Mamta Baruah Herland was born in the North Eastern valley of Assam in India and came to Oslo during 1987. At present she is living in Bærum at the outskirt of Oslo. After years of various university studies she finally in 1996 peruses her interest in the field of art firstly by joining visual art studies at Sydney College of Arts, Australia. She later takes her Masters degree from the faculty of Fine Art at the Winchester College of Art in UK. Mamta predominantly practices the collaborative medium of digital tools and in addition to a range of mediums from the numerous disciplines of painting, photography, digital printmaking and video. Her works have been widely exhibited internationally and represented in private, public and corporate collections both in Norway and abroad. Her works are products of a blender of technology with artistic endeavour to create images that refers to the blurred boundaries of rationality and magic, reality and dream, and that highlights the move from the old logic of rationality to a utopian dream society. She allows her artwork to expand in different possible artistic dimensions and genre that future combine the aesthetic of technology with a sense of spirituality and transcendental emotion. By employing digital techniques her intent is for the artworks to evoke a sense of captivation and mysticism.
EDUCATION:
MA, Fine Art, Winchester College of Art, University of Southampton, England
Graphic Design, MI, Mercantile Institute, Oslo, Norway
Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
RELEVENT ACTIVITIES:
Head of the Board: Artists Association in Bærum, 2007-2010, Norway
Board member: Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus 2005-2008, Norway
Board member: FAKS, Asker Kunstfag skole, since 2006, Norway
Board member: Bærum Kulturråd, Arts Council Bærum, since 2010-2013, Norway
Board member: BKRF, Arts Common Council Bærum, 2007 - 2010, Norway
Jury member: Regional official art exhibition 2006, Galleri Skårer, Norway
Jury member: 'Levende Landskap', The Bærum Art Society, 2008, Norway
Jury member: Bærum Arts council's rep., The culture award 2009, Norway
Jury member: 'Lyspunkt', The Bærum Art Society, 2009, Norway
Jury member: 'Ansikt', The Bærum Art Society, 2010, Norway
Curator & concept: Norge i Verden, Verden i Norge, Galleri BOA, Oslo, 2006, Norway
Coordinator: The International Crossing 2008, The year of Diversity, Oslo, Norway
Projects: Art workshop 2008, 2009 & 2010, the city council's annual event, Norway
Presentation: OIS, Oslo International School, Building Brighter Future 2007, Norway
MEMBERSHIP:
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM)