Born 1993 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Based between Oslo, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal
For any inqueries, please email me at thyradrag [at] gmail.com.
Information about commercial work & portfolio available here.
Education
2023-2025 MFA, Academy of Fine Art Oslo.
2016-2019 BFA, Academy of Fine Art Oslo.
2017-2018 Belas Artes Ulisboa
2014-2016 School of Art Photography Oslo (Oslo Fotokunstskole)
Upcoming
2026 Salgshallen, Oslo
2026 MELK Gallery, Oslo
2025 Hatch, Agder Kunstsenter
2025 Swab Barcelona (represented by K4 & Podium, Oslo)
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2025 Hold/, Degree show, Oslo National Academy of Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2025 oh mother a face in the floor mother oh, Gallery K4, Oslo
2024 Entrances, Oslo Negative, represented by MELK Gallery Oslo
2024 MARBLES,with Sofie Amalie Andersen, Pachinko Oslo
2024 Marbles, with Sofie Amalie Andersen, OSTRA Practise, Lisbon
2024 My Mothers flower arrangements and Distant Relatives, Søgne Gamle Prestegård, Kristiansand
2023 My Mothers flower arrangements at Femidomen, Nesodden
2022 Selva Fria, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand.
2021 Selva Mente, Melk Gallery, Oslo
2021 In Search of Dead(ly) Fires, Thirdspace, Xabregas, Lisboa
2019 In Search of Dead(ly) Fires, Sol Gallery, Nexø Havn, Bornholm, Denmark
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 OFF THE WALL, Kösk Gallery, Oslo
2023 Søvn er Livets Sum, with Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Kristiansand Kunsthall
2021 Et annet sted enn her, Kösk Galleri, Oslo
2021 Como se um nervo cosesse todas as partes, Estufa Fria de Lisboa
2019 HATCH, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand
2019 Pointed Consciousness, Curated by Behzad Farazollahi, QB Gallery, Oslo.
2019 CAPITULO 1, PADA studios, AMAC Barreiro, Lisbon
2019 Trance of Ego, Arte de Cabeza, FESTIVAL DE VIDEO 60 SECONDS, MAM Chiloè (Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloè), Isla grande de Chiloè, Chile
2018 Nice Paintings & Dead(ly) Fires, Arteriet, Kristiansand
Futura Classics A/S. Gallery Seilduken
2017 SCULPTURE CONTRACTS, Gallery K4, Oslo, SCULPTURE
CONTRACTS, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand, SCULPTURE CONTRACTS, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen
2016 Filmscreening of Avlat at Grønnskjerm, Parkteateret, Oslo
2016 Qunst 25, Odderøya,Kristiansand
2016 OGSÅ, Kunstplass [10], Oslo
2016 DUO Exhibition, Ida Oppen & Thyra Dragseth, Kulturhagen, Asker
2015 Limboland, Tor Inge Kveum. Screening of shortfilm "I remember, but does that mean its true?". Trafo Kunsthall, Heggedal
2015 Group exhibition, Zeta gallery, Tirana
2015 SOBJEKT, Norwegian Sculpture Association, Oslo
Curatorial Work
2023Conditions of Flow, Sofie Amalie Andersen,XYZ Publishing/ A Ilha, Lisbon
2022 Artist Critique Session, Tatiana Macedo, Lars Lisboa at Atelier Coruchéus Alvalade, Lisbon
2022 Seje Sopa, Niels Munk Plum, Lars Lisboa at Rua de Santa Marta 88, Lisbon
2022 Water Lillies, Isabel Cordovil, Lars Lisboa at Calçada do Marquês de Abrantes 95, Lisbon
2022 Residency Curator at PADA Artist in Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2022 Artist Critique Session, James Newitt, Lars Lisbon at GAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Co Founder and curator of Lars Lisboa
Publications
2019 Om Tilblivels, Lik Forlag
2018 Interlogue 01, Pseudonym Publishing.
2018 Clinique by Tarmac. First Issue.
2017 HYMEN, Issue #3 Success
Selected grants
Statens Kunstfond Denmark
Agder Municipality
NOFOFO, Norsk Fotografisk Fond
Norwegian Arts Council
Kristiansand Municipality
Fond for Lyd og Bilde
Fondet for kunst- og designstudenter (FKDS)
Cultiva Ekspress 2018
Public Collections
Sørlandet Kunstmuseum
Kristiansand Municipality
Based between Oslo, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal
For any inqueries, please email me at thyradrag [at] gmail.com.
Information about commercial work & portfolio available here.
Education
2023-2025 MFA, Academy of Fine Art Oslo.
2016-2019 BFA, Academy of Fine Art Oslo.
