Fine Artist / Billedkunstner ***** This is a shortened Curiculum Vitae

Stray Studio GK--Studios #308 Wernersholmvegen 33 5232 Paradis, Bergen, NO

One Person Exhibitions

2025: Høyersten Contemporary: Office x Wall
2023: “In the Flesh” Recent paintings and sculpture, Fjalar Gallery, Bergen
2022: “Visions and Views”, Gallery Particulier, Brooklyn, New York
2022: “Chaos and Awe”, Balder Gallery, Oslo
2020: “STORIES”, Kunstgarasjen, Bergen
2018: “Flaum (Flood)”, Oseana Art & Cultural Center, Norway
2018: “Showreel Obscura with Live Drawing Performance”, New York Armory

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025: Folk og Folkeliv, Oseana Art & Culture Center, Os
2025: ZEITGEIST, Isotop Project Space & B_Open, Bergen
2024: New York Studio School Benefit and Auction Exhibition
2023/24: Winter Presentation: The Gaze Series, Høyersten Contemporary, Bergen
2024: Summer Show, Isotop Project Space, Bergen
2021: Reflecting on September 11, Five Points Center for Visual Arts, Connecticut, USA
2021: Art Salong, BKFH, Bergen
2021: Art and Artists at the World Trade Center, 9/11 Museum, New York
2020: Virtual Reality Opening & Walkthrough, curated by Judy Rifka, New York
2020: Wavelength, Bergen
2018: Physical, East Village, New York
2018: X Marks the Spot, NYSS Gallery, New York
2018: The Greatest Show on Earth, Brooklyn, New York
2018: Vestlandsmalere gjennom 200 år, Bryggens Museum, Norway
2017: DNA Artist Residency, Annual Summer Show, Provincetown, USA

Grants / Awards / Artist Residencies

2025: Drawing Event Stipend, City of Bergen
2021: City of Bergen travel stipend
2020: Corona Art Stipend, Bergen Municipality
2017: DNA Artist Residency, Provincetown, USA
1999: World Views Residency, LMCC, World Trade Center, New York
1990–95: Agnes Gund Scholarship; New York Times Foundation, New York

Teaching and Lectures

2025/24: KODE Museum, Figure Drawing Teacher
2024: Art teacher (3 months), Rudolf Steiner School, Bergen, NO
2021–24: Painting workshop & lecture, DTK Kunstfagskolen, Oslo

Selected Public Collections

National September 11 Memorial & Museum, New York; Federal Reserve Bank, New York; Rupert Murdoch Collection, New York; Philip Isler Collection, New York; Grieg Foundation, Norway; Strømberg Gruppen; Birger Mowinckel Collection, Bergen, Norway

Education

1990–94: New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS), Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Painting and a 2-year Certificate program in Painting
1990: Started at Valand Art Academy, Sweden & completed studies at NYSS
1988/90: Nordic School of Art, Karleby, Finland
1987/88: Art-history Grunnfag, Examen Philosophicum, University of Bergen, Norway
1986/87: Strykejernet Art School, Oslo & Traveled in South E Asia and survived Typhoid Fever