Born 1965 in Oslo, Norway.
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway.
Curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway.

1989–1994 Cand. philol., art history, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Øystein Ustvedt is an art historian and the author of numerous
reviews, articles and books on art, including Olav Christopher
Jenssen: Biographie - arbeider/works 1982-1997 (1997), Gilbert
& George 1970-1997 (1999) and Collection: Astrup Fearnley
Museum of Modern Art (1999) (with Hans-Jakob Brun and Jutta
Nestegaard).

From 1995 to 2002 he worked as curator at the Astrup
Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway, and from
2002 to 2004 he was director of the Stenersen Museum in
Oslo, Norway. Currently he is curator of the art department of
the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo,
Norway.

Ustvedt has curated exhibitions of both contemporary artists
and modern masters, including Bernd og Hilla Becher (2005),
Edvard Munch. Det syke barn. Historien om et mesterverk
(2009) and Matias Faldbakken. Shocked Into Abstraction.
Utvalgte arbeider 2005-2009 (2009) at the National Museum
of Art, Architecture and Design, and Bjarne Melgaard. More
Pricks Than Kicks (1997) and Passasjér. Betrakteren som
deltaker (2002) at the Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art.