born 1978 in Elverum, Norway
lives and works in Berlin
EDUCATION
2003-2004 : MFA, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design
2002 : BFA, California Institute of the Arts
1998-2001 : Glasgow School of Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo (upcoming / November)
Insert, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn
2009
Fountain, Circus, Berlin
abc – def ‘drafts establishing future’ (public art projects for urban space), Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Open Space, Art Cologne, with Circus, Berlin
2005
Stragedy, Art2102 (with O. A. Biddle), Los Angeles
2000
Untitled (sound Installation), public art project, Queen Street Station, Glasgow
1999
Re-Interruption, public art project, Glasgow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Berlin Box, curated by Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Centro Cultural Andratx
2009
Momentum – 5th Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art
2008
Building Paradise curated by Kyungmi Shin (with Jen Liu), 7+Fig Art Space, Los Angeles
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things (with Spartacus Chetwynd), Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Schloss Bartenstein, Bartenstein, curated by Margherita Hohenlohe
The Norwegian Drawing Biennial, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2007
Inky Toy Affinitas, Cerealart Projectroom, Philadelphia
Bookish Relations, Anna-Catharina Gebbers / Bibliothekswohnung, Berlin
Brennschluss, Andreas Huber Gallery, Vienna
2006
Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue, London
2005
Modified Uniforms, curated by Silke Taprogge, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
2004
Restless Looks, Gallery Schaufenster, Oslo
SV 04, Studio Voltaire, London
2003
Emergence, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
RESIDENCIES
2009
Office of Contemporary Art residency, Berlin
2004-05
Winter residency, Art2102, Los Angeles
GRANTS
2009
Norske Billedkunsteres Vederlagfond
2008
Billedkunstnernes Vederlagfond
2007
Schive og Hustrus legat
PRESS / REVIEWS
2010
Kaleidoscope magazine, text by Melissa Gronlund, issue 05, February–March 2010
PUBLICATIONS
2009
abc – def ‘drafts establishing future’ (public art projects for urban space), Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2009 (catalogue)
2008
Flash Art, October 2008 (text by Maximilian Mugler)
Tegnebiennalen / Drawing Biennial, Norway; catalogue (text by Maximilian Mugler)
2007
Pilot; catalogue and website, nominated by Wolfgang Tillmans
2006
Beck’s Futures, published by ICA, London (text by Stuart Comer)
2004
Nesten, anthology of young Norwegian artists, Aschehoug, Oslo (project)
2002
Trepan Magazine, Los Angeles (drawings)
Jack Goldstein, Paintings from the 1980s, X-tra, vol. 5, no. 4 (article)