Gro Folkan
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 29 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 New York in 2019, and she will exhibit in Milan in 2020, 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’
About 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 create 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.
PROFESSIONAL CV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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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
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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
1967- 69 Norwegian Central Art School, painting and grafics
1969 -73 Art Academy of Norway, painting and grafics
JOINT EXHIBITION
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2019 Artebinaria, Artinside Gallery, Italy
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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 Debut Statens Høstutstilling(Norwegian State Autumn Exhibition)
(Participated eight times since)
AWARDS
1976 First prize, school decoration, Oslo city
PUBLIC ASSIGNMENTS
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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
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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 stipend
1982 County of Troms, working stipend
1975 State of Norway, 3 year working stipend
1973 City of Bærum working stipend
1969 General Consul Røwde´s memorial stipend
1968 ”The three percent” working stipend
BOOKS
2019 Invitert: ”International Contemporary Masters XIII”.Only for Sponsored artists, Santa Barbara, California, U.S.A.
2019 Invited: ”Spotlight Contemporary Art Magazine” issue -12
2019 Invited:CreativPaper issue15
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2019 Invited: CreativPaper, issue-12, published in London
2018 Invited:”ARTIST- Collector´s Edition” 10 pages, published in London,
www.masteroftoday.com
2017 Invited: ”33 ART PROFESSIONALS”, 20 pages in ArtProfessionals, Contemporary
Artists, London
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, U.S.A.
PRESENTATIONS
2019-2020 online portfolio http://arterynyc.com/2019/02/13/gro-folkan/ (New York)
2019 ad http://arterynyc.com/ (New York)
POSITIONS OF TRUST
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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
2020
PRESENT COMMITMENTS
2020 Solo exhibition Mymicrogallery , Milan , 12-31 March
2020 Invitert: “Art Collectors Choice” Book.i mars, utgis på Japansk og Engelsk
Contemporary Art Station, London