Arne Ekeland (born 14 August 1908 in Eidsvoll; died 28 February 1994) was a Norwegian painter. He is remembered for his historical and socially engaged canvases, several of which belong to public collections in his country.
Among his best-known works are Ser vi står på trappene (1939), De siste skudd (1940) and Kampen (1943), all held by the National Gallery in Oslo. He is also represented at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, and his painting Frihetens søstre hangs in the Storting, the Norwegian parliament. In 1978 he received the Prince Eugen Medal and in 1980 he was made a Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav.
In November 1991, thieves broke into his Eidsvoll studio and stole 29 of his paintings. When the police failed to recover them, they struck a dubious deal with the criminal Bjørn Arild Skjørsæther, offering him a reward and better prison conditions in exchange for finding the works. That attempt collapsed after about thirteen days, and the task passed to Jan Kvalen, who in 1993 succeeded in retrieving all the stolen paintings.