Biography

Born 1980 in Tønsberg, Norway
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden

Education

2009-2010: Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm (Guest Student Programme)
2008-2010: National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo (MA)
2005-2008: National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo (BA)
2004-2005: Oslo School of Drawing and Painting
2002-2004: Einar Granum School of Art, Oslo
2000-2001: University of Oslo, Art History Studies

Solo exhibitions

2013

Here Are Your Fucking Balloons, Entrée, Bergen (upcoming)

Idiot Cards for a Bygone Revolt, NoPlace, Oslo (upcoming)

2007

Various Moments of Escape, Galleri 21:25, Oslo

Selected group exhibitions

2012

Group exhibition (upcoming, title TBA) curated by Jan Freuchen

Kristiansand Kunsthall, Kristiansand

2011

Word Perfect, NoPlace, Oslo
Unfinished Analogies, Konsthall C, Stockholm
Transit Vestfold, Haugar Vestfold Art Museum, Tønsberg

2010

En Vegg av Lyd 2010, Poster invitational for Øyafestivalen (Øya Music Festival), Oslo
The Mistaken Majority, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm
Avgangsutstillingen (MA degree show), Stenersen Museum Oslo
Depattern, Galleri Erik Steen, Oslo

2009

Sympathy for the Devil, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Part of Kunstakademiet 100 år
You Know These Days Painted by Umbrellas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
Part of Kunstakademiet 100 år

2008

Ad Hoc, Quasibar/Onenightonly, Oslo
Avgangsutstillingen (BA degree show), Stenersen Museum, Oslo

2007

Obergeschoss Dritter Finger Rechts, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

2006

The Summer Destruction Show, Seilduksfabrikken, Oslo

Commissions

2008
Aase Byggadministrasjon, Oslo

Grants

2011

Statens diversestipend for kunstnere

Published texts (in Norwegian)

Hollywood på lerret (Hollywood on Canvas), an interview with Ed Ruscha published in D2 (weekend supplement for Norwegian financial newspaper), 04-06-2011. Written in collaboration with Johanne Nordby Wernø

Marginale refleksjoner: om peking som kunstnerisk virkemiddel (Marginal Reflections: On the act of pointing as artistic strategy), excerpt from MA-thesis published in the annual yearbook for National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo, september 2010.

Diverse Mirakler: om ordet som objekt hos David Foster Wallace og Ed Ruscha (Various Miracles: On the word as object in the works of David Foster Wallace and Ed Ruscha), published in Vinduet (Norwegian literary periodical), issue no. 1, 2011, Gyldendal Forlag.

Bibliography

2011

Best of Vestfold

Ingrid Pettersen, Kunstforum/www.kunstforum.as, 08.04.2011, http://www.kunstforum.as/2011/04/best-of-vestfold/

På Gjennomreise

Grethe Hald, Tønsbergs Blad s. 5, 06.04.2011, http://tb.no/kultur/pa-gjennomreise-1.6153200

”Transit Vestfold” på Haugar

Byavisa Tønsberg, s.17, uke 11 2011, http://www.thetabook.no/b/byavisatb/320

Vestfold i Transittt

Erik Munsterhjelm, Tønsbergs Blad Fredag, s. 10, 18.03.2011,

http://tb.no/kultur/noe-av-det-mest-dynamiske-vi-har-vist-1.6110069

2010

Mønstergyldig Utstilling

Line Ulekleiv, www. kunstkritikk.no, 08.02.2010, http://www.kunstkritikk.no/kritikk/monstergyldig-utstilling/