Mamta Baruah Herland is a painter and digital artist born in Assam, north east India, now living just outside Oslo, Norway. She has studied Visual Arts at Sydney College of Arts in Australia, Graphic Design in Oslo and MA Fine Art at Winchester School of Art, England. Mamta has exhibited internationally, amongst galleries in New York, London, Madrid, Barcelona and Ferrara, Italy. She has participated in the International Biennale of Art in Florence (Firenze) in December 2005. In addition to private collectors, her works are acquired by commercial companies, The Norwegian Council of Cultural Affair (Norsk Kulturråd), municipalities in Norway, city council in England and The organizing committee of Guanlan International Print Biennial in China.
In relevance to her interdisciplinary art practices, predominantly via means of digital medium, she had in course of her study written a resourceful paper in 2003 The impact of Giclée- A shift towards digital prints in future art and later in 2004 The Internet & World Wide Web - Consequences @ Fine Art’. The intention is to generate stimulating debates and discourses relating digital applications in contemporary art making on the contrary to the conventional art practices. The inevitable complex issues of concept of authenticity, originality and limited editions are being emphasized as supplementary implications and also for the market. As a result it entails the global art world and the dilemma of scepticisms versus receptiveness among artists, galleries, museums, and other art intuitions that are confronting at our current time.
In terms of her own artistic vision, Mamta focuses mainly in experimental work where she incorporates sensitivity with existing technologies as a part of process, generating innovative works that can be defined as art of synthesis. Despite her diversified application of various tools and mediums, the content of her work is nevertheless emotional and reflective. The final artefact of her visualization defines no limit of medium or substrates.
Mamta B. Herland is member of The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK), Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM) and Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus (BOA), and board member (2005 - 2007). She is also a board member of Asker Kunstfag Skole since 2006. Moreover she has curated the exhibition 'Norge i Verden, Verden i Norge' in 2006 at Galleri BOA, Oslo and also carried out as a jury member of the 'Romerike Utstillingen 2006' in Norway.