Name
Ingela Birkeland

Born
Sundsvall, Sweden, 1944

Education
Grundläggande yrkeskurs i vävnad, Stockholms Stads Yrkesskola i sömnad,Stockholm, Sweden - A trade school for textiles - for sewing and weaving.1967
Konstfackskolan, Stockholm, Sweden - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, 1965 – 1966
Konstfackskolan, Stockholm, Sweden - University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, 1962 – 1964

Memberships
NBK - The national association of Norwegian professional visual artists.
NNBK - The association of professional visual artists located in the northern part of Norway.
NTK -  The Norvegian association of professional visual artists working with textiles and fibre

Solo Exhibitions
The Embassy of Sweden, Canberra, Australia, 2008
"Structures - Imaginations about the hidden", Foyer Gallery, Australian National University, School of Art, Canberra, Australia, 2008
"Structures - imaginations about the hidden" Rana Art Assosiation, Rana Museum, Mo i Rana, Norway, 2008
"Vinklinger" "Angles", Atelier Lofoten, Svolvær, Norway, 2002
Gallery Apotheket, Stokmarknes, Norway, 1999
Gallery Krysset , Sørvågen, Lofoten, Norway, 1999
Gallery Ofelia, Sundsvall, Sweden 1978
Gallery Välvet, Eskildstuna, Sweden 1978
Gränges Nyby, Torshälla, Sweden 1978
UKS, Oslo, Norway, 1978

Duo Exhibitions
Galley Skårer, Lørenskog Art Assosiation, Norway,  together with graphic artist Arild Yttri, 2007
Nye Sjøgata Gallery, Mosjøen, Norway, 2006
Gallery Lina, Mosjøen, Norway 2006

Group Exhibitions
Peepholes "Desire", Vingen Culture House, Göteborg, Sweden, 2007
Peepholes "Boxes", Karlstad, Sweden 2000
"Peepholes at Godnatt", Karlskrona, Sweden 2000
KNIVs "Miniature exhibition", Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway 2000
KNIVs "Summer exhibition", Jennestad Handelssenter, Norway,1999 
"Man, Church, God", Theme exhibition on the occation of the Lofot Cathedral beeing 100 years. Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway, 1998
"Lofoten in Toten", Jubileumsutstilling, Toten Kunstforening , Norway,1998
"Lofoten", Valdres Kunstforening, Norway, 1998
Laplands Art's Colony,Arvidsjaur, Sweden 1998
KNIVs members exhibitions, Svolvær, Norway 1994, 1995
"Lofoten in the Art", Oslo, Norway, 1995
"Aplikationon, Graphic, Painting, Drawing and Tapetsery" , Larvik Kunstforening, Noway, 1979

Collective Exhibitions
NNBK' s summer salon, Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway, 2006
NNBK's summer exhibition, Svolvær, Lofoten, Norway, 2006
SKINNs travel exhibition "Miniatyrer", Norway, 1991
"International Art Week", Follo Museum, Frogn, Norway, 1977
"UKS in Gallery 12 B", Fredrikstad, Norway, 1975
UKS's summer exhibition, Oslo, Norway 1975

Other Activity
Member of Peepholes, An European Art Project Group with 10 female visual artists, from 1998
Member af KNIV – Kunstnernes Næringsforum i Vågan  - A lokal artist group at Lofoten, Norway.1992 – 2000

Public assignment
Norges Landbrukshøyskole, Institutt for plantekultur, Ås, Norway - Agricultural University of Norway, Department of Horticulture and Crop Science -1980

Sholarships
Nordland Fylkes Reisestipend for Billedkunstnere og Kunsthåndverkere 2010 (A travel grant of Nordland Fylkeskommune for Visual and Handicraft artists)
Biledkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, 2003. (A Scholarship from the artists organization)
Nordland Fylkes Reisestipend for Billedkunstnere og Kunsthåndverkere 1997 (A travel grant of Nordland Fylkeskommune for Visual and Hanicraft artists)
Johan Finnes Legat - A legacy of Johann Finne 1976

Tasks
Member of the Jury of NNBK 2001 – 2003
Member of the board of Nordnorsk Kunstnersentrum 1999 – 2000
Art councillor at Atelier Lofoten 1994 – 2000
Art councillor at ABKF  - The association of professional visual artists in the area of Akershus.1979 – 1980
Member of the Jury of ABKF 1979 – 1980
Member of the jury at UKS - The young artists assosiation 1976

Teaching
Art School in Kabelvåg, Lofoten, Norway – Textiles/fibre, Drawing, 3-dim and Composition 1990 – 1996

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