
North Atlantic Triennial
Co-organized by the Bildmuseet in Umeå, Sweden; the Portland Museum of Art in Maine; and the Reykjavík Art Museum, the inaugural North Atlantic Triennial was billed as “the first exhibition devoted entirely to contemporary art of the North Atlantic region.” It featured thirty artists and collectives from Maine, Canada’s maritime provinces, Greenland, Scandinavia, and the indigenous nations throughout. The show’s title, “Down North,” linguistically reoriented the Arctic Circle, usually thought of as being geographically “up” on the map, reflecting a curatorial conceit more commonly applied to