SIRI HERMANSEN

Siri Hermansen (b. 1969, Geneve) is educated from Parsons School of Design in Paris (1991–1993) and Beaux-arts de Paris l’école Nationale Supérieure (1993–1997). She was a research fellow at the National Academy of the Arts in Oslo (2009-2013). Her work has been purchased by The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, North-norwegian Art museum and the National Art Council, as well as private collections in Norway, Sweden, Italy, France and Holland. She participated in Regard Benin Biennial 20012/13 and had a solo exhibition called The economy of Survival at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo at the same time. Parts of this exhibition will be shown in Helsinki and Cairo in 2013. In early 2013 she showed her film Chernobyl Mon Amour at the Norwegian Shortfilmfestival in Grimstad and in the exhibition Paradoxes; the limits of liberty in Amsterdam curated by Paco Barragán. Hermansen also participated in the exhibition Nordic Art Today: Conceptual Debts, Broken Dreams, New Horizons in St. Petersburg. Hermansens exhibition Bipolar Horizon from 2006 was first shown at the Stenersen Museum, and traveled to Moscow, Hå gamle Prestegård and Kunstbanken in Hamar. She lives and works in Oslo, Norway