Eva Stenram Born in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2001-2003 Royal College of Art, London (UK)
MA Photography, dissertation awarded a distinction
1995-1999 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London (UK)
BA (Hons) Fine Art Media, first class degree
Solo Exhibitions / Two-Person Exhibitions
2016 Offcut, Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL) (forthcoming - September/October)
2015 Crisscross, Galerie Raum Mit Licht, Vienna (AT) - with Käthe Hager von Strobele
  Daydreams are nicer than T.V., Filet, London (UK)
  Cover, pp. 43-51, The Function Room, London (UK)
  Positions, Siobhan Davies Dance, London (UK)
2014 Decor, Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen (DK)
  Arm, The Function Room, London (UK)
  Drape and Parts, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm (SE)
2013 Drape, Pobeda Gallery, Moscow (RU)
  Drape, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
  Drape, Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
2012 Le Prix Découverte des Rencontres d'Arles (Discovery Award), Arles (FR)
2008 Per Pulverem Ad Astra, Pavilion, Leeds (UK)
Group Exhibitions
2016 Tender Touches, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (UK) (forthcoming October 2016 –January 2017)
  Abstract Apartment, Deborah House, London (UK)
  The Summer Show, Ravestijn Gallery, Amsterdam (NL)
  Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival, public installation programme, Toronto (CA)
  Restart, Riga Photography Biennial, Riga (LV)
  The Cunt Tavern, The Function Room, London (UK)
2015 A Handful of Dust, Le Bal, Paris (FR)
  Frame Thy Fearful Symmetry, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (UK)
  I'm Ten, IMT Gallery, London (UK)
  London Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
  Dear Dave, Foley Gallery, New York (US)
  Strange Cities: Athens, hosted by the Onassi Cultural Centre at the Diplareios School, Athens (GR)
2014

Something Beautiful, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (US)

  Welcome to The Association Area - Whitstable Biennale screening programme, Whitstable (UK)
  ..., The Function Room, London (UK)
  The Way You See It / Jak to Widzisz, Galeria Szara Kamienica, Krakow (PL)
  The Visible - Contemporary Swedish Photography, Artipelag (SE)
2013 Unnatural Selection: nine female artists respond to the private collection of Brad Feuerhelm, MC Theater, Unseen Photography Fair, Amsterdam (NL)
  Must-Have, Ligne Roset City, London (UK)
  Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Hyères (FR)
2012 Capital, George and Jørgen, London (UK)
 

Born in 1987: The Animated Gif,The Photographers' Gallery, London (UK)

  Fabricate - Cecilia Bonilla, Slawa Harasymowicz and Eva Stenram, Parlour Gallery, London (UK)

2011

AMPS11, Photofusion, London (UK)
  Closer to Something, Four Corners, London (UK)
  Trick of the Light, Core Gallery, London (UK)
  Check In, Harbourside, Folkestone (UK)
  Elusive, Camberwell Space, London (UK)
 

Songs of The Swamp, WUK – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna (AT)

2010 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 (IN)
  This Must Be The Place, Jerwood Space, London (UK)
  Reading Landscape - Contemporary Landscape Photography, Architectural Association, London (UK)
  The Skinned City, Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects, London (UK)
2009 Room 38 – Photography Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK)
  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 (SG)
  Fullerton-Batton, Gutchow, Hughes, Knorr and Stenram, Eric Franck Fine Art, London (UK)
  European Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (CN)
  Untitled Tales, Photo50 at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London (UK)
  Besame Mucho Mas, Chat's Palace, London (UK)
2007 Pavilion Commissions 2007, Photofusion, London (UK)
  The Man Group Photography Prize 2007, Royal College of Art, London (UK)
  Time Travel, The Hat Factory, Luton (UK)
  Asia-Europe Mediations, National Museum and WSNHID, Poznan (PL)
  Kinoskipos, Hadspen Gardens, Somerset (UK)
 

Look@Me, Institut fur Kultur- und Medienmanagement der Freien Universitat Berlin, Berlin (DE)

  Birds in Flight, Curzon Soho, London (UK)
  Between Mirrors and Windows, Photo50 at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London (UK)
  Itchy Park, Lime House Town Hall, London (UK)
2006 Albertine goes South, Dorothee Schmid Art Consulting, London (UK)
 

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

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)

Open Borders, Droog Design Event, Tri Postal, Lille (FR)

PR04 - Puerto Rico Biennial, M&M; Proyectos, San Juan and Rincon (PR)

