TORBJØRN RØDLAND:
“PARISIAN TRICKSTER”
NOVEMBER 9-11, 2026
PARIS, FRANCE

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED.

[ 3-DAY IN-PERSON WORKSHOP, CONFIRMED ]

TORBJØRN RØDLAND: “PARISIAN TRICKSTER”
NOVEMBER 9-10-11, 2026, PARIS, FRANCE

In acclaimed photographic artist Torbjørn Rødland’s “Parisian Trickster” workshop, participants will check in with present-day Paris looking for the disruption of familiar narratives and the challenging of binary oppositions. Rødland’s 3 intensive days in Paris are especially for those curious about how photography can become a tool for questioning one’s own inherited ways of seeing the world.

Through roundtable conversations and real world explorations making new images in response to an assignment, photographers taking part will be encouraged to approach Paris with an eye toward masquerade and symbolism—blurring the line between fantasy and everyday life. The workshop will also include a one-on-one portfolio review with Rødland to deepen practice-specific solutions and advice, and a final group critique during which participants will receive the artist’s as well as each other’s responses to their newly created Paris work.

Participating photographers will be asked to bring their own camera (digital preferred for this short workshop format) and laptop to work on their assignment day-to-day. Print portfolios (11×14 in. / 28×35.5 cm maximum print size) will also be preferred (but not required) over digital ones for ease of manipulation and fluid editing during their one-on-one conversation with Rødland.

All images © Torbjørn Rødland. Top Banner Image: Bullfrog, 2023. Bottom Banner Image: Sitting Pierrot, 2025.

ABOUT TORBJØRN RØDLAND: 

Torbjørn Rødland (b. 1970, Stavanger, Norway) makes photographic images that pointedly address their viewers, evoking a wide range of emotional and intellectual states. Curiosity, humor, criticality, artifice, reverence for the natural world, and romanticism appear throughout his work and often in the same image. Rødland also emphasizes the formal attributes of his photographs, pushing the medium toward modes of visual expression more commonly associated with painting, and forging links between twentieth-century art photography and twenty-first-century approaches to image-making common to advertising and social media. Often prompted by non-photographic imagery that he transforms into real-world photographic subjects, Rødland portrays scenes designed to generate psychological reaction through his depiction of highly sensory qualities. The physicality present in the work is driven by his use of film-based cameras and chemical darkroom processes. Rødland has been the subject of solo exhibitions including Oh My God You Guys, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (2023); Bible Eye, The Contemporary Austin, TX (2021); Fifth Honeymoon, a traveling exhibition produced as a collaboration between Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland (2018–2019); THE TOUCH THAT MADE YOU, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2018) and the Serpentine, London, England (2017); Back in Touch, C/O Berlin, Germany (2017); and Blue Portrait (Nokia N82), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2016). Notable group exhibitions include Before Tomorrow – Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway (2023); What People Do for Money, Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland (2016); LIT, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Germany (2016); and 48th Venice Biennale, Italy (1999). His work is in the permanent collections of museums including Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; Malmö Art Museum, Sweden; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Rødland lives and works in New York.

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