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.

Education

 * 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

Solo exhibitions

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

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