herMamta B. Herland
Mamta B. Herland is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in the northeastern valley of Assam, India, and now based in Sandvika, Norway, near Oslo. She moved there in the mid-1980s and has since lived and worked in a richly intercultural context spanning Asia, Europe, and Australia. Her experiences across continents have shaped her artistic journey, from studying art in Australia and England to creating work that reflects a profound connection to nature, beauty, and human experience. In 2006, she founded Mamta Gallery in Sandvika, establishing a platform for artistic exchange and exhibition, and she directed it for some years. Mamta’s artistic practice spans painting, photography, digital printmaking, and video art. Her work explores the intersection of nature, spirituality, and human experience, often navigating between abstraction and figuration. Her work focuses on the dialogue between inner and outer worlds. Whether in abstract or figurative forms, her art invites one into a silent dialogue between humanity and the natural world, blending sensitivity with conceptual exploration in both personal and universal ways. Through a nuanced synthesis of technological tools and intuitive exploration, she constructs visual languages that evoke a dialogue between the rational and the poetic, the tangible and the imagined. In recent years, her focus has expanded to include AI-driven animated videos that integrate narrative elements. Her use of emerging technologies enhances the lyrical and metaphysical dimensions of her practice, reinforcing her ongoing interest in the boundaries between reality and abstraction. Despite technological changes, she is drawn to the imperfections and intuitions of the human touch. Her path as an artist is rooted in the organic and the personal, where creation is not automated but awakened. Each piece is a conversation, not with machines but with the soul of being human. Mamta’s works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are represented in private, public, and corporate collections in Norway and abroad. Through a practice that is both conceptually grounded and sensorially evocative, she continues to develop a distinctive artistic voice shaped by cross-cultural insight and a sustained exploration of the poetic potential of digital media. Her most recent works are available on her YouTube channel.
EDUCATION:
MA, Fine Art, Winchester College of Art, University of Southampton, England
Visual Arts, Sydney College of the Arts, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Graphic Design, MI, Mercantile Institute, Oslo, Norway
RELEVANT ACTIVITIES:
Head of the Board: BKiB, Artists Association in Bærum, 2007-2010, Norway
Board member: BOA, Visual Artists Organization in Oslo and Akershus, 2005-2008
Board member: FAKS, Asker Kunstfag skole, since 2006-2014, Norway
Board member: Bærum Kulturråd, Arts Council Bærum, 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
MEMBERSHIP:
The Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)
Association of Norwegian Painters (LNM)
Artists’ Centre, Mumbai, India
Awards:
2010, USA, New York, Museum of Computer Art, Digitalism III
2007, Norway, Bærum Kommunes Kunstpris
2005, USA, Los Angeles/Pomona, Call to Arts! Summit V, Best of Show Award