Biography:

Eva Drangsholt lives in Oslo, Norway, and works mainly with experimental art videos and video installations. Her creations come across as profoundly moving, but sometimes also quite disturbing, as she erects perceptual platforms for dissecting and testing psychological and sociological issues. Subjects are often presented through the use of archetypes, and the experiences of identification and estrangement.

Curriculum Vitae

Art Education:

• 2006 – 2008: Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• 2003 – 2006: Bachelor in Fine Art, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Department of Fine Art (Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen, avd. Kunstakademiet), Bergen, Norway.
• 2002 – 2003: Foundation Fine Art, Oslo tegne- og maleskole, Oslo, Norway.

Solo Shows:

• March 2011: The New Land, the Young Artists Society - UKS, Oslo, Norway.
• April – May, 2009: The Public and Private Life of Swans, WIP:Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
• February – March, 2009: The Public and Private Life of Swans, Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, Sweden.
• January – February, 2009: The Other Side, Prosjektrommet, Galleri Trafo, Asker, Norway.
• February 2008: The Public and Private Life of Swans, Konsthögskolans galleri KHM, MFA-exhibition, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden.
• March 2005: The Tribe I Belong To, Prosjektrommet, Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Department of Fine Art (Kunsthøyskolen i Bergen, avd. Kunstakademiet), Bergen, Norway.

Live Performance:

• September 2009: Excursion To Sekhet Iaru, Gallery BOA (Billedkunstnerne i Oslo og Akershus), Oslo, Norway.
• April 2009: Det begynner nå! (It Starts Now! - The Egg Performance), Galleri Rekord, Oslo, Norway.
• November 2003: Universe And A Grain Of Rice, Landmark, Bergen, Norway.
• October 2003: Mandala - in co-operation with Verdensteateret, Teatergarasjen, Bergen, Norway.

Art Festivals, Biennals, Film Festivals, and Juryed Exhibitions:

• October 2010: Örebro International Videoart Festival 2010, video art program curated by Silvio De Gracia, Argentina , Örebro, Sweden.
• February 2010: The film All Shall Be Well is selected to be part of the video art anthology F Forum, published by Plan Z Media, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
• December 2009: Metropolis/Madatac Acquisition Award, Televisión Española (TVE), Spain.
• April – September, 2009: Sørlandsutstillingen 2009 (annually occurring juried exhibition for the southern parts of Norway). Exhibition sites: Kristiansand, Skien, and Arendal.
• January – June, 2009: Vestlandsutstillingen 2009 (annually occurring juried exhibition for the western parts of Norway). Exhibition sites: Ålesund, Førde, Stavanger, Øystese, and Haugesund.
• October 2008: Transvizualia 008: Mediascream!, The Fear Syndrome, Pomorski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny, Gdynia, Poland.
• August 2008: VIDEOPLAY 08, Centro Cultural Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• May 2008: LOOP Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain.
• October 2007: Tuscany International Film Festival Visionaria, Piombino, Italy.
• October 2007: MIVICO 07, I Mostra Internacional De Videocreacións De O Condado, Pontevedra, Spain.
• October 2007: Five International Video/Short Films, PI Performance & Intermedia Festival, Szczecin, Poland.
• September 2007: Video Art Review, the 16th European Film Festival DokumentART, Szczecin, Poland.
• May – June, 2007: Loop Film festival, Barcelona, Spain.
• December 2006: INPORT - International Video-Performance Art Festival, Tallin, Estonia.
• December 2006: TIFF '06 - Tirana International Film Festival, Tirana, Albania.
• November 2006: Phanteon Experimental 5.0, Pantheon Cultural Association, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• November 2006: III Muestra Int. de Arte Digital ORILLA#06, Museo de Arte Contempor neo, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina.
• November 2006 – March 2007: 2nd On the Road Video Festival, screenings at 119 Gallery, Lowell, Massachusetts, Busboys and Poets, Washington DC, USA, La Caxa, Barcelona, Spain.
• November 2006: LA Freewaves - 10th Biennial Film, Video and New Media Art Festival, Too Much Freedom? Los Angeles, California, USA.
• November 2006: 20th Braunschweig International Film Festival, Braunschweig, Germany.
• November 2006: FESTIVALMAU_06, Savagery and Animal Life, Associação de Músicós, Faro, Portugal.
• November 2006: Flex Film, The Second Florida Competitive Experimental Film/Video Biennial, Gainesville, Florida, USA.
• October 2006: DOCUSUR, Festival Internacional de Documentales del Sur, International Southern Documentary Film Festival, Guía de Isora, Tenerife, Spain.
• September – October 2006: Festival Internazionale del Film sull'Arte e di Biografie d'Artista 2006, Asolo International Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy.
• September 2006: 2nd annual Pixel Pops! Praha 06, C2C Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• September 2006: 5th International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia.
• August 2006: Play IV, International Video Art Festival, (In) Place Of Fear, Junín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• August 2006: 8th International Multimedia Art Festival IMAF 2006, Multimedial Art Studio, Odzaci, Serbia.
• August 2006: 4th Imaginaria Film Festival, Official Selection, Conversano, Italy.
• June 2006: Festival Images Contre Nature/P'Silo, Marseilles, France.
• June 2006: 34. Festival Der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria.
• May 2006: Anymous Performance VII, Festival Media Section, Galerie Mìsta Plznì, Pilsen, Czech Republic.
• May 2006: 16th International Video Festival Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
• May 2006: European Media Art Festival, EMAF 2006, Osnabrück, Germany.
• May 2005: Bachelorutstillingen, Kunstrom, Bergen, Norway.
• May 2006: Documenta Madrid 06, Short Films Original Documentary Section, Madrid, Spain.
• April 2006: Belle Arte Lamia 2006, Kafodeio Orfeas, Lamia, Greece.
• April 2006: 2nd Athens Video Arts Festival, Athens, Greece.
• March 2006: Silverlake Film Festival, Arclight Cinemas, Hollywood, California, USA.
• February 2006: John Skis or Sally Swims, video festival at Unge kunstneres samfunn (Young Artists' Society), UKS, Oslo, Norway.
• February – September 2006: Vestlandsutstillingen 2006 (annually occurring juried exhibition for the western parts of Norway). Exhibition sites: Haugesund, Ålesund, Florø, Stavanger, Stord, Bergen.
• February – October 2006: Art Tech Media 06, Spain. List of screenings: Feria De Arte Contemporáneo Arco 2006, The Assembly Hall, Madrid; Presidencia Gobierno de Canarias, Tenerife, The Canary Islands; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Unión Fenosa, MACUF, Coruna; Museo Vasco Artium, Vitoria; Museo Da2, Salamanca; Centro Párraga, Murcia; BilbaoArte, Bilbao; Casa Asia, Barcelona; CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporónia de Barcelona; Museo Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid.
• September 2005 – July 2007: Third Annual Eu-Stuart.si Student Intermedia Festival, organized by Artists Association Galerija GT and Famul Stuart School of Applied Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenija. Screened at Šola uporabnih umetnosti FAMUL STUART, Ljubljana, Slovenia; KUD France Preseren, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Studentska Arena - MINI KINO, Ljubljana, Slovenia; MC Dravograd, Dravograd, Slovenia; IF Museum Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland; Kukabar Club, Poznan, Poland; Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland; MMC Velenje, Velenje, Slovenia; Rdeca Ostriga, Škofja Loka, Slovenia; Šola uporabnih umetnosti FAMUL STUART, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Celica, Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Festival Videorats, Celje, Slovenia.
• October 2004: Bryant University Video Festival, Bryant University, Smithfield, Rhode Island, USA.
• September 2004: 6e Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique Montréal (MIVAEM), Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada.
• September 2004: 3rd International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk, Russia.
• February 2004: Can'art du CROUS, Petits et grands d'lires vidéographiques, Theatre Trioletto, Montpellier, France.
• November 2003: 17e Rencontres Video Art Plastique, Le Centre D'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair/Caen, France.

