Sol Kjok
Sol Kjøk (solkjok.art) lives at and runs Mothership NYC (mothership.nyc), the Brooklyn arts residency platform she founded in 2005. In 2011, Kjøk founded NOoSPHERE Arts (noosphere-arts.nyc), a nonprofit exhibition and performance venue in Manhattan with the objective of bringing artist colleagues from elsewhere to New York. Now headquartered by the water's edge in Brooklyn, this 501c3 organization continues to present multidisciplinary arts programming across several NYC platforms, including Kjøk’s painting studio in Brooklyn, known as Last Frontier NYC (last-frontier.nyc).
Sol has lived in six countries and holds three graduate degrees in humanities and an MFA in painting from Parsons School of Design. Kjøk’s work has been featured in 100+ shows worldwide. A recipient of more than 50 awards and artist’s grants, Kjøk is represented in public collections such as the Cincinnati Art Museum; Teckningsmuseet; and the Osten Museum of Drawing, as well as numerous private and corporate collections throughout the world.