About | jennifer-spangerud

Education

2022 MFA Fine Art programme at HDK-Valand, Gothenburg

2016 BFA Fine Art – Sculpture and Environmental Art, The Glasgow School of Art, UK

2013 Öland's School of Art year 2, (Ölands Konstskola 2), Skogsby, SWE

Selected Solo/Duo Exhibitions

2022 Det som står på spel (What's at Stake), duo exhibition with Elin Alvemark, Signal— Centre for Contemporary Art, Malmö, SWE

2022 Avatar 49 at Contre Utopie, Halmstad SWE

2020 Push Puppet, Radar I, duo exhibition at Passagen with Jonathan Dewoon, Linköping

2019 Definierad Mark (Defined Ground), duo exhibition with Jonathan Dewoon at Galleri Fiskhuset, Nyköping, SWE

2017 The Principle of Internal Rejection, with Viktor Lysell Smålänning, at Laurieston Arches, Glasgow,UK

2016 One is not born, but rather becomes, with Rebecca Lindsmyr, at The Art School, Glasgow, UK

2016 New Flesh, with Morgan Russell, in Garage Space, Glasgow, UK

2014 In the Flesh, with Beatrice Johansson, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, UK

2013 Skepnadsskiftare (Shape Shifter), Oskarshamns Konsthall, SWE

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022 Material Glitch, master exhibition, Göteborgs Konsthall, SWE

2020 Dekadansbanan (continuation of collaborative project), group exhibition at Verkstad Konsthall, Norrköping, SWE

2019 Skulpturfestivalen (Sculpture Festival), in Stjärnholm and Oxelösund, Nyköping, SWE

Skulptur på Löfstad (Sculpture at Löfstad), exhibition at the castle of Löfstad, Norrköping, SWE

2018 Östgötaforum, group exhibition, Konstforum, Norrköping, SWE

2018 Jubileumsutställning (Jubilee exhibition), group exhibition, Passagen Konsthall, Linköping, SWE

2018 Inauguration of Skylten cultural centre, group exhibition with ALKA, Linköping, SWE

2017 Höstsalong, with Mats Tusenfot and Ermias Ekube, Vimmerbys Warmbadhus, Vimmerby, SWE

2017 RSA New Contemporaries 2017, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

2016 Are You Talking to Me?, The Museum of Östergötland, Linköping, SWE

2016 Parallell Dimensions, The Lauristone Arches - AiA, Glasgow, UK

2016 Glasgow School of Art Degree Show (Fading Fleshy Forest with Morgan E. Russell), Tontine Building, Glasgow, UK
2016 It's all Downhill from Here, Barnes Building, Glasgow, UK

2016 Boot Cut, with SEA4, Barnes Building, Glasgow, UK

2015 Sculptyour Envrionment, with SEA4, Barnes Building, Glasgow, UK

2015 Konst Åt Alla (Art for Everyone), Boxholm Folkets Hus, Sweden, SWE
2015 FLYTT!, with/at ALKA, Linköping, SWE

2015 Yeah You Like That, with SEA3, Fleming House, Glasgow, UK

2013 Exodus, final exhibition, Öland's School of Art II, Kalmar Konstmuseum , SWE

2013 Men hur ser du ut egentligen?, Galleri Kronan, Norrköping, SWE

2012 Don’t You Wish Your Girlfriend Was a Freak Like Me? Alba S. Enström + Öland's School of Art II, Kalmar Konstmuseum, SWE

Publications:

2022 Into Glitch — Publication by MFA HDK-Valand
2020 Ursprung:Öna — Publication for the exhibition Dekadansbanan at Verkstad Konsthall

Commission work and Projects

2020 Window Dressing Portals, Konstavenyn, project initiated by Tranås Kultur and Kultivera, Tranås

2020 Dekadansbanan — En lek med oändlig optimism och storhetsvansinne, Residency Öna Kulturreservat

2018 Nyfiket, yrvaket - Territorium, collaborative work with Jonathan Dewoon, a light installation/enlightened sculptures, commission work for the Municipality of Linköping during Vinterstad i Ljus, Skylten, Linköping, SWE

Awards, Grants, Fellowships, Residencies

2022 Wivi, Marta and Åke Liljessons foundation
2022 Tobison Foundation Stipend

2022 Stiftelsen Bertha Neuberghs Stipendiefond

2020 Stiftelsen Bertha och Gösta Stenmans Minnesfond

2019 Residency Öna Culture Reserve (Pilot project), (The Museum of Östergötland, SWE)

2016 RSA New Contemporaries, Selected Artist
2015 Region Östergötlands Cultural Award

2015 Wivi, Marta and Åke Liljessons foundation

2009 Wivi, Marta and Åke Liljessons foundation

Collections

HDK-Valand Student Collection
Folkets Hus och Parker

The County Council of Kalmar

The Municipality of Oskarshamn

The Museum of Sundsvall

Private collections

Other

Member of KRO (The Artists' National Organisation), Sweden

Member of Bildupphovsrätt, Sweden
Member of the local artist association ALKA, Linköping, Sweden

Jennifer Spångerud (b.1988) is a method shifter and often works together or in dialogue with other practitioners. The sharp contrast between her different working methods welcomes cheating and detours, producing varying results. She wants to put an emphasis on the possibility of altering the world ourselves, asking if it really has to be this fabricated?

She has previously arranged power naps on zoom, created hidden websites for random and direction-less scrolling and carved dance tokens out of potatoes for an imaginary coulisse-like replica of a dance floor vision from the 1920s.

Jennifer graduated in 2022, with a Master in Fine Art at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, at the University of Gothenburg.