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Emmy Skensved Emmy Skensved

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Emmy Skensved is a Canadian artist based in Berlin, Germany. Her practice spans a variety of media including digital animation, audio, installation, and web design, and touches upon themes of new technology, economic and bodily consumption, subculture and social ritual. Skensved received her BFA from OCAD University in Toronto and her MFA from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has been the recipient of grants and awards from Canada Council for the Arts, Toronto Arts Council, Goethe Institute, and the Institut fuer Auslandsbeziehungen. Recent solo exhibitions include “Fixed Gear” at Chateau Nour in Brussels, Belgium (2019) and “Room & Bored” at the Polansky Gallery project space in Prague, Czech Republic (2018). Recent group exhibitions include the "Taehwa River Eco Art Festival," in Ulsan, South Korea (2021), “Hybrid Layers” at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany (2017), and “The 5th Moscow Biennale for Young Art” (2016).

EDUCATION
2007 MFA Degree, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
2005 BFA Degree, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada/Florence, Italy

SELECTED SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Fixed Gear, Chateau Nour, Brussels, Belgium
2018 Room & Bored, Polansky Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2018 Yes, I’m Here, Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon, Canada
2018 Pizzag8, Aether, Sofia, Bulgaria
2016 Geologos, Komplot, Brussels, Belgium
2015 2ndSkin, 8-11, Toronto, Canada
2015 eStamina, Import Projects, Berlin, Germany
2014 alpha beta beginning & end, ESP, Toronto, Canada
2014 Tonicc, Other Projects/Ashley, Berlin, Germany
2013 Vis-a-vis, ESP, Toronto, Canada

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Unhidden/Unseeable, Taehwa River Eco Art Festival, Ulsan, Korea
2021 I Have a Deep Nostalgia for the Future, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, USA
2020 Arrival, MMCA Goyang Studios, Seoul, Korea
2020 Silent Machines, Hyperlink Athens, Columbia pressing plant, Rizoupoli, Greece
2019 Enjoye TV, Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Ist Gut Nicht Gut Genug?, Voegele Kunst und Kultur, Pfaffikon, Switzerland
2018 Pizza is God, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany
2017 Hybrid Layers, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Trekhgornaya Factory, Moscow, Russia
2016 Episode 8: The Lair, OSLO10, Basel, Switzerland
2015 Swimminal Poolitics (with DIS Magazine), Samos island, Greece
2015 Deep Skin, SNOlab Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, Sudbury, Canada
2015 Berlin Art Prize, District, Berlin, Germany
2015 Windowlicker, Center, Berlin, Germany
2014 Absolutely Free at Nuit Blanche, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
2014 Right On, Duve Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2014 Internet Yami-Ichi at Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2014 Screen and Decor
Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD, Calgary, Canada
Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, Canada
2012 Post, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, Canada
2012 Berlin. Status (1), Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

AWARDS
2022 Stiftung Kunstfonds NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium
2021 Deutscher Kunstlerbund NEUSTART KULTUR-Stipendium
2018 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant
2018 Project Grant from the Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen
2016 Travel support from the Goethe Institute, Moscow
2015 Berlin Art Prize Shortlist
2012 Canada Council for the Arts Project Grant

RESIDENCIES
2022 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2019 Superdeals, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Cripta747, Turin, Italy
2015 Schwarz Foundation Curatorial Fellowship, Samos Island, Greece

COLLECTIONS
2013 Collection of the TD Bank, Toronto, Canada
2011 The Art Bank of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2009 The Canadiana Foundation, Ottawa, Canada

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2022 Unhidden/Unseeable, Park, Sohee, etc al. South Korea: TEAF21, March
2018 Pizza is God, Tetrault, Ella, et al., Germany: Verlag Kettler, May
2016 Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Samman, Nadim, et al., Moscow: June
2015 Berlin Art Prize, S. Jung, A. Reuter, et al., Germany: BAP e.V., June
2013 RBC: Fifteen Years, D. Dexter, R. Anthony, Canada: Friesens, October
2012 Post, I. Jurakic, and the University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Canada: November
2012 Berlin. Status (1), C. Tannert, S. Druhl and the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Germany: Verlag Kettler, April

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Common Ground

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Fixed Gear

a residency program operated by the Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA) that was launched in 2006 after remodeling unused facilities in Nanji Hangang Park. Conceived as a means of supporting capable artists and researchers in Korea, the Residency organizes exhibitions such as the 'NANJI ART SHOW' and 'Art Critic Workshop', and runs other programs designed to enhance exhibitions and research capability. It also operates the International Artist Exchange Program to utilize international residency network and multiply exchanges, and hosts lectures in which art experts from Korea and other countries are invited to participate. By 2009, SeMA Nanji Residency had firmly established itself as a creative studio by providing creative spaces and working conditions to domestic young artists. Starting in 2010, it began to take the form of a program by subdividing its activities into ‘exhibition’, ‘research and academics’, and ‘exchange’, and supporting and operating them systematically. Since 2012, it has been developing into an international residential organization by operating various programs.

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