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Gardar Eide Einarsson
Gardar Eide Einarsson was born in 1976 in Oslo and currently lives and works in Tokyo. He received his education from the National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen; Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Kunste - Städelschule - Frankfurt and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in New York City.
Solo shows include ARoS Aarhus Art Museum; Bergen Kunsthall; Frankfurter Kunstverein; Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art; Reykjavik Art Museum; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm and Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel.
He has also exhibited in venues including Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna; Kunsthalle Wien; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; MoMA PS1; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo; MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Vigo; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto; Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Istanbul Museum of Modern Art; Palais de Tokyo, Paris and Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art and has participated in the Whitney Biennial, the Istanbul Biennial and the Sydney Biennial among others. Einarsson’s work is represented in a number of public collections including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles; Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (LA MoCA), Los Angeles; SFMoMA San Fransisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Fransisco; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley; Museum for Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (MMK), Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Malmö Art Museum, Malmoe; Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo and the Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo.
Gardar Eide Einarsson’s work has been covered in Artforum, Frieze, Flash Art, Modern Painters, Art Review, ArtUS, Texte Zur Kunst, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, ViIllage Voice, The Guardian, Interview, L’Officiel, Black Book, Vogue Hommes, Vogue Hommes Nippon, Details, Tokion, Purple Fashion and V Magazine among others.
