Lives and works in New York City

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Co-founder and - director of Prosjektrom Normanns (2011–2020)
Artist Partnership: Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, current

Education

1997 – 2000    BA, Art History and Cultural Studies (including Art History and Aestetic Philosphy), University of Stavanger, Norway
1993 – 1995    Fine Art Program, Rogaland School of Arts, Stavanger, Norway

Solo & Duo Exhibitions

2024 Crystal Clear Light II /Krystallklart Lys II, Sandefjord Kunstforening, Norway, duo with Siv Bugge Vatne, curated by Arnhild Sunnanå
2023 Crystal Clear Light I, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL, duo with Siv Bugge Vatne, curated by Arnhild Sunnanå
2022 Blå Toner, Stedlig Ro, foyer exhibition, Utstein Kloster Hotell, Mosterøy, Norway, curated by Arnhild Sunnanå, solo
2022 Stille Forvandling / Silent Metamorphosis, Abbedens Hus, Utstein Monastery, Mosterøy, Norway, curated by Arnhild Sunnanå, solo
2022 Conversations with Nature, parallel exhibition with Alice Yang, The Yard @ Columbus Circle (Art In Lobbies), Manhattan, NY, curated by Sarah Crown
2021 Calm Glow I & II, window installation on 523 Hudson St, Manhattan, NY, curated by Eliana Blechman, Art-in-Buildings / Time Equities, NY, solo
2019 Continuation and/or Duration, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK, duo with Elin Melberg
2018 Frail Mighty, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway solo
2015 Locus Mien, Torrance Shipman Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Meaghan Kent / Site95, solo
2015 Hither/Thereat, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL (Residency & Exhibition), solo
2014 ee/aa, Another Space, Copenhagen, Denmark, duo with Eugenio Espinoza
2013 Herein, Open Source Gallery, New York, NY, solo
2013 Quattro, Interno4, Bologna, Italy, duo with Alice Brown
2012 Utmark, Kunstgalleriet, Stavanger, Norway, duo with Jørund Aase
2011 Light Breaking, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway, solo

