Ingrid Halland is an architecture historian and art critic. She is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University.
She also holds the position as associate professor II in art history at the University of Bergen. From 2020 – 2024 she held the position as associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she taught and supervised at the PhD programme.
Halland is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal), 2023 – 2028. She is also PI of the project “Extraction and Aesthetics: Unsettling Pasts, Currents, and Futures of Blue Color in Denmark and Norway 1775 – 2030” funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation (Investigator Grant in Art History). Together with Kjetil Fallan, she is Principle Investigator of the project 'Material Ecologies of Design,' which has received the CAS Research Grant 2025 - 2026, at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Halland is founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur.
Her academic work is published in journals such as Architectural Histories, Aggregate, Log, Journal of Design History, INSERT, Arkitektur, Kunst og kultur, and The Journal of Nordic Museology. Her work as an art critic is published in art magazines, museum catalogues, and artist books.
The book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture, and Design was published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk in 2021. The book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics (under contract with Brill) will be published in 2025.
