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INGER JOHANNE GRYTTING (b.1949 in Lofoten, , lives and works in New York)

Inger Johanne Grytting’s abstract drawings and paintings are the portals or “gangways” to the core of her inner landscape where narrative elements are reduced to abstract signs. A technique involving repetitive parallel lines has consumed Grytting’s form of expression for more than a decade. The line, applied with a system of self-imposed limits, is central to her art. Lines represent traces and extensions of the artist. Each drawing is the result of a meditative process. The artist refers to her own work as “recordings”: “My artworks are like diary entries of psychological states…. The process is a probing inwards, where emotions and insights are translated into graphic expressions”. (Ref. Curator Charis Gullickson in Grytting’s first monographic presentation “Extensions” that was published in relation to her exhibition at the Art Museum, 2015).

In the 1970s, Inger Johanne Grytting moved from Northern Norway to New York, where she studied art and settled as an artist becoming part of a pulsating art community, receiving lasting impulses from the Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist movements. Since then, Grytting has been a crucial link between the American and the Norwegian Art scenes, as became evident in the group exhibition “Parallels” at Northern Norway Art Museum in 2011. The artist’s loft on the Bowery in Lower Manhattan has been for many years a meeting point for American and Norwegian artists and writers. Grytting and her husband, Mark Mirsky, are also notable figures in the American literary world, as editors and publishers of the cult periodical Fiction (Ref. Knut Ljøgodt, Director, Northern Norway Art Museum 2015).

In April 2016, Inger Johanne Grytting work was featured in The Daily Norwegian newspaper “Dagens Næringsliv” in regards to the acquisition of six of her works by The National Gallery (Norway) (part of The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design). Grytting’s preliminary exhibition schedule for fall of 2017 includes The Vigeland Museum in Oslo and ART 3 Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

BIOGRAPHY 1949 Born in Svolvaer, Norway Lives and works in New York, NY

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EDUCATION 1975-78 The New School, New York, sculpture studies with Chaim Gross (1975, -76, -78). 1972-73 The City College of New York, NY.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Inger Johanne Grytting, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo, Norway Inger Johanne Grytting, Silas von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016 Inger Johanne Grytting, New Works, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway 2015 Inger Johanne Grytting: Extensions, Northern Norway Art Museum, Tromsø, Norway 2014 Inger Johanne Grytting with Patrick Carrara, Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York, NY, USA 2013 Galleri , w/ Eva Faye, , Svalbard, Norway Inger Johanne Grytting, Recent Work, The Boiler Room Gallery, Oslo, Norway 2012 Inger Johanne Grytting, Recent Drawings, Northen Norway Art Association, Svolvær, Norway Inger Johanne Grytting, New Paintings, Rose Burlingham Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Inger Johanne Grytting, Lines Among Lines, Trygve Lie Gallery, New York, NY 2005 Inger Johanne Grytting, Festival Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway Inger Johanne Grytting, Drawings, The Art Association, Bodø, Norway Inger Johanne Grytting, Drawings, Atelier Lofoten, Svolvær, Norway 2003 Inger Johanne Grytting, Drawings, The Drawing Association, Oslo, Norway

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Treasures — Skatter, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway Platons Huskestue, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway Thru The Rabbit Hole, Sideshow Nation / Life On Mars, Brooklyn, New York #Tegning#Verk#Verktøy, Galleri NordNorge / Ilos Festivalen, Harstad, Norway Brudd og kontinuitet — Tegnerforbundet 100 år, Oslo, Norway 2015 One More Week of Summer, Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, USA TMC International, curated by Turid Meeker, Sag Harbor, New York, USA Inexhaustible Beauty: Works from Sparebank1 Nord-Norges Stiftelse, touring exhibition 2014-15, Norway The Word of Modern Art: Artists as Writers, The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation, New York, USA Sideshow Nation III, Circle the Wagons, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Passasje, Bodø Kunstforening, Bodø, Norway 2014 Twenty-three Artists from In and Around, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY, USA 12 falsa ark, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær, Norway 2013 Disegno.3, The Boiler Room Contemporary Art Projects, ArtCopenhagen, Denmark 2012 Righteous Perpetrators, curated by Jennifer Wroblewski, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

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Higher Ground, Drawings from the collection of Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway Water, water everywhere, The Boiler Room Gallery, Oslo, Norway 2011 Paralleller, NordNorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway Åpent Hus, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway Selected Works from the Collection of Sparebank1 Nord-Norges Stiftelse, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway Summer Show, Muriel Guépin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Art Chicago, w/Muriel Guépin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA 2010 Muriel Guépin Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA Heiberg Cummings Gallery, curated by Turid Meeker, New York, USA NNKS 30 år, Harstad Kunstforening, Harstad, Norway 2009 Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter 30 år, Svolvær, Norway 2008 Hommage à Iver Jåks, Touring exhibition, through 2010, Norway Tegnerforbundet’s Vårutstilling, Oslo, Norway 2006 Jubileumsutstillingen, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway 2005 Far East, Christiansands Kunstforening, Kristiansand, Norway Den 59. Nordnorske Kunstutstilling, (& 02, 00, 94, 93, 92) Bodø, Norway 2004 Nordnorsk Samtidskunst Triennale, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway Gallery 402, New York, NY, USA 2001 Mørketidsutstillingen, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway Tegnerforbundet’s Vårutstilling, Oslo, Norway Reykjavik Art Museum, Repr. in Slide exhibition-from Tegnerforbundet, Iceland 1998 Statens 111. Kunstutstilling, Oslo, Norway

SELECTED COLLECTIONS The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway Stavanger Kunstmuseum, Jan Groth’s Samling, Stavanger, Norway Fylkeskommune, Bodø, Norway Troms Fylkeskommune, Tromsø, Norway NordNorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø, Norway SpareBank1 NordNorge, Tromsø, Norway Nord-Norsk Kunstmuseum. Gifts from Jan Groth, Tromsø, Norway Universitetet I Tromsø Tromsø Symfoniorkester, Tromsø, Norway Svolvær Bys Faste Samling, Svolvær Universitetet i Tromsø, Den Norske Fredsfilmprisen, TIFF Norges Bank, Tromsø Vera P. List Collection, CT, USA Rogaland Kunstnersenter Albany Print Museum, Albany, New York, USA

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AFFILIATIONS Pierogi Flat File, New York, NY The Drawing Center, The Artist Registry, New York, NY Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway Nord-Norske Bildende Kunstnere, Svolvær, Norway Norske Billedkunstnere, Oslo, Norway

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 2016 Kunst for ti mill. i året havner på lager, by Espen Tjersland, Dagens Næringsliv, 30 April, 2016 2015 Håndlagets uforutsigbare nyanser, by Sten Nilsen. Kunst Pluss, nr. 2, 2015. Norske Kunstforeninger Elegant døråpner inn i et betydelig kunstnerskap, by Mona Gjessing. Numer 104, 2015 Kunsten å tegne en strek. By Marit Olsvik Opsahl, KUNSTforum, 3.17.2015 http://kunstforum.as/2015/03/kunsten-a-tegne-en-strek/ Streker i dialog med papiret. By Amalie Marie Selvik, Sekunstmagasin, 01.2015 http://issuu.com/skinnblad/docs/se_kunst_magasin_01_2015_final_low/9?e=3577338/118 26389 Extensions - Inger Johanne Grytting, By Charis Gullickson, published by Teknisk Industri, Oslo - 2015 En New York kunstner vender hjem. By Helge Matland. Bladet Tromsø – 2.13.2015 NRK radio: Morra i NRK P1. Interview w/ Inger Johanne Grytting. Tromsø – 2.16.2015 Gryttings strek. By Tove B. Myhre. Bladet Nordlys 2.16.2015 Patrick Carrara & Inger Johanne Grytting, By Stefanie Waldek, ARTNEWS, New York, February 2015 2014 In the Works of Patrick Carrara and Inger Johanne Grytting, Lines are More Than Marks: ARTSY EDITORIAL, Oct.13, 2014, New York 2013 https://artsy.net/post/editorial-in-the-works-of-patrick-carrara-and Over streken – og under. By Tommy Olsson, Morgenbladet, 08-14 February - 2013 Rytmiske striper. By Lotte Sandberg, Aftenposten, February 26 - 2013 En kroniskdveling. By Stian Gabrielsen, Billedkunst nr 2, 2013 Rutenettets indre liv. By Ingvild Krogvig, Kunstkritikk, February 15 - 2013 Visuelle spor av tid. By Ann Lisbeth Hemmingsen, Sekunstmagasin, March - 2013 Galleriårboken 2012. Editor Torill Østby Haaland, Nordnorsk Kunstnersenter, Svolvær 2012 Righteous Perpetrators to the end. By J. Wroblewski/, A.I.R. Gallery, 9.2.2012. Higher Ground. Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum, Tromsø - 2012

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2011 Paralleller. Repetisjon og sanselighet. By Charis Gullickson, Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum - 2011 Interview with Jan Groth og Inger Johanne Grytting. By Erling Steenstrup, NRK Nordnytt 7.2.2011 Inger Johanne Grytting. By Charis Gullickson, Sparebank1 Nord-Norges Kunststiftelse - 2011 2010 Lines Among Lines at Trygve Lie Gallery, Nordstjernan, New York - 2010 2005 Utladning fra blyantspissen. By Leena Mannila, Numer - 2005 Festivalutstillere i kunstforeningen. By Ellen Pollestad, Bladet Nordlys - 2005 1998 Når form blir innhold, Høstutstillingens Tegninger. By Trond Borgen, Numer 37, 1998 1995 Stilsikker tegner. By Helge Matland, Bladet Tromsø - 1995

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