Selected Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs

2025 – 2026   A Time for Everything, The 25-years anniversary exhibition for Scandinavia House, New York, NY, curated by Emily Stoddart
2026 Nordic Textile Takeover: The Cold Stitch, Scandinavia House, New York, NY, curated by Ragna Frodadottir
2026 Future Fair, New York, NY, presented by Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2025 The December Edition, BAM Contemporary Art Advisory, Larchmont, NY
2025 Unknown Entry Point, The Bellslip, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Romina Jiménez Álvarez / Romi Studio
2024 UNTITLED ART Miami Beach, presented by Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2024 Textile Takeover, Scandinavia House, New York, NY, curated by Ragna Frodadottir
2024 Future Fair, New York, NY, presented by Yi Gallery, New York, NY
2023 – 2024    Narrative Threads, Scandinavia House, NY, curated by Emily Stoddart
2023 Adagio, summer viewing room, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Looking North, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 SARAHCROWN New York, Flat Files Program, New York, NY
2021 Edition 2020, Arkivet/Tou Trykk, Stavanger, Norway
2021 Sublime Encounters And Other Worlds, Residency Unlimited, New York, NY, curated by Andrea Bell
2021 After Our Bodies Meet, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, NY, curated by Daniel Johnson
2019 Vestkyst, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Vi er stedene, Vestlandsutstillingen, touring exhibition across Kunstmuseet Kube, Haugesund Billedgalleri, Kunsthuset Kabuso, Kunsthall Stavanger, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum, and Kunstgarasjen Bergen, curated by Marte D. Jølbo
2018 Velvet Rope, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, Norway
2018 – 2018    UNTITLED Art Fair San Francisco, presented by Prosjektrom Normanns, San Francisco, CA
2017 Moving Keeping / Find Your Eyes Vol 2, Kulturøya Sølyst, Stavanger, Norway, curated by Monika Wuhrer
2017 Norway: Cold Current, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy, curated by Guja Mabellini, Lars Nordby, Grethe Marstein
2016 The Rest is History, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2016 EKPGO / Tegnebiennalen 2016, Landbrukets Hus, Oslo, Norway
2016 Whistle in The Shadow, summer exhibition, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Transcendental Tactility, Open Source Gallery, New York, NY, produced by Prosjektrom Normanns
2014 – 2015    UNTITLED Art Fair Miami Beach, presented by Prosjektrom Normanns, Miami, FL
2015 Goddag Mann! Kunstsamling, Geir Haraldseths' Art Collection, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2015 Feather Your Nest / Redefined Home Boutique, Studio 17, Stavanger, Norway
2015 Self-Storage, Copenhagen Art Week, presented by Another Space, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015 We all have good taste (Miami), TUB Gallery, Miami, FL, curated by Alexis Callado Estefania
2015 Endless Chinatown, R. Jampol Projects, New York, NY, curated by Endless Editions
2015 80WSE Gallery (NYU), launch with Endless Editions (NY), New York, NY
2015 L.A. Art Book Fair, presented by Endless Editions (NY), Los Angeles, CA
2013 Pulse Art Fair, presented by Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2013 Utopia, Galería Des Pacio de la Cruz, San Jose, Costa Rica, curated by Omar López-Chahoud
2013 Inngang / Åpen dør, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway, curated by Geir Haraldseth
2012 Between Mountain, interventions in Manhattan/Brooklyn & Open Source Gallery, NY, curated by Marte D. Jølbo, Nick Kline, Monika Wuhrer
2012 The Meeting – on the life and work of Karl Spörk, ISCP Gallery, NY, curated by Nick Kline and Monika Wuhrer
2011 Posters for Japan, Tokyo Graphic Passport, Tokyo, Japan
2011 Høstutstillingen / The 124th National Art Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2011 Base Camp, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2011 Posters for Japan, DogA, Oslo, Norway
2010 Next Door Second Floor, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2003 I think I remember it clearly, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway, co-production Lucky Bar
2003 REAL, event structure, Intermedialt Rom, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway, co-production Lucky Bar
2003 And it slipped across the room, Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger, Norway, co-production Lucky Bar
2001 – 2002     Alternative multi-disciplinary curation blocks, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway

Residencies

2021 Residency Unlimited (RU), Brooklyn, NY
2021 Resident Artists Alliance Inc., Lower East Side, Manhattan, NY
2015 Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL

Commissions, Public Projects & Acquisitions

2023 – 2024     KORO (Art In Public Spaces), Stavanger New University Hospital, permanent collection acquisition, Norway
2023 SHINE Portrait Studio, artist commission in collaboration with fashion designer Marco Hall, Newark, NJ
2021 City of Stavanger, shortlisted finalist, site specific commission, Lervig and Schancheholen Firehouses, Stavanger, Norway
2021 Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music – NYU / Tisch, permanent acquisition, Brooklyn, NY
2021 SHINE Portrait Studio / Express Newark, Rutgers University, site-specific public mural, Newark, NJ
2017 Imago Mundi Collection / Luciano Benetton Collection, permanent cultural archive acquisition, Italy
2016 University of Stavanger, Faculty for Science & Technology, permanent collection acquisition, Norway
2016 Gosen Kindergarten, permanent site-specific commission, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2014 – 2016     British Petroleum, permanent site-specific commission, Stavanger, Norway
2014 – 2015     Kari Halvorsen Sivilarkitekt MNAL, private architectural permanent commission, Stavanger, Norway
2012 Stavanger City Municipality Art Collection, permanent civic acquisition, Norway
2011 Deloitte, corporate collection commission, Norway
2010 Resept Café, local site commission, Stavanger, Norway

