Åsa Dybwad Norman (b. 1984) is a textile artist and senior lecturer in textile art at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Based in Arvika, she explores how the knowledge of the hand and body manifests in contemporary society, often by examining historical spaces and events through archival research, interviews, and artistic processes.
Dybwad Norman’s practice is characterized by an interest in the movement of textile materials across time and place, with a focus on their subversive potential. She frequently works in collective forms, such as in the ongoing research project De viljefulla textilarbetarna (The Willful Textile Workers), where she and craft artist Frida Hållander investigate the historical and global impacts of Sweden’s textile industry.
Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Norrköping Art Museum, Art Lab Gnesta, and Eskilstuna Art Museum. She has also participated in artistic residencies at IASPIS and the Archives and Library of the Swedish Labour Movement, and her works are part of the collections of Folkets Hus och Parker, Public Art Agency Sweden, and Konstfrämjandet.
