Kier Cooke Sandvik
(He/him)
Address: Startblokka, Østre Aker vei 90, 0596 Oslo
Floor: 2
Room number: 094
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
I work with drawing, collage, sculpture, analog photography, and miniature houses. I primarily work with my hands and my approach to my material is intuitive and based in my body. My work deals with sexuality, memory, the body/bodily, an emotional approach to the creation process, and the attempt to make visible the subject of trauma. I invite my audience into a world dominated by protection and terror, of confusion and the clarity that comes with emotional intensity, of love and abuse intermingling and overlapping.
drawing, sculpture, photography, collage,installation
Kier Cooke Sandvik
'Trouble Every Day'
Drawings and miniatures
2023
Installation photo from the duo exhibition 'The Egg Candler' with Dieter Hall at Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
Photo: Ray Hegelbach
Planned projects and exhibitions
Exhibitions 2025:
“Get out of my house,” solo exhibition, Podium, Oslo
Duo exhibition with Kaare Ruud, Galleri 69 Oslo (upcoming)
Other 2025:
Participation in Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair, represented by Podium (upcoming)
CV
Education
2019-21 MFA, Kunstakademiet, KHiO, Oslo
2016-19 BFA, Kunstakademiet, KHiO, Oslo
2006-08 Strykejernet, Oslo
Solo / duo exhibitions
2025 TBA, with Kaare Ruud, Galleri 69, Oslo (upcoming)
2025 Get Out of my House, Podium, Oslo
2023 The Egg Candler, Kunstraum Kreuzlingen, with Dieter Hall
2023 Trap Soul Door, Galleri Box, Göteborg
2022 Hide and seek / Each is good in his own house and garden, Loftet, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, with Mari Eriksen
2021 Surged, Haus Der Kunst, Oslo
2019 Cold Son, Breadbox Contemporary, Oslo
Selected group exhibitions
2024 Hard Scent Salon, Ködbyen, Copenhagen
2023 Two Plus Two Makes Four, The Auxiliary Project Space, Middlesbrough
2022 Oslo Negativ, Det Gamle Biblioteket, Oslo, representing Podium
2022 Extremophile, Podium, Oslo
2022 Oslo City nr. 7, BO, Oslo
2021 Entitet, Ekeberg Skulturpark, Oslo
2021 Klubb ERGI, ERGI
2021 Gatitas, Katten, Oslo
2021 The Great Indoors, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2020 Solstice Countdown, Destiny’s, Oslo
2020 Cherry Blossom Collective, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Morello Collective, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Post, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2020 Spore, Hage till Hage, Oslo
2018 Borgen Museum -& Co, Borgen museum, Hvittingfoss
2015 Out of Order, NMNP Project Space, Stavanger
2015 Ripperz, VAU Project Space, Glasgow
2015 Make Windows Where There Are Walls, Notting Hill Arts Club, London
2014 Unshelling and Shelling Again, Diorama, Oslo
2014 Unshelling and Shelling Again, Kunsthall Stavanger
2011 The Weaklings, Five Years, London,
2009 The Perpetual Dialogue, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, selected by Josh Smith
Curation
2022 Hage till Hage, Jomfrubråtveien 78, Oslo, with Iris Bengtsson
2022 Hage till Hage, Destiny’s, Oslo, with Iris Bengtsson
2016 Low Glow, Galleri Stabburet, Oslo, with Nilsen Nygård
Stipends
2021 FKDS studio-stipend at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2021 Kulturrådet diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere
2018 FKDS stipend for the development of artistic practice
Other, selected
2025 Supermarket Stockholm Independent Art Fair, with Podium (upcoming)
2025 Lithography poster published with the Brazilian-Portugese translation of The Voidoid by Richard Hell, Grafatorio Publishers (upcoming)
2024 Cover art for Michael Chang’s book Employees Must Wash Hands, USA
2024 Cover art for Michael Chang’s book Sweet Moss, Anstruther Press, USA
2022 Cover art for Paul Curran’s novel Generation Bloodbath, Apocalypse Party Press, USA
2021 Cover art for Dennis Cooper’s novel I Wished, Soho Press, USA
2018 Original art used in Dennis Cooper and Zac Farley’s film Permanent Green Light, France
2010 Artist book There’s Something Down There, 38th Street Publishers, USA
2009 Illustrations for Richard Hell’s novel The Voidoid, 38th Street Publishers, USA
2009-12 Self-published zine Meat Boys, with Ottar Karlsen (issues 1-5)
2006-10 Self-published zine Flesh World (issues 1-5)