Sol Kjok

A Norwegian-born New Yorker, Sol Kjøk lives at and runs Mothership NYC, the Brooklyn arts residency platform she founded in 2005. After studies in Paris, Athens (GA), Vienna, Medellín and Cincinnati that earned her three graduate degrees in humanities, she obtained an MFA in painting at Parsons School of Design in New York. An avid drawer all her life, Kjøk’s work has been featured in 100+ shows worldwide. She has held artist residencies in several countries, taught at universities and art schools and lectured at museums and art centers throughout the US. Her work, which originates as performance, is featured in Drawing Essentials (Oxford University Press), a textbook widely used in fine arts programs in the US. A recipient of more than 50 awards and artist’s grants, Kjøk is represented in public collections such as the Cincinnati Art Museum, Teckningsmuseet [the Nordic Museum of Drawing], and the Osten Museum of Drawing, as well as numerous private and corporate collections throughout the world. In 2011, Kjøk founded NOoSPHERE Arts, a nonprofit exhibition and performance venue in Manhattan with the objective of bringing artist colleagues from elsewhere to New York. Now operating out of the same Brooklyn warehouse that is also home to Kjøk’s painting studio, aka Last Frontier NYC, this 501c3 organization continues to present multidisciplinary arts programming across several NYC platforms.