Ocean Smile at Andrehn-Shiptjenko (SE)CV 2026
Selected solo exhibition:
2026 - Unmistakably You, Andrehn-Shiptjenko (SE)
2026 - Unmistakably You, Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art (NO)
2024 - Encircling Stories at Centrum For Fotografi (SE)
2024 – Tales They Don’t Tell You, Chart Art Fair (DK)
2023 - Encircling Stories at MELK, Oslo (NO)
2021 - “MaskiniTaal” @ Fotografiens hus (NO)
2020 - “Nawanzamania Phases” @ P Zero Projecthalle, KHIO (NO)
2019 - Nordic Light International Photography Festival (NO)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026 — The Annual Autumn Exhibition (Høstutstillingen), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2025 — Water Never Sleeps, group exhibition, Sláturhúsið Art Center, Egilsstaðir, Iceland
2025 — Bienal’25 Fotografia do Porto, Porto, Portugal
2025 — Feel First, Think Later, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden
2024 — Open Up Your Eyes, Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen, Norway
2024 — Ties That Bind, Organ Vida, organised by Organ Vida and FUTURES Photography Platform, Zagreb, Croatia
2024 — Østlandsutstillingen 2024, Kunstbanken Centre for Contemporary Art, Hamar, and Vestfold Art Centre, Tønsberg, Norway
2023 — Vårutstillingen 2023, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Indoctrination: Multivalent Gestures, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway. Curated by Dahir Hussein
2022 — Ringen bortom mattan, The Sports Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Curated by C-PRINT
2022 — Illusive Illusions, MELK, Oslo, Norway. Curated by Christian Tunge
Residencies and Participations
2026 — Ones to Watch 2026, British Journal of Photography
2025 — Echoes of Silence, commission for Amie Mbye
2023 — Plat(t)form 2023, portfolio review and talent programme, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2023 — FUTURES Photography Talent Programme
2022–2023 — Residency at the National Museum of Norway in connection with Norway’s Queer Cultural Year
Collections and Public Art:
2026 — [fabric moving softly], [water and night meet the body] and [footsteps through wet grass], City of Oslo Art Collection, Norway
2026 — {Signal Refracted Through Plastic, Tail Number Five Activated}, Equinor Art Collection, Norway
2026 — {Camera Lingering}, Stockholm Konst, Sweden
2026 — {Liberty Spikes}, Västra Götaland Region Art Collection, Sweden
2025–2026 — Kaaf, Saaf & Sangam, public art commission for Stovner Bad, City of Oslo Art Collection, Norway
2024 — If The Ground Is Taken Away, You Are Floating (2023), Kunst på Arbeidsplassen, Norway
Publications
2026 — Mixed, photobook published by SPBH Editions / MACK
2023 — Encircling Stories, photobook published by Heavy Books
2021 — Dette året, photographic publication initiated by Sofie Amalie Klougart and Christian Belgaux
2021 — Visual Wanderings, Objektiv, initiated by Nina Strand
2019 — Uncertain States of Scandinavia, Issue 10
2019 — RAKAVAN, photobook published by Forlaget Fotografi
2018 — “Ett år etter Rakavan forsvant,” feature story published by Aftenposten, Adresseavisen and Stavanger Aftenblad
Online publication:
2021 – Paper Journal – on MaskiniTaal
2018 - VICE dk on Rakavan book project
2018 - “Ett år etter Rakavan forsvant” for Aftenposten, Adressavisen og Aftenbladet.
2018 - Outtake from "Rakavan" for Acreati
Grants/Awards:
2025 - Kulturdirektoratet – Arbeidsstipend for Nyetablerte kunstnere, 3 år
2024 - Fritt Ord / Free Speech Foundation, projects funding
2024 - Nordic Photobook Award, Fotogalleriet
2024 - Kulturdirektoratet - Diversestipend for nyetablerte kunstnere
2022 - Kulturrådet - Prosjektstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen
2022 - Kulturrådet - Støtte til Kunstfaglige publikasjoner
2022 - Kulturrådet - Prosjektstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen
2021 - Fresh eyes Talent 2021, powered by GUP - Guide to unique photography
2021 - Norsk Fotografisk fond - Prosjektstøtte
2020 - Fritt ord - Prosjektstøtte
2019 - Young talent prize 2019 / Nationalhistoriske Museum Denmark
2018 - 1.st. place of Fotografis’ portfolio prize 2018
Dev Dhunsi (b. 1996) is a Norwegian–Indian artist living and working between Oslo and Punjab. He holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent solo exhibitions include Unmistakably You at Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art, Lillestrøm (2026), presented in conjunction with the release of his publication Mixed (SPBH Editions / Mack Books); as well as Encircling Stories at the Centre for Photography, Stockholm (2024), following its initial presentation at MELK, Oslo. His work has also been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb during Organ Vida 13th Festival and FUTURES Photography. Dhunsi is a recipient of the Nordic Photobook Award 2024 and was selected for the FUTURES Photography platform in 2023.
Contact:
hello@devdhunsi.com
︎ @DEVDHUNSI
Working at the intersection of photography, textile, installation and critical myth-making, Dev Dhunsi’s practice expands the photographic image into sculptural, sonic and ecological space.
Dhunsi combines photographic and textile techniques to investigate how histories are carried, obscured and reconfigured through material, memory and vision. Images are stretched across fabric, submerged in water or set into motion, transforming photography from a static document into an embodied, multisensory experience. Drawing on personal archives, ancestral narratives and diasporic dislocations shaped by his upbringing between Trondheim and Punjab, his work creates space for overlooked or silenced stories, resisting linear time and singular authorship.
Blending myth, documentary traces and speculative gestures, Dhunsi’s installations foreground identity as porous and relational, shaped by cultural, political and historical forces. His work frequently engages queer South Asian mythologies alongside blurred landscapes that interrogate colonial frameworks of land, belonging and visibility.
Contact:
hello@devdhunsi.com
︎ @DEVDHUNSI
Working at the intersection of photography, textile, installation and critical myth-making, Dev Dhunsi’s practice expands the photographic image into sculptural, sonic and ecological space.
Dhunsi combines photographic and textile techniques to investigate how histories are carried, obscured and reconfigured through material, memory and vision. Images are stretched across fabric, submerged in water or set into motion, transforming photography from a static document into an embodied, multisensory experience. Drawing on personal archives, ancestral narratives and diasporic dislocations shaped by his upbringing between Trondheim and Punjab, his work creates space for overlooked or silenced stories, resisting linear time and singular authorship.
Blending myth, documentary traces and speculative gestures, Dhunsi’s installations foreground identity as porous and relational, shaped by cultural, political and historical forces. His work frequently engages queer South Asian mythologies alongside blurred landscapes that interrogate colonial frameworks of land, belonging and visibility.