Cecilia Stenbom
Biography
Born 1976 Stockholm, Sweden
1999 - 2003 BA (hons) Fine Art, Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki, Finland
2003 - 2005 MFA Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010
Homeland Security, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2006
Daily Escapes, MUU Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2002
They don't know we're faking it, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2012
Happy Fashion, Perugia, Italy
Festival for Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
2011
NADA Art Fair, Miami
ROTATE, Contemporary Art Society & Shortlist Media, London
Moving Image, New York, USA, with Workplace Gallery
2010
Classic of the Month - Daily Escapes I-III, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland.
2009
13th Media Art Biennale, WRO 09 Expanded City, Wroclaw, Poland
Trickle-down Theory - If I get 10 Lexus SUV's, you might get a pair of Flip-Flops, Korjaamo, Helkinski, Finland.
The Public Realm Project, Curated by /sLab, Sunderland, UK
2008
TOMORROW THE FUTURE, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
All my favourite singers couldn't sing, Workplace Gallery, UK
Connecting Principles, Culture Lab, Newcastle, UK
Breslau CV Rydek, Wroclaw, Poland
King Fisher's Tales, Union Gallery. London, UK
2007
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2006
Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki, Finland
Formal Dining, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Blue Star Red Wedge, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
The Space in-between the Sole and the Heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
2005
Glasgow/Beijing, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Exit Strategy, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
RCCA Spring Animal Show, Park Circus, Glasgow, UK
2004
Leisure Paintings, Leisure Projects, Montreal, Canada
The Games We Play, Magyar Képzömüvészeti Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
RCCA Spring Animal Show, Park Circus, Glasgow, UK
2003
Extracts, Akademijos galerijoje, Vilnius, Lithuania
When Subjectivity Meets Reality, Gallery 3:14, Bergen, Norway
2002
One Day Stands, ID:I Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Crowd Pleasers, The San Francisco Art Institute and Academy of Fine Arts, San Fransisco U.S.A. and Helsinki, Finland
Selected Screenings
2010
Carte Blanche AV-Arkki, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Franfurt, Germany
Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi, Finland
2008
Pikinen Polku, Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
Beyond Film, Durham, UK
VIEW 08, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland
Propeller TV Screening of "Search & Destroy", UK
2007
Tampere Filmfestival, Tampere, Finland
View 07, Andora Cinema, Helsinki, Finland
Sasion Video, Series of screenings organized by Espaice Croise, Roubaix France
Little Jewel Cinema, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2006
VIEW 06, Korjaamo Helsinki. Finland.
2005
Love Bites - Rakkaus puree, Helsinki International Film festival, Kiasma, Helsinki
Urban Flesh and Blood, International Video Festival Pusto Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia, Prodajna Galerija, Belgrade, Serbia and Barricades, Kaliningrad, Russia, Curated by The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts
Artificial Life, Aspex gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Traveling 16, The Rennes Film Festival, Rennes, France
VIEW05, Andora Cinema, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Kosova Festival, Prishtina Museum, Kosovo
World Video Art Festival, NOASS Gallery, Riga, Lativa
Mixed Tape, Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
Mediawawe, Györ, Hungary
Tampere Filmfestival, Tampere, Finland
View04, Andora Cinema, Helsinki, Finland
Awards, Commissions and Residencies
2010
ISIS Arts, artist in residence, Newcastle, UK
2007
/slab, artist in residence, Sunderland University, UK
Lounge Art, video commission, commissioned by Wansbeck Council, Northumbria, UK
2005
Grants for the Arts Scheme for Individual Artists, Arts Council England, UK
2002
Project Grant, Taiteen Keskustoimikunta, Finland
Bibliography
2009
Expanded City, WRO 09, 13th Media Art Bianalle publication, Poland
2008
AV-arkki 2008, published by AV-arkki, Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, Finland
ISBN 978-952-99328-4-9
2007
Saison Video 2007, Issue 31, France
2006
AV-arkki 2006, published by AV-arkki, Distribution Centre for Finnish Media Art, Finland
ISBN 952-99328-2-0
Daily Escapes I-III, Taide, Hanna Maria Anttila #3/2006, Finland
degrees unedited, A-N, May issue, 2006
L'ennui/Boredom, 2006 ISBN 2-951 8005-2-5, France
Nothern Lights, Dazed and Confused,Issue 34 February 2006, UK
2005
Exit Strategy, Hiscox MFA Glasgow Degree Show catalogue, ISBN 0 901904 44 9, UK
2004
Everyday Conversations, Pirjetta Brander, Taide, #3/2004, Finland
A Tale of an iPod or how/why I spend £299 on a technical device, Cecilia Stenbom, Published by Shoal of Mackerel, ISBN 0-9547347-0-X, UK
2002
Katri Vala Happy Birthday (Alexandra Mir, Editor) Gavin Brown's Enterprise, N.Y.