Digital Sublime, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei (TW)

2003

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

London Calling, Con|temporary, Berlin (DE)

Royal College of Art MA Photography Show, London (UK)

Hair the Show, Tablet Gallery, London (UK)

Turpentine, Studio Voltaire, London (UK)

Another Way is Possible, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

2002

Evidence, Essor Gallery Project Space, London (UK)

 

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

 

media_city seoul 2002, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)

 

CLUB, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers (FR)

 

Local Zoological Gardens, Grosvenor Offices, London (UK)

 

Gatsby, The New Landsdowne Club, London (UK)

 

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

 

Meantime, Royal College of Art, London (UK)

2001 Out of the Void, Candid Arts Gallery, London (UK)
  Attalier Something, Tyssen Street Studios, London (UK)
  Tvibit Festivalen, Tromsø (NO)
  Record Collection, VTO, London, The Internaetional 3, Manchester (UK) and Forde Espace d'Art Contemporain, Geneva (CH)
2000 Living with the Dutch, 89a Erlanger Road, London (UK)
  Slicker, Mafuji Gallery, London (UK)
1999

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

  I'll tell you about my mother, 18 Kingsland Road, London (UK)
  Bargain @ Mr Buyrite's, 245 Upper Street, London (UK)
1997 Bergen Short Film Festival, Peer Plexis Alternative, Bergen (NO)
  Slade and Glasgow University Screenings, Tramway, Glasgow (UK)
  Hiding behind the Sofa, Prema Arts Centre, Ulay (UK)
1996 Free Beer, Shooting Gallery, London (UK)
  Big Deal, Big Issue Headquarters, London (UK)
  Elastic Frontiers Arts Festival, Sheffield (UK)
1995 Stroke softly away from the body, The Gallery in Stoke Newington, London (UK)
  The Royal Family, Monstruous Carbuncle Gallery, London (UK)
   
Prizes, Awards and Commissions
2013 Artists' International Development Fund, Arts Council England (UK)
  The Cord Prize - First Prize (UK)
  Aperture Portfolio Prize, finalist (US)
  Hyeres International Photography Competition, finalist (FR)
2012 Le Prix Découverte des Rencontres d'Arles (Discovery Award), nominated/finalist (FR)
2007 Royal College of Art Graduate Award 2007 – First Prize (UK)
  The Man Group Photography Prize 2007 – First Prize (UK)
  Pavilion Commissions Programme 2007 (UK)

2006

Digital Photography Bursary from Westminster Arts Council (UK)

2004

British Council travel grant to Puerto Rico (UK)

 

DLA Art Award finalist (UK)

2003

The Photographers’ Gallery Graduate Award (UK)

  Queen Elizabeth Hospital Art Commission (UK)
  Twenty White Chairs - commission by the Wapping Project (UK)

 

British Council travel grant to Berlin (UK)

2002 Grosvenor Estate Photography Commission (UK)

 

National Magazine Company Award (UK)

2001 The Man Group Scholarship (UK)
   
Public Talks
2015 In conversation with Käthe Hager von Strobele and Melissa Lumbroso, Galerie Raum Mit Licht,
Vienna (AT)
  In conversation with Jane Won, Siobhan Davies Dance, London (UK)
  Exhibition tour, Siobhan Davies Dance, London (UK)
2013 In conversation with Lucy Soutter, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool (UK)
  Artist's talk at Hyeres international Photography Festival (FR)
 

Artist's talk at Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool) in collaboration with Redeye (UK)

2012 Artist's talk at Le Prix Découverte des Rencontres d'Arles (FR)
  "Despoiling the Ideal", artist's talk given during the two day symposium "On Perfection" at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (UK)
  "Experimenting with Photography (Jeremy Akerman, Chloe Sells, Judith Lyons and Eva Stenram in conversation with Carole Evans)", Photofusion, London (UK)
2011 "Closer to Something - Artists' Talk", Four Corners, London (UK)
2010 Artist's talk organised by Enemies of Good Art, at Front Room, Troika Editions, London (UK)
  "Camille Fallet, Xavier Ribas and Eva Stenram in conversation with David Campany", Jerwood Space, London (UK)
2009 Photo Forum at Four Corners, London (UK)
  Artist's talk at the Apple Shop, Regent's Street, London (UK)

2006

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

   
  Eva Stenram has also given talks at the Arts Institute at Bournemouth, Bedfordshire University, Brighