Tor-Arne Moen

Tor-Arne Moen (1966 -) was born and grew up in the town of Notodden in Norway, where he started painting in oils at early age, in 1975. His education is from the College of Arts in Bergen, Norway, where he graduated in 1994. He has a studio at the premises of Norwegian Hydro´s old industrial plant since 1992. Throughout his career he has been working within various concepts of arts and several forms of figurative painting such as acts, portraits, still life, interiors, cityscapes, landscapes as well as different kinds of figure paintings. He has been working with a number of pictorial projects such as illustrations for the publication of the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun´s collected works.
The recent paintings are basically painted with egg-oil tempera.

Woodcut printmaking
In 1996 Tor-Arne Moen built a workshop for production of colour woodcuts and developed a method using many sheets and thick layers of colours. The woodcuts are characterized by a wide range of colours and a saturated surface. The graphic art is to a great extent reflecting the different oil painting projects.

In the last years Tor-Arne has produced a series of short films from his studio with the title: "Creation of a Painting". The films show the artisti...

College of Arts in Bergen, Norway.

2016
October/November. Gallery Ismene, Trondheim. Solo exhibition.
2015
Mai 7th. Gallery A. Oslo. Solo exhibition.
June 13th. Tranøy Gallery, Hamarøy. Solo exhibition.
October 10th. Gulden Kunstverk, Steinberg. Solo exhibition.

2014
September 27th-november 23th. Nils Aas Kunstnerverksted. Inderøy. Solo exhibition.
September 20th-Oktober 5th. Surnadal Kunstforening. Solo exhibition.
June 19th-October 19th. Drammen Museum. Group exhibition.

2013
March 7th-29th. Pakkhuset Gallery, Arendal. Solo exhibition.
June 10th - ? Gallery Ismene, Trondheim. Solo exhibition.
September 14th - October 6th. Gallery Henrik Gerner, Moss. Solo exhibition.
October 17th - November 10th. Allery A. Solo exhibition.

2012:
March 10th. Gallery Allmenningen, Bergen. Solo exhibition.
March 10th. Gulden Kunstverk, Steinberg. Group exhibition.
September 15th - Gallery Svae, Gjøvik. Solo exhibition.
October 6th - October 28th. Gallery Osebro. Porsgrunn. Solo exhibition.

2011:
November 17th - December 4th, Gallery A, Oslo. Solo exhibition.
October 29th, Ålesund Kunstforening. Solo exhibition.
February 26th - April 17th, 2011, Telemarksgalleriet, Notodden. Solo exhibition.

2010:
June, 2010, Soli Brug, Sarpsborg. Solo exhibition.
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