J Tobias Anderson, b. 1971 in Gothenburg, Sweden Living and working in Stockholm, Sweden Artistic education: 1998-1999 Royal Collage of Art, Post Graduate, Stockholm, Sweden 1993-1998 University Collage of Arts, Crafts & Design, Art Department, Stockholm, Sweden 1991-1993 Gotland Art Scool, Visby, Sweden Solo exhibitions & screenings (selection): 2008 Espaivisor @ LOOP, Barcelona, Spain 2006 Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden with Cecilia Lundqvist, cur. by Anders Jansson Jönköpings Länsmuseum, RE-ACTION, Sweden, cur. by Helena Holmberg Konst Gävleborg, Galleri Slottet, Hälsinglands Museum, RE-ACTION, Gävleborgs Län, Sweden 2005 MMC Luka, DEACTION, Pula, Croatia, cur. by Branka Bencic [cat.] ak28, ACTION, Stockholm, Sweden, cur. by Felice Hapetzeder Cork Film Centre, PERIPHERAL VISIONS, Ireland, cur. by Cliodhna Shaffrey [cat.] Blackbox Video, CHASE, Norrköping, Sweden Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, 879 COLOUR, Oldenburg, Germany Filmbutiken, AL LADRO!, The Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 2004 VKS, Toulouse, France Blackbox Video, Norrköping, Sweden Teatro Odisseia, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, screening with Cecilia Lundqvist 2003 Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, screening with Cecilia Lundqvist, cur. by Claudio Caldini Group exhibitions & screenings (selection): 2009 Vienna Independent Shorts, KURZFILMZIMMER #2, Vienna, Austria 2008 Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo, SCONFINAMENTI, Rome, Italy, cur. by Sergio Rossi, Cristina Zadro [cat.] Espaivisor, GLIMPSE, Valencia, Spain Austrian Filmmuseum, HITCHCOCK EXPERIMENTAL, Vienna, Austria Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, QUI VIVE?, Moscow, Russia Universidade Católica Portuguesa - Escola das Artes, BLACK & WHITE FESTIVAL, Porto, Portugal NCCA, LIVING IN A MODERN SOCIETY, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, cur. by Martin Schibli Camjap, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL, Lisbon, Portugal Villa San Michele, ON AIR, Anacapri, Italy, cur. by Lorella Scacco Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid, Paris, France [cat.] Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden Art Centre of Palacky University, PAF 2008 Festival of Animated Films, Olomouc, Czech Republic 2007 Museo de Colecciones ICO, FANTASMAGORIA, Madrid, Spain, cur. by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes [cat.] Le Fresnoy Centre, HISTOIRES ANIMEES, Tourcoing, France, cur. by J. A. Álvarez Reyes, Neus Miró, Marta Gili, Laurence Dreyfus [cat.] Kunstverein Freiburg, AUSGEZEICHNET!, Germany, cur. by Felicity Lunn [cat.] MuHKA, Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Arts, THE WRONG ARTIST: HITCHCOCK EN VIDEOKUNST, Belgium Director's Lounge, DIRECTOR'S LOUNGE - CONTEMPORARY ART & MEDIA, Berlin F'hain, Germany, cur. by Kim Collmer Circulo de Bellas Artes, MADRID-PARIS-BERLIN LES RENCONTRES INTERN., Madrid, Spain [cat.] Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany CaixaForum Palma, HISTORIES ANIMADES, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, cur. by J. A. Álvarez Reyes, N. Miró, M. Gili, L. Dreyfus [cat.] Centre Culturel Suisse de Paris, E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL, Paris, France Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany Portland Center for the Performing Arts, PLATFORM INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL, USA Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival, Portugal Skandinaviska Föreningen in Rome, ON AIR, Italy, cur. by Lorella Scacco 2006-2007 Sala Rekalde, ISTORIO ANIMATUAK, Bilbao, Spain, cur. by J. A. Álvarez Reyes, N. Miró, M. Gili, L. Dreyfus [cat.] Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle Budapest, DREAMLANDS BURN, Hungary, cur. by Edit Molnár, Lívia Páldi [cat.] Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, RE-VISION, Oldenburg, Germany Arthouse Texas, E-FLUX VIDEO RENTAL, Austin, USA 2006 CaixaForum, HISTORIES ANIMADES/ANIMATED STORIES, Barcelona, Spain, cur. by J. A. Álvarez Reyes, N. Miró, M. Gili, L. Dreyfus [cat.] Australian Center for Photography, SYNCITY, Sydney, Australia, cur. by Mark Titmarsh [cat.] Linköpings Konsthall Passagen, ME MYSELF AND I, Sweden, cur. by Åsa-Viktoria Wihlborg [cat.] Champ Libre, CITE INVISIBLE CITY, Montreal, Canada Centre Culturel Francois, VIDEO DIA LOGHI, Torino, Italy Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France & Germany [cat.] Site Gallery, HIS LIFE IS FULL OF MIRACLES, Sheffield, UK EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Viper Festival, Basel, Switzerland Les Inattendus, Lyon, France Backup_Festival, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany Le Cinematograph, CONTRECHAMP 3, Nantes, France 2005 Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland [cat.] The Video Art Foundation @ Centre d'Art Santa Monica, VIDEODICTIONARY, Barcelona, Spain Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, COPY AND PASTE, Oldenburg, Germany Galleria Sogospatty, ANIMArTION, Rome, Italy, cur. by Raffaele Gavarro Galleri 21, Malmö, Sweden, cur. by Anders Olofsson Filmform @ Cinemateket, NEWS, Stockholm, Sweden Moderna Museet, ONEDOTZERO_STOCKHOLM, Stockholm, Sweden Prenelle Gallery, ISLAND ART FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL, London, UK Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden O Eins, VIDEO VISIONS, Oldenburg, Germany Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France & Germany [cat.] The Video Art Foundation @ La Casa Encedida, VIDEODICTIONARY, Madrid, Spain International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Holland Sopot Film Festival, Poland 2004 Film Fylkingen, Stockholm, Sweden St Martins Hotel, London, UK, cur. by Sarah Wood Cambridge Film Festival, UK Liljevalchs Konsthall, VÅRSALONGEN, Stockholm, Sweden [cat.] Il Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna, Italy Västerås Art Museum, SAMTIDIGT, Sweden Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France & Germany [cat.] Sesc Vila Mariana, IMAGENS QUE VOCE JAMAIS VERA NA TV, Sao Paulo, Brazil International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary Microwave Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden 2003-2005 Riksutställningar, SHOW UNIT, Sweden 2003 Royal Hibernian Academy, GREYSCALE/CMYK, Dublin, Ireland, cur. by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt [cat.] Kunst-Werke Berlin, ANIMATIONS, Germany, cur. by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Larissa Harris [cat.] Glasgow Print Studio, HITCH, UK dLux Media Arts, d>art 03, Sydney, Australia The Video Art Foundation, 25 HRS, Barcelona, Spain [cat.] The Changing Room, PAST STANDING, Stirling, UK Mmc Gallery LUKA, CINEMANIA(C), Pula, Croatia, cur. by Branka Bencic [cat.] Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France & Germany [cat.] Dissonanze, Rome, Italy, cur. by Daniela Cascella Filmform @ Elverket, Stockholm, Sweden Source Video Magazine Live c/o Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden 2002-2003 Galerie der Stadt Backnang, BILDER-CODES, Germany [cat.] RIGHT ABOUT NOW/BEYOND PARADISE: NORDIC ARTISTS TRAVEL EAST [cat.] 2002 Tramway, GREYSCALE/CMYK, Glasgow, UK, cur. by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt [cat.] Champ Libre @ CRAIG pumping station , CITE DES ONDES, Montreal, Canada Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden, cur. by Karin Faxén Modern Museum of Art & Riksutställningar, KONSTMOBILEN, 13 towns in Sweden Chiangmai University Art Museum , THE SWEDISH ART WEEK, Thailand NOASS, SNOWFLAKES, Riga, Latvia Modern Museum of Art c/o Stockholm Art Fair, Sweden Magasin 3, Project Djurgårdsbrunn, RIGHT ABOUT NOW, Stockholm, Sweden Artgenda @ Metropolis, Hamburg, Germany Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary 2001-2002 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, ANIMATIONS, New York, USA, cur. by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Larissa Harris [cat.] BLICK TOUR, cur. by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim [cat.] 2001 Center for Contemporary Art, VIDEO AGAINST VIDEO, Kiev, Ukraine, cur. by Olga Zhuk, Nadya Prigodich dLux Media Arts, d>art01, Sydney, Australia adHocArts.org @ Side Street Live, VIDEACY, Los Angeles, USA, cur. by Andrew Bucksbarg NIFCA, BLICK, Helsinki, Finland, cur. by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim [cat.] Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, France & Germany [cat.] Modern Museum of Art, BLICK, Stockholm, Sweden, cur. by Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt, Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim [cat.] J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA [plug in], >>REPLAY>>, Basel, Switzerland VIPER, Zürich, Switzerland Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France Microwave Festival, Videotage, Hong Kong Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Thailand >>backup2001_festival.new media in film<<, Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany 2000 Kino Riga, KRIS TAPA TAPA, Latvia Odenplan Underground Station, Stockholm, Sweden EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Media City, Windsor, Ontario, Canada Dreamcatcher, Kiev, Ukraine bitfilmFestival, Hamburg, Germany Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany 1999 Modern Museum of Art, BLICK, Stockholm, Sweden, cur. by Maria Lind, Cecilia Widenheim Stockholm Electronic Arts, NORTH ANIMA, Sweden Mala Galerija, NON STOP VIDEO CLUB, Ljubljana, Slovenia, cur. by Maria Lind EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Montreal, Canada VIPER, Luzern, Switzerland Videoex, Zürich, Switzerland Videography (selection): 2009 The Wind 2008 The Vanishing Point Delusion Disillusion Where Am I to Go? 2007 Going Nowhere Fast 2006 Institution Freedom's Steel? Where I Am A Small Part of the World 2005 Chase Whereto I Go Al ladro! 2004 Prairie Stop, Highway 41 State of Fear A North Window for the Man With Vertigo Bodega Bay School 2003 Moments/Ögonblick Sliced Classics Ett ögonblick./Wait a minute. 2002 Vänta./Well, just a second. Nine Piece Rope 879 Colour Everybody Wants to Be Grant 2001 Ett ögonblick./One moment. Privacy and Dreams Grant Standing Falling Lying 2000 Active Passive Passage Conversation What People Want 1999 My Name Is Grant The Breeding School 1998 The First and Last Minute and Every Minute Inbetween 879 1997 He Dies at the End Awards & residencies: 2008 Institution - Best Experimental Video, BLACK & WHITE FESTIVAL, Escola das Artes, Porto, Portugal 2005-2006 IASPIS Residency @ ACME, London, UK 2005 Bodega Bay School - Nomination for International Media Award for Science and Art, SWR & ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 879 Colour - 1st Price Total Experimental/Video Art, Sopot Film Festival, Poland Prairie Stop, Highway 41 - Special Mention, Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva, Switzerland 