Irene Christensen
(She/her)
Address: Norwegian Worldwide Artists, NWA, Schæffersgate 5, 0558 Oslo
The studio is open Sunday 19 April from 12-17
Concertina books by their very nature occupy 3 dimensional space. The panels as they fall naturally fold in and out creating shadows on the wall and animating the interest of viewers as they jut out and recede in a primal rhythm.
I don’t change the subject with each beat but rather continues the smooth unfolding of the narrative as it descends from ceiling to floor. A thread, a story stretches out before your eyes in space and time.
concertina books, painting, drawing, mixed media, installation
The Eyes Have It. Oil painting, 107cm x 107cm, 2000, Galleri Schaeffersgate5, Oslo
Irene Christensen
The Day the Roses went to Sleep / El Heffes Dreams / Yesterday will be Tomorrow
Irene Christensen
inks on acid free paper
Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey
installation photo
fotograf Paul Ness
Young Woman, Irene Christensen, oil on canvas, 51cmx41cm, 2022, Irene Christensen
Microcosm Chorus Ecologies of the Unseen, Irene Christensen, small world on paper, 2025, Irene Christensen
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Irene Christensen artist accordion books
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In my studio
We are 5 artists, all working in Oslo. I will be showing my accordion books, oil paintings and small drawings on paper. This year a poet and myself are publishing through Shanti Press a book about Women and Nature. We hope visitors will be interested in this theme.
Planned projects and exhibitions
January 2026: Viridian Gallery, Chelsea, New York CitySeptember 2026: Galleri Schaeffersgate 5, Oslo
October 2026: The National Arts Club, New York City
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Irene Christensen divides her time between Oslo, Norway and New York City.
Her artworks are represented by Viridian Gallery in New York City and Galleri Schaeffersgate5 in Oslo, Norway.
Irene Christensen is a certified Jersey City Artist, Newark Art Council, New Jersey Artists, NY Sculptors Guild, The National Arts Club, Long Island City Artists, New York Artists Circle and former board member to Everglades Artists in Residence (AIRIE), Florida and Artists Talk on Art (ATOA), New York City and the Art Students League, where she studied with Richard Pousette-Dart and Joseph Hirsch. She is a member of Norwegian Association of Professional Visual
Her art has been shown in many museums such as Newark Museum, NJ, Galeria Nacional, Costa Rica, Norsk Skogbruks Museum, Norway, Norwegische Tage, Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany, EFTA, Brussels, Belgium, Bergen Museum, NJ, USA, Paterson Museum, NJ, USA, Noyes Museum, NJ, USA, USA as well as many art centers and galleries including in Brazil, Israel and Argentina.
In 2017 she participated in the Personal Structures exhibition organized by the Global Art Affairs Foundation and hosted by the European Cultural Center in the context of the Venice Art Biennale of 2017. There she showed an installation of 9 accordion books.
Her work is represented in many museums and personal collections in
Europe and USA.
She is collaborating with a poet, Eileen P.Kennedy for a book “Dread and Splendor -Paintings and Poems for a New Earth” to be published in January 2026 by Shanti Press. Two exhibitions are scheduled for 2026 September at Galleri Schaeffersgate5 in Oslo and at the National Arts Club, New York City in October 2026