2017-2018 Belas Artes Ulisboa
2014-2016 School of Art Photography Oslo (Oslo Fotokunstskole)
Upcoming
2026 Salgshallen, Oslo
2026 MELK Gallery, Oslo
2025 Hatch, Agder Kunstsenter
2025 Swab Barcelona (represented by K4 & Podium, Oslo)
Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2025 Hold/, Degree show, Oslo National Academy of Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2025 oh mother a face in the floor mother oh, Gallery K4, Oslo
2024 Entrances, Oslo Negative, represented by MELK Gallery Oslo
2024 MARBLES,with Sofie Amalie Andersen, Pachinko Oslo
2024 Marbles, with Sofie Amalie Andersen, OSTRA Practise, Lisbon
2024 My Mothers flower arrangements and Distant Relatives, Søgne Gamle Prestegård, Kristiansand
2023 My Mothers flower arrangements at Femidomen, Nesodden
2022 Selva Fria, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand.
2021 Selva Mente, Melk Gallery, Oslo
2021 In Search of Dead(ly) Fires, Thirdspace, Xabregas, Lisboa
2019 In Search of Dead(ly) Fires, Sol Gallery, Nexø Havn, Bornholm, Denmark
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 OFF THE WALL, Kösk Gallery, Oslo
2023 Søvn er Livets Sum, with Ann Cathrin November Høibo, Kristiansand Kunsthall
2021 Et annet sted enn her, Kösk Galleri, Oslo
2021 Como se um nervo cosesse todas as partes, Estufa Fria de Lisboa
2019 HATCH, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand
2019 Pointed Consciousness, Curated by Behzad Farazollahi, QB Gallery, Oslo.
2019 CAPITULO 1, PADA studios, AMAC Barreiro, Lisbon
2019 Trance of Ego, Arte de Cabeza, FESTIVAL DE VIDEO 60 SECONDS, MAM Chiloè (Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloè), Isla grande de Chiloè, Chile
2018 Nice Paintings & Dead(ly) Fires, Arteriet, Kristiansand
Futura Classics A/S. Gallery Seilduken
2017 SCULPTURE CONTRACTS, Gallery K4, Oslo, SCULPTURE
CONTRACTS, Agder Kunstsenter, Kristiansand, SCULPTURE CONTRACTS, After School Special, Landmark, Bergen
2016 Filmscreening of Avlat at Grønnskjerm, Parkteateret, Oslo
2016 Qunst 25, Odderøya,Kristiansand
2016 OGSÅ, Kunstplass [10], Oslo
2016 DUO Exhibition, Ida Oppen & Thyra Dragseth, Kulturhagen, Asker
2015 Limboland, Tor Inge Kveum. Screening of shortfilm "I remember, but does that mean its true?". Trafo Kunsthall, Heggedal
2015 Group exhibition, Zeta gallery, Tirana
2015 SOBJEKT, Norwegian Sculpture Association, Oslo
Curatorial Work
2023Conditions of Flow, Sofie Amalie Andersen,XYZ Publishing/ A Ilha, Lisbon
2022 Artist Critique Session, Tatiana Macedo, Lars Lisboa at Atelier Coruchéus Alvalade, Lisbon
2022 Seje Sopa, Niels Munk Plum, Lars Lisboa at Rua de Santa Marta 88, Lisbon
2022 Water Lillies, Isabel Cordovil, Lars Lisboa at Calçada do Marquês de Abrantes 95, Lisbon
2022 Residency Curator at PADA Artist in Residency, Barreiro, Portugal
2022 Artist Critique Session, James Newitt, Lars Lisbon at GAAT Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Co Founder and curator of Lars Lisboa
Publications
2019 Om Tilblivels, Lik Forlag
2018 Interlogue 01, Pseudonym Publishing.
2018 Clinique by Tarmac. First Issue.
2017 HYMEN, Issue #3 Success
Selected grants
Statens Kunstfond Denmark
Agder Municipality
NOFOFO, Norsk Fotografisk Fond
Norwegian Arts Council
Kristiansand Municipality
Fond for Lyd og Bilde
Fondet for kunst- og designstudenter (FKDS)
Cultiva Ekspress 2018
Public Collections
Sørlandet Kunstmuseum
Kristiansand Municipality
Thyra Dragseth (b. 1993, Copenhagen) is a Norwegian artist based between Oslo (NO) and Lisbon (PT). Dragseth primarily works with video, photography and sound, but her practice also borders into areas of installation, sculpture and text. Leaning on autobiographical traditions, her work critically engages in questions of truth and perception. Dragseth source material that are in close proximity to her personal life, working closely with family members and colleagues alike, positioning her practice within an on going feminist context, as well as challenging patriarchic ideas within artistic production. She is preoccupied with investigations of societal roles, more precisely how we inhabit various roles or positions within families, relationships or professional contexts. Her work scrutinises inherited, gender and class based, social and emotional patterns, exercised both outwards, and inwards as self- reflexive processes.
In recent projects her coherent interest in relations expands into studies of spatial relations, as well as interaction. Emphasising the possibilities of meaning that lies in between the elements of the works, such as sound, image, container, context, etc. leading the subject toward a conceptual reading of what consistutes the work, opening up to the dimensions of the unseen and the unheard. Uniting an apparent “disparity” in her practice is a feeling of the artists own presence within the works, either in flesh, or as an observer, reflecting on the reality of her own perception and knowledge.
Dragseth co-initiated the discursive platform and exhibition project Lars Lisboa (2021-2023), hosting events of critical thinking in relation to artistic processes, and an exhibition program under the curatorial framework of exhibiting in private homes.
All images © Thyra Dragseth.