Jorunn Hancke Øgstad (b.1979, Bærum) lives and works in Oslo. Her artistry explores and questions compositional elements and techniques within the abstract painting. In her works she utilize both traditional and untraditional materials to investigate their qualities. With references to art history and nods to epochs liks pop art, abstract expressionism and the 20th century spiritual abstraction, she mimics seemingly spontaneous processes and techniques as a conscious game with the eyes movement over the painting.

She studied at the University of the Arts in Oslo, and has lived and worked in Los Angeles, Berlin, Reykjavik, Bogota and New York. In 2018, she had a solo exhibition at the Munch Museum, as a collaborative project with Kunsthall Oslo and the Munch Museum. In the same year, several of her paintings were bought by the National Museum, and two years later by the Henie Onstad Art Centre.