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Alison Norlen received a BFA (Honours) degree from the University of Manitoba in 1987, and MFA from Yale University in 1989.

Selected solo exhibitions including “eccentricity”, Estevan Art Gallery; “miari”, Line Gallery, North Bay; “lēoh”t, Actual Gallery, Winnipeg, “luna”; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, “glimmer” Kenderdine Gallery, Saskatoon, (travelling); “rollercoaster”, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby; “edifice”, the Art Gallery of Kitchener-Waterloo, “Mirage”, Art Gallery of Regina, “ala” and Oboro, Montreal.

Selected group exhibitions include “Drawn Positions”, National Gallery of Canada; Ottawa; “Imagineacity: Architectures for Creativity”, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, NB; “Ladder Factories and wheat fields”, National Gallery of Canada, “Intangible Evidence”, The Rooms, St. Johns, Newfoundland; “Just my Imagination”, Museum London and “Wonderland”, Museum London. International exhibitions include “Faux Real”, Blank Project, Ann Arbor, MI; “MosaiCanada; Sign& Sound”, Seoul, Korea; “Tekeningen” III, Quartair Art Contemporary Art Initiatives Dutch/Canada, Den Haag, Holland; The “LA International Biennial Invitational” and “Exhibition of America, 10th Annual Biennial in Printmaking, X Mostra Da Gravura”, Curitiba, Brazil.
Norlen's work is in private collections in the United States and Canada and public collections including the National Gallery of Canada, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Confederation Centre for the Arts, The Rooms Gallery of Newfoundland and Labrador, The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery, Manitoba Arts Council, the Canada Council Art Bank, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
Alison Norlen teaches at the University of Saskatchewan and lives and works in Saskatoon. In 2020 she was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Alison Norlen - Roadside Attractions
Alison Norlen Honoured by the Royal Society - News Article
Art as Life - TEDx Talk
Interview - Border Crossings Issue 115, 2010