Linn Byrkjeland's artistic work stems from color and curiosity. For her, color is a means of expressing her own character: how she experiences the world and how she uses the elements, fire, water, earth, and air to construct her universe. In her artistic work, Byrkjeland explores a mythologically charged universe through abstract landscapes, and her paintings and drawings have a surreal undertone. Just enough for the viewer to understand the essentials, but leaving room for interpretation and wonder.


Byrkjeland's universe exists in different dimensions and worlds within worlds. She depicts this mythological universe through images. It is full of different creatures resembling birds, lizards, snakes, and smaller animals living in Nordic forests. The characters and scenarios she has created move between earthly elements and space, combining the rational and the absurd, dismantling our deeply rooted perceptions of reality and allowing us to embrace a parallel world.


Linn Byrkjeland (b.1991) is a visual artist from Vaasa/Mustasaari. She graduated with a Master's degree in Fine Arts from the Umeå Academy of Fine Arts in Sweden in the spring of 2023. She completed a Bachelor's degree in Contemporary Art at Tromsø Academy of Fine Arts in Norway in 2020 and studied as an exchange student at Funen Art Academy in Odense, Denmark, in 2019. 




Byrkjeland has previously been featured in exhibitions such as “Eclipse” Art Hall Vaasa, Finland (2025) "A Slender Arc of Light" Odenplan metro station, Konstväxlingar in Stockholm, Sweden (2024), "Linnunrata" World Heritage Gateway Art Gallery Arte Mare in Mustasaari, Finland (2024), "Stiftelsen Anna-Lisa Thomson till Minne-Stipendiater 2023" Uppsala Konstmuseum, Sweden (2023), "I Cut Across the Stream" Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2023), "I saw them ascending towards the sky" Galleri Apoteket, Roma Kungsgård, Gotland, Sweden (2023), "Unraveling" & "A Playful Approach", MARCY Gallery, Helsinki, Finland (2020 & 2021) and participated in Helsinki Design Week in the exhibition "For the Love of” at Hakola Studio (2021).