Cara Lien
(She/her)
Address: Romsås senter, Romsås Senter 1, 0970 Oslo
Floor: 5
Room number: 534
The studio is open Saturday 26 April from 12-17
Cara Lien (b. 1990, Drammen) works with painting and digital performance. Through pop culture and digital voyeurism, her practice explores the tension that can arise between sexual self-expression and self-exploitation.
Oil painting
Camera Roll Series, Cara Lien, oil on canvas, 80 x 80 cm, 2022, Hos Arne, installation view, photographer - Ida Gøytil
How To Overcome Loneliness And Enjoy Your Own Company, Cara Lien, oil on canvas, 120cm x 100cm, 2020, photo: Istvan Virag
Untitled (How To Overcome Loneliness And Enjoy Your Own Company), Cara Lien, oil on canvas, 20cm x 20cm, 2020, photo: Espen Iden
Untitled (How To Overcome Loneliness And Enjoy Your Own Company), Cara Lien, oil on canvas, 20cm x 20cm, 2020, photo: Espen Iden
CV
Education:
Oslo National Academy of the Arts, MFA, 2018 – 2020
Bergen Academy for Art and Design, BFA, 2014 – 2017
Prosjektskolen, 2013 – 2014
Strykejernet, 2011 – 2013
Selected Exhibitions:
2024: Østlandsutstillingen, Vestfold Kunstsenter, Tønsberg
2024: the buoy show, Galleri Memphis, Oslo
2024: Østlandsutstillingen, Kunstbanken, Hamar
2023: “Loungen #6”, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2023: “Transistorfestivalen”, Montebello Kulturhus Oslo
2023: “No Love In My Hometown”, Hos Arne, Oslo
2023: Doreen The Love Witch, Østre, Bergen
2022: Erotikafton, Inkonst, Malmø
2021: “Ergi presents”, Oslo City, BOA, Oslo
2021: “Avatar”, After School Special, Bergen Kunsthall
2020: “Nature Contains Nature”, Galleri Memphis, Oslo
2020: “Stipendutstillingen 2020”, Buskerud Kunstsenter, Drammen
2020: “Avgangsutstillingen 2020”, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2020: “?box issue #2 – age?”, Breadbox Contemporary, online
2019: “Auto-erotic Interactions or: a girl and her smartphone” Kladden, Oslo
2019: “Erotikafton”, Inkonst, Malmø
2019: “The Suitors”, Momentum x KHiO, Moss
2019: “IRL – Investigating Reality”, The Untitled Space, New York
2019: “Jennifer Aniston Superfans”, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin
2019: “Performed In Vocal Fry And Uptalk” Skylight, Oslo
2019: “Femme”, Spoke x Juxtapoz, Mana Conetmporary, New York
2019: “Jennifer Aniston Superfans”, ReTramp, Berlin
2018: “Collective Festival”, Oslo
2018: “Not Your Average Baby Girl”, CYAN, Oslo
2018: “Pearl Born”, Exgirlfriend, Berlin
2018: “INTERNET FAME”, Panke.gallery, Berlin
2017: “Internet Fame”, The Wrong – New Digital Art Biennale
2016: “delayed gratification is a sign of maturity” Galleri Fisk, Bergen
2015: “Bitchney Spearx and Lana Death Ray presents the Performance Night of Your Dreams” Galleri Fisk, Bergen
2014: Podium, Oslo
2011: Galleri MAP, Oslo
2010: “Demanding the impossible”, UKS, Oslo
Grants:
Miscellaneous grant for recently graduated artists, Kulturrådet 2020
Grant for newly established artists, Kulturetaten 2020
Production grant, BKH 2020