2004 Prairie Stop, Highway 41 - Special Mention, Lausanne Underground Film & Music Festival, Switzerland NIFCA, Sleipnir, Residency at Hollufgård, Odense, Denmark 2003 879 Colour - Nomination for Diesel New Art, Sweden 2002 879 Colour - Nomination for International/Media/Art/Award, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany NIFCA, Network North, Residency at Glasgow School of Art, UK 2000 My Name Is Grant - Jury's 3rd Nomination in Video, Dreamcatcher, Kiev, Ukraine Represented: Modern Museum of Art, Stockholm, Sweden IVAM, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Spain Västerås Art Museum, Sweden Norrköping Art Museum, Sweden St Martins Lane Hotel, London, UK Zentrum für Kunst & Medientechnologie/SWR, Media/Art/Reel, Germany Source 7, Video Magazine of Contemporary Art Source 11, Video Magazine of Contemporary Art Source 12, Video Magazine of Contemporary Art Bibliography (selection) 2007 Der Sonntag (DE), "Die Zeichnung ist zurückgekommen", Annette Hoffmann, 1 April 2007 Regioartline (DE), "Linie mit Perspektive", Yvonne Ziegler, #4 20 April 2007 2006 Independent essay: "Blinded by Movie Magic - the Inventions of J Tobias Anderson" (SE), Daniel Lundström, 17 Nov 2006 Jönköpings-Posten (SE), "Konstvideor nytt festivalinslag", Nina Marjavaara, 1 Sep 2006 Östgöta Correspondenten (SE), "Egocentrism som imponerar", Lars-Ola Johansson, 22 Aug 2006 Östgöta Correspondenten (SE), "Porträtt på åtta sätt", Helena Lundberg, 19 Aug 2006 Catalogue "Me Myself and I" (SE), "Samtal med J Tobias Anderson", Anders Olofsson, published by ArtPlatform Aug 2006; ISBN 978-91-976421-0-1 Catalogue "Històries Animades" (ES), published by Fundaciòn "la Caixa" June 2006; ISBN13:987-84-7664-905-3; ISBN 10:84-7664-905-3 Dagens Nyheter (SE), "J Tobias Anderson & Cecilia Lundqvist", Jessica Kempe, 18 March 2006 Uppsala Nya Tidning (SE), "På riktigt och på låtsas", Sebastian Johans, 25 Feb 2006 Nollarton (SE), "Klippt för konsten", Tomas Kindenberg, #1 2006 Uppsala Nya Tidning (SE), "Konst utanför ramen", Lena Köster, 3 Feb 2006 2005 Norrköpings Tidningar (SE), "Biljakt genom San Francisco utan McQueen", Mats Granberg, 6 Dec 2005 Artphoto (RO), "Portfolios", #6-7 2005 Catalogue "DeAction" (HR), "Cinemania[c]'05", Branka Bencic, published by MMC Luka July 2005 ISBN1845-5875 www.konsten.net (SE), "Den moderna världens pulsslag", Anders Olofsson, 5 June 2005 Svenska Dagbladet (SE), "Vad händer med Fåglarna utan fåglar?", Jeanette Gentele, 28 May 2005 2004 Norrköpings Tidningar (SE), "Mystiska landskap och rörliga bilder", Ellika Kyndel, 9 Nov 2004 Konstperspektiv (SE), "Videokonstens väg in i vardagsrummet", Catrin Lundqvist, #2 May 2004 2003 Sunday Herald (UK), "Under the light of the moon", Catriona Black, 12 Oct 2003 2002 Catalogue "bilder*codes#" (DE), "Short texts/Nominees: J Tobias Anderson", Barbara Könches, published by ZKM Nov 2002 ISBN 3-928201-28-X The Scotsman (UK), "Lost for words", Duncan McMillan, 10 Sep 2002 Catalogue "Greyscale/CMYK" (UK/FI) "J Tobias Anderson", Mats Stjernstedt, published by NIFCA Aug 2002 ISBN 951-8955-64-6 Barometern (SE), "Nya bildlagar väcker frågor", Tina Jeppsson, 12 April 2002 Östran (SE), "Fyra unga konstnärer visar konstvideofilmer", Karin Asmundsson, 12 April 2002 Dagens Naeringsliv/DN-Magasinet (NO), "Kjappere videokunst", Jonas Ekeberg, 23-24 Feb 2002 2000 Space (SE), "Han dör på slutet", Samuel Dahlberg, #2 2000 1999 Svenska Dagbladet (SE), "Med blick för video", Malena Janson, 24 Sep 1999 Dagens Nyheter (SE), "Moderna museet blickar mot nästa århundrade", Lars O. Ericsson, 22 Sep 1999 1998 Catalogue "Vårutställningen" (SE), Konst, Konstfack, May 1999 ISBN 91-630-6838-9