In 2018, after living most of my life as an artists in the Pacific Northwest, I packed seven suitcases, and moved to Longyearbyen, Svalbard to pursue my passion for the Arctic. My primary goal has been documenting the effects of climate change and the industrial truth of this icy wilderness. In 2019 I was honored to receive the Vision Excellence Award from the Miami Photography Center during Art Basel Miami for best work in a series for Svalbard: Land without Borders. My photographic work has been exhibited internationally. My ongoing paintings are an exploration of climate change and mortality in the Arctic, and have been exhibited in Norway, Greenland, and Scotland. In 2022 I was chosen as a finalist in the Mieter Award for Excellence in Photography, for my photo essay on Pyramiden which was exhibited at Photo Is:rael International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv. In 2021, I became Director of the Spitsbergen Artists Center, which includes the only open call artist residency in the high Arctic. In 2025, after seven years on Svalbard, I returned to the US, to my original home of the Pacific Northwest, where I continue working with issues of climate change
EXHIBITIONS:
2025 Works from July and August, Interval Digital Magazine
2025 Featured Photographer Elements Magazine
2025 Art and Place: Webinar exploring how arts-based practitioners engage with Arctic places, by KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium
2025 “Barentsburg: A Russian Settlement on Svalbard” Frames Digital Magazine
2025 The Darkest Month, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR
2024 2,555 Days on Svalbard: A Retrospective, The Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Norway
2024 – 2025 Glacial Narratives: The Greenlandic Chapter
Art Museum of Ilulissat, Ilulissat Greenland Nov/Dec 2024
Taigh Chearsabagh Museum, Uist, Scotland Jan/Feb 2025
Patriot Hall Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland March 2025
An Talla Solis, Ullapool, Scotland April/May 2025
2024 “Reading Frames” book published by University of Utah
2023 Glacial Narratives|Edinburgh Science Festival
2023 Featured image: FRAMES digital magazine
2022 Featured artist: Landscape Photography magazine
2022 Photo Mural project, Seattle Washington USA
2022 Photo:Israel International Photography Festival, Tel Aviv
2022 Finalist Meitar award for Excellence in Photography
2022 Plymouth Art Center, UK | collaboration with Joanna Haskins
2022 Spitsbergen Artists Center | Three Svalbard Artists: Olaf Storø, Elizabeth Bourne, Stein Henningsen
2021 Taigh Chearsabagh Museum, Scotland | Drift Ice: Loss and Cahnge
2021 Galleri Hug, Paris | Another Look at Man-Altered Landscape group exhibition
2021 FotoWien Rethinking Landscape
2021 Galleri Svalbard, Norway | Arctic Symphony 2: Transformation
2021 Visual Artists Alliance, Houston group exhibition
2021 Featured artist: Royal Photographic Society magazine
2021 Featured artist: Frames Magazine
2021 Featured artist: Surrounds Magazine
2020 Galleri Svalbard, Norway | Arctic Symphony 1: Drift Ice, Loss and Change
2020 Blue Sky Gallery Portland, Oregon group exhibition
2020 City of Seattle Permanent collection
2020 Auburn Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2019 Vision Excellence Award for work in a series for “Svalbard, Land without borders” Miami Photography Center, Art Basel Miami
2019 Black Box Gallery, Portland OR, group exhibition
2019 Galleri Svalbard, Longyearbyen | Norway New Visions of the Arctic
2019 Blue Sky Gallery of Photography, Portland Oregon | The Red Zone: A Study of Longyearbyen, Svalbard
2018 Specto Art Space, Bridgewater, VA
2018 Camera USA 2018, Best of American Photography, Naples FL
2018 Black Box Gallery, Portland Oregon