EDUCATION AND AWARDS
2015. Awarded Scheiblers Kunsthåndverkspris (The Scheiblers Craft Award)
2011 - 2018. Research Fellow. Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2006. Awarded Kunsthåndverkprisen (Norwegian Craft Award)
1996 – 2000. BA and MA in Textile Art. Oslo National Academy of the Arts
1999. Exchange student at the textile department. Gerrit Rietveld Academi. Amsterdam
1994. Journeymans certificate as men’s tailor. Sogn videregående skole. Oslo
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2019. Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall. Arendal 2020. Sandefjord Kunstforening
ONGOING PROJECTS 2018. Akershus Kunstsenter, Kunstvisitten. Traveling exhibition visiting 16 social institutions in Akershus municipality during 2018 2017 - Part of curator team for exhibition on ethical fashion and textile production in 2019/20 at Galleri F15. Moss 2015 - Part of team working on reviving activity at the listed weaving mill Prinds Christian Augusts Minde. Oslo
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017. Friends of Handicraft. Stockholm. Sweden 2016. Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst. Trondheim 2015. Oslo Kunstforening 2010. Vest-Agdermuseet. Mandal 2010. Ram Gallery. Oslo 2008. Kunstnerforbundet. Oslo 2003. Akershus Kunstsenter. Lillestrøm. Collaboration with Siv So Hee Steinaa 2002. Østfold Kunstnersenter. Fredrikstad
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2018. ArtLab Gnesta. Sweden 2018. Akershus Kunstsenter. Lillestrøm 2017. FORMAT Gallery. Oslo 2016. Tendenser 2016. F15. Moss 2013. Tusen tråder – en historiefortelling i tekstil. Lillehammer Kunstmuseum 2012. Det kvite gullet. Nasjonalmuseet – Kunstindustrimuseet. Oslo 2009. Tendenser 2009 F15. Moss 2008. Hverdagsliv – Everyday Life. Gallery NORSU. Helsinki, Finland 2008 – 2012. Constructions. Travelling exhibition showing contemporary Norwegian craft. (For The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs) 2007. Hverdagsliv - Everyday Life. Trondheim 2007. Triennale 06. Röhsska museet. Göteborg, Sweden 2006. Triennale 06. Kunstforeningen. Oslo 2000. The Annual Exhibition of the Visual Arts 2000. Bergen
PUBLIC PURCHASES 2018. KODE. West Norway Museum of Decorative Art. Bergen 2016. National Museum of Decorative Arts. Trondheim 2015. Nasjonalmuseet. Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. Oslo 2006. National Museum of Decorative Arts. Trondheim 2003. KODE. West Norway Museum of Decorative Art. Bergen 2001. Nasjonalmuseet. Museum of Decorative Arts and Design. Oslo
MEMBERSHIPS Norwegian Association for Arts and Crafts (NK). Norwegian Textile Artists (NTK/NBK). Oslo Kunstforening. BONO
BOARDS 2017 - Board member Oslo Kunstforening 2015 - Board member, Norwegian Crafts 2014 – 2016. Board member, Norwegian Fashion Institute 2014 – 2016. Member of Norwegian Fashion Institute 2013 – 2017. Member of Election Committee, NK 2010 – 2012. Chair of board, Galleri FORMAT, Oslo and Bergen 2009 – 2013. Board member NK
OTHER 2016. Programme responsible for the course Textiles as Text. Collaboration with writer Dr. Jennifer Allen. Department of Arts and Crafts. KHiO 2015 – 2016. Guest lecturer at the BA course Fashion and Production. Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet) 2014 – 2016. Textile Consultant for the research project TEST at the MA course Fashion and Society. OsloMet 2010. Curator for the Gallery FORMAT stand at Collect 2010 at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. In cooperation with Edith Lundebrekke 2009. Curator for ’Tendenser 2009’, in cooperation with Edith Lundebrekke. Galleri F15. Moss 2004 – 2006. Projects as craft consultant for Isandi Konsept/NORAD in South Africa, Swaziland and Namibia 2001 – 2002. Head of dyeing and finishing section at Sjølingstad Woollen Mill