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Scott Thoe, a Norwegian-American, was born in Minnesota, but spent most of his childhood in California.
At the age of 13 he was invited to attend the Berkeley College of Arts and Crafts after participating in an art exhibition in Oakland. He received his higher education in both Europe and the United States with M.A. degrees from University of Washington and Harvard, a Ph.D from the University of Washington before completing his art education at the Academy of Fine Art in Cracow, Poland, preceded by two years at the Kunsthochschule in Kiel, Germany. Thoe has spent the last 30 years living in the Lofoten Islands of Northern Norway, where he paints and concocts his monumental building projects. In 1992 he was invited to Moscow by President Gorbachev and in 1993 he made a presentation of his art concept "Tanks for Peace", a bridge of dismantled tanks, before the Russian Duma. The model of the 40 thousand-tanks bridge was exhibited as well in the OSCE Headquarters in Vienna and the Bundestag in Berlin. |