Rori Knudtson

Rori Knudtson is an artist, architect and writer working with installation, sound, film and performance questioning physical, psychological and social constructs of space.

She is the Director of School of Critical Engagement and concurrently is in production on a film project in Svalbard titled Dead Reckoning. She serves as a critic at the Bergen Architecture School (Norway), Otis College of Art and Design Public Practice Department (Los Angeles), and the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, and is former faculty at the University of Colorado (Boulder/Denver) and is currently a fine art graduate advisor at the Philippine Women’s University in Manila.

Rori has been in residency with Galleri Svalbard (Norwegian Territory), USF Verftet/Bergen (Norway) and RedLine (US). She is the recipient of grants from the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danish Arts Council, the Jennifer Moulton Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi Medal in 2007.

Knudtson has exhibited in the 2010 Biennial of the Americas and was selected to exhibit in the 55th Venice Biennial. She lives and works between Colorado and Bergen, Norway.