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CURRICULUM
VITAE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (excerpt)
2020 MyMicroGallery, Milano, Italia
2019 Gallery Artifact, New York
2017 Gallery Nord, Tromso, Norway
2017 Moss Art Gallery, Moss Norway
2014 Gallery Vanntårnet, Nesodden - by Oslo
2011 Gallery Brevik, Tromso
2010 Gallery Sult ,Stavanger
2010 Gallery Tonne ,Oslo
2008 Gallery Brevik,Tromso
2006 Gallery Brevik,Tromso
2001 Gallery Embla, Tromso
2001 Gallery Albin Upp, Oslo
1998 Tromso Museum
1993 Tromso Kunstforening,Tromso
1990 Hammerlunds Kunsthandel, Oslo
1987 Gallery Cassandra, Drøbak
1985 Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso
1984 Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
1983 Tromso Kunstforening
1982 Gallery Tanum, Oslo
1979 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1977 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1977 Gallery 71, Tromso
1975 Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen
1973 Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1971 Kunstnerforbundet, (Artists´Association) Oslo
1967 Club 7, Oslo
PUBLIC PURCHASES (excerpt)
Norwegian National Gallery
Norwegian State Gallery
Norwegian Culture Council
National Bank of Norway
Oslo Public Schools Art Collection
Oslo City Art Collection
University of Tromso
North Norway Art Museum
Norwegian Contemporary Art Museum
County of Troms
University hospital of North Norway
EDUCATION (excerpt)
1967-69 Norwegian Central Art School, painting and grafics
1969 73 Art Academy of Norway, painting and grafics
JOINT EXHIBITION (excerpt)
2020 Santa Eufemia Gallery, RESPIRO’,International Curatorial
Project, Venice, Italia
2020 Artebinaria, ArtinsideGallery, Art in Augmented reality,
Florence
2019 Artebinaria, Artinside Gallery, Art in Augmented reality,
Florence
https://www.grofolkan.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ArtinsideGallery-instagram-grofolkan.mov
2016 The Brick Lane Gallery, London
2014 Summer Expo, Gallery Vulkan, Oslo
2000 North Norwegian contemporary art , travelling exhibition
1996 Norwegian Pictures 96, Brandstrup, Oslo City Hall
1995 Norwegian Pictures 95, Brandstrup, Oslo City Hall
1990 Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromso
1980 Fredrikstad Kunstforening
1977 Gallery F 15, Moss
1976 Female artists, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1975 ”Norwegian today”, Hässelby castle, Stocholm, Sweden
1974 ”Norwegian Grafics today” Travelling exhibition, Germany two
years
1972 Liljevalks Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1969 UKS Spring Exhibition, participated 4 times since
1968 Nordic Exhibition, Hässelby castle, Stockholm, Sweden
1968 Nordic Exhibition, Hässelby castle, Stockholm, Sweden
1968 Nordic Exhibition, Hässelby castle, Stockholm, Sweden
1968 Nordic Exhibition, Hässelby castle, Stockholm, Sweden
1967 Statens Høstutstilling(Norwegian State Autumn Exhibition)
(Participated eight times since)
AWARDS
1976 First prize, school decoration, Oslo city
PUBLIC ASSIGNMENTS (excerpt)
1977 ”Conditions of life” Rehabilition of Rodeløkka, in Oslo,
exhibition Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
1975 ”Park 62” (artist group) Rehabilitation of Asker city center
1975 Scenography, Høvikodden ballet, Oslo
1975 ”Park 62” exhibition, ”Can Tøyen Public Baths become everyman´s
garden of
Eden? City of Oslo Information Center and the Munch museum
PUBLIC DECORATIONS (excerpt)
1998 Saga Petroleum, supply ship, Oslo
1989 Kroken nursing home, Tromso
1988 Porsangermoen, army camp, Lakselv, North Norway
1985 Telecom Bilding, Finnsnes
1985 Sparebank Nord, Tromso
1983 Grindbakken school,Oslo
1978 Rommen school, Oslo
SCHOLARSHIPS
1996 County of Troms, project support
1995 Project support, Oslo
1986 Lorch Shive´s working scholarship
1982 County of Troms, work scholarship
1975 State of Norway, 3 year work scholarship
1973 City of Bærum work scholarship
1969 General Consul Røwde´s memorial scholarship
1968 ”The three percent” work scholarship
BOOKS
2020 Invitert: Bok: ’TOP 10 CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS’, published in
London
https://www.mastersoftoday.com/eBooks/Top-10-ContempArtists-2020-V2_eBook.htm
2020 Invited: The Guggenheim Museum issue of World of Art Magazine
2020 Invited: Contemporary Art Station, ’Art Collector´s choice’
utgitt i Japan og London
2019 Invited: ”International Contemporary Masters XIII”. -sponsede
kunstnere, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
2019 Invited: Spotlight Magazine, published March/April
2019 Invited: CreativPaper, June, published in London
2018 Invited:CretivPaper, utgave No 12, London
2018 Invited:”36 ARTISTS TO FOLLOW"- Collector´s Edition” 10 pages, published in
London www.masteroftoday.com
2017 Invited: ”33 ART PROFESSIONALS”, 20 pages,
