Bjarne Ness (17 March 1902 – 13 December 1927) was a Norwegian painter and illustrator.

He was born in Trondheim, Norway to Bernhard Ness and Elise Konstanse Olsen.

He received his first professional drawing lessons at the Norwegian Institute of Technology with Harald Krohg Stabell (1874-1963).

In 1927 he traveled to Paris, but he suffered from tuberculosis and died a month later, only 25 years old.

[1] Among his paintings are Badende kvinner i skogen from 1926, Pietà (1926, originally bought by Fridtjof Nansen, and currently in the National Gallery of Norway), Komposisjon (1926, acquired by art collector Johannes Sejersted Bødtker, and later donated to the National Gallery), Feieren (1927), Musikanten (1927) and Fiolinisten (1927).