Kari Håkonsen (b. 1969)

Håkonsen is educated in glass art at the Glass School in Orrefors, Sweden (1994) and The Surrey Institute of Art and Design (UK, 1998). She has been established as a glass artist since 1998 and today she runs the workshop Klart glass at Kirkenær in Hedmark together with Vidar Koksvik. They also run a glass studio and shop at Bærums verk in Akershus. Kari has held and participated in a large number of solo and group exhibitions at home and abroad and her work has been purchased by collections such as the National Museum, KODE, Nordenfjeldske and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' art collection. Kari's art is characterized by an exploratory approach to the material, which ranges from solid glass with optical properties to the delicate glass stretched to the extreme of its limit.