 and 2007 Rødland produced six video works. One of these, titled 132 BPM, was exhibited at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City) and at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (Hiroshima).
His work has been exhibited widely and has been included in the main exhibition of the 1999 Venice Biennale, in his retrospective at The Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, and in public collections of the Fonds national d’art contemporain (Paris), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago), The Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City).
Untitled, 2009-2013. Courtesy of Torbjørn Rødland
Golden Lager, 2007. Courtesy of Torbjørn Rødland
The Measure, 2010-2013. Courtesy of Torbjørn Rødland
Hands and Eyes – Portrait no.1, 2008-2010. Courtesy of Torbjørn Rødland
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