Invited Institutional Talks & Panel Conversations

2025 Artist and Curator Talk, Scandinavia House 25 Years, in conversation with Ole Brodersen, Simen Johan, Karin Hellandsjø, Emily Stoddart, Scandinavia House, Manhattan, New York, NY
2023 Public Gallery Tour Facilitator, Narrative Threads with Margrethe Aanestad, Scandinavia House, Manhattan, NY
2023 Artist Talk, Crystal Clear Light, in conversation with Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, Dimensions Variable, Miami, FL
2023 Panel Conversation with Siv Bugge Vatne and Arnhild Sunnanå in conjunction with the exhibition Crystal Clear Light I at Dimensions Variable, Soho Beach House, Miami, FL
2023 Conversation with Ian Cofré in conjunction with the exhibition Looking North, Yi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Marco X Margrethe, Panel Conversation with Marco Hall, Shine Portrait Studio, Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2021 Interview with curator Andrea Bell on the exhibition Sublime Encounters and Other Worlds, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Studio Conversation with Monika Wuhrer, Open Source Gallery, recorded virtual broadcast, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Visiting Artist Talk, Shine Portrait Studio at Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2019 Lecture, Artist Run Spaces and Residencies in Norway, moderated by Director Suzanne L’Heureux, Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Panel, The Monster Network meets Frail Mighty, moderated by Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2018 Curator & Artist Walkthrough, Frail Mighty, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2018 Panel, Balancing Act: On Prosjektrom Normanns, moderated by Marte D. Jølbo / Contemporary Art Stavanger, live at Untitled Art Fair Radio, The Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2017 Conversation, Revisiting Between Mountain, New York 2012, moderated by Marte D. Jølbo, ISCP, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Panel Talk, Kunstsnakk #8, conversation with Sabrina van der Ley (G) at Mellomstasjonen, National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
2017 Panel, Spectra Cultural Hub (Presenting on Prosjektrom Normanns and Elefant), Aberdeen, Scotland
2016 Panel, Common Field Convening (Presenting on Prosjektrom Normanns), Miami, FL
2016 Artist Talk, in conjunction with the exhibition Transcendental Tactility, cHURCH OF MONIKA, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Guest Artist Presentation, Rogaland Art Center, Stavanger, Norway
2014 Guest Artist Presentation, Rogaland School of Art, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Guest Artist Presentation, Rogaland School of Art, Stavanger, Norway

Online Solo Projects

2024 Foundations, Artsy online art fair, solo presentation by Yi gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 IG Spotlight Serie, @tsa_ny, Tiger Strikes Asteroid New York, NY
2019 Web_Exhibitions MOCA, curated by Roberto Ekholm, London, UK

Artist Books & Printed Editions

2024 Trykk i Sanntid 05, Print in Real Time Session during solstice, Tou Trykk, Stavanger, Norway, organized by Rita Marhaug
2022 Tide: Story of Logo, Artist publication published by SHINE Portrait Studio Press, Newark, NJ; held in the permanent Library Collection at the National Museum, Oslo, Norway
2015 Ribbon I and II, Kunsthall Stavanger Special Edition (commisson), silk prints, limited edition, Norway
2015 No Service 15:11, artist book collaboration w/ Nick Kline & Amy Goldrich, published by Endless Editions,NY; held in the permanent MoMA Library Collection, NY
2013 Quattro, studio monograph text publication, published by Interno 4, Bologna, Italy
2012 Between Mountain, book publication available via Printed Matter Inc.; held in the permanent collections of the MoMA Library, the Paul D. Fleck Library and Archives, and the Banff Centre Library (Alberta, Canada)
2011 Deloitte Calendar, featuring interview text with curator Gunhild Moe, Norway

Grants & Stipends

2021–2025, 2015, 2012-2011  1-Year stipend, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (Association of Norwegian Visual Artists)
2024, 2020 Project Support, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2023 Project Support, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (Association of Norwegian Visual Artists)
2022–2023 Diverse Stipend for Artists, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2023 International Support, OCA (Office of Contemporary Art in Norway)
2023 Rask Respons Project Support, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2023 Culture Grant, Rogaland County Municipality, Norway
2023 International Travel Support, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2020 Culture Stipend, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2018, 2011 Culture Grant for Visual Artists, Stavanger County Municipality, Norway
2018 Grant for Visual Artists, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2018 Exhibition Grant, Arts Council Norway
2014–2018 International Support for Galleries and Independent Exhibition Spaces, OCA, Norway
2016 Project Grant, American-Scandinavian Foundation, USA
2015 Travel Support, Royal Norwegian Consulate General New York
2012 International Project Support, OCA (Office of Contemporary Art), Norway
2014–2017, 2020    Project Support, Rogaland County Municipality, Norway
2011–2017, 2019–2020    International Project Support, Stavanger City Municipality, Norway
2014 International Project Support, The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
2012 Project Support, Arts Council Norway (Norwegian Art Council)
2011 Project Support, Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond (Association of Norwegian Visual Artists)
2010 Inkubatorstipend, Innovation Norway (Innovasjon Norge)

