Résumé
I studied art at the University of Washington where I received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976. I continued my studies in printmaking at the University of Minnesota where I worked in the lithography department for many years. I have been a working member of Highpoint Center for Printmaking in Minneapolis, Minnesota since 2003.
Awards
2016 Savage Arts Council, 10th Annual Juried Art Competition and Show, Savage, MN. Best in Show Award and Community Choice Award.
2016 Arts in Harmony, International Juried Arts Show, Elk River, MN. First Place Print Award and Wanda Gatzke Memorial Award for A Work That Tells a Story.
2015 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, First Place Award, Prints Category.
2015 Northern Lights Juried Art Exhibition, White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, MN, Award of Merit.
2014 Arts in Harmony, International Juried Arts Show, Elk River, MN, Merit Award.
2013 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Prints Category.
2013 Arts in Harmony, International Juried Arts Show, Elk River, MN, Best Print or Drawing Award.
2012 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Second Place Award, Prints Category.
2010 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition. Second Place Award, Prints Category. Robert Crump Award for Printmaking.
2010 Arts in Harmony, International Juried Fine Arts Show, Elk River, MN. Best Nature Representation.
2009 Extremely Minnesota, Juried Fine Arts Show, Robbin Art Gallery, Robbinsdale, MN. First Place Award.
2009 Arts in Harmony, Juried International Fine Arts Show, Elk River, MN. Purchase Award. Best River Representation.
2008 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Merit Award, Prints Category.
2006 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Honorable Mention, Prints Category.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 The Beauty of Winter, White Bear Center for the Arts, White Bear Lake, MN
2013 The Spirit of Place, American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Spirit of Solitude, Bloomington Art Center, Bloomington, MN
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012 The Printed Image, Biennial Juried Graphics Exhibition, Alice C. Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, KS
2012 Art Formally Known as Prints, The 22nd Cooperative Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2012 Paper View, Summer Cooperative Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2011 Prints on Ice, Winter Cooperative Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Hot off the Press, Summer Cooperative Exhibition, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Dimensions of Indigenous Art, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN
2009 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition.
2008 High Watermark, Cooperative Artist Members of Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Winona Arts Center, Winona, MN
2007 Three Artist Printmakers, Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts, Fridley, MN
2006 Highpoint: Five years of Printmaking, Minneapolis Foundation, IDS Building
2006 The Mighty Midwest Biennial 3, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, New Visions Gallery, Marshfield, WI
2005 Minnesota State Fair, Juried Fine Arts Exhibition.
2004 Juried Print and Drawing Exhibition, Minnetonka Center for the Arts.
1996 From Father to Son: Art from the 1930s to the 1990s, The American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, MN. A joint exhibition by the artist and his father.
1992 The Printed Image, Paul Whitney Larson Gallery, St. Paul, MN. Print exhibition featuring lithographs, etchings and woodcuts.
1991 Images of Vanishing Nature, Transco Gallery, Houston, TX.
Selected Bibliography
2013 Minnesota Original interview, Episode 425, aired on tpt 10/27/2013
2013 Sami Awakening, by Mary Abbe, Star Tribune, 02/22/2013
Education
1982-1985 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Studio Arts
1976 Bachelor of Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, WA