About Sigrid
Sigrid Bjørkedal (1978) is a visual artist with her art education from the United Kingdom, in addition to further education in Norway. Her main background is from painting, but she also works with a crossover of mediums
Sigrid is from Bjørkedal in Sunnmøre, and Nordfjordeid in Nordfjord, and she now lives between these places in the northwest of Norway. Lately she has enjoyed artist residencies in Bergen, Gothenburg and Ålesund. From a young age she has lived in many locations in Norway and abroad, with a partly nomadic and adventurous lifestyle.
Sigrid has recently had two solo exhibitions at the artist run Mottaket in Ålesund, Cystenyreuniverset (ADPKD AND ME) and a retrospective.
She was invited as one of the artists to exhibit at Vevringutstillinga 2025. Next planned participation in a group exhibition will be Årsutstillingen Møre og Romsdal, at MRK in Molde. In 2026 she will embark on a collaboration towards an exhibition together with Gro Gjengedal and Cecilie Hole.
CV SIGRID BJØRKEDAL
Born 1978, Northwest Norway
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Painting Retrospective / Samle mine trådar. Mottaket, Ålesund
2024 ADPKD Universe / Cystenyreuniverset, Mottaket, Aggregat Kunstnerfelleskap, Ålesund
2012 Asleep - Galleri Myr, Stryn
2011 Hybernation / Dvale, Aure kunstlag, Nordmøre
2009 Welcome to the Forest of the Past, Festival exhibition Malakoff Rock festival, Kulturhuset Gamlebanken, Nordfjordeid
2007 Twisted Perspectives / Snudde Perspektiv, Pikant, Førde
2005 Grafiske Maleri, Galleri Skarstein, med Brita Hungnes, Kandal, Sandane
2004 Painting retrospective, Didriks, Nordfjordeid
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 The Vevringexhibition / Vevringutstillinga 2025
2024 - 2025 MØNSTRING 2024: Stad. Tilknyting Røsle. KSF / Sogn og Fjordane kunstmuseum
2024 Aggregat Open, Art Market. 6. - 17. Desember, Mottaket Ålesund
2024 Arts@60, Past students, Vallum Gallery, University of Cumbria, Carlisle
2023 Re-opening of Kunstnarsenteret i Sogn og Fjordane
2021 - 2022 Mønstring 2021, Sogn og Fjordane kunstmuseum, Førde
2018 - 2019 Mønstring 2018 - Kunst Sogn og Fjordane, Sogn og Fjordane Kunst Museum
2015 Mønstring, Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum
2014 FACE TO FACE / ANSIKT TIL ANSIKT (Verk frå samlinga) Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum
2012 KUNSTsf 2012 - Opning av Sogn og Fjordane Kunstmuseum
2011 Den 4. BKSF VÅRutstilling, Kunstsenteret, Førdehuset
2010 - 2011 Tilknyting, i regi av Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskunstlag (vandreutstilling)
2010 BRAGL, Radøy kunstsenter
2009 Den 3. BKSF VÅRutstilling, Kunstsenteret, Førdehuset
2009 - 2010 Et helt spesielt sted. Pilotgalleriet, Kunstnersenteret i Buskerud (vandreutstilling)
2008 - 2009 Østlandsutstillingen 2008; ØKS, Fredfoss, Gjøvik, Kunsthalle St.Annen, Lübeck
2008 Tegnebiennale 2008, Kunstnernes hus, Oslo
2008 Juryert Portrettutstilling, Galleri Voss, Voss Kunstlag
2007 Østlandsutstillingen 2007, Galleri Tangen Brenneri, Hedemarken
2007 Tegnerforbundets juryerte VÅR utstilling, Oslo
2007 Den 2. BKSF VÅRutstilling, Kunstsenteret, Førdehuset
2007 17 Par auge, Galleri Skarstein, Skarstein Gard, Kandal (Sandane)
2004 Mail Art Project, The Big Draw, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, UK
2003 Juvenarte, Betong, Chateau Neuf, Oslo
2003 Showshine 2023, Friends Gallery, Keswick,
2003 Showshine 2 The Canopy, Kendal, UK
2003 EPOCH: Fine Art degree show, Carlisle, UK
2003 Collective Works, Source, Carlisle UK
2002 Sommarutstillinga, Kulturhuset Gamlebanken, Nordfjordeid
2001 Custard Factory Gallery, Birmingham UK
1999 LUSAD Gallery, Loughborough University
1999 Opningsutstilling, Kulturhuset Gamlebanken, Nordfjordeid
1998 Labyrinten Illustrasjonskonkurranse (premiert bidrag) Nordnes Bydelshus, Bergen
1998 - 1999 Unge Talent 98: Sunnfjord Kunstlag og Sogn og Fjordane Kunstsenter, Førde
1998 Palimpsest, Falmouth College of Arts Gallery, Cornwall
ART EDUCATION
2008 - 2009 Art history, University of Oslo
2003 - 2004 PPU - Teacher training for artists HIO / OsloMet
2002 - 2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts, First class honors. University of Cumbria, Carlisle, UK .
1999 - 2001 Fine Art Painting. Loughborough University, UK (Year 1 and 2).
1997 - 1998 BTEC Foundation Art and Design. Falmouth University, UK
RESIDENCIES
2025, 2024 Mottaket, Aggregat Kunstnerfelleskap, Ålesund
2024 - 2025 KONSTEPIDEMIN Artist in residency, Göteborg / Gothenburg
2024 Air Bergen, USF Verftet, Supported by Vestland Fylkeskommune.
AWARDS / GRANTS / COLLECTIONS
2024 Aggregat / Mottaket; Funded Artist Talk
2019 Kunstnarstipend, Sogn og Fjordane Fylkeskommune
2008 Statens Utstillingsstipend 2008 for Sogn og Fjordane
1999 Kunstnarstipend Kultur og næringsrådet, Eid kommune
2008 Portrait award, Voss Sparebank / Voss kunstlag, Galleri Voss
2009 Sogn og Fjordane Artmuseum, Collection
2008 Pilotgalleriet / Kunstnersenteret i Buskerud, Collection
MEMBERSHIP ART ORGANISATIONS
NBK, BKSF, LNM, BKMR (Assosiert), AGGREGAT KUNSTNERFELLESKAP, VISP