Institutional Governance, Juries & Assignments

2026 Artistic advisor / consultant, JUL Nordic Baltic Design Festival, des 2026, Scandinavia House, New York, NY
2021-22 Art consultant Stavanger City Council, Madlamark Elementary/Middle School, Norway, artist; Kiyoshi Yamamoto
2020 Art consultant Stavanger City Council, Buøy Elementary/Middle School, Norway, artist; Marie Buskov
2019 – Present Member, Artist Advisory Committee, Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 – 2024    Second Deputy, Open Studios Stavanger, Norway
2021    Selection Jury Member, Montello Foundation Residency, Nevada, US
2014 – 2020 Member, Artist Advisory Committee, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2019    Selection Jury Member, Velferden Center for Contemporary Art, Open Call, Norway
2018 – 2020    Admissions Review Committee Jury, Stavanger School of Art, Norway
2015 – 2019    Vice-President & Executive Supervisory Board Member, Rogaland School of Art, Norway
2014 – 2018    Board Member, Rogaland Art Center, Norway
2014 – 2018 Supervisory Board, Rogaland Art Center, Norway
2013 – 2023    Co-Founder & Operating Board Member, ELEFANT Interdisciplinary Co-Working Hub, Norway
2014 – 2016 Second Deputy, Norwegian Art Council Exhibition Grant
2013 – 2014    Board Member, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2011   Board Member, Rogaland Open (R-open), Norway
2010 – 2020    Co-Founder, Co-Director & Board Member, Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2010 – 2013 Co-Founder, Co-Director & Board Member, Atelier Normanns, Stavanger, Norway
2002 – 2003 Board Member, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2000 – 2003    Co-Founder & Curation Collective Partner, Lucky Bar Artist Group, Stavanger, Norway

Complete Chronological Teaching Artist Profile

2025 – Present Founder & Lead Educator, Art in NYC with Margrethe, New York, NY
2026    Alumni Workshop Artist, Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn, NY (October)
2026    Freelance Teaching Artist, Bronxville Adult School, Westchester County, NY (Sept–Oct)
2026    Freelance Teaching Artist, Express Newark & Shine Portrait Studio, Rutgers University, NJ
2026    Private Studio Instructor (1:1 Youth Development), Manhattan, NY (Jan–June)
2025 – Present Freelance Teaching Artist, Scandinavia House, Manhattan, NY
2025 – Present After-School / Summer Camp, Teaching Artist, Koko NYC / Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 – 2024    Lead Art Educator and Manager, Kids' Art Club & Summer Intensives, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2014 – 2023    Guest Lecturer & Fine Arts Degree Evaluator, Stavanger School of Arts, Norway
2019 – 2025    Youth Workshop Lead Artist, Elefant Workspace, Stavanger, Norway
2016 – 2022    Selected Workshop Educator, Den Kulturelle Skolesekken (The Cultural Rucksack Public Schools Partnership), City of Stavanger, Norway
2020    Career Mentor for Emerging Grown-Up Artists, Vippepunkt Art Program, Norway
2019    Visiting Fine Arts Studio Advisor, Agder University Master's Track, Kristiansand, Norway
2013 – 2014   Arts and Crafts Classroom Teacher, Sandnes Municipality Junior High School, Norway
2008    Adobe Digital Suite Course Instructor, Rogaland School of Arts, Norway
2001 – 2011 Classroom Teacher (Art History, Drawing & Design), Rogaland Upper Secondary Public Schools, Norway
Other relevant experience:
2007- Present    Founder of Pearl Design; freelance graphic design / webdesign
2001 Administrative Assistant, International Studio and Curatorial Program, ISCP, New York, NY

