BIO
Solveig Settemsdal lives and works in London and Norway. She is a graduate of MFA Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art (2018) and did a BA in Fine Art Painting & Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art (2010).
She was awarded first place in the Jerwood Drawing Prize for her video work Singularity (2016).
Select exhibitions include As Far As My Eye Can See - The Expediton Exhibition with REV Ocean, Bomuldsfabrikken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway (2021) Entanglements in Time, Lewisham Arthouse, London (2021) CURRENTS New Media Festival, Santa Fe, New Mexico (2021) Entangle, Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden (2019) AI: Das Andere Ich, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria (2017) Sonica at CCA, Glasgow (2017) Drawing Biennial at Drawing Room, London (2017) Høstutstillingen, Statens Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway (2014) Shadow Optics, Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery, London (2016) A Solid Above, Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham (2016).
Settemsdal’s practice moves through sculpture, drawing, painting, video, sound and photography. She is fascinated by the mutability of object and medium, and our indescribable and often impossible relationship to our environment. She questions cornerstones of ideas and objects, looking at how these transform over time.
AWARDS
1st Place, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016
Sarabande Emerging Artist Award 2018
Stanbury Scholarship Prize 2018
BOISE Travel Scholarship 2019
COLLECTIONS
REV Ocean, Oslo 2019
DLA Piper, London 2018
AS FAR AS MY EYE CAN SEA – The Expedition Exhibition / REV Ocean
Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
June 2021
CURRENTS New Media Festival
Santa Fe, New Mexico
12 - 21 June 2021
THE FAKEWHALE COLLECTION
curated by Jesse Draxler, Valuart Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
December 2021
with Bart Hajduk, Christopher Taylor, Jasmin Märker, Kristina Pulejkova, Margo Trushina, Solveig Settemsdal and Yambe Tam, curated by Kristine Tan and Mariana Lemos.
Lewisham Arthouse, London
August 2021
YELLOWFIELDS
with Olivia Bax, Nika Neelova and Linda Brothwell
Standpoint Gallery
17th OCT 2020
ZEITGEBER: Solveig Settemsdal & Andrew Sunderland
Gossamer Fog, London
AUG 29TH - 25TH OCT 2020
Review by Chris Fite-Wassilak for Art Agenda
Stillpoint Magazine issue 004: APOCALYPSE
https://stillpointmag.org/issue/004-apocalypse/
Oceanic Feelings
Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
October - November 2019
Songs of the Sirens
Caraboo Projects, Bristol
PV 6th June
8th June - 7th July 2019
Slade BOISE Travel Scholarship
California, April - May 2019
POOL
Solo Residency Exhibition, Unit 1 Gallery London, January 2019
Featured: COS/Things
Spectacular Nature / COS Coal Drops Yard
King's Cross, London
November 2018 - February 2019
ENTANGLE / Physics and The Artistic Imagination
Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
16th Nov 2018 - 14th April 2019
Slade School Degree Show
UCL, Gower St, London
7th - 17th June 2018
Review by Elephant Magazine, July 2018
MESH
Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden
11th May - 3rd June 2018
Sonica 2018
Kings Place, London
20 & 21 April 2018
Imagine
Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Australia
6th January - 18th March 2018
Disobey/Dystopia II
The Yard, Hackney Wick
18th November 2017
ENCLAVE
Green Dale Fields, East Dulwich
28th - 30th October 2017
Sonica Festival
CCA, Glasgow
26th October - 5th November 2017
Ars Electronica: AI - Das Andere Ich
POSTCITY, Linz, Austria
7 - 11 September 2017
Drawing Biennial 2017
Drawing Room, Bermondsey, London
PV 1st March, open 2nd March - 26th April 2017
Operation Skye
Test Space International
Kilmuir, North Skye, Scotland 23 - 26 Jan 2017
Reference Mollusk
Gossamer Fog, Deptford, London
PV 25th November 6-9 pm, open 26th Nov - 18th Dec 2016
Shadow Optics
Lubomirov/Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
PV 2nd September, open 3rd Sept - 24th Sept 2016
A Solid Above with Jo Lathwood
Hardwick Gallery, Cheltenham
PV 29th September, Open 30th Sept - 20th Oct 2016
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016
Jerwood Space, London
PV 13th September, open 14th Sept - 23rd Oct
Singularity
with Kathy Hinde
Part of Ritual in Transfigured Time
Milton Court, Barbican, London
Private View 27th May 2016
Parameter
Edwardian Cloakrooms, Bristol
23rd - 25th October 2015
Epilelesthai
Test Space, Spike Island
23rd January - 8th February 2015
Høstutstillingen
13 September - 12 October 2014
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Revolve:R at Choisi Gallery
July 2014, Lugano, Switzerland
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Press/Texts
Review of Singularity at the Cheltenham Festival by 5:4
Review of Epilelesthai by Trevor H Smith
Download Epilelesthai exhibition text by Milo Newman
Crack in the Road Artist Profile: Solveig Settemsdal by Charlotte Cousins
