Biography

Born in Norway, Sol Kjøk left her tiny mountain village at 16 years of age. She went on to live and study in Paris, Vienna, Medellín (Colombia), and a number of U.S. cities, earning three graduate degrees on her way.

Virtually self-taught in artistic techniques, she moved to New York City for an MFA in Painting at Parsons School of Design,and has since then lived and worked in an artist collective in Brooklyn.

An avid drawer all her life, Sol participated in her first professional exhibition as a teenager. To date, her work has been featured in 80+ group shows worldwide. She has had seven solo exhibits in museums, galleries and artist-run spaces in the US and Europe, most recently a multimedia show of some 50 pieces at Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin in 2009. This fall, her drawing was featured in a two-person show at Bill Hodges Gallery in Uptown Manhattan. Her work is represented in museums and other public collections in the US and Europe, incl. the Cincinnati Art Museum, OH, and the Nordic Museum of Drawing, Sweden.

Sol has participated in international artist residencies, taught at universities and art schools and lectured at museums and art centers. A recipient of some forty awards and artist’s grants over the past two decades, Sol’s work has been reviewed in many publications internationally.