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Exhibitions, Collections and Retrospectives  

Installation Image: Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich

Represented by Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich,

Switzerland  



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Current exhibitions



FORTHcoming exhibitions

Forbidden Colours (solo) Saturday 3rd May to 28th June 2025 : Velarde Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon UK


New Masters (group) Friday 23rd May 2025 : PACE, Pottawattamie Arts, Culture, Entertainment, Council Bluffs, Iowa USA


RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2024 : 


American Sublime (solo) Garden of the Zodiac Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska USA

SEASONS (solo) Maple Street Construct, Nebraska, USA


2023:


Noesis (solo) Anderson O'Brien Fine Art, Omaha, Nebraska USA  

Minima Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland


2022:


Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, (group) Curated by Sean Scully, Flowers Gallery, London, UK

Minima Gallery, Mykonos, Greece

Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland

Art No Borders, Ventebren, France


2021:


Traces (solo) Garden of the Zodiac, Omaha, Nebraska USA

Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland 

Minima Gallery, Mykonos, Greece 


2020:


Nye Blikk (group) Drammen Museum, Oslo, Norway

Foundations (solo) Maple Street Construct, Omaha, Nebraska, USA 


Seasons exhibition at Maple Street Construct, Omaha, Nebraska USA, 2024. © Dan Schwalm / © Maple St. Construct 

    Selected exhibitions:

    Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

    Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York City, USA

    Air Gallery, London, UK

    Joslyn Museum, Omaha, USA

    Bergen Art Museum, Norway

    Drammen Art Museum, Norway

    Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, USA

    Sioux City Art Museum, USA

    Trondheim Kunstforeningen, Norway

    Galerie Erich Storrer, Zurich, Switzerland

    Galerie t'Leerhuys, Brugge, Belgium

    Lisson Gallery, London, UK

    City Art Museum, Caen, France

    public collections:

    Haugesund Art Centre, Norway

    Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska USA 

    Sioux City Arts Museum, Iowa USA 

    Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska USA

    Arts Council of Great Britain, British Arts Collection 

    The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan

    Kyoto University of Arts, Japan 

    New York Public Library, USA

    United States Embassy Collection, Washington D.C. USA 

    The Phil Schrager Museum Collection, Omaha, Nebraska USA

    The Willa Cather Foundation, Red Cloud, Nebraska USA 

    Bergen City Art Museum, Norway

    The Sheldon Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska USA

    Trondheim City Art Museum, Norway

    Drammen Museum, Oslo, Norway

    Buena Vista University Art Collection, Storm Lake, Iowa USA

    Orpheum Opera House, Omaha, Nebraska USA 

    City Arts Museum, Caen, France 

    St Mary Margaret Catholic Church, Omaha, Nebraska USA

    Art Bank, McCook, Nebraska USA

    selected private collections and commissions:

    Private Collections in California, Washington State, Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa, New York, Kansas, Michigan, USA. 


    Private Collections in Switzerland, Belgium, Norway, France, Spain and Italy. 

    Museum exhibitions:

    2018

    Icons, Elizabethans and Elegies to a Mad King, 

    (ten-year solo survey) Sioux City Arts Centre, Iowa USA


    2008

    Uncreated Light, (Major Solo Retrospective)  

    Joslyn Museum, Omaha, Nebraska USA





    The Willa Cather Foundation, Nebraska, USA 


    Trondheim City Arts Museum, Norway


    Drammen Arts Museum, Norway


    Haugesund Museum, Haugesund, Norway


    The Serpentine, London, UK

     








    EDUCATION:

    1968 - 75 Royal Air Force

    1975 - 76 Cardiff College of Art, Wales

    1976 - 79 Exeter College of Art, England, BA Honours

    1979 - 80 Chelsea School of Art, London, MFA 

    1981 - 82 Cheltenham Fellowship, Cheltenham College of Art, England

    1982 - 83 Kyoto University of Arts, Japan, MFA

    TEACHING:

    1984 - 86 Professor and Head of Painting Department, Trondheim School of Art, Norway

    1992 - 1994 Professor at the Ecole des Beaux Art, Caen, France

    1995 - 1998 Professor of Fine Arts at the Bergen National Academy 


    Guest Teaching: Glasgow School of Art; University of Nebraska, Omaha; Kragero School of Art, Norway 

    STUDIO LOCATIONS:

    Omaha Studio, Nebraska, USA

      1986 - 89 

      Moves to Umbria, Italy and joins Galerie Erich Storrer in Zurich, Switzerland and forms a life-long friendship and support with the Gallery. Whilst based in Italy, begins an extensive study of pre-renaissance painting. Represents Norway at the Stockholm International Art Fair. Spends Winters in the Medieval city of Bruges, providing access to the Great Masters of Flemish painting. 


      1987 

      Joins the t'Leerhuys Galerie in Bruges. 


      1989

      Moves to the Balearic Island of Menorca in what was formerly a convent in the middle of the Island. 


      1990

      Moves to New York City, to a Studio on Bond Street. Joins Ruth Siegel Gallery on West 57th Street. 

      Divides the year between New York and a Studio in Barcelona. 


      1992

      Has first Museum exhibition in the City Museum of Caen, France. 


      1994 

      Takes a new Studio in Barcelona and joins the Ferran Cano Gallery in Barcelona and the Verena Hofer Gallery in Geneva. 


      1998

      Becomes curator of the Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska and moves to the United States later that year. 


      1999 - 2002

      Moves to New York City 


      2002

      Begins to travel extensively in the Yucatan, Mexico, India and Morocco. In Morocco travels over the Atlas Mountains to Erfoud and across the Sahara Desert. 


      2002 - 2018

      Spends time between Studios in Omaha, Nebraska, and a windswept Studio overlooking the sea on the Rame Peninsular in Cornwall, England. 


      2019 - Present 

      Moves to a Studio in Orient, Long Island. Divides time between Long Island, England and France. Joins Minima Gallery, Mykonos in Greece.
       

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