Samir M’kadmi is a Norwegian visual artist and curator, who graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Art in Aix-en-Provence, in France, in 1998. His work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in private and public art collections and commissions. He has received several grants, awards and distinctions.

Early in 2000 he started working on the project ” art is an everyday thing.”
During a period of three years, he set out to discover and engage with different communities in Oslo and Akershus, the surrounding county. This experience has radically changed his view of the possibilities that lies in art and arts practices. Fragments from this adventure have been shown in 2005 in the Akershus Art Centre and in 2008 in the Preus Museum.

In 2005, as curator, in collaboration with Samira Jamouchi, he presented the exhibition Meeting Point at the Stenersen Museum. It featured artists such as Yto Barrada, Zineb Sedira, Nadia Benbouta, Kader Attia, Hans Hamid Rasmussen, Mohamed Ben Benaouisse, just to name a few. The artists were all culturally situated in Europe and North Africa, and their works raised questions about identity, diversity, autonomy, language and postcolonial issues.

Three years later, invited by the Norwegian Art Society to curate a nationwide, touring exhibition, he proposed: Recycling the Looking Glass, Trash art - Found objects. The show was produced by TrAP, featuring many international artists and accompanied by a series of seminars and interventions on art and ecology.
 
M’kadmi has published articles and catalogue essays. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Norwegian art review Billedkunst and a board member of Norsk Form. He has led the expert committee for the visual arts and crafts at the Norwegian Art Council, and he is currently a board member of the Norwegian National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design.