Gardar Eide Einarsson (born January 12, 1976) is a Norwegian-born artist who lives and works in Tokyo and New York City. His work encompasses installation, printmaking, painting and sculpture. Einarsson participated on a 2006 group show entitled, War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You), which included fellow heavy-metal nihilistic artists. The show included a black rhombus painting entitled ''For Steven Parrino / FTW (Dark Matter)'' made by Einarsson, in collaboration with

Banks Violette Banks Violette (born 1973) is an artist based in Ithaca, New York. Biography Violette was born in Ithaca, New York, Ithaca, New York (state), New York and studied at the School of the Visual Arts in New York earning at BFA in 1998, and graduate ...

, and dedicated to the influential dead artist Steven Parrino.War on 45 / My Mirrors are Painted Black (For You)
Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York NY, June 29 – September 2, 2006. Retrieved February 7, 2025.

Education

*Einar Granum School of Fine Art, Oslo, 1994–1996 *National Academy of Fine Art, Bergen, 1996-2000 *Staatliche Hochschule fur Fine Arts - Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main, 1999–2000 *Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Studio Program, New York, 2001–2002 *Cooper Union School of Architecture, Architecture and Urban Studies Program, New York, 2002–2003 *Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, 2002–2003

Public collections

*Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway *Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley *Los Angeles County Museum of Art *Malmo Art Museum, Malmo *Moderna Museet, Stockholm *Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles *Museum of Modern Art, New York *Norwegian National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway *Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''Flagwaste, TEAM, New York City, New York, 2018'' * ''Rawhide Down, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2018'' *"SHTF",

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, Venice, CA, USA, 2016 *"Distinct Functionation Layers Establish Hierarchy and Order", Galleri Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, DK, 2016 *"FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2015 *"A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy", ARoS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark, 2015 *"Motivation: A Study of Action", Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway, 2014 *"He likes the fiestas. He likes the music. He likes to dance.", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2014 *"Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2012 *"In The Dust of This Planet", Maureen Paley gallery, London, UK, 2012 *"Art , 42 , Basel , Unlimited", June 2011, Basel, Switzerland, 2011 *"Another Modern Moment Completed", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2010 *"Judge", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2007 *"Art , 37 , Basel , Statements", Basel, Switzerland, 2006 *"leashed or confined", Team Gallery, New York City, USA, 2005

Special projects

*Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs, Bergen Kunsthall, 2013 *Power Has a Fragrance, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, 2011 *Power Has a Fragrance, Reykjavik Art Museum, 2011 *Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008 *South of Heaven, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (Germany), 2007

Residencies

*IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004 *Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2002–03 *NIFCA Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Suomenlinna, Helsinki, Finland, 2001

Solo publications

*Conservator's Notes, At Last Books, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018 *The Mess, Karma, New York, USA, 2014 *Stainless Steel/ Fluorescent Pink, Rathole Books, Tokyo, Japan, 2014 *Gardar Eide Einarsson, Versuchsstation Des Weltuntergangs, Bergan Kunsthall, and Sternberg Press, Norway, 2013 *Power Has a Fragrance, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway, 2011 *South of Heaven, Revolver, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007

Catalogues

*Kvaran, Gunnar; Ueland, Hanne Beate and Årbu, Grete (ed.): Lights On!, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art / Skira, Oslo, 2008 *Huldisch, Henriette and Momin, Shamim M.: The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2008 *Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: South of Heaven, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2007 *Einarsson, Gardar Eide and Keller, Christoph: Long Haired and Freaky People Need Not Apply, Revolver Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 2004 *Art For the People, Riksutstillinger, Bergen Kunsthall a.o, Norway, 2003 *CMYK/Greyscale, Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland, 2002 *Strike, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK, 2002 *Esplanaden, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2002 *Audit, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’ Art Contemporain, Luxembourg, 2001 *Kosmos, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden, 2001 *Osculum Infame, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Iceland, 2001 *Schpaa, Bergen Kunstforening/ Bergen Kunsthall/ Den Frie Udstilling, Copenhagen/ *Bergen, Denmark/Norway, 2001 *Festival Junge Talente, Offenbach am Main, Germany, 2000 *Momentum- Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss, Norway, 2000

Published work

*Bunch of Motherfuckers: Unfinished Individuation and Meshworks of Equivalence, The Vital Coincidence, Walther Koenig Verlag, Cologne, 2004 *Lars Von Trier, Something is going to happen, Frotté Factory, Oslo, 2004 *You Just Don’t Get it Dad, So Fuck Off, The Academy and the Corporate Public, Permanent Press Verlag, Cologne, 2004 *Hardcore, Self-organization and Alternativity, We Are All Normal- Nordic Artist Writings, NIFCA, Copenhagen/ Helsinki, 2004 *Oh My What A Dazzling Display, The Mock Commodity Fetishism of Klaus Thejl Jacobsen, Galleri Nicolai Wallner Notes on Asskissing & Corporate Strategies of the *RAF, Corporate Mentality, Lukas and Sternberg, New York, 2004 *Total Revolution, True Lies, Pork Salad Press, Copenhagen, 2004 *Rotation a NIFCA Project in Media Space, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art/Morgenbladet, Oslo/Helsinki, 2001 *Terje Nicolaisen’s Deriving Practice, Terje Nicolaisen, Tegneforbundet, Oslo, 2001 *Billedkunst Magazine, regular critic and member of editorial board Publication Series for Oslo Kunsthall, editor, 2001 *Metronome, Frankfurt/Main a.o., 2000 *UKS Forum For Samtidskunst 1/2 2000, guest editor, 2000

References

External links

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