Curator / Producing for Prosjektrom Normanns (Selected Archive. For full archive: @prosjektromnormanns)

2019 Tegneklubben setter streken (men hva vil arket?), collective exhibition, curated by Monica Holmen
2019 notes on autonomy, impressions of topography, solo exhibition by Jon Benjamin Tallerås
2019 True Nature – A Still Life Drawing Meditation, solo exhibition by Elaine Su-Hui, curated by Heather Jones
2019 Terms and Conditions: A Sonata for Two Women /G), curated by Amanda Schmitt
2019 Vestkyst (G), Interface Gallery, Oakland, CA
2018 Fossil Beds, solo exhibition by Sofia Eliasson
2018 Frail Mighty Collective Show, group exhibition; Nathlie Provosty, AK Dolven, Vibeke Tandberg, Ane Graff, Mattias Härenstam, Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway
2018 Gratrix & Buskov, duo exhibition by Marie Buskov and Garth Gratrix
2018 Helpless As Tortoises, solo exhibition by Constance Tenvik
2012-2018   Untitled Art Fair, San Francisco and Miami
2017 Wonders of The Volcano, solo exhibition by Per Christian Brown
2017 Tide Follows, solo exhibition by Ann Iren Buan
2017 CosMoscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
2017 One of those days, solo exhibition by Jacob Ciocci, curated by Cory Arcangel
2017 Impart, solo exhibition by Julie Schenkelberg
2017 Dios, Union, Libertad, collaborative exhibition by The Fire Theory, curated by Omar López-Chahoud
2017 That's Why I'm Here, solo exhibition by Jordan Rathus
2016 A Window is Also A Door, solo exhibition by Sky Glabush
2015 spreadsheetspace, solo exhibition by Franklin Evans
2015 Transcendental Tactility /G) Open Source Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2016
2015 .....an other land and in the other, our own (G) exhibition curated by Ian Cofré
2014 Textures of Place, duo exhibition by Frances Trombly and Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
2014 Project Space, solo exhibition by Alice Browne
2014 Six Women (G), curated by Eric Heist
2012 Sorry You're Here, solo exhibition by Nick Kline
2012 An Endless Searching for Substance, solo exhibition by Siv Bugge Vatne

Other curatorial projects

2021 On Parole, Stavanger School of Art, curator, First Degree Exhibition, Rogaland kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
2019 Humletunnelen, Rogaland School of Art, Final Degree Exhibition, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2003 REAL release, Kunstnernes Hus, Intermedialt Rom, Oslo, Norway, co-production, Lucky Bar
2003 REAL, Artist book curated by Lucky Bar, Westmoreland Publishers, Norway
2003 I live by the ocean, Nuart 2003, art festival curated by Lucky Bar, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2003 Water falls, curator, Internasjonalt Hus, Stavanger. Artist: Alexander Steig
2002 Nuart 2002, art festival curated by Lucky Bar /co-curator: Nick Kline (USA), Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2002 #1, Artist book curated by Lucky Bar as part of Nuart 2002, Westmoreland Publishers, Norway
2002 Twins, curator feat. Bjørn Melhus, Christoph Girardet, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2002 Site Suspicious, co-curator fo Art program, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2001 Back to the future 04, Nuart 01, art festival curated by Lucky Bar, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2001 Precent Certain, co-curator, group exhibition, Tou Scene, Stavanger, Norway
2001 Precent Certain, Nick Kline and Karl Spörk, Society of Control / White Cube, Art Academy, Bergen, Norway

Participant in Art Business Programs

2012-13  Kunst som levebrød / Kulturinkubator, iPark, Stavanger, Norway
2009-10  Kulturinkubator, iPark, Stavanger, Norway
2008-09  FRAM, iPark, Stavanger, Norway