She also has an upcoming monograph called Blue Violet.
She is the author of three sold-out books, You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night and You an Orchestra You a Bomb. Rich in implied narrative, Harvey’s work is deeply rooted in the natural environment, and offers explorations of belonging and familial relationships. Take a listen.Ĭig Harvey is an artist whose practice seeks to find the magical in everyday life. Cig is charming and earnest and about as authentic as it gets. We also talk about photography and photobooks.
#Norwegian woman photoartist professional#
The passing of time and the natural surroundings of her rural home has made her alert to the magic in the mundane.Ĭig is a member of the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and the Society of Professional Journalism (SPJ).Ĭig Harvey and I talk about all kinds of things from perfume to '90s female vocalists to being present in the moment (she's great at it - me, not so much). Cig was the beneficiary of JP Morgan's Highlighted Artist at Paris Photo 2022.Ĭig lives in a farmhouse in Maine with her husband Doug and daughter Scout. Most recently in 2022 Eat flowers won the Fine Press Book Associations Judge’s Choice Award for Best Book in Show at the Manhattan Fine Press Book Fair. She has been a nominee for the John Gutmann Fellowship, the Santa Fe\ Prize, and the Prix Pictet, and a finalist for the BMW Prize, the Estee Lauder Collection, the Karl Lagerfeld Collection at Paris Photo, the Clarence John Laughlin Award, and the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. She had her first solo museum show at the Stenersen Museum in Oslo, Norway (2012), and more recently at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine (2019).Ĭig was awarded the Prix Virginia Laureate (2018) and the Farnsworth Art Museum’s Maine in America Award (2021). She is represented by galleries worldwide and has exhibited at Paris Photo, Art Miami, and at AIPAD (New York) for the past fifteen years.
Rich in implied narrative, saturated in color, and deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.Ĭig has published five sold-out books: Blue Violet (Monacelli/Phaidon, 2021), Reveal (with Debbie Fleming Caffrey and Andrea Modica Yoffy Press, 2020) You an Orchestra You a Bomb (Schilt Publishing, 2017) Gardening at Night (Schilt Publishing, 2015) and You Look at Me Like an Emergency (Schilt Publishing, 2012).Ĭig’s photographs and books are in the permanent collections of museums across the world, including The Library of Congress (NewYork, New York): Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut) Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas) the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine) and the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York). Cig Harvey is a British-born artist and writer living in Maine, USA, and working in large-format color photography and poetry.
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