Bjarne Melgaard (b.1967, Sydney, Australia) is
a Norwegian artist whose work has been widely exhibited
internationally for over two decades. He studied at the
Rijksacademie in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1992 and at the Jan van
Eyck Academie in Maastricht from 1992 to 1993, and has taken part
in large-scale group exhibitions
such as the 5th Biennale de Lyon (2000), Manifesta 2 in Maastricht
and the 24th Bienal de São Paulo (both 1998). His work has been the
subject of solo exhibitions at public institutions such as de
Appel, Amsterdam, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen and Astrup Fearnley
Museum of Modern Art, Oslo (all 2010), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
(2003), and MARTa Herford, Herford and Galleria d’Arte Moderna,
Bologna (both 2002); and at commercial galleries in New York (Green
Naftali, 2010 and 2008), Vienna (Galerie Krinzinger, 2008 and
2006), and Berlin (Guido W. Baudach, 2008 and 2006).