Ida Ekblad (b.1980 in Oslo, Norway, lives and works in Oslo) has a Masters degree from the National Academy of Art, Oslo, Norway, in 2007, and in 2008 she attended the Mountain School of Arts, Los Angeles, USA. Recent solo exhibitions include 'Poem Percussion', Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway; 'Digging. Treasure', Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; 'A Clothespin Left Behind on a Line', Herald Street, London, UK; 'Entschlafen zum Hafen Glück und Leid Vergangenheit', Galerie Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin Germany and 'What Leaf? What Mushroom?', New Jersey, USA and Basel, Swtzerland. She has participated in group exhibitions at institutions such as the New Museum, New York, USA; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA; the Swiss Institute, New York; White Columns, New York; Art in General, New York; the National Museum, Oslo; la Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France; the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo; Fotogalleriet, Oslo; UKS, Oslo; Preus Museum, Horten, Norway and MOMENTUM 2009, 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway.