Ramona Salo Myrseth is a fashion designer and textile artist based in Gáivuotna, Sápmi. Her works are rooted in Sámi culture, where thoughts about time, connection to nature and Indigenous philosophies are tools for navigating in different landscapes. Her practice focuses on textile work in contact with the body and landscape, and tells stories across time and space. She also explores her objects as storytellers through performance art, and has produced several performances in collaboration with other artists. She also works as a costume designer in stage productions.

Her work has been purchased by the Norwegian National Museum, Oslo, RiddoDuottarMuseat, Center of Northern peoples / Davvi álbmogiid guovddáš, Sápmi, and the Nordenfjeldske National Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Trondheim. In 2019 she was the recipient of the Design and Architecture Norway DOGA award for newcomers, and won first place in the 2019 Diploma Selection contest at Designblok in Prague. She has had two solo exhibitions so far, in Akershus Art Centre and Center of Northern peoples, but has been included in several exhibitions and fashion shows around the world, in the Nordic countries, London, Beijing, Munich and Prague.

Ramona Salo holds a BA in Art and Design from Oslo University College /OsloMet, a BA in Criminology from the Faculty of Law at the University of Oslo/UiO and a MA in Design from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. In 2018 she received the FKDS scholarship, which is awarded to graduating students at the Academy of Arts, Arts and Crafts and Design. The scholarship is awarded to candidates with final master's theses of outstanding quality.

She is a member of Birtavarre Husflidslag/Norges Husflidslag/The Norwegian Folk Art and Craft Association , Sámi Lávdi, Norske Kunsthåndverkere NK (The Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts) and Norske Kunsthåndverkere Nord-Norge.

In 2019 Salo Myrseth was included in the D2 Magazine list «30 under 30 Lederstjerner», a selection of 30 people under 30 who will make the world more sustainable through ideas, action or leadership skills.

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Articles/ media 2018