Knut Åsdam was born in 1968, in Trondheim, Norway. He lives and works in Oslo and New York. Working with a wide variety of media, including photography, installations and sound, Knut Åsdam explores the impact of modernist architecture on human beings both on a physical and a psychological level. In his work, humanity is reduced to a ghostly presence, belittled by the oppressive grandeur of brutalist buildings and capitalist spaces. It is often pushed out of the frame of the photographs, as if erased from the Megalopolis. The viewer re-enacts this disappearance in Åsdam’s installations; he is trapped, defenceless prey lost in the meanders of a mental labyrinth.

Knut Åsdam has exhibited extensively in the US and Europe and represented Norway in the 1999 Venice Biennial and the 1999 Melbourne International Biennial. He also participated to the 2003 Istanbul Biennial. His most recent solo exhibitions include: City Projects, London, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern art, Oslo, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France, Serge Le Borgne, Paris (2006); Musée des Beaux-Arts, Caen, France, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc. New York City (2005); Exhibtions Objectif, Antwerpen (2004) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Mercer Union, Toronto (2003); Academy of Architecture, Oslo (permanent work) (2002); Tommy Lund, Copenhagen, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo (2001) ArtNow, Tate Britain,Transmission, Glasgow (2000). He also participated to countless group exhibitions worldwide.

He is represented by Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grünert Inc, NYC.