Artist Statement
Sonja Thomsen is an artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her practice has evolved from minimalist photographic series to more recent interactive installation-based works that weave place, person and object. She is especially interested in discourses about the temporal and the elusiveness of perception.
Thomsen received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004 and a BA in Biology & Studio Art from Kenyon College in 2000. Her photographs have been featured in group & solo exhibitions throughout the United States and can be found in the permanent collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum & Ljosmyndasafn Reykjavikur.Thomsen was also a 2008 Hermitage Fellow, a nominee for the Santa Fe Prize in 2009, as well as a recipient of the Greater Milwaukee Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Established Artists in 2011.
Sonja Thomsen has exhibited with venues including Ljosmyndasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavik Iceland; New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe NM, Silverstein Photography, New York City; Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison; David Weinberg Gallery, Chicago; Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh; Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee; Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago IL.
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