Portrait Painting

Painter Born in Sandefjord 1961 Lives and works in Oslo, Norway and Arpino, Italy Student at Academy of Art University, San Francisco in painting and drawing Student of Oddmund Raudberget in sculpture Heidi Fosli is a multi-award winning professional artist with an international career living and working in both Norway and Italy. She is represented in four permanent art museum collections in the USA, Denmark, Italy and South Korea respectively, and also has works in the public space in Italy and Norway. Art critic Prof. Paolo Levi argues: "Through the extraordinary use of color, which goes far beyond just aesthetic research, Heidi Fosli gives free heterogeneous expressive potentials that come from an internalized study." Well-known art critic Vittorio Sgarbi writes: Fosli uses a color in clear expressionist heritage, in keeping up with the best Scandinavian tradition, extreme vibration itself in thick and cohesive brushstrokes, almost like Nabis. The cold shades alternate with the warmth where ice haloes will shine with volcanic fires, in a glowing, contrasting, sometimes disturbing, but flawless visionary balance. Italian art historian Daniela Fraioli claims that Fosli is revolutionizing Impressionism! Italian art critic and writer Costanzo Costantini calls her a "daughter of Ibsen and Munch", and art critic Salvatore Russo says she communicates a new language with her art! As the first Norwegian artist in history, she received a bronze medal for her work from the prestigious academy "Arts-Science-Lettres" in Paris, and has received 35 awards and recognitions from many countries. Heidi Fosli has had 36 solo exhibitions since his debut in 2006 and has participated in 78 collective exhibitions worldwide. She has been selected and exhibited at the prestigious SNBA (Salon) exhibition in the Louvre Paris, London Biennale, Verona Triennale, MIIT Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Museum of Art & Science in Milan, Chianciano Biennale and Bienial Barcelona MEAM Museum for modern art. She was selected as "Artists of the World" in Cannes by Marina Picasso (Pablo Picasso's granddaughter), where she also received an "Honorable mention" from Picasso! She has had a separate exhibition in the Vatican City of Rome, exhibited in the Presidential Palace in Rome, had a retrospective separate exhibition invited by the Mastroianni Museum in Italy, and has had separate exhibitions in New York, Rome, Vienna, Oslo and Berlin to name a few.