Cecilie Dahl is an artist currently living and working in

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and in

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, Norway. He was born in

, Norway, in 1960. She grew up in Oslo and

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, the capital city of

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. She has an M.A. in Fine Art from The Art Academy in Oslo, Norway, and a diploma in Architectural Art and Design from

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in the United Kingdom. She has work in collections across Europe and in America.

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holds 25 of her works. Her works are part of the Elisabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art collection, which is affiliated with the

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. Dahl participated in the National and International Studio Program of the

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in New York in 1993–1994. In 2007 Dahl had a solo exhibition, ''Cruising Paradise'', at Nortälje Konsthall in Sweden, and took part in the group exhibition ''I Love Malmö'' at the

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. In an artist statement Dahl says that her interests are in 'relations between people, how we intuitively perceive and negotiate the space between the others and ourselves, and how our experience of proximity is open to illusions.'

References

1960 births Living people 20th-century Norwegian artists 20th-century Norwegian women artists 21st-century Norwegian artists 21st-century Norwegian women artists Alumni of Arts University Bournemouth Artists from Oslo Norwegian expatriates in Ghana Norwegian expatriates in the United States Norwegian contemporary artists {{Europe-artist-stub