Marthe Elise Stramrud (b. 1984, Kristiansand) lives and works in Oslo. She holds an MFA from the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (2018) and a BFA from the Bergen Academy of Art and Design (2011).

Stramrud has a formal background in fine art and first gained recognition as a photographer, known for her distinctive sensitivity to light, color, and space. Since completing her master’s degree in material-based art, she has extended her fascination with perception, surface, and object into a three-dimensional expression focused on ceramics. Stramrud is interested in the meeting point between silhouettes, backgrounds, flatness, and form — where the beautiful and the awkward, the intuitive and the controlled, coexist side by side. Through her work, she explores the boundaries between art object and utilitarian object, and how these can be negotiated and shifted.

Stramrud is represented in several museum and public collections, including The National Museum, Oslo (NO); KODE, Bergen (NO); Sørlandssamlingen, Kunstsilo, Kristiansand (NO); KORO (NO); and Oslo Municipality’s Art Collection (NO). She has exhibited widely in Norway and internationally, and is recognized as one of the key voices in a new generation of Norwegian artists working at the intersection of contemporary art and craft.