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BIOGRAPHY
Date of birth: 1956. Norway
Education:
1979 - 83: State College of Art and
Design, Oslo
1983 - 84: Royal College of Art, London
Group exhibitions:
«Norwegian Craft», annual exhibition,
Oslo, 1982-90
Kunstnerforbundet, summer show, Oslo 1984
Gallery Aspects, London 1984
Norwegian travelling exhibition, England 1984
«Trikk-group», Ateljee 585, Helsinki 1985
«Trikk-group», summer exhibition in Kunstnerforbundet,
Oslo 1985
«Tendencies», annual exhibition of art in Moss, Norway 1985
Galleri Tyholmen, Arendal 1986
«Trikk-group», Galleri Albin Upp, Oslo 1986
«New Jewelry» international exhib. Kulturhuset, Stockholm 1986
«Design for the body», ASF-Gallery, New York 1986
Gallery Clodage-Ross-Williams, New York 1986
«Trikk-group», Gallery V&V, Vienna 1987
«Schmuck-szene», Munich 1987
«Design for the body», travelling exhibition, Netherland 1987
«Scandinavia today», Tokyo, New York 1987
Exhibition of Norwegian jewelry, Røhsska Museet, Gothenburgh
1989
«Alle ting er tre», exhibition of wooden objects, Museum of
Applied Art, Oslo 1989
Nord-Form 90, exhibition of Scandinavian Art and Design, Malmø
1990
Jewelry-triennal, Paris 1990
«Norwegian Wood», travelling exhibition, Europe 1990-91
Craft triennal in Balticum, Tallin 1991
Gallery Fjordheim, Lillehammer 1992
Lillehammer Art Union, Lillehammer 1993
Gallery Metal, Copenhagen 1993
«In touch», Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway 1994
The Peder Balke Center in Østre Toten, Norway 1994
Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway 1995
«Circulation», Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, 1995
«The pilgrimage to Cythera», international exhibition of love
and eroticism in fine arts, St. Petersburgh, Russia 1997
«Gifts of the forest, gifts of the loom», travelling exhibition
in China, India, Korea and Russia 1997-98
«Art o´hoi», Kapp Melkefabrikk in Østre Toten, Norway 1999
Galleri Edvardas Hus in Tranøy, Norway 1999
Galleri Vikerødegården in Hamar, Norway 1999
«Sofa», curated and hosted by Charon Kransen, Chicago 1995,
1997
«Sofa», curated and hosted by Charon Kransen,
New York 1998, 1999, 2000
Solo exhibitions:
Bergen Art Society, Bergen 1998
Artists Union, Oslo 1996
Røhsska Museum of Applied Art, Gothenburgh, Sweden 1995
Gallery RAM, Oslo 1991
Artists Union, Oslo 1988
Collections:
Museum of Applied Art in Oslo
West-Norway Museum of Applied Art, Bergen
The Trondheim Museum of Applied Art, Trondheim
The Art Museum of Northern Norway, Tromsø
The Art Council of Norway
Museum of Applied Art, Copenhagen
The National Museum, Stockholm
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution,
New York
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
National Museum og Scotland, Edinburgh
Røhsska Museum of Applied Art Gothenburgh
Epcot-center in Florida
Lillehammer City Hall
Prices received:
Art price of Den Norske Hypotekforening,
1998
«The Arts and Cratfs Price», 1989
The Culture Prize for Young Artists, Foreningen Norsk Form, 1990
Torsten and Wanja Söderberg´s Nordc Design Award, 1995
Jacob-prisen, Norsk Form, 1997
International Publications:
International Crafts Martina Margetts
«The Best in Modern Jewelry» David Watkins
«Jewelry of Our Time» Helen Drutt and Peter Dormer
Dictionaire International du Bijoù Marguerite de
Cerval
Comissions:
Hedmark College at Evenstad, Norway 1990
Vestfold Central Hospital in Tønsberg, Norway 1993
Lillehammer Train station, Norway 1994
Froland Secondary School, Norway 1995
Hamar Hospital, Norway 2000
Future plans:
Solo exhibition at the Art Museum of South
Norway, Kristiansand, Norway March 2001
Travelling exhibition curated by Charon Kransen, U.S.A. 2001-2002
