Born 1979, Växjö, Sweden
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

2005      BA (Hons) in Fine Art (1^st Class). Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
2009
Projects in Art & Theory, Köln
Five Kinds of Water, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg
Soon You Will Have Forgotten All Things, And Soon All Things Will Have Forgotten You - Art Statements, Art 40 Basel with mother's tankstation
Gallery 2, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
The New Mineral, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany
2008
Slight Heat of the Eyelid, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
Walking on No-Top Hill, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin
Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (collaboration w. Robin Watkins)
2007
LISTE Young Contemporary Art Fair, Basel with mother's tankstation
Moon. Mist. Drum. Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo
2006
Soft Mud & Parallel Happenings, T293, Naples
2005
We Woke Up With Energy, mother’s tankstation, Dublin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Touched, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
Life: A User´s Manual, Art Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center NY, USA
Das Wesen im Ding, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland
Art Sheffield 2010, Sheffield, UK
2009
The Knight’s Tour, Contemporary Sculpture in De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
The Actuality of the Idea, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
Carl Andre, Leonor Antunes, Sara Barker, Nina Canell, Agnes Martin, Nasreen Mohamedi,
Fred Sandback, Bojan Sarcevic, Gedi Sibony, Rachel Whiteread
All that is solid melts into air, Muhka, Antwerp/Mechelen, Belgium
Group Exhibition, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf
Coalesce Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam
2008
7^th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju
Manifesta 7: The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Rovereto, Italy
Auto – Stop, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Sometimes You Fall in Love with an Idea, Cluster, Berlin
MIMA: Sound Space, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
No Borders (Just News), La Centrale Electrique - European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels, & CACT, Thessaloniki
2007
Beyond the Country: Perspectives of the Land in Historic and Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
Movement, Contingency & Community, Gallery27, Seoul
What Remains, Spazio Lambretto, Milano
Come Together, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2006
Bigger Bang, Galleria Ja Projektitila Huoltamo, Tampere, Finland
Bring the Noise, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Performance and installation with Robin Watkins
Plane, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin & The Dock, Carrick-on Shannon, (collaboration w. Robin Watkins)
Mother's Ruin-Dangerous Obsessions and the Culture of Excess, mother’s tankstation, Dublin
2005
Precaution, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Here Comes Everybody, Project Gallery, Dublin
Live, Interim-Projekte, Frankfurt
2004
Obscured by Clouds, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin
Regarder, Observer, Surveiller, Galerie Sequence, Quebec
Projected Windows, The Digital Hub, Thomas Street, Dublin
G-niale International Short Film Festival, Stralsund, Germany

PERFORMANCES & HAPPENINGS WITH ROBIN WATKINS

2008
Champagne Diamond the Brilliant Light, K is for Kaleidoscope, London
2006
Luftkluster/Luftfluks, Zentrale Randlage, Berline,
With Minit
Luftkluster/Luftfluks, Pallas Studios, Dublin
2006
The New Heat/Obscured by Light, The Boom Boom Room, Dublin
With Ariel Pink and Belong
2006
The New Heat/Obscured by Light, Inkonst, Malmö
2005
The New Heat/Obscured by Light, Project Arts Centre, Dublin
With Sanso-Xtro
The New Heat/Obscured by Light, Project Arts Centre, Dublin

PUBLICATIONS

2008
Shedding Skin (Perpetual Current for Twenty-Four Buckets), LP, KH Worpswede
29 Infra-Ordinary Meteors, 7” record, Economic Thought Gallery
2007
Arpeggio Book, Artist publication, The Model Arts & Niland Gallery
Champagne Diamond the Brilliant Light, LP & CD, Caff-Flick & Kaleidoscope. Collaboration with Robin Watkins
2006
Luftkluster/Luftfluks, LP, Oscillatone. Collaboration with Robin Watkins
2005
The New Heat/Obscured by Light, LP, Oscillatone. Collaboration with Robin Watkins

CATALOGUES & REVIEWS

Chris Sharp, ‘Nina Canell’, Art Review  #38, 2010
Isobel Harbison, ‘Nought to Sixty’, exh. cat., ICA, London, 2009
(E)merging Artists, article by Martin L. Herbert, Modern Painters, December, 2008
Mother’s Annual 2008, ‘Slight Heat of the Eyelid’, essay by Padraic E. Moore
Walking on No-Top Hill, review by Quinn Latimer, Frieze Online, 2008
The Glue & the Wedge, artist interview, Circa # 124, 2008
Art Review, May 2008, review: ‘Slight Heat of the Eyelid’ by Luke Clancey
Come Together,  exh. cat., The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Mother’s Annual 2006, ‘We Woke Up With Energy’, essay by Sarah Pierce
Modern Painters, July–August 2006, review: ‘Dangerous Obsessions and the Culture of Excess’, by Luke Clancy
Frieze # 98, review: ‘We Woke Up With Energy’, by Sally O’Reilly
Circa # 115, review: ‘We Woke Up With Energy’, by Declan Long
Plane, exh. cat., Royal Hibernian Academy
Precaution, exh. cat., Irish Museum of Modern Art
Obscured by Clouds, exh. cat., with CD, essay by Sinead Halkett, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Regarder, Observer, Surveiller, exh. cat., essay by Nicole Gingras, Galerie Sequence

AWARDS

2009
Baloîse Prize, Art Statements, Art 40 Basel
2008-09
Location One, NYC. Residency awarded by Arts Council of Ireland
2008
Neuer Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum, Graz. Residency and project room presentation
Künstlerhäuser Worpswede residency
Culture Ireland, Project grant
2007
Arts Council of Ireland, Artist Bursary Award
Model Arts & Niland Gallery Fellowship
2005–2008
Firestation Artist Studios Residency
2005
Aileen McKeogh Award
2004
Jönköping Cultural Committee Award, Sweden