Kier Cooke Sandvik (b. 1987, Stavanger, Norway)
Education
2019-21 MFA program, Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
2016-19 BFA program, Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo
2006-08 Strykejernet, Oslo
Solo / duo exhibitions:
2022 Hide and seek / Each is good in his own house and garden, Loftet at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, with Mari Eriksen
2021 Surged, Haus Der Kunst, Oslo
2019 Cold Son, Breadbox Contemporary, Oslo
Group exhibitions, selected
2023 Two Plus Two Makes Four, The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough
2023 TBA, Galleri Box, Gothenburg (upcoming)
2022 Oslo Negativ, Det Gamle Biblioteket, Oslo, representing Podium
2022 Extremophile, Podium, Oslo
2022 Oslo City nr. 7, BO, Oslo
2021 Entitet, Ekeberg Skulturpark, Oslo
2021 Klubb ERGI, ERGI
2021 Gatitas, Katten, Oslo
2020 Solstice Countdown, Destiny's, Oslo
2020 Cherry Blossom Collective, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Morello Collective, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Post, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Spore, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2019 BFA graduation show, Ila Pensjonat, Oslo
2018 Borgen Museum -& Co, Borgen museum, Hvittingfoss
2015 Out of Order, NMNP Project Space, Stavanger
2015 Ripperz, VAU Project Space, Glasgow
2015 Make Windows Where There Are Walls, Notting Hill Arts Club, London
2014 Unshelling and Shelling Again, Kunsthall Stavanger and Diorama, Oslo, curated by Eirik Sæther
2011 The Weaklings, Five Years, London, curated by Dennis Cooper
2009 The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, selected by Josh Smith
Curation
2022 Hage till Hage no. 6, Oslo, in collaboration with Iris Bengtsson
2022 Hage till Hage, Destiny's, Oslo, in collaboration with Iris Bengtsson
Grants
2021 FKDS studio grant at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2021 Kulturrådet diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere
2018 FKDS grant for the development of artistic practice
Other, selected
2024 This øy will eventually take me, publication project with Stan D'Haene, Tenthaus Publishing (upcoming)
2023 Artist's book published by Take Ten Press (upcoming)
2023 Edition of lithography posters released alongside the Brazilian Portuguese translation of The Voidoid by Richard Hell, Grafatorio
Publishers (upcoming)
2022 Artwork for the cover of Paul Curran's novel Generation Bloodbath, Apocalypse Party Press
2021 Artwork for the cover of Dennis Cooper's novel I Wished, Soho Press, USA
2018 Original artwork for Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley's feature film Permanent Green Light, France
2010 Artist's book There's Something Down There published by 38th Street Publishers, USA
2009 Illustrations for Richard Hell’s novel The Voidoid, published by 38th Street Publishers, USA
2009-12 Self-published comic zine Meat Boys with Ottar Karlsen (issues 1-5)
2006-10 Self-published zine Flesh World (issues 1-5)