Frida Forsgren

Frida Forsgren is an Associate Professor at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Agder. She specializes in art history, with a focus on the Italian Quattrocento, religious performance, and modernist movements like the Beat Generation and Pop Art.

• PhD from the University of Oslo (2007) with thesis: Art and Drama. Religious Performance and Realism in the Italian Quattrocento
• Published books: San Francisco Beat Art in Norway (2008), Beat Lives (2013), Out of the Shadows (2015), and The Beat Generation and Gender Roles (2017)
• Art critic for Kunstforum, Billedkunst, and Fædrelandsvennen
• Board member of the European Beat Studies Network

Her research bridges historical art analysis with modernist movements, emphasizing gender dynamics and interdisciplinary performance studies. She manages subject categories in Abstract Expressionism, Other International Modernism (1900–1990), and Pop Art/Minimalism.