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Peter Haakon Thompson

Peter Haakon Thompson is an artist based in Minneapolis. He is a past recipient of a Jerome Emerging Artist Fellowship, McKnight Foundation Fellowship for Photographers, Forecast Public Projects grant, and a two-time artist-in-residence at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder in Trondheim, Norway. His work has been published in Photo Metro, Camerawork Journal, and The New Yorker. He has also created public projects about place, the A Project, an effort to create solidarity among artists in their neighborhoods through the use of window signs with a large red ‘A,’ and Art Shanty Projects, a public art community/gallery existing for five weeks on frozen Medicine Lake in suburban Minneapolis.

Essentially Public

An interview with artist Peter Haakon Thompson where we talk about icebergs and fishing houses, and a gallery of new photographs about being alone. (Galleries | May 17, 2006)


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RoseLee Goldberg

RoseLee Goldberg is an art historian, curator, and author of Performance Art: From Futurism to the Present. In 2004, she founded PERFORMA, a non-profit arts...