Jeanette Lafontine

Jeanette Lafontine is an artist based in Norway with a MFA in medium- and material based art from the Oslo Academy of the Arts. After she graduated she was awarded a residency stay at Residency Unlimited in New York, and her work has been shown in exhibitions both at home and abroad, such as Court Tree Collective (New York), NOoSPHERE (New York), Galleri Ramfjord (Oslo), KÖSK (Oslo), and Galleri DUER (Oslo). Her work has been included in Saatchi Art - the world's leading online art gallery’s printed publications and catalogs, and her paintings are in several private collections around the world. RISE ART in London had her down as one of the «Artists to watch in 2022», and in 2023 she has been featured as ‘One to Watch’ artist by Saatchi Art.

Jeanette Lafontine uses the landscape motifs as a source for painterly invention, and present pictorial worlds through both intuitive and controlled gestures. She finds inspiration in the real world, but is not attempting to capture something about a particular place or time. Her paintings are rarely from a specific location, but a result of all the inputs, her sketches and the process itself. Even though her color palette is not limited to earthy tones, the Nordic landscape often makes itsel...

2011/2013 - Master degree, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2008/2011 - Bachelor degree, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2007/2008 - Kunst_design fagskolen, Oslo.
2003/2004 - Multimedia Art, FH Salzburg, Austria
2001/2004 - Bachelor Visual communication, Buskerud University College

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Visuelt Møtepunkt – Jeanette Lafontine & Marit Geraldine Bostad. One venue, two solo shows. Galleri GEO, Bergen, Norway
2024 Summer Exhibition, group show, Fineart, Oslo, Norway
2024 Lucid Abstraction, group exhibition, BLANK Galleri, Oslo, Norway
2023 Kunstnerforbundet, Christmas Exhibition (group show), Oslo, Norway
2023 Fall Exhibition (group show), Galleri Duer, Oslo, Norway
2023 Off the Wall - Summer fair (group show), KÖSK, Oslo, Norway
2023 Open Call summer exhibition (group show), Galleri GEO, Bergen, Norway
2022 Off the Wall (group show), KÖSK, Oslo, Norway
2021 Art Salon (group show), Galleri Pastillen, Kjerringvik, Norway
2019 Group exhibition, Galleri Osebro, Porsgrunn
2019 Oslo Design Fair, group show curated by OsloNowhere
2018 OsloNowhere x Eger, group show, curated by OsloNowhere at Eger in Oslo.
2017 Opening exhibition, group show, Queen Sonja Art Stable, Oslo
2016 «Paintings & Drawings», Booster Gallery, Oslo
2016 A-laget group exhibition, Galleri-A, Oslo
2016 «SOLID ILLUSIONS» Sørenga, Oslo
2015 «Things Unknown - But Longed For Still», Aker Brygge, Fondsbygget, Oslo
2015 Group Exhibition, Akershus Art Centre
2015 «Intertwined Realities», Court Tree Collective Gallery, NYC.
2015...