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

Education

2001-2003

Royal College of Art, London

MA Photography, dissertation awarded a distinction

1995-1999

Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

BA (Hons) Fine Art Media, first class degree

Solo Exhibition
2008 Per Pulverem Ad Astra, Pavilion, Leeds, UK
 

Exhibitions

2011-2012

AMPS11, Photofusion, London, UK.
2011 Closer to Something, Four Corners, London, UK.
2011 Check In, Harbourside, Folkestone, UK
2011 Elusive, Camberwell Space, London, UK
2011 Songs of The Swamp, WUK – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
2010-2011 Something That I'll Never Really See, Contemporary Photography from the V&A, Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum, Mumbai, National Gallery of Art, Bangalore, and National Gallery of Modern Art , New Delhi, India
2010 This Must Be The Place, Jerwood Space, London, UK
2010 Reading Landscape - Contemporary Landscape Photography, Architectural Association, London, UK
2010 The Skinned City, Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects, London, UK
2009-2010 Room 38 – Photography Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2009 Rank: Picturing the Social Order 1516-2009, Leeds Art Gllery, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK
2008 Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore
2008 Group exhibition, The Parking Lot (Eric Franck Fine Art), London, UK
2008 European Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008 Untitled Tales, Photo50 at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2007 Pavilion Commissions 2007, Photofusion, London, UK
2007 The Man Group Photography Prize 2007, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 Time Travel, The Hat Factory, Luton, UK
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, UK
2007 Between Mirrors and Windows, Photo50 at the London At Fair, Business Design Centre, London, UK
2006

Albertine goes South, Dorothee Schmid Art Consulting, London, UK

2006

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

2006

Plug, White Gallery, County Hall, London, UK

2005

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

2004

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

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, UK

2003

London Calling, Con|temporary, Berlin, Germany

2003

Royal College of Art MA Photography Show, London, UK

2003

Hair the Show, Tablet Gallery, London, UK

2003

Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London, UK

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

2002

Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London, UK

2002

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

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, UK

2002

Gatsby, The New Landsdowne Club, London, UK

2002

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

2002

Meantime, Royal College of Art, London, UK

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

Slade BA Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London, UK

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

Awards and Prizes

2007 Royal College of Art Graduate Award 2007
2007 The 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 finalist

2003

The Photographers’ Gallery Graduate Award

2003

British Council travel grant to Berlin

2002

National Magazine Company Award

2001 The Man Group Scholarship

 

 

Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Collection, London, UK
Pavilion, Leeds, UK

Andaz, formerly Great Eastern Hotel, London, UK

Grosvenor, London, UK
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Private collections in Europe and Asia
   

Public talks

2012 "Experimenting with Photography (Jeremy Akerman, Chloe Sells, Judith Lyons and Eva Stenram is conversation with Carole Evans)", Photofusion, London, UK
2011 "Closer to Something - Artists' Talk", Four Corners, London, UK
2010 "Eva Stenram", organised by Enemies of Good Art, at Front Room, Troika Editions, London, UK
2010 "Camille Fallet, Xavier Ribas and Eva Stenram in conversation with David Campany", Jerwood Space, London, UK
2009 "Photo Forum" at Four Corners, London, UK
2009 "Eva Stenram", Apple Shop, London, UK

2006

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

   

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, UK
2007 Kinoskipos, Hadspen Gardens, Somerset, UK
2007 Itchy Park, Lime House Town Hall, London, UK
   
Features in Magazines, Journals and Television
2010 "Per Pulverem Ad Astra – Eva Stenram", text by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Architectural Review, February 2010
2009 The Succulent Legume, The Insurgent Issue guest edited by Cecilia Bonilla
2009 "Blank Space – Eva Stenram", text by Rut Blees Luxemburg, Architectural Review, Issue 1347, May 2009
2008 "Eva Stenram", Mix Future Interiors, Issue 8 (ISSN 1749-8554)
2007 FashNRiot, Issue 4 (Lost and Found)
2007 "Absent – Eva Stenram", Succour, True Stories (Issue 5)
2006 /seconds, issue 3, Derek Horton, Peter Lewis (eds.), Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds (ISSN 1751-4134)
2005 “Retouching History – Eva Stenram”, Source, Issue 43
2003 “Big Picture”, Blueprint, no 209 (ISSN 0268-4926)
2001 “The Artist's Eye: Club", BBC Knowledge
   

Press

2011 "Art Talk" (Marta Jakimovicz), Deccan Herald, February 28
2011 "The V&A in Bangalore" (Kavitha Rao), The Wall Street Journal Scene Asia, February 1
2011 "Something that you'll never really see" (Elizabeth Soumya), DNA, January 30
2011 "Speaking images" (Sravasti Datti), The Hindu, January 29
2009 "Frieze, Zoo and Affordable show bargain art" (Richard Clayton), The Times, October 4
2008 "Watch this space...pictures of an alien planet on show at new art gallery",
Yorkshire Evening Post, May 26
2008 "Pavilion Commissions 2007", Hot Shoe, December/January
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

   
Catalogues
2011 Elusive, essay by Martin Newth, Camberwell Press, London.
2010 This Must Be The Place, essay by David Campany and introduction by Shonagh Manson, Jerwood Cheritable Foundation, London (ISBN 978-0-9563570-2-1)
2008 Rank: Picturing the Social Order 1516-2009, essays by Polly Toynbee, Daniel Dorling, Keith Wrightson and Alistair Robinson, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (ISBN 0954911938)
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 (ISBN 978-0-9544775-4-7)
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)

 

Other projects and events

2008 Kunstschlampen Dublin
In collaboration with Giles Round and Irish Museum of Modern Art
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
   
Art Fairs

Glasgow Art Fair 2009 with Pavilion, Leeds

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

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

   

Eva Stenram worked as a lecturer in Fine Art, Photography and Video Art at the University of Bedfordshire from 2006-2010 and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Creative Arts, Derby University, Glasgow School of Art, Southampton Institute and the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.