Mai Hofstad Gunnes is a visual artist based in Oslo, Norway. Gunnes works with 16mm film, video installation and collage and is also currently assistant professor at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She studied at Universität der Kunste, Berlin, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norway, where she received her MFA in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions has been held at Entrée, Bergen, Baltic 39, Gateshead/Newcastle, Trondheim Museum of Art, WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, and UKS (Young Artists’ Society), Oslo. Group exhibitions include Signalfeil på Olaf Ryes plass, Atelier Nord, 2020, Ecologies Lost Found and Continued, Screen City Biennial, Stavanger, 2019, When We Dead Awaken, Munchmuseet on the Move, Kunsthall Oslo, 2018, Facts, Stories and Anecdotes, Stavanger Kunsthall, 2015; Words aren´t the thing, CAC, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania,2015; Momentum 7, Nordic Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, (2013); In the house of Mr and Mrs X, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2013; Paradox, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, 2013.