Biography
Tomas Ramberg is a Norwegian artist living and working in New York. Tomas' first solo exhibition was called “Amplifier”, a site specific installation of wall based work at the non-profit project space 21/25 Gallery in Oslo. The painting based work established a loop of pictorial reference within the gallery setting.
Site specificity and art relating to architecture has continued to play an important part in Tomas’ work. He has had three commissions for schools and office buildings (1998-2002), and at Thesis exhibitions both in Norway and in the US, his projects involved site specific work involving the architectural context of the show. An important resonance for this interest has been working as a wall drawing assistant for American artist Sol Lewitt since 1998.
Tomas’ work has been noted by juries of grants and awards since his early art student years, most notably in receiving the Norwegian Anders Jahres Junior Cultural Award in 2002, the nomination for the American Joan Mitchell Award in New York in 2000, and the nomination for the Swedish Carnegie Art Award in 2003.
Tomas Ramberg has lived and worked in New York since 1999, with his wife American artist Megan Dyer.
In his recent work, Tomas deals with perception, focusing on the similarities between perspective as visual model and optical patterns
designed for hypnotic induction, opposing the rationality of the vanishing point and the irrationality of hypnosis.
Resume
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Education
- 1999 - 2002: Master of Fine Arts, Hunter College, City University of New York
- 1996 - 2001: National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway
- 1995 - 1996: Erasmus Exchange to the HAK, Wien, Austria
- 1993 - 1998: National College for Art and Design, Oslo, Norway
Solo Exhibitions
- 2006
- Jamais Vu, Galleri A, Oslo, Norway
- 2005
- Convergation, the Trygve Lie Gallery, New York City
- 2004
- Photoshoppingwindows, By the Way galleri, Bergen, Norway
- 1998
- Amplifier, Galleri 21/25, Oslo, Norway
Group Exhibitions
- 2006
- Push Me/Pull You, Collaboration with Artist Steve Robinson, ISE Foundation, New York
- 2005
- Pilot:2, Formiloes Building, London, UK, Annual Independent International Forum for Young Artists
- APT-An Exhibition of Works Not Intended for Gallery Exhibition, Red Hook, New York
- 2004
- The International Exchange Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York City
- Inaugural Exhibition, the Trygve Lie Gallery, New York City
- 2003
- Underlined, Fordham University Gallery, New York City
- Different Directions, Galleri A, Oslo, Norway
- 2002
- Underlined, Fordham University Gallery, New York City
- Different Directions, Galleri A, Oslo, Norway
- Inverse, Galleri 21/25, Oslo, Norway Group Exhibition curated by T. Ramberg
- 2002
- Norske Bilder, Rådhusgalleriet, Oslo, Norway Group Exhibition organized by Gallery Brandstrup
- Thesis Show, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, City University of New York
- Tendenser(Tendencies), Galleri J.M.S., Oslo, Norway
- 2001
- Thesis Show, Statens Kunstakademi (National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, Norway), Stenersenmuseum, Oslo, Norway
- 1998
- Høstutstillingen, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway Annual National Survey Exhibition of Contemporary Art
Commissions
- 2002
- Statkraft Corporate Headquarters, Lysaker, Norway
- 2001
- Storebrand Insurance, Aker Brygge, Oslo, Norway
- 1998
- Nordvoll Center for Autism, Oslo, Norway
Grants - Awards - Distinctions
- 2003
- Nominated for the Carnegie Art Award (Sweden)
- 2002
- Anders Jahres Cultural Award for Young Artists (Norway)
- 2001
- Ida og Ragnvald Blix Award for Painting (Denmark)
- 2000
- Nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award (USA) for MFA artists (Hunter College)
Publications
- 2004
- Maria Børja, Dagbladet Magasinet, 18/9/2004 (Norway)
- 2003
- Lavbudsjett - New York, Tomas Ramberg Norwegian Art Journal Kunst 04:2002/01:2003 (Norway)
- Norsk Kunstårbok/Yearbook of Norwegian Art
- 2002
- Kunst på Idealtid, Gard O. Frigstad, Daily Newspaper Aftenposten,13/10/2003 (Norway)
- Numerous mentions in Norwegian national printed media in conjunction with the announcement of the year's Andres Jahres Kulturpris recipients
- 1998
- Norsk Kunstårbok/Yearbook of Norwegian Art