About the Artist

Mai Kari Hartvaag Zimbleman

was born in Land of The Midnight Sun, in the valley of Saltdalen, north of the Polar Circle in Norway.  She later moved to Oslo, the capital city of Norway.. Mai left for New York at age 18, and shortly thereafter headed for Southern California’s coastal regions where she lived and worked for many years. She later criss crossed the US driving from east to west, north to south with her sketchbook in hand. She is greatly inspired by her childhood memories of Northern Lights flashing across the skies in winter followed by tropical warm summers, and  her work shows a great variety from both counties she lived in. Mai is also a commissioned portrait painter and has taught portrait painting at the City of Oslo Evening Academy.(1988/89) Her medium is oil. 


Exhibits

Exhibits:

2003:
1. Gallery Art Martyr, Costa Mesa, California
2. Balboa Island Art walk, Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California
3. Gallery How Original, Laguna Beach, California

2004:
1. Gallery Blaa Bord , Moss, Norway, Art Contest
  in connection with  MOMENTUM, the Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art, in Moss, Norway,  a coastal town an hour from the capital city of Oslo.

2. Winner of Gallery Blaa Bord  Art ‘s contest:
Single Art Exhibit Gallery BLA BORD, 
The press described her paintings “A joy to the eye”,
 Moss Avis: Monday 11 October 2004;
 Mai K Zimbleman’s Wonderful World of Color” will be exhibited
from Wednesday Oct 6 until November 9th  at Gallery Blaa Bord
where she will be
showing 26 works of art .  

 

2005:
1. Gallery Pingvin
Mollergata 13,
Oslo, Norway
Mai Kari Hartvaag Zimbleman
Paintings

2. Gallery Pingvin
Mollergata 13,
Oslo, Norway
 Mai Kari Hartvaag Zimbleman
New Works

3. The  Gallery HB, Hyatt Regency Beach Resort and Spa,
Huntington Beach, California

 

2006:
Gallery 33 East, Long Beach, California  

 

2007-2012: ( studies/ studio work, no exhibits) 

 

2013:
Open Exhibition for all California Artists
400 artworks
Huntington Beach Art Center
538 Main Street
Huntington Beach, California

 

2014:
The 1st Annual Artist Consul Juried Exhibition
Huntington Beach Art Center
538 Main Street
Huntington Beach, California

2015:
The 2nd Annual Artist Consul Juried Exhibition
Huntington Beach Art Center
538 Main Street
Huntington Beach, California

 

2016:
The 3rd Annual Artist Consul Juried Exhibition
Huntington Beach Art Center
538 Main Street
Huntington Beach, California

 

2017:
The 4th Annual Artist Consul Juried Exhibition
Huntington Beach Art Center
538 Main Street
Huntington Beach, California

 

2018:
 Awarded for the painting
Midnight Summer Night
at the Sun City Art Club Exhibit
Las Vegas, Nevada

Single Art Wall Exhibit
Mountain Shadows Country Club
Las Vegas, NV

 

2019:
1.Celebrating Life 2019!
Juried Masters Exhibit
May 24 through July 13, 2019
Charleston Heights Art Center
800 Bush St., Las Vegas, Nevada
Sponsored by the City of Las Vegas Arts Commission
/Discover the Arts-
 

2020/21:
ART2Art Gallery

Tivoli Village

420 South Rampart Blvd
Las Vegas, Nevada

 

Education:
1980/83
Laguna Beach College of  Art, in Laguna Beach, California.
Teacher Frank Tauriello,
1992-94
 The Academy of Design –  School of Design and Fine Arts
New York, NY
Teacher:  Master Everett Raymond Kinstler.

1995-96
 Olav Mosebekk School of Arts in Oslo, Norway.  (Mosebekkskolen)
Anatomy.  Figure painting / the nude figure .  Landscapes

Teachers: Hans Norman Dahl. Oscar Reynert Olsen. Dang Van Ty.

Get in touch!

  • maizimbleman@gmail.com