Group Shows and Screenings:

• May 2009: Filmsuppa, Gallery Podium, Oslo, Norway.
• March – April, 2009: Prosjekt Alvøen, Alvøen kunsthavn, Alvøen, Bergen, Norway.
• March 2009: ExhibitContainer, 10 international video artists, web gallery VISUALCONTAINER, Italy.
• October – November, 2008: Artoconecto, Miami, Florida, USA.
• September 2008: Fredagsbio, Kopenhagen Contemporary, TTC Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• June – July, 2008: Biological Imperative, Gallery Aferro, Newark, New Jersey, USA.
• December 2007: Transfera, TV program realized for Canal Autor, Madrid, Spain.
• September 2007: The Subversive Body Video Show, Raw Tactics, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, USA.
• September 2007: The Subversive Body Video Show, Raw Tactics, Melwood Screening Room in Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
• Starting June, 2007:Women Directors Cut - edition II - June'07, online film festival curated by Agricola de Cologne, Germany.
• May 2007: Members Club-messa, Galleri Bang, Bergen, Norway.
• March 2007: Connect 2007 Festival, Signal-to-Noise, Malmö, Sweden.
• March 2007: Limited Access, curator: Amirali Ghasemi, Azad Art Gallery, Theran, Iran.
• February 2007: Gallery 400, The Captivity Show, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
• February 2007: Gallery 21:24 & Gallery 21:25, Malmö - Oslo, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Faculty of Visual Art, Oslo, Norway.
• December 2006: Gallery Peep, Malmö - Oslo, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö, Sweden.
• September 2006: Cologne OFF II, Image vs Music - Edition II, online film festival curated by Agricola de Cologne, Germany.
• July 2006: State of Exception, Studio 27, San Francisco, USA.
• April 2006: Norwydeo 2, Laznia Centra for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Polen.
• March 2006: John Skis or Sally Swims, screening from the UKS' video festival at Landmark, Bergen, Norway.
• February – March 2006: Technologized Bodies / Embodied Technologies, Art Interactive Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• October 2005: NORWYDEO - an evening of Norwegian video in San Francisco, Artist Television Access (ATA), San Fransisco, USA.
• January + February 2005: Snack on Art, Time Warner Networks, weekly TV programme based in New York City, New York, USA.
• December 2004: CINE FANTOM 2 - Russian Alternative Cinema, The Red House - Centre for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria.
• November 2004: Best of the Kansk Festival 2004, video screening Club Blue Phantom, Cinema Wick, Moscow, Russia.
• October 2004: The competitive program of the 3rd International Kansk Video Festival, Studio Videodom, Moscow, Russia.

Grants:

• April 2010: Project support, Norwegian artists' union agency supporting contemporary art practices (Prosjektstøtte, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond).
• April 2010: Work grant 1-year, Norwegian artists' union agency supporting contemporary art practices (Ettårig arbeidsstipend, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond).
• December 2008: International Support, OCA - Office For Contemporary Art Norway (Norwegian governmental agency supporting contemporary art practices).
• December 2008: Exhibition support (Mobilitets stöd), Nordic Culture Point (Kulturkontakt Nord).
• November 2008: Project support, Arts Council Norway (Norsk kulturråd).
• October 2007: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).
• December 2006: International Support, OCA - Office For Contemporary Art Norway (Norwegian governmental agency supporting contemporary art practices).
• December 2006: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).
• May 2006: Travel grant, Norsk filmvederlagsfond (Norwegian governmental agency supporting film production).