LIV BLAVARP – Jewelry: 1984 - 2001
DATE OF BIRTH: 1956, Norway
EDUCATION:
1979-83 State College of Art and Design, Oslo
1983-84 Royal College of Art, London

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
Norwegian Craft, annual exhibition, Oslo, 1982-90
Kunstnerforbundet, Summer show, Oslo 1984
Gallery Aspects, London 1984
Norwegian Traveling exhibition, England 1984
Trikk-group, Ateljee 585, Helsinki 1985
Trikk-group, Summer exhibition in Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo 1985
Tendencies, Annual exhibition of art in Moss, Norway 1985
Galleri Tyholmen, Arendal 1986
Trikk-group, Galleri Albin Upp, Oslo Norway 1986
New Jewelry, International exhibition. Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 1986
Design for the Body, ASF Gallery, New York, USA 1986
Gallery Clodage Ross-Williams, New York, USA 1986
Trikk-group, Gallery V & V, Vienna, Austria 1987
Schmuck-szene, Munich, Germany 1987
Design for the Body traveling exhibition, Netherlands 1987
Scandinavia Today, Tokyo, Japan & New York, USA 1987
Exhibition of Norwegian Jewelry, Rohssaka Museet, Gothenburgh, Sweden 1989
Alle ting er tre, Exhibition of Wooden Objects, Museum of Applied Art, Oslo 1989
Nord-Form 90, Exhibition of Scandinavian Art and Design, Malmo, Sweden 1990

GROUP EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED:
Jewelry-triennial, Paris, France 1990
Norwegian Wood, traveling exhibition, Europe 1990-91
Craft Triennial in Balticum, Tallin 1991
Gallery Fjordheim, Lillehammer, Norway 1992
Lillehammer ArtUnion, Lillehammer, Norway 1993
Gallery Metal, Copenhagen, Denmark 1993
in touch, Maihaugen in Lillehammer, Norway 1994
The Peder Balke Center in OstreToten, Norway 1994
Hordaland Art Center in Bergen, Norway 1995
Circulation, Kunstnerforbundet in Oslo, Norway 1995
The Pilgrimage to Cythera, international exhibition of love and eroticism in fine arts,
St. Petersburgh, Russia, 1997
Gifts of the Forest, gifts of the loom, traveling exhibition in China, India, Korea and Russia 1997-98
Art o’hoi Kapp Melkefabrikk In Ostre Toten, Norway 1999
Galleri Edvardas Hus in Tranoy, Norway 1999
Galleri Vikerodegarden in Hama Norway 1999
SOFA, Curated/ hosted by Charon Kransen Arts, Chicago, Illinois 1995, 1997, New York, NY, USA 1988, 1999, 2000SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
Bergen Art Society, Bergen, Norway 1998
Artists Union, Oslo Norway 1996
Rohsska Museum of Allied Art, Gothenburgh, Sweden 1995
Gallery RAM, Oslo Norway 1991
Artists Union, Oslo Norway 1988

SOLO EXHIBITIONS CONTINUED:
Art Museum of South Norway, Kristiansand, Norway March 2001
Traveling exhibition curated by Charon Kransen Arts, New York, U.S.A. 2001-2002
Sculpture to Wear Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, California, 90404 USA, October – November 2001

COLLECTIONS:
Museum of Applied Art in Oslo, Norway
West-Norway Museum of Applied Art, Bergen
The Trondheim Museum of Applied Art, Trondheim
The Art Museum of Northern Norway, Tromso
The Art Council of Norway
Museum of Applied Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
The National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum,
Smithsonian Institution, New York
Kunstgewerbe-Museum, Berlin, Germany
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rohsska Museum of Applied Art, Gothenburgh, Sweden
Epcot-Center, Norwegian Pavillion in Florida, USA
Lillehammer City Hall, Norway

PRIZES RECEIVED
Art prize of Den Norske Hypotekforening, 1998
The Arts and Crafts Prize 1989
The Culture Prize for Young Artists, Foreningen Norsk Form, 1990
Tortsten and Wanja Soderberg’s Nordic Design Award, 1995
Jacob-prisen, Norsk Form, 1997

INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS:
International Crafts – Martina Margetts
The Best in Modern Jewelry - David Watkins
Jewelry of Out Time - Helen Drutt and Peter Dormer
Dictionaire International du Bijou- Marguerite de Cerval
Marjorie Simon and Gunnar Sorensen, published for the South Norway Museum of Art, 2001

COMMISSIONS:
Hedmark College at Evenstad, Norway 1990
Vestfold Central Hospital in Tonsberg, Norway 1993
Lillehammer Trainstation, Norway 1994
Froland Secondary School, Norway 1995
Hamar Hospital, Norway 2000