Gardar Eide Einarsson

Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture.^[1][2]

Education

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• Einar Granum School of Fine Art, Oslo, 1994–1996
• National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, 1996-2000
• Staatliche Hochschule fur Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, 1999–2000
• Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, 2001–2002
• Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture and Urban Studies Program, New York, 2002–2003
• Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 2002–2003

Public collections

• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
• Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Malmo Art Museum, Malmo
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway
• Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany^[3]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Flagwaste, TEAM, New York City, New York, 2018
• Rawhide Down, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2018 Archived 2018-09-25 at the Wayback Machine
• "SHTF", Team Gallery, Venice, CA, USA, 2016^[4]
• "Distinct Functionation Layers Establish Hierarchy and Order", Galleri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, DK, 2016^[5]
• "FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2015^[6]
• "A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy",
  ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015^[7]
• "Motivation: A Study of Action", Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2014[8]
• "He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.",
  Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2014^[9]
• "Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2012[10]
• "In The Dust of This Planet", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2012^[11]
• "Art | 42 | Basel | Unlimited", June 2011, Basel, Switzerland, 2011^[12]
• "Another Modern Moment Completed", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2010^[13]
• "Judge", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2007^[14]
• "Art | 37 | Basel | Statements", Basel, Switzerland, 2006^[15]
• "leashed or confined", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2005^[16]

Special projects

• Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs, Bergen Kunsthall, 2013
• Power Has a Fragrance, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2011
• Power Has a Fragrance, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2011
• Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008
• South of Heaven, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany), 2007

Residencies

• IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004
• Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2002–03
• NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, 2001

Solo publications

• Conservator's Notes, At Last Books, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018
• The Mess, Karma, New York, USA, 2014
• Stainless Steel/ Fluorescent Pink, Rathole Books, Tokyo, Japan, 2014
• Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation Des Weltuntergangs, Bergan Kunsthall, and Sternberg Press, Norway, 2013
• Power Has a Fragrance, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway, 2011
• South of Heaven, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007

Catalogues

• Kvaran, Gunnar; Ueland, Hanne Beate and Årbu, Grete (ed.): Lights On!, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art / Skira, Oslo, 2008
• Huldisch, Henriette and Momin, Shamim M.: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2008
• Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: South of Heaven, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007
• Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: Long Haired and Freaky People Need Not Apply, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2004
• Art For the People, Riksutstillinger, Bergen Kunsthall a.o, Norway, 2003
• CMYK/Greyscale, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, 2002
• Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK, 2002
• Esplanaden, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002
• Audit, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’ Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2001
• Kosmos, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 2001
• Osculum Infame, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Iceland, 2001
• Schpaa, Bergen Kunstforening/ Bergen Kunsthall/ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen/
• Bergen, Denmark/Norway, 2001
• Festival Junge Talente, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 2000
• Momentum- Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, 2000

Published work

• Bunch of Motherfuckers: Unfinished Individuation and Meshworks of Equivalence, The Vital Coincidence, Walther Koenig Verlag, Cologne, 2004
• Lars Von Trier, Something is going to happen, Frotté Factory, Oslo, 2004
• You Just Don’t Get it Dad, So Fuck Off, The Academy and the Corporate Public, Permanent Press Verlag, Cologne, 2004
• Hardcore, Self-organization and Alternativity, We Are All Normal- Nordic Artist Writings, NIFCA, Copenhagen/ Helsinki, 2004
• Oh My What A Dazzling Display, The Mock Commodity Fetishism of Klaus Thejl Jacobsen, Galleri Nicolai Wallner Notes on Asskissing & Corporate Strategies of the *RAF, Corporate Mentality, Lukas and Sternberg, New York, 2004
• Total Revolution, True Lies, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2004
• Rotation a NIFCA Project in Media Space, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/Morgenbladet, Oslo/Helsinki, 2001
• Terje Nicolaisen’s Deriving Practice, Terje Nicolaisen, Tegneforbundet, Oslo, 2001
• Billedkunst Magazine, regular critic and member of editorial board Publication Series for Oslo Kunsthall, editor, 2001
• Metronome, Frankfurt/Main a.o., 2000
• UKS Forum For Samtidskunst 1/2 2000, guest editor, 2000

References