Contemporary Artists Book, London www.masteroftoday.com
2017 Invited: World Wide Art Books, Current Masters (volume 2 and
11) ,in the series: International Contemporary Masters, World Wide
Art Books, Santa Barbara, California, USA
PRESENTATIONS (excerpt)
2020 Invited: Artebinaria, ArtinsideGallery, June 2020, Augmented
reality, Firenze
2019 Invited: Artebinaria, ArtinsideGallery, Art in Augmented
reality, Firenze
https://www.grofolkan.no/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/ArtinsideGallery-instagram-grofolkan.mov
POSITIONS OF TRUST (excerpt)
1986 Guest teacher, State Art and Craft School, Oslo, Norway
1976 National Autum Exhibition, member of the jury, Oslo, Norway
1975 Culture Council Purchasing Committee, 3 years, Norway
PRESENT COMMITMENTS (excerpt)
2020 Solo exhibition MyMicroGallery, Milano, 15/11 -04/10
2020 Invited: “Art Collectors Choice” Book, Contemporary Art
Station, London
2020 Invited: “Top 10 contemporary artists” 25 pages
https://www.mastersoftoday.com/eBooks/Top10Artists-vol2/Top10Artists-vol2.html
Artists volume at Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/9189685431/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2020 Invited: International gift book ’Exellent Art 2020’, published
Germany
2020 Invited:’Moonlight Sonatas Bethoven’, gavebok, published
Germany
2020 Invited: The Guggenheim Museum issue of World of Art Magazine
https://www.worldofartmagazine.com/WOA10-eMag/WOA10-eMag.html
2021 Invited Group exhibition, Venezia, RESPIRO , International
Curatorial Project, 08/01-23/01
2021 Showroom, Artportable, Stockholm city center, when corona
allows
2021 Gallery Helviktangen, solo exhibition 15/05, Nesodden , Oslo,
Norway
2021 Invited: XIIIth Florence Biennale 2021
2021 Invited: ’Respiro’, International Curatorial Project , Camden
image Gallery, 25/03-08/04
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Gro Folkan was born in
1949 in Oslo, Norway and she lives between Oslo and Tromsoe. She
studied Art at the National Art Academy in Oslo. She has had 30 solo
exhibitions of her paintings in leading galleries in Norway and
abroad and has also taken part in numerous joint exhibitions. Her
works have been purchased by the Norwegian National Gallery, the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, the National Bank of Norway, Art
collections , national universities, instititions, and national
Offices. Her most resent exhibition was in Milan in 2020, New York
in 2019.The theme of her recent exhibitions is:
’FEMALE RUNES’
’My pictures are instruments, like runes, used for thousand of years
by Northern peoples to invoke hidden aspects of reality. The real
pictures, the images are not the lines and colours on my canvases,
but the images coming into being in the mind of the onlooker’
Technique: I have worked for many years to develop a technique
suitable for my purpose. I use metals a lot: gold,silver, brass,
copper, aluminum, tin, smoked silver, paladium, platinum. If
suitable I treat them chemically for the deeper layers of the
artwork to come through and crate new colours. I also use
interference colours that change depending on the angle of view.
This is difficult to get illustrated in static digital displays.
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1. DANCE, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, ALUMINIUM 59X39.3 IN. | 150X100
CM., Price € 8532
2. ONE STEP FURTHER, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, ALUMINIUM 59X39.3 IN. |
150X100 CM., PRICE € 8532
3. THIN SURFACE, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, INTERFERENCE COLOR,
ALUMINIUM, SMOKED SILVER 59X39.3 IN. | 150X100 CM., Price € 8532
4. Whirling like water, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, INTERFERENCE COLOR,
ALUMINIUM, SMOKED SILVER 59X35.4 IN. | 150X90 CM., Price € 8532
5. Aurora, 2020 ACRYLIC ON CANVAS, INTERFERENCE COLOR, OXIDIZED SILVER
AND BRASS, GOLD 59X35.4 IN. | 150X90 CM., Price € 8532
6. Still not spoken, 2020 ACRYLIC on canvas, ALUMINUM, PHOTOGRAPHIC
TECHNIQUE, INTERFERENCE COLOR5 9X35.4 IN. | 150X90 CM., Price €8523
7. FREYA, 2019 ACRYLIC, COPPER, ALUMINUM, OXIDIZED BRAS AND
COPPER, INTERFERENCE COLOR 62.9X47.2 IN. | 160X120 cm., Price € 8532
8.
INANNA, 2017 ACRYLIC, OXIDIZED SILVER, METAL DUST, INTERFERENCE
COLOR 150X108 CM., Price € 8532
9. LILITH, 2017 ACRYLIC on canvas, OXIDIZED SILVER, METALDUST 59X39.3
IN. | 150 X100 CM., Price € 8532
10. GROA, AWAKENING, 2019 ACRYLIC on canvas, METAL DUST,
PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE, INTERFERENCE COLOR, OXIDIZED SILVER AND
BRASS, GOLD 59X43.3 IN. | 150X110 CM., Price € 8532
11. CONVERSATION WITH EARTH, 2017 ACRYLIC, ALUMINIUM, COPPER 59X39.3
IN. | 150X100 CM., Price € 8532
12. FEMALE RUNE, 2014 ACRYLIC, OXIDIZED BRASS, INTERFERENCE COLOUR
59X35,5 IN. | 150X90 CM., Price € 8532 |
