Ragna Bley (b. 1986, Uppsala, Sweden) is an artist based in Oslo working with painting, sculpture, text and performance. She explores the oscillation between the familiar and alien, looking to narratives within biology, literature and science-fiction.
Bley’s colours vacillate over the surface and seep into the canvas, intermixing like currents and creating infinite possibilities of grouping and regrouping form. Through this process, Bley traverses the relationship between abstraction and representation. She creates layers and transparencies that hint at familiar shapes and organic matter, though the visual associations that arise from Bley’s paintings are completely individual - and may at times resemble forms that are imperceptible to humans. Certain areas of Bley’s canvases are painted, while some are left bare, alluding to the instability of images, and more broadly, to the slippages between our frameworks of understanding.

Pilar Corrias

Oslo

Norwegian Arts Council

Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond

Uppsala

Osl Contemporary

1857

Søylegalleriet

London

New York City

Downs & Ross

Hester Gallery

Malmö

Malmö Konsthall

Jevnaker

Kistefos

Amsterdam

Corridor Project Space

Stockholm

Moderna Museet

Kunstnernes Hus

The Vigeland Museum

Kunsthall Oslo

Edvard Munch Studio

Royal College of Art

Dyson Gallery

Vilnius

Editorial

Gallery Lnm

Bergen

Fisk Gallery

Ragna Bley

Rupert

Royal College Of Art

Bfa The National Academy Of Fine Art

Catch

Drive

La Belle Epoque

Dice

Phantom Fold

Moon Catch

Enter, Erase

Peripheral Bruise

Tender Tender

Aerolith, Dusk

Scent of Water

Low Sky Calling