Bolatta Silis-Høegh

Bolatta Silis-Høegh is a Greenlandic contemporary artist and children's book author and illustrator who lives in Denmark.

She is the daughter of artist Aka Høegh and the sister of artist Inuk Silis-Høegh.

Silis-Høegh is best known for her Haveforeningen Sisimiut 2068 piece on climate change. Her 2014 children's book Aima qaa schhh! was nominated for a Nordic Council Children and Young People’s Literature Prize.

In 2015 and 2016 she toured with two exhibits, both reflecting on uranium mining in Greenland.

Early life and education Silis-Høegh was born in 1981 in Qaqortoq, Greenland to Latvian photographer and videographer father Ivars Silis and Greenlandic artist Aka Hoegh.

Art career Silis-Høegh works as a contemporary artist in multiple mediums which combines American pop culture with traditional Greenlandic cultural influences.

She first exhibited outside Greenland in 2005 at The North Atlantic House where her exhibit Den røde snescooter (English: The Red Snowmobile) was displayed alongside other Greenlandic artists. The piece won a Danish Arts Foundation award in 2010. Also in 2016, her exhibition STORM was shown at Nordatlantens Brygge; the exhibit included themes of anger, politics, and environmentalism.

Publications Silis-Høegh published her first children's book Aima in 2011 Aima qaa schhh (English, Danish, Greenlandic) Milk Publishing, 2014 Aima meets the Mother of the Mountain (English, Danish, Greenlandic) Milk Publishing, 2020,

Personal life In 2014, Silis-Høegh lived in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, Denmark with her husband and their two children.