Eva Stenram
Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in London.

Education

2001-2003

Royal College of Art, London

MA Photography

1995-1999

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

BA Fine Art Media

Exhibitions

2008 European Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008 Untitled Tales, Photo50 at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
2007 Pavilion Commissions 2007, Photofusion, London
2007 The Man Group Photography Prize 2007, Royal College of Art, London
2007 Time Travel, The Hat Factory, Luton
2007 Asia-Europe Mediations, National Museum and WSNHID, Poznan, Poland
2007

Look@Me, Institut fur Kultur- und Medienmanagement der Freien Universitat Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2007 Birds in Flight, Curzon Soho, London
2007 Photo50 – Between Mirrors and Windows, Business Design Centre, London
2006

Albertine goes South, Dorothee Schmid Art Consulting, London

2006

Obscurer, Billboard SN 3312/01, 48 Seel Street, Liverpool

2006

Plug, White Gallery, County Hall, London

2005

The Condition of England, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland

2004

The Pattern of the Plans and the Lack of Plan Plan, T1+2 Artspace, London

2004

Open Borders, a Droog Design Event, Tri Postal, Lille, France

2004

PR04 - Puerto Rico Biennial, M&M Proyectos, San Juan and Rincon, Puerto Rico

2004

Digital Sublime, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2003

Twenty White Chairs, The Wapping Projects, London, The Design Centre, Barnsley (Leeds) and Jerwood Space, London

2003

London Calling, Con|temporary, Berlin, Germany

2003

Royal College of Art MA Photography Show, London

2003

Hair the Show, Tablet Gallery, London

2003

Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London

2003 Another Way is Possible, Royal College of Art, London

2002

Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London

2002

New Contemporaries 2002, Static, Liverpool and Curve Gallery, Barbican, London

2002

media_city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

2002

CLUB, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

2002

Local Zoological Gardens, Grosvenor Offices, London

2002

Gatsby, The New Landsdowne Club, London

2002

The Show, Insa Art Space of the Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea

2002

Meantime, Royal College of Art, London

2001 Out of the Void, Candid Arts Gallery, London
2001 Attalier Something, Tyssen Street Studios, London
2001 Tvibit Festivalen , Tromsø, Norway
2001 Record Collection , VTO, London, The Internaetional 3, Manchester and Forde Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
2000 Living with the Dutch, 89a Erlanger Road, London
2000 Slicker, Mafuji Gallery, London
1999

Slade BA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London

1999 I'll tell you about my mother, 18 Kingsland Road, London
1999 Bargain @ Mr Buyrite's, 245 Upper Street, London
1997 Bergen Short Film Festival, Peer Plexis Alternative, Bergen, Norway
1997 Slade and Glasgow University Screenings, Tramway, Glasgow
1997 Hiding behind the Sofa, Prema Arts Centre, Ulay
1996 Free Beer, Shooting Gallery, London
1996 Big Deal, Big Issue Headquarters, London
1996 Elastic Frontiers Arts Festival, Sheffield
1995 Stroke softly away from the body, the Gallery in Stoke Newington, London
1995 The Royal Family, Monstruous Carbuncle Gallery, London
   

Awards and Prizes

2007 Royal College of Art Graduate Award 2007
2007 Man Group Photography Prize 2007 – First Prize

2006

Digital Photography Bursary from Westminster Arts Council

2004

British Council travel grant to Puerto Rico

2004

DLA Art Award (nomination)

2003

The Photographers’ Gallery Graduate Award

2003

British Council travel grant to Berlin

2002

National Magazine Company Award

Commissions

2007 Pavilion Commissions Programme 2007

2003

Queen Elizabeth Hospital Art Commission

2003

Twenty White Chairs - The Wapping Project

2002

Grosvenor Estate Photography Commission 3

 
Screenings and slide shows
2008 Besame Mucho Mas, Chat's Palace, London
2007 Kinoskipos, Hadspen Gardens, Somerset
2007 Itchy Park, Lime House Town Hall, London
 

Other projects and events

2005-2006

Look Back in Angora, Studio Voltaire, London
New Year's Eve event organised in collaboration with Giles Round and Studio Voltaire

2005

Friday Night, The Ship, London
Exhibition curated in collaboration with Giles Round

2004

Halloween 2, The Macbeth, London
Event organised in collaboration with Giles Round

2004

Friday 13th – Dawn of the Valentine Dead, The Commercial Tavern, London
Event organised in collaboration with Giles Round

2003

Kunstschlampen, art pub quiz at the Commercial Tavern, London.
In collaboration with Giles Round

2002

CLUB CLUB CLUB, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
Exhibition curated in collaboration with Wilken Schade and Simon Wood

2001

CLUB, Beaconsfield, London
Exhibition curated in collaboration with Wilken Schade and Simon Wood
1998 We have moved, 23 Edis Street, London
Collaboratively curated weekend evening event
1997

Spectacle of the Bizzart, Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Performance event curated in collaboration with Trine Lise Nedreaas.

1996 Free Beer, Shooting Gallery, London
Exhibition curated in collaboration with Simon Wood
1996 The Royal Family, Monstruous Carbuncle Gallery, London
Exhibition curated in collaboration with Simon Wood
   
Catalogues
2007 Pavillion Commissions 2007, including essay by Benedict Burbridge "The Remotely Infinite, or The Infinitely Remote: Eva Stenram's Per Pulverem Ad Astra", Pavilion, Leeds
2007 Asia-Europe Mediations, Stowarzyszenie Kontekst Szutki, Poznan, Poland, ISBN-10 83-923904-3-1

2005

Puerto Rico 04 – Tribute to the Messenger, Michy Marxuach, Pablo Leon de la Barra, Julietta Gonzalez, Gabriel Parra-Blessing and Paola Pascua (eds.), M&M Proyectos, San Juan (ISBN 0-9772251-0-0)

2005

The Grosvenor Photography Commission, Volume One, Grosvenor, London

2004

Design etc, Open Borders – Droog Event #1, Droog Design, Amsterdam (ISBN 2-915855-00-5)

2004

Digital Sublime, Emily L. Wu and Frankie Su (ed.), Contemporary Art Foundation. Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (ISBN 957-28957-6-1)

2004

DLA Art Award 2004, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London

2003 The Show 2003 at the Royal College of Art, Royal College of Art, London (ISBN 1-874175-99-3)
2002

Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2002, Bev Bytheway, Sacha Craddock and Des Lawrence (eds.), New Contemporaries Ltd. (ISBN 0-9450848-1-21)

2002

Media_city Seoul 2002, The 2nd Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Wonil Rhee (ed.), Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

2001

CLUB CLUB CLUB – Cd-catalogue de l'exposition, Wilken Schade, Eva Stenram and Simon Wood (eds.), Le Comfort Moderne, Poitiers

2000

CLUB, CD-rom exhibition catalogue and audio CD, Wilken Schade, Eva Stenram and Simon Wood (eds.), Beaconsfield, London

1999

The Slade Journal, Vol. 3, summer 1999 (ISSN 1368-6305)

   
Magazines and Journals
2007 FashNRiot, Issue 4 (Lost and Found)
2007 "Absent – Eva Stenram", Succour, True Stories (Issue 5)
2005 “Retouching History – Eva Stenram”, Source, Issue 43
2003 “Big Picture”, Blueprint, no 209
   
Online Journal
2006

/seconds, issue 3, Derek Horton, Peter Lewis (eds.), Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds(ISSN 1751-4134)

   

Press

2007 "London Calling" (Elizabeth Roberts), Black and White Photography, August

2006

“Emerging Artists” (Richard Dyer), Pluk, May issue.

2004

“Let there be light” (Susan Kendzulak), Teipei Times, May 23

2003 “Turpentine”, Time Out, March 12-19

2003

"Cyber City - report from Seoul" (Richard Vine), Art in America, February

2003

"New Labour" (Michael Selzer), Art Review, December/January

2003

"New Contemporaries" (Marcus Verhagen), Contemporary, no 47/48

2002

"Strange but true" (Ned Denny), New Statesman, 9 December

2002

"Liverpool Biennial" (Claire Doherty), Art Monthly, November

Public talks

2006

"Emerging Artists", Photo London/Royal Academy Schools, May

Art Fairs

Photo London 2007 and Paris Photo 2007 with The Photographer's Gallery, London

Photo London (2004-2007), Paris Photo(1999-2006), Art Bruxelles (2004-2005),
ARCO, Madrid (2005), Art2003 London (2003), Art 31 Basel (2000),
with Eric Franck Fine Art

   
Eva Stenram is a lecturer in Fine Art, Digital Photography and Video Art at the University of Bedfordshire
 

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