Ingrid Halland

Ingrid Halland (1988) is an art and architectural historian and art critic, based in Aarhus, Denmark and Oslo, Norway. She is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University. She is also associate professor in art history at the University of Bergen. From 2020 to 2024 she was associate professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, in which she taught in the PhD program. She is the leader and principal investigator of the research project TiO2: How Norway Made the World Whiter and Co-PI of of TiO2: The Materiality of White, in collaboration with artist and researcher Marte Johnslien. Halland’s academic articles have appeared in Log, Journal of Design History, Aggregate, Architectural Histories, Arkitektur, and Kunst og kultur. Two books are forthcoming in 2026: The short book Design in the series 'Philosophy now!' published by H//O//F and Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics, under contract with Brill, edited with Tonje Haugland Sørensen and Helene Engnes Birkeli. Halland is editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur.