MATTS LEIDERSTAM [ARTIST]

Born 1956 in Gothenburg, Sweden
Lives and works in Stockholm,
Sweden

Websites:
www.grandtourexhibition.com
www.seeandseen.net

Education:
1974-77 Pottery apprentice, Rörstrands AB, Lidköping                
1977-81 B.A of Art Education, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm               
1984-89 M.A, Valand, University of Gothenburg College of Art
1986 Royal College of Art, The Printmaking Department, London
2002-06 Ph.D, Malmö Art Academy, Lund University

Solo shows:
2007 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
Verkligheten, Umeå
2007 Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
2006 Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2005 Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
2005 DCA – Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
2005 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
2004 Minetta Brook at Cedar Grove, The Thomas Cole, National Historic Site, Catskill
2002 Rooseum – Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, (with Joao Penalva)
2001 Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
2001 Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc, New York
2001 CRAC – Centre Régional d´Art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Séte
2000 INOVA – Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1999 Moderna Museet Project at Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris
1998 Andréhn-Schiptjenko,  Stockholm
1998 Arkepilag, The Royal Coin Cabinett, Stockholm
1998 Optica – Centre for Contemporary Art, Montréal
1997 CRG Gallery, New York
1996 Nordic Art Centre, Helsinki
1996 White Columns, New York   
1995 Malmö Konstmuseum
1995 Forumgalleriet, Malmö
1994 Sandvikens Konsthall, Sandviken
1994  Olle Olsson-Huset Hagalund, Stockholm
1994 Mölndals Konsthall, Gothenburg 
1993 Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå
1992 Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
Skövde Konsthall, Skövde   
1990 Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
1989 Galleri Wallner, Malmö
1987 Subbau, Gothenburg
1987 Bio – Mellangatan 5, Gothenburg
1987 Galleri Ets Ets Ets, Umeå
1985 Galleri Rotor, Gothenburg
1985 Lidköpings Konsthall, Lidköping, (with Eva Brodin)
               
Selected Group Shows:
2007 Who’s on First, Royal Academy Schools Gallery,  Hornsey, London
2007 Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel
2007 Contemporary Scandinavian Art, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (co-organized with The Moore Space, Miami), Scottsdale
2006 Malmö Art Academy – Sopawan Boonnimitra: Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd, Matts Leiderstam: See and Seen, Miya Yoshida: 2006 Invisible Landscapes, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
2006 VAC Colección Valencia Arte Conteporáneo, IVAM, Institute Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia
2006 Icónica, Patio Herrerianeo Museo de Arte Contemporáneao Espanol, Valladolid
2006 Again for Tomorrow, CCA Royal College of Art, London
2006 Russia: Significant Other, Anna Achmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
2005 No Painting, Kunstihoone, Tallinn
2004 Falskt & Äkta, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
2003 Periferic 6 – Prophetic Corners, Iasi, Romania
2003 Watershed – Hudson River Art Project, North Dock, Bear Mountain State Park and 2003 Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, produced by Minetta Brook, New York
2003 Le Songe d’une nuit d’ete, Magasin 3 at CCS, Paris
2003 Influence, Anxiety & Gratitude, MIT-List 2003 Visual Art Center, Cambridge, USA
2003 Nostalgic Real, Müllerdechiara, Berlin
2002 Ochos relatos nórdicos, Centro Galegoi de Arte Contemporaánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2002 Collected Contemporaries, Moderna Museet C/O Klarabergsviadukten 61, Stockholm
2002 View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol
2002 Regarding Landscape, The Koffler Gallery, Toronto
2002 Exchange and Transform (Arbeits Titel), Kunstverein München
2001 Paradise In Search of a Future, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo; The Contemporary - Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
2001 The Path of Resistance - MoMA meets Moderna 1960-2000, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2001 The Society for Contemporary Art, Acquisition Finalists 2001, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago   
2001 Skifte, Malmö Konstmuseum
2001 Enduring Love, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert Inc, New York
2000 This Boy Could Be Me, Teater Replica, Stockholm
2000 The Folly, La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire, Villa Medici, Rome
2000 Edstrandska, Rooseum - Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
2000 Carnegie Art Award 2000, Konstakademien, Stockholm; Göteborgs Konstmuseum; Listsafn Kópavogs, Kópavogur, Reyjkjavik; Helsingfors Konsthall, Helsinki; Henie Onstad Art Center, Oslo; Sophienholm, Copenhagen
2000 Drömmen om ett landskap, Norrköpings Konstmuseum
2000 Painterly, 11th Vilnius Painting Triennial, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
2000 Looking Back, Bard College - Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, NY
2000 Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
1999 The Family Show, Uddevalla Konsthall; Passagen Linköpings Konsthall; Uppsala Konstmuseum
1999  Carnegie Art Award 1999, Konstakademien, Stockholm; Listsafn, Kópavogs, Reyjkjavik; Amos Andersson Konstmuseum, Helsinki; Kunstnerernas Hus, Oslo; Sophienholm, Copenhagen; Barbican Art Gallery London
1999 By the Way, IASPIS, Stockholm
1998 Touch, Museum Narodna, Poznan
1998 From The Corner of The Eye, Stedejlik Museum, Amsterdam   
1998 Spatio temporal, Magasin 3, Stockholm
1998 Transpositions, South African National Gallery, Cape Town
1998  Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz; Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen; Ludwig Museum, Budapest
1998 Studio Visit, Duende and Boijmans van Beuninger, Rotterdam
1998 A Visit from Stockholm, James van Damme Gallery, Brussels
1997 Summer Collection 1997, South London Gallery, London
1997 Deposition, The Venice Biennale
1997 Letter and Event, Apex Art, New York
1996 I am Curious - These Days, Cubitt Gallery, London   
1996 Conceal / Reveal, Site Santa Fe
1996 Jurassic Technologies Revenant, 10th Biennale of Sydney
1996 See How it Feels Like!, Rooseum, Malmö
1995 Disneyland After Dark, Uppsala 1995 Konstmuseum, Uppsala; Kunstamt Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin   
1995 The Hotel, Hotell Gustav Vasa, Stockholm                   
1995 Hello!, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm
1994 Blind Love, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1994 Park, Doktor Glas, Stockholm
1994 Rum för aktuell konst, Gothenburg
1991 Art Against Aids, Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm
1991 Galleri Ahnlund, Umeå

Projects:
2005 View Finder, a project for a newspaper, in collaboration with Borga Kanturk and Serkan Uzkaya, Radikal September 16, Istanbul
2004 Reflections of Space – a “sputnik project” for Kunstverein München, November 12-13 at Kunstverein, in the Hofgarten and at The Residence Museum, Munich
2004 Mirrored (look at the painting and the painting looks back), a project made at Retretti Art Centre, Finland in collaboration with Anders Kreuger.
2004 View - a dinner event in collaboration with the chef Dan Barber, made at Blue Hill, Stone Barn, Pocantino Hills, New York. Produced by Minetta Brook within the series of dinners Watershed Tastemakers
2002 Selbstbildnis, a project made with Kunstverein München in Collaboration with Schack Galerie; Munich and Philipe Metz
2001 The Artist Is at Niagara Falls, A project made with CEPA Gallery in collaboration with Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
1997-99 Returned, a project were the artist is leaving copies made after Nicolas Poussin’s ”Spring or The Earthly Paradis” in cruising parks: Hampstead Heath London,The Rambles, Central Park New York, Parc Mont Royal, Montréal, Park K. Marcinkowiego, Poznan, Frescati, Stockholm , Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris and Galoppatoio, Villa Borghese, Rome
1995 Kärlekstörst, a project for the newspaper Expressen, Stockholm
1994 The Arrows of Cupid, Ynglingagatan, Stockholm, were the artist painted arrows on the sidewalk between the gallery and the blue movie Hagabion at Hagagatan, Stockholm
1994 Blind Love, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, were the artist make portraits of two students from Rinkebyskolan.

Projects in the studio at Gullmarsvägen 50, Stockholm:
1995 Under tiden, an exhibition by Stefan Uhlinder
1995 Every Morning I Feel different - Every Night I Feel the Same,an installation by Mikael Elmgreen
1994 Smak, an exhibition made by Eva Larsson
1994 Via Karin, Vanja, Staffan, Cilla, Lotta, Annika, Hans, Arne, Malin, Anders och Susanna, a projekt by Elin Wikström, Stockholm Public Library and in the studio
1993 In the Garden of Eden..an Installation in my Studio

Projects in the Studion at Bjurholmsplan 21, Stockholm:
2002 Whiteout & F for Fake, Kajsa Dahlberg and Christian Andersson.
           
Public Art Works:
2003-06 View, made for Watershed – Hudson River Art Project, North Dock, Bear Mountain State Park and Boscobel Restoration, Garrison, produced by Minetta Brook, New York *
2001  View, produced by National Public Art Council and The City of Malmö, Västra Hamnen, Scaniaplatsen, Malmö*

Curatorial work:
2007 Reflektioner av rum, Mateuz Herczka, Mako Ishizuka and Martin Jacobson, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

Residencies:
2006 International Residence at Couvents des Recollets, Paris, France
2005 Cove Park, Scotland
2004-05 IASPIS’s studio, Stockholm, Sweden
2001 CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, USA
1999 Villa Saint Clair, Sète, France
1996-97 IASPIS’s studio, London, UK
1992 The Swedish Art Grants Committee’s Studio Residency in Montréal, Canada

Represented in public collections:
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Eskiltuna Konstmuseum
Bonnier Foundation, Stockholm
Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Iziko – South African National Gallery, Cape Town
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Lidköping, Umeå and Solna Local Council Collections
Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall
Malmö Konstmuseum
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Seattle Art Museum
Statens Konstråd, Sweden
Stockholms Landsting
Sundsvalls Konstmuseum

Teaching and Lectures:
Positions: Supervisor at Gothenburg Art Academy, spring 1997; professor at Malmö Art Academy, 1997-2001: external tutor at Malmö Art Academy, 2007.
Lectures: Oslo Art Academy, 1995; Helsinki Art Academy, 2004 and 2006; University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; The Royal Academy of Stockholm, 2000, 2003 and 2005; Gothenburg Art Academy, 2001; Yale University, New Haven, 2003; University of North Western, Chicago, 2000; University of Illinois in Chicago, 2000; “Tuesday Talk”, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 2007, Symposium “The Construction of an Identity in Artistic Practice”, Royal Academy of Arts, Kuva and Goldsmiths University of London,  at Royal Academy School, London, 2007; Kunstverein Hannover, 2007; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 2007

Opponent for graduate student master show: Gothenburg Art Academy, 1998 and 2001.

Miscellaneous doings:
“Sputnik” at München Kunstverein, 2002-2004
Expert opinions: professor position in art, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; professor position in art pedagogic, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, 2005; professor position in art, at Gothenburg Art Academy, 2004, two professor positions in art, The Royal Academy in Stockholm, 2003.
Adviser for visual art, The Foundation of the Culture of the Future, Uppsala, 2004-05

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