Kenneth Blom
Born in Roskilde, 1967 and lives in Oslo
Kenneth Blom moved to Norway as a child. He studied at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo (1990 -1994), as well as at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (1994-1995). While in Düsseldorf artists such as Dan Flavin and Joseph Beuys inspired his work, and as a result, his painting became increasingly minimalistic. In fact for a period, he abandoned the paintbrush in favor of the airbrush and started to paint on aluminum in order to enhance the coolness and machine-like qualities in his treatment of the picture surface.
He has shown extensively in Europe, including as a featured artist at Sotheby’s New Bond Street in London, major exhibition at Norway’s premier museum, the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway, group exhibitions at Oslo’s Astrup Fearnley Museum, and regularly at Jason McCoy Gallery in New York. He is the subject of the documentary Forventninger/Anticipation, a film by Tommy Normann, currently in production.
