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Anne Katrine Senstad is a Norwegian artist who lives in New York and Oslo.

She has exhibited widely internationally, including Museum da Casa Brasileira in Sao Paulo, The Noorderlicht institution in Holland, Gary Snyder Fine Art in New York, and Galleri JMS in Oslo, Norway, with her first major solo exhibition in 2002. In September 2007 she showed works from "The Pink Project" in 2 simultaneous solo exhibitions entitled "Light Writes Always in Plural" at Ressle Fine Art, NY and Houston Center for Photography. In June 2007 her work was chosen by the Nobel Peace center in Oslo to represent the travelling exhibition "Envisioning Change", which has been hosted by The Bozar Museum, Brussels and is travelling to The Ministry of Culture Monaco in 2008. Her Site Specific installation, "The Light House" will be shown in New Orleans Dec 8 2007 - March 2008, with KK Projects. In 2008 Senstad has been invited by KK Projects to create a Landart piece in New Orleans, part of a major Louisiana Landart exhibition.

In 1997 Senstad started working with light and color. Through her photography, she has investigated light, color and sound by photographing pure light sources and their environmental behavioral patterns. The pure light-scapes she creates, manifest as circular expansive shapes within the perfect square, or in the format of a light and sound panel landscape. In her latest work, "The Pink Project", she has moved towards a light and color landscape relating to reductive space. The series is about the phenomenon of color and light, based on her one of a kind light installations. Her Video work is concerned with the polemics of light, space and the architectonic environment.

Her artist book " The Norwegians" was released in 2005, with essays by Gerhard Sander and Thure Erik Lund. She is currently working on a new book project entitled Norwegian Women as a part two of The Norwegians.

She has since 1996 received grants from the Norwegian Council for Cultural Affairs, Office for Contemporary Art Norway and The Norwegian Photography Foundation for the Arts. Included are full year artist scholarship, exhibition and project grants. In 2000 The Norwegian State Broadcasting Corp. NRK, made a 35 min portrait documentary on Senstad, which was broadcast in 8 countries.
Art fairs include Scope Miami, MiamiPhoto, Paris Photo and DIVA Paris.

Senstad's work appears in private, corporate and gallery collections.