ABOUT

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Drawing on materials embedded with cultural, historical, and personal associations, Wold constructs abstracted models and dioramas that function as narrative devices. Through these works, he investigates experiences of belonging and estrangement alongside existential questions of perception, subjectivity, and the recognition that reality is never singular but continuously shaped by individual histories, positions, and ways of seeing. Born in Norway to a Norwegian mother and Brazilian/Japanese father, Wold grew up in Brazil, navigating multiple cultural contexts that continue to inform his artistic practice. He holds a BFA and MFA in Fine Art from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHIO). He has also studied Theatre at CAL and drawing and painting at EAV Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, developing a cross-disciplinary approach that links performance, image, and material investigation to temporal experience. Wold lives and work between Oslo, Norway and Lisbon, Portugal

 

Wold’s work has been presented internationally, including The White, the Green, and the Dark: Contemporary Positions from Norway (Felleshus, Nordic Embassies, Berlin), House of Norway (Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt), Jan Wold –solo– (Galeria Casa 70, Lisbon) Northern Alchemy (RAM Galleri, Oslo), The Stairs (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich), PS (Norsk Billedhoggerforening, Oslo) and At Once, In Intervals (Aethos, Lisbon).

 

His works are held in the collections of KODE Museum (Bergen, NO), Die Neue Sammlung (Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, DE), and the KPMG Collection (London Headquarters, UK).

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Wold is the recipient of grants and awards from the BKH – Billedkunstnernes Hjelpefond (2019), and the Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts - Fine Art Grant (2017).