Terese Longva

Terese Longva received her BFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008. She studied at the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, followed by three years at Kosta Glass School in Sweden. She also studied at Aalesund School of Art in Aalesund, Norway.  Longva has shown her work at various venues in the USA and Europe. She is works in a range of mediums, but video and performance has a central place in her work, in which she looks at different aspects of the human condition such as how we construct different Selves in reaction to varied expectations of society, and how we constantly struggle to learn our social roles while at the same time break out of them to know ourselves. As part of the collaborative partnership Longva+Carpenter, Longva also investigates topics such as personal longings, feminist ideology and political urgency.