Cecilie Dahl

Biography

Dahl was born in Oslo, Norway, in 1960. She grew up in Oslo and Accra, the capital city of Ghana. She has an M.A. in Fine Art from The Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, and a diploma in Architectural Art and Design from Bournemouth and Poole College of Art in the United Kingdom. She has work in collections across Europe and in the USA. Malmö Konsthall in Sweden holds 25 of her works. Her works are part of Elisabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, affiliated with Brooklyn Museum.

Dahl participated in National and International Studio Program of Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1993-1994.

Her most recent solo exhibition was 'Cruising Paradise' at Nortälje Konsthall, Sweden, in 2007. Her most recent group exhibition was 'I Love Malmö' in 2007 in Turku Art Museum.

In an artist statement Dahl says that her interests are in 'relations between people, how we intuitively perceive and negotiate the space between the others and ourselves, and how our experience of proximity is open to illusions.'