BOLATTA SILIS-HØEGH

Visual artist from Greenland and Latvia. Bolatta Silis-Høegh lives in Copenhagen, and works out of Greenland, Denmark and Sweden.

She graduated from Aarhus Academy of Art in 2006 and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the years in both Denmark, Greenland and abroad.

Her 2010-art installation “Greenlandic Future Garden” was awarded by the Danish Art Council. Her 2012-art installation “Ningiu” was featured at the Danish pavilion of the Architecture Biennale in Venice.

In 2011 Bolatta Silis-Høegh published her first children’s book, “Aima”, which she wrote and illustrated. The follow-up “Aima Shush!” was nominated for the Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize in 2016.

In 2015 and 2016 her solo exhibitions “Lights On Lights Off” and “STORM” have toured the Nordic region.

Bolatta Silis-Høegh’s works have been presented in The Huffington Post, Moore Women’s Artists, ARoS Public among others.