Curriculum Vitae – Sigrid Espelien (b. 1984)
Education
2020–2025 PhD in Artistic Research, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Department of Art and Craft
2010–2012 Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, USA
2005–2008 Glass and Ceramic School, Bornholm, Denmark – Ceramics
2002–2003 Engelsholm Art Folk High School, Denmark – Glassblowing, Painting, and Ceramics
Work, Grants, Memberships, Acquisitions
2025– Board Member, Tentaus
2025 10-year Work Grant for Established Artists, Norwegian Government Grants for Artists
2020 One-year Specialization Grant, Norwegian Crafts Association
Sept 2017 Artwork Gulv, Mjøstegl 2017 acquired by KODE Museum, Bergen
2017–2021 Associate Professor in Ceramic Art, Department of Art and Craft, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
2017–2019 3-year Work Grant, Arts Council Norway
Mar 2017 Board Member and Secretary, Norwegian Crafts Association Oslo and Akershus
Feb 2017 Oslo Municipality Diversity Grant for Bjørvikaleire: Research from a Craft Perspective
Jan 2017 Teaching a workshop at Oslo National Academy of Art, Ceramic subject area – Bjørvikaleire Method
2016– Member, Norwegian Crafts Association
2016 Diversestipens, Grant, Norwegian Crafts Association, Norway
Dec 2015 Equipment Grant for Shared Workshop M20, Arts Council Norway
Aug 2015 STIKK, OCA and Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Grant for exhibition at Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Dec 2014 STIKK grant – Exhibition in Bandung, Indonesia
Sept 2014 STIKK grant – Exhibition in Lublin, Poland
2013– Member, UKS – Young Artists’ Society
Oct 2010 Danish National Bank’s Anniversary Fund – Education Grant
May 2007 Johan Helmich Janson and Marcia Janson Travel Grant
Solo Exhibitions
Sept 2024 Grounding with (Blue) Clay, ROM for Art and Architecture, Oslo
June 2023 Reading a Brick, Glasslåven, Granavollen
Aug 2020 Asker Clay and Other Clays, Det Gule Hus, Asker
Sept 2019 Underground, KRAFT, Bergen
Nov 2018 AFTER, BOA Gallery, Oslo
Sept 2017 Mjøstegl, Galleri Fjordheim, Gjøvik
Dec–Jan 2009–10 Time, Istedgade 107, Copenhagen, Denmark
Group Exhibitions
Sept 2025 Kunst.hånd.verk, National Museum, Oslo
June 2025 June Exhibition, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
Sept 2022 Fieldstation, curated by SLAM, Bromölla, Sweden
2021 Are we human?, Format, Oslo
July 2020 Hvitsten Salong
July 2019 Indonesia Ceramic Biennale, Jatiwangi, Indonesia
Sept 2016 Bjørvika Building Blocks for Adults, Annual Exhibition 2016, Hydrogenfabrikken, Fredrikstad
Jan 2016 Gamlebyen Bowl, in Pottery is Back!, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
Aug 2015 Reproducing Reproductions, EQUANORTH in 125.660 Specimens of Natural History, curated by Etienne Turpin and Anna-Sophie Springer, Komunitas Salihara, Jakarta, Indonesia
Nov 2014 Pengalaman Mbak Bule di Bandung / A White Woman’s Experience of Bandung, performance and one-day event with ceramic sculpture, textiles, drawings, and Norwegian food served from an Indonesian food cart in site-specific ceramic bowls, Platform3 Gallery, Bandung, Indonesia
Oct 2014 The International Official Porcelain Testing Company, group exhibition Porcelain, Gardzienice Gallery, Lublin, Poland
Mar 2014 Høyblokka Revisited – Ideas and Visions, EQUANORTH, 0047, Oslo, Norway
July–Sept 2012 Coilism, Ninth Annual MBK Graduate Student Show, Harrison and Reed-Smith Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, USA
May 2012 Coilism, Graduation Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA
Oct 2011 De, group exhibition The Foreign with artist collective Rimbaud, Carlsberg, Copenhagen, Denmark
May 2011 The Conversational French Fry Holder, performance in group exhibition Feast, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI, USA
May 2010 A Ceramic Investigation, group exhibition Identity with artist collective Rimbaud, Rundetårn, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mar 2009 Time, Talente, Munich, Germany
art in public space
2026 Soil Histories, Viking Age Muaeum, Bygdøy, Oslo
2022 Overgang, Dronning Ingrids hage demenslandsby, Oslo kommunes kunstsamling, Oslo
2021-23 Om leire og tegl, Selvbyggeren, Økern, Oslo