Joar Nango is an architect and artist living in Tromsø. His work explores the boundary between art and architecture, and often integrates the public into his installations. Nango is the creator of The Virtual Girjegumpi, a nomadic, collaborative library of Sámi Indigenous architecture. He is a qualified architect from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Joar has exhibited widely internationally, both in Documenta 13, the Chicago Art Biennial, and the National Gallery of Canada. In 2010, he helped found the idealistic architectural collective Felleskapsprosjektet å Fortette Byen (FFB), and in 2020 he was a festival artist during the Bergen International Festival.