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Bjarne Melgaard was born on 9 September, 1967 in Sydney, is a Norwegian artist based in New York City (born 1967). Discover Bjarne Melgaard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?
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9 September, 1967 |
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Sydney |
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Sydney
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Bjarne Melgaard Height, Weight & Measurements
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Bjarne Melgaard Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Bjarne Melgaard worth at the age of 56 years old? Bjarne Melgaard’s income source is mostly from being a successful artist. He is from Sydney. We have estimated Bjarne Melgaard's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Bjarne Melgaard (born 9 September 1967) is a Norwegian artist based in New York City.
Melgaard appears in Until the Light Takes Us, a documentary about the Norwegian black metal scene in the 1990s.
Melgaard studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, Rijksakademie in Amsterdam from 1991 to 1992 and at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht from 1992 to 1993.
Early in his career Melgaard created controversial installations referencing subversive subcultures such as S&M and heavy metal music.
Currently, his practice consists of an emphasis on expressionistic paintings and drawings, often containing text.
His first show in New York was in 2000, where he exhibited sculptures of apes engaged in sex acts.
In 2009, he moved permanently to New York.
The film featured in the 15th Athens International Film Festival (16–27 September 2009), screened at Danaos Cinema.
In the film, an exhibition of Melgaard's in a Stockholm gallery is extensively shown, along with his comments on black/death metal.
He has been described as "one of Norway's most important artists" and, following the 2014 publicity about his sculpture Chair, "the most famous Norwegian artist since Edvard Munch."
Melgaard was born in Sydney, Australia to Norwegian parents, and was raised in Oslo, Norway.
In January 2014, Melgaard's artwork Chair caused controversy.
Chair is a sculpture of a bound black woman on her back with a seat cushion on her thighs, and is a reinterpretation of a similar piece by British pop artist Allen Jones.
The controversy began when Russian art socialite Dasha Zhukova was photographed sitting on the cushion for a fashion website, resulting in online accusations of racism under the Twitter hashtag #racistchair.
Guardian critic Jonathan Jones suggested that this controversy was a misunderstanding of Melgaard's intentions, and Zhukova said that the photograph of her was "out of context"; the artwork intended to be a "commentary on gender and racial politics".
Melgaard himself released a statement responding to the controversy that was labelled by some writers as "bizarre".
Melgaard has collaborated with Norwegian artist Sverre Koren Bjertnaes in several exhibitions.
The two alternate to work on the same canvas, giving them an expression neither of the artists would achieve alone.
