Big girl II, 2024, collage: pigment print on acid-free cotton paper, mounting tape, split pins, mounted on aluminium, 260 x 127 cm. Photo by Gerhard Kassner

Frida Orupabo

Frida Orupabo was born 1986 in Sarpsborg, Norway. She lives and works in Oslo.

In 2026, Frida Orupabo will present two solo exhibitions, at MAC/CCB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, and Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg. Recent solo exhibitions include Sprengel Museum Hannover and Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (both 2025); Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (2024); Fotomuseum Winterthur (2022); Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, and Kunsthall Trondheim (both 2021); Huis Marseille, Amsterdam (2020); and Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, and Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (both 2019).

She has participated in the MOMENTA Biennale d'art contemporain x VOX, centre de l'image contemporaine, Montréal (2025); the 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024); the Okayama Art Summit (2022); the 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021); and the 58th Venice Biennale (2018). In 2025, Orupabo received the SPECTRUM Internationaler Preis für Fotografie for her photographic and collage-based practice.

Her work is held in the collections of Mumok – Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria; Instituto Bernardo Paz, Brazil; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark; KIASMA, Finland; Museum Ludwig, Germany; Jumex Museum, Mexico; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands; Astrup Fearnley Museet and Nasjonalmuseet, Norway; Moderna Museet, Sweden; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Tate and Victoria and Albert Museum, UK; and Bronx Museum, Dean Collection, Guggenheim Museum, LACMA and Studio Museum in Harlem, USA.

On Lies, Secrets and Silence, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain x VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, Canada, 2025, photo by Michael Patten

On my hands and knees II, 2024, three mounted prints on semi gloss paper, face 85.9 x 75.8 cm, arms 78.3 x 48.5 cm, legs 53.3 x 86 cm, photo by Michael Patten

On Lies, Secrets and Silence, MOMENTA Biennale d’art contemporain x VOX, centre de l’image contemporaine, Montréal, Canada, 2025, photo by Michael Patten

Installation view, 'The SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Lower Saxony Foundation', Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2025. Photo: Sprengel Museum Hanover (Herling/ Herling/ Werner)

Installation view, 'The SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Lower Saxony Foundation', Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2025. Photo: Sprengel Museum Hanover (Herling/ Herling/ Werner)

Installation view, 'The SPECTRUM International Prize for Photography of the Lower Saxony Foundation', Sprengel Museum Hanover, 2025. Photo: Sprengel Museum Hanover (Herling/ Herling/ Werner)

Installation view, 'On lies, secrets and silence', Bonniers konsthall, 2024. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Installation view, 'On lies, secrets and silence', Bonniers konsthall, 2024. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Objects, 2024, collage: pigment print on acid-free cotton paper, mounting tape, split pins, mounted on aluminium, overall dimensions approx. 103 x 101 cm

Big girl I, 2024, collage: pigment print on acid-free cotton paper, mounting tape, split pins, mounted on aluminium, 270 x 137 cm

Installation view, 'On lies, secrets and silence', Bonniers konsthall, 2024. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Installation view, 'On lies, secrets and silence', Bonniers konsthall, 2024. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Of course everything is real, 2024, CMYK print on anodised aluminium, stainless steel

The sound I saw, 2024, mounted print on semi gloss, 140 x 200 cm

Installation view, 'On lies, secrets and silence', Bonniers konsthall, 2024. Photo: Bonniers Konsthall (Jean-Baptiste Béranger)

Cloud of confusion, 2024, mounted print on semi gloss paper, 12 prints each 60 x 60 cm

Two eyes and a pole, 2024, metal, fabric,flag 100 x 86 cm, flagpole 350 cm

Over the town II, 2024, collage: pigment print on acid-free cotton paper, mounting tape, split pins, 196 x 71 cm, 77 1/8 x 28 in,
framed 220 x 125,5 cm, 86 5/8 x 49 3/8 in

Installation view, 'All is broken in the night', Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2024

Installation view, 'All is broken in the night', Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2024

Installation view, 'All is broken in the night', Galerie Nordenhake Berlin, 2024

Fragments II, 2022, pigment print on acid free semigloss paper, acrylic glass frame, each print 58 x 58 cm, 22 7/8 x 22 7/8 in, framed 175 x 117 x 6 cm, 68 7/8 x 46 x 2 3/8 in

Modern Art, London, United Kingdom, 2023

Installation view, 'Flight' with Frida Orupabo, Kudzanai Chiurai, and Eric Magassa, Malmö Konsthall, 2023. Photo Helene Toresdotter

Installation view, 'Flight' with Frida Orupabo, Kudzanai Chiurai, and Eric Magassa, Malmö Konsthall, 2023. Photo Helene Toresdotter

Limbs, 2021, collage with paper pins, 132 x 90 cm, framed: 124 x 161 cm

Installation view, 'How fast shall we sing', Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022

Horse girl, 2022. Collage: pigment print on acid-free cotton paper, mounting tape, split pins, 164 x 99.5 cm, 201 x 141.5 x 6 cm framed

KIASMA, ARS 22, Helsinki, Finland, 2022

Hannah Ryggen Triennale, Trondheim, Norway, 2022

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, 2022

Contact Photography Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2021/2022

Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, 2021

Kunsthall Trondheim, Trondheim, Norway, 2021

Untitled, 2021, framed collage with paper pins, 146 x 128.5 cm, framed 170,5 x 134 cm

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art Humlebaek, Denmark, 2021

Momentum Biennale: House Of Commons Moss, Norway, 2021

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany, 2021

Future Generation Art Prize, PinchukArtCentre, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2021

Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany, 2020

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Rome, Italy, 2020

Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Rome, Italy, 2020

Installation view, 'May You Live in Interesting Times', Venice Biennale, 2019

Installation view, 'May You Live in Interesting Times', Venice Biennale, 2019

Installation view, 'May You Live in Interesting Times', Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 2019

Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, 2019

Installation view 'Frida Orupabo - Arthur Jafa – A Series of Utterly Improbable, Yet Extraordinary Renditions', Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin 2018