Terese Longva currently lives and works in Norway. She studied at the Aalesund School of Art in Aalesund, Norway, the Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland, followed by three years at Kosta Glass School in Sweden. She received her BFA at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 2008.
Her work 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 and at the same time break out of them to know ourselves. What does it take to resolve or integrate dichotomies like the belief that reality is the Self versus the Other, and instead see that nothing is simply itself but always contains a trace of its opposites?