biography & cv:
 

 

Curriculum Vitae:

 

Selected Exhibitions:

2023

Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France, 

  Broken Shadow // Part II

UpNorth Art Society, Bergen, Norway,

  Moments Reflected

2022

Galleri Giga, Stord, Broken Shadow

Galleri Giga, Stord, Summer exhibition

2021

Galerie VU´, Paris, France, Broken Shadow

BKFH, Bergen, Norway
2020 Galleri Giga, Stord, Moments Reflected
2019

Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France, Broken Shadow

Galleri Giga, Stord, Norway, Summer exhibition

2018

Barcelona Photo Biennale, Spain
Galeria Valid Foto, Barcelona,

  "The World Through My Eyes"

2017

Galleri Giga, Stord, Norway, Miniatures

Galerie Joseph Antonin, Arles, France 

  Moments Reflected

Galerie Depardieu, Nice, France

  Moments Reflected

2016

Berlin Foto Biennale

PAN Amsterdam Art Fair 

2015

 

Galerie Sit Down, Paris

Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2015, Georgia

2014

Galerie Tagomago, Paris

Galerie des Nouvelles Images,

             Mois de la Photo, Paris

Galleri A, Oslo

Galeria Tagomago, Barcelona, "0,01 Megapixels"

2013

Entre Deux, Tokyo, "Some Precious Memories" 

Kolga Tblisi Photo 2013, "China Stories", Georgia

2012    

Breda Photo, Breda Holland

Pimp the Timp, Cologne, Germany

Galleri Giga, Stord Norway

2011

Dostoevsky Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Bømlo Kunstlag, Bømlo, Norway

Fotomessen, Oslo, Norway

2010

Kaunas Foto, “Duets and Duels”, Lithuania

Next Wall Gallery, Houston, Texas 

Bering & James, Houston, Texas

Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan

2009

Bering & James, Houston, Texas

Risør International festival of Photography, Norway

Chambre avec Vues, Paris

Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge, UK

OST Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2008

Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo, Norway

Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA

(Photo Forum Exhibition)

B-Open, Bergen, Norway

Bering & James, Houston, USA

Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany 

Lodz International Photofestival, Poland

Galleri Voss, Norway,

2007

Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 

  (Best of PhotoFolio Show)     

Centro Ricerca Artistica Mezzocorona, Italy

  (MYST)

Preus Museum, Norway (Day of Photography)

Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo

Galleri Giga, Stord

Galleri Ramfjord, Oslo

Photo Folio Gallery, Rencontres d’ Arles, France

Tromsø Gallery of Contemporary Art

  (Tromsø Kunstforening)

 

Publications

2022

Broken Shadow (Monograph) 

Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg

2021

To lyse hundar (Drama)

w/ Per Jan Ingebrigtsen, Publica 

2020
Moments Reflected (Monograph)
Skeleton Key Press, Oslo
2018

Lys og skugge (Poetry) 

w/ Per Jan Ingebrigtsen, Publica

2011
Elsewhere (Monograph)
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg
2009
Ride the Wind (Drama)
w/ Per Jan Ingebrigtsen, Publica
2005

Sentimental (Writers´ portraits)

Eide Forlag

 

Awards / Grants:

2024

 

 

Tokyo International Foto Awards:
  Gold, Book/Fine Art (Broken Shadow)
  1st place, Book (Broken Shadow)
2021
Moscow International Foto Awards:
  1st Place, Book overall (Moments Reflected)

  Gold, Book - Fine Art (Moments Reflected)

  Silver, Fine Art – Other (Broken Shadow)

 

London International Creative Competition:  

  Official Selection (Broken Shadow)

  Official Selection (Moments Reflected)

 

Lens Culture Critics Award (Broken Shadow)

2020

Tokyo International Foto Awards:

  Bronze, Book – Fine Art (Moments Reflected)

  Honorable Mention (Broken Shadow)

 

Budapest International Foto Awards:

  Bronze, Fine Art (Broken Shadow)

 

Critical Mass, Finalist

 

Paris Photo Prize (PX3), Honorable Mention

2018

 

11th Pollux Awards, Honorable Mention

 

2017

Charles Dodgson Award, Winner Fine Art

2016

 

Moscow International Foto Awards,

Honorable Mention

 

2015

 Artist-in-Residence, Sirius Arts Center, Cobh, Ireland 

2010

 

Gold award, Gullsnitt, Norwegian Ad. Photographers

 

The Worldwide Photography Awards:

  The Jacob Riis Award, Finalist

 

2000

 Culture grant, Municipality of Stord

 

1999

 

The Culture Award, Bilina, Czechia

 

Bibliography: 

2022
Black+White Photography (UK) # 271, pp 10 – 18

Pan #4 (France), pp 40 - 43

Black & White Magazine (USA) #153, pp 80 - 89

2018

Series of Dreams, Ed: Russell Joslin,

  Skeleton Key Press

2011   

“Shots” Magazine, Portfolio issue

2010 SERGE #1004 (www.serge.se)
2009

Gunnar Danbolt: Norsk Kunsthistorie

  (Norwegian History of Art),

  3rd edition, Det norske samlaget, Oslo 2009,

  pp 457 - 459

Black & White Magazine (USA) #71, pp 78 - 85

2008

Lens Culture,

  http://www.lensculture.com/hjelmen.html

2006

Lens Culture,

  http://www.lensculture.com/webloglc/mt_files/

  archives/2006/12/post-1.html

2005

Professor Gunnar Danbolt: Article in “KUNST”

  (“ART”) vol 3, 2005, pp. 30 - 32

2002

M. Krogvold: 103 øyeblikk, (book of

  Norwegian photographic portraits 1907 – 2002),

  Publisher: Dinamo Forlag, pp. 111 - 112

 

Collections:

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA

Museum of Fine Art, Houston, USA

Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri

  Verona, Italy             

Joan Morgenstern Collection, USA

Collezione Mauro Fiorese, Italy

Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway

Royal Norwegian Navy

Private collections in Norway

Art Council Norway (Books: Sentimental, (2005) and

  Ride the Wind, (2009)

 

Member:

Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK)          

Society of Fine Art Photographers in Norway (FFF)

 

Other:

Artist-in-Residence Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, County Cork,

Irland (November 2015)

 

Initiator, curator and co-director for the

Artist-in-Residence program at Halsnøy Monastery,

Sunnhordland Museum, Norway.