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Jan 19th - Feb 19th.

Jan A.F.Kolstad is a Norwegian artist and printmaker born in Oslo in 1943. He studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts, CCAC. And the Royal Norwegian College of Arts and Crafts. Returning from California in the late 1960`s he was one of the founders of the Print Shop Myren Grafikk which did radical and influential work in Norway during the 1970`s. He exhibited widely with this group throughout Europe until 1980 when he established his own print shop on a farm outside Oslo. Since 1979 he has received several scholarships and grants from the Norwegian Government and from 1992 he has received a Yearly State Grant.

His solo exhibitions have been concentrated in his own country in galleries like Galleri Tanum, Galleri JMS, Kunstnerforbundet, and several Artist Societies around the country. He has also been shown abroad including in Gallery54, New York, Ciurlionis Museum, Lithuania, Exhibition Palace, Bulgaria, Die Treppe, Stuttgart Germany, IPCNY, New York and Instituto des Artes Graficas, Oaxaca Mexico in 2005.

Jan A.F.Kolstads work appears in several corporate and national collections such as Ciulionis Museum, Lithuania, National Gallery, Norway, Art Council, Norway, Sørlandet Art Museum, Norway, National Touring Exhibitions, Norway City of Oslo, Norway and in 2004 the newly established National Museum of Art, Norway

Jan A.F,Kolstad has been head of the Print Department of Asker College of Art in Norway since 1986 and is currently heading the college. His Exhibition in Trygve Lie Gallery shows recent works from the period 2002-2005.