Henrik Nordahl
(He/him)
Address: Tad Galleri, Drammensveien 130, 0277 Oslo
Floor: 1 etasje
Room number: Bygg B, inngang 13,
The studio is open Sunday 27 April from 12-17
Henrik Nordahl (b.1992, Oslo) is a multidisciplinary artist who recently moved home from New York after completing a Master’s in Fine Arts in 2023 from Parsons School of Design. He also has a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design & Illustration from the Oslo Academy of Arts, where he graduated in 2017.
In the summer of 2024, he had his first international solo exhibition ‘When The Day Is Done’ in New York at Trygve Lie Gallery. In April 2025, he is currently having a solo exhibition at Tad Galleri in Oslo. In 2021, he organized his first solo exhibition ‘Heavy Metal’ in Oslo Taxi’s garage facility at Carl Berner in Oslo.
He has also participated in several group exhibitions both at home and abroad, ‘There Is Only After’ in Gallery MC, New York, ‘Babylon Fading’ in Parasol Projects, New York, ‘Matter As Fallen Light’ in Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York and ‘Industrial Experimental’ in Tad Gallery, Oslo.
He has held two artist residencies at 99 CANAL in New York and Sitka – Center for Art & Ecology in Oregon, USA.
Nordahl’s work ranges between sculpture, installation and 2-dimensional works and varies as much in form and expression as in the use of materials. He takes his starting point from the surroundings in which he moves – the urban, industrial landscape and nature. Here he finds and processes objects, materials and impressions that he describes as moments where the world ‘flickers’ – fleeting and fluttering glimpses in the landscape of a familial kinship between man and the material world.
Sculpture, installation, visual arts, painting
‘Big bang’ 2025. Henrik Nordahl. Drywall paper tape, dye, shellac. 6,5m x 1,1m
“Gjallarhorn”, Henrik Nordahl, 2023. 170 x 85 x 109 cm
drywall paper tape, aluminum flashing, spare urethane varnish.
“Frequencies”, Henrik Nordahl, 2023. 274 x 30 cm
burnt drywall paper tape, copper flashing, spar urethane varnish, cement, pvc pipes and metal pipes, insulating foam.
“When the day is done”, Henrik Nordahl, 2024. 190 cm x 11.5 m
Drywall paper tape, dye, wooden frame
In my studio
During OsloOpen I have a solo exhibition at Tad Galleri where you can come and experience my works, and where I will be present myself.
The exhibition consists of a series of 7 large abstract sculptures and 10 large abstract motifs. The works draws inspiration from universal principles found in nature: the concept of repeating one form in different compositions that generate an organic architecture. The works are a result of imitating biosemiotic mechanisms found in our surroundings, in an attempt to decode and open up the possibilities of interpreting nature’s own visual language.
Planned projects and exhibitions
Solo exhibition at Tad Gallery, Oslo, April 2025
CV
Henrik Nordahl
26/01/1992
Contact:
Email: henrik.n.nordahl@gmail.com
Instagram: @nordahl.works
Website: https://henriknordahl.com
Education:
2023 – Master of Arts, Parsons School of Design, New York
2017 – Bachelor in graphic design & illustration, Oslo Academy of the Arts
Upcoming exhibitions:
Apr 2025 – Solo exhibition at Tad Galleri, Oslo
Solo exhibitions:
Jun 2024 – ‘When The Day Is Done’ at Trygve Lie Gallery, New York
Aug 2021 – ‘Heavy Metal’ In OsloTaxi’s garage facility, Carlberners Plass, Oslo
Group exhibitions:
Jan 2025 – ‘Industrial Experimental’ at Tad Galleri, Oslo
Christmas 2024 – ‘Babylon Fading’ at Parasol Projects, New York
Apr 2023 – ‘Matter As Fallen Light’ at Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York
Feb 2023 – ‘There Is Only After’ at Gallery MC, New York
Mar 2018 – Audiovisual performance at BLÅ, Oslo
Feb 2017 – Audiovisual performance at Chateau Neuf
Jul 2017 – Artijuli festival, Kråkeslottet, Senja
Sep 2016 – Open Call, Oslo Academy of the Arts
Art residencies:
Nov 2023 – Sitka, Center for Art and Ecology, Oregon, United States.
Jul 2023 – 99 CANAL, New York.
Mar 2017 – Crow Castle, Senja, Norway
Remarks:
Dec 2024 – Establishment grant, Oslo Municipality
Dec 2024 – Project support, Directorate of Culture
Feb 2024 – First prize from ANSA Juvenarte
May 2023 – Thesis work part of Parsons Benefit 2023, at Cipriani, 55 Wall St.
Mar 2023 – Arts Council Norway, Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artists
Feb 2023 – Parsons Student Research Fund Award
Jun 2022 – The New School’s Office of Research Grant.
Mar 2022 – Merit Scholarship from Parsons School of Design
Mar 2022 – Scholarship from the American Scandinavian Foundation
Aug 2021 – Scholarship from Thanks To Scandinavia Foundation
Aug 2021 – Merit Scholarship from Parsons School of Design
Apr 2021 – Gold Prize from VISUELT 2021 Design Competition
May 2020 – Permanent art installation, Geita Restaurant, Oslo, Norway
Oct 2017 – Project work grant, Arts Council Norway,
Past and present positions
2025 – Founder and board member of Fosskok Samvirkelag, cultural center in Lørenskog
2024 – Workshop with Einar Granum
2023 – Teaching Assistant in Sculpture, Parsons, New York
2022 – 2023 – Studio assistant for stone sculptor Don Porcaro, New York
2020 – 2021 – Editorial member of art and culture magazine PLNTY
2014 – t.d.d – Freelancer at Medicineheads Design Studio AS, Oslo, Norway