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Katarina Lundgren, born in Stockholm 1978

Education

2015-2016 PAB, The Photographic Artist’s Book, Capture and Disseminate, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
2014-2015 Photography and videoart history, Konstfack, University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.
2010-2012 Graphic Management Program, GI, Stockholm University.
2010-2011 Mejan Arc. Textilism, Postgraduate course, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
2009 Artistic Research, Postgraduate course, Konstfack, University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.
2009 Södertörn University, studies in the history of ideas. Course, Creativity and creative problem solving, Stockholm.
2001-2006 MFA, Valand College of Fine Arts, Gothenburg.
2003-2004 The Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm.
2000-2001 Orebro Art Collage, preparatory art studies, Örebro.
1999-2000 Nyckelviksskolan, preparatory art studies, Stockholm.
1999-2000 Uppsala University, studies in aesthetics, Uppsala.
1997-1999 Stockholm University, studies in art history, literature and astronomy, Stockholm.

Exhibitions and artistic practice

2016
Artists as Independent Publishers, Sala Terrena, Vienna, Austria.
Artists as Independent Publishers, Royal Collage of Art, London, England.
Stockholm Art Book Fair 2016, Mindepartementet Art and Photography, Stockholm.
Artists as Independent Publishers, Rom8, Vaskerelven 8, Bergen, Norway.
Open Air Art Book Fair, Långholmen, Stockholm.
PAB, The Photographic Artist’s Book, Capture and Disseminate, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Artists as Independent Publishers, Zentrum für Künstlerpublikationen, Weserburg Museum Bremen, Germany.
After the book, symposium on the Swedish Artist Books, the City Library, Linköping University, Linköping.

2015
Tensta Museum Continues, Stockholm County Museum in Sickla.
Public commission, Permanent installation, Familjeläkarjouren and Lungkliniken, Gävle Sjukhus.
Excursion to the Ullna tip, part of the EVA Exhibition, Arninge Stockholm.
EVA Exhibition, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Competition for ideas on art and architecture in the urban environment, Stockholm.

2014
Skymning på toppen, Video program and walk on Högdalstoppen curated by Parallellogram, Cyklopen Cultural Center, Högdalen, Stockholm.
Release of the publication Artists in the Air, Reside in a Drop Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm.
Survival Kit Festival 6, Utopian City, Latvian Centre of Contemporary Art (LCCA), Riga, Latvia.
Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden, group show, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm.

2013
Stockholm’s tips and tops, Stockholm City Museum, solo exhibition, part of the exhibition Tensta Museum: Reports from New Sweden.
Tensta Photo Club, a photography project for girls, Tensta konsthall, Stockholm.
Tensta-Torsby, photography project for girls in Tensta and Torsby in collaboration with Wärmlands Museum and Tensta konsthall, Stockholm and Torsby.
Art Camp, photography workshop for youths at Tensta konsthall, Stockholm.

2012
Whose salon, Group exhibition, Gallery Rotor, Gothenburg.
AIR-Drop, Looking for somewhere to land, Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm.
AIR-Drop, Where we are not, 5533 Istanbul, Turkey.

2011
Textilism, Group exhibition, Mindepartementet, Stockholm.
Art Camp, photography workshop for youths at Tensta konsthall, Stockholm.
Float All in Windows, Group exhibition, Slakthusateljéerna, Stockholm.

2010
And so forth, Group exhibition, Örebro county museum, Örebro.
Few people have ever doubted that happiness is very important, solo exhibition, Gallery 54, Gothenburg.

2009
Group exhibition, Konstfack University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.
The Last Resort of Ethnicity, solo exhibition at the photography biennial Fotografi i fokus, Pictura Gallery, Lund.
Video program, Göteborgs Konsthall, in connection with the exhibition Seven Chapters, Gothenburg.

2008
Broken English and the Missing Piece, video festival, Hannover, Germany.
Broken English and the Missing Piece, video festival, Gothenburg.
Tell a Friend, Group exhibition Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.

2007
Nightcomers, video program at the 10th Istanbul biennale, curated by Ovul Durmusoglu, Marcus Graf, Borga Kanturk, Pelin Uran and Adnan Yildiz, Istanbul, Turkey.
Video program, 52nd International Venice Biennale at PS1/PAN boat, curated by Edi Muka, Venice, Italy.
Everything we want to know but did not dare to ask, group exhibition T.I.C.A, Tirana, Albania.
Spring salon, group exhibition, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm.
Open house at Iaspis, group exhibition, Stockholm.

2006
Group exhibition, DOGA, Norsk design og arkitektur centrum, Oslo, Norway.
Group exhibition, DNA 2006, Malmö.
Art Copenhagen, DNA 2006, Forum Copenhagen, Denmark.
Group exhibition, Studio 44, Stockholm.
MFA Valand College of Fine Arts graduates, group exhibition, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg.
Master graduation show, Gallery Rotor, Gothenburg.

2005
Lost in Translation, Antrepo 5, 9th international Istanbul biennial, Istanbul, Turkey.
I Got Swinging Doors, solo exhibition, Transit, Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg.
Europudding, group exhibition, Gallery Blunk, Trondheim, Norway.

2004
This is not a film, art film festival, Clarion Hotel, Stockholm.
Annexet, group exhibition, Royal College of Fine Arts, Stockholm.

2003
Gallery Box / The Garden Association, solo exhibition, Gothenburg.

2002
Gallery Rotor 2, group exhibition, Gothenburg.
Gallery Cosmopolitan, group exhibition, Gothenburg.

Collaborations

2011- AIR-Drop Stockholm/Istanbul, Slakthusateljéerna in collaboration with 5533. AIR-Drop is an artist-run residency program housed by Slakthusateljéerna Studio Association in Stockholm.The residency is funded by Framtidens Kultur and supported by Iaspis. More information on www.air-drop.se

Residencies

2007 TICA, Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art, 1 April - 1 June, Tirana, Albania.
2006 Iaspis, 1 October 2006 - 31 March 2007, Stockholm.

Grants

2015 Two year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Visual Arts Fund
2014 Iaspis, International cultural exchange, exhibition abroad
2014 Nordic Culture Point, Mobility programme
2013 Stiftelsen Ellen Keys Strand, residency grant
2012 Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden
2011 Iaspis, International cultural exchange, collaborative project AIR-Drop
2009 Helge Ax:son Johnson, travelling grant
2008 One year working grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Visual Arts Fund
2007 Iaspis, International cultural exchange, residency grant
2007 Helge Ax:son Johnson, travelling grant
2006 Eric Ericson
2006 Otto och Charlotta Mannheimer
2005 Otto och Charlotta Mannheimer
2004 Gålöstiftelsen
2001 Makarna Lundgrens donation

Awards

2006 Winner of Diesel New Art Photo