Håvard Stamnes, born in 1980, has his education from amongst other, the Arne Næss Centre for Ecology and Philosophy British Colombia, the Art School in Bergen and the Academy of Fine Arts in Trondheim, where he completed his Master's degree in Fine Arts in 2012. After his years at the academy, Stamnes pursues an artistic practice that can be called somewhat eclectic, where he is constantly on the lookout for fragments that can fit together. His works can then end up as drawings, paintings, sculptures, graphics, video and sometimes poems. Stamnes is a member of the Norwegian Association of Visual Artists, the Norwegian Printmakers, the National Association of Norwegian Painters and the Trøndelag Association of Visual Artists.