Anne Katrine Senstad is a multi-disciplinary Norwegian artist based between New York and Oslo. Her practice lies at the intersection of photography, film and video, neon sculpture and light based spatial installations, with a focus on the phenomena of perception, light, sound, and color. She is concerned with sensorial aesthetics, ethics and criticism: the transformative and the transcendental ideas of art and philosophical practice. Senstad was educated at Parsons School of Design and The New School for Social Research, New York, 1990-94, and 1999.
Notable exhibitions include Kunsthal Regelbau 411, Denmark (2023), Seinajoki Kunsthall, Finland (2021), S12 Gallery, Bergen, Norway (2021), Kai Art Center, Tallin, Estonia (2020), Freight & Volume Gallery, New York (2020), He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2019), Athr Gallery (alongside James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Carlos Cruz-Diez), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (2018), Octavia Gallery, New Orleans + Houston, (2018), Good Children Gallery, New Orleans, (2017, 2023), Trafo Kunsthall, Norway (2017), Bærum Kunsthall, Norway (2016), ThisIsNotAGallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), Zendai MoMa, Shanghai (2008), Houston Center for Photography, TX (2007), Bjørn Ressle Gallery, New York, (2007-09), Gary Snyder Fine Art, New York (1997-2003), Biennales include; Prospect 3+, New Orleans Triennal, (2015), Bruges Art and Architecture Triennal, Belgium, (2015), 55th and 56th Venice Biennales (Collaterali Eventi), (respectively 2013 and 2015).
Her short films and video works have been screened internationally as part of exhibitions, festivals and biennials: High Desert Art Fair with Momentum, Joshua Tree (2023), Centre Pompidou, Paris, Haus Der Kultur Der Welt, Berlin, and Beirut Art Center, Lebanon as part of Rencontres Internationales, 2010-11), The Canadian Museum of Nature (2011), St Bridgids Center for the Arts, Ottawa, CA, (2011), Museum of Modern Art Ukraine in Kiev, (2011), Dallas Aurora, Texas (2013, 2016), Video Arte Internacional Buenos Aires and Eva Peron Museum, Argentina (2009), Oslo Screen Festival (2007) and K4 Galleri in Oslo (2018), Norway, A:Code:Nordic DeLights, London, UK (2017), Prospect 1 and 3+ New Orleans (2008, 2014), in Reinventing Asir, organized by Dar Al Hekma University - the ever first site specific light art initiative in Saudi Arabia, (2014), at Liwa Art Hub, Abu Dhabi Art Hub, and ISEA Dubai 2014, UAE,(all 2014), as part of VIEWS, Kingdom of Bahrain under the patronage of Shaikh Rashid bin Khalifa al Khalifa (2016). MACO Art Fair, Mexico City, (2013), Semana Arabe Festival, Mexico City, (2018), Select short films by Senstad are represented by The Film-makers Cooperative, New York and The Video Art Archive at the National Museum of Norway.
She is the recipient of numerous grants including the prestigious Norwegian Governmental Grant for Established Artists, (2020-2030), Arts Council Norway, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Association of Visual Artists, Norway, Fritt Ord, Forbundet Frie Fotografer, Norway, NYFA/Rauschenberg Foundation, New York (2022), Foundation for Contemporary Art New York, (2020, 2021) (Emergency grants).
In 2011 she completed a major public art commission in collaboration with the internationally renowned architecture firm Snøhetta, at The Wolfe Center for the Arts, BGSU, Ohio, commissioned by OAC. The photography based mural consists of 39 panels measuring 28’ x 86’ /10 m x 30 m covering the entire lobby.
A monograph on her light and space practice, NEON GUIDES ME was published in 2022, and includes essays by acclaimed composers, art historians, authors. Published by Praun + Guermouche Books.
Senstad and her monumental light sculpture work is featured in the EMMY award winning WNET/PBS documentary series IMMERSIVE WORLD, (S1, E7 IMMERSIVE LIGHT), alongside James Turrell, Dan Flavin/DIA Foundation, and Anthony McCall, and has in 2022-2023 been aired on Canal+, France, RAI 5, Italy, Canal+ Arte, Brazil, and is on PBS.org until 2040. Created and produced by Producing Partners, Allarts.org and WNET.
Senstad is a member of the Association of Visual Artists, Norway and The Film-makers Cooperative, New York. Her work is represented internationally in gallery, institutional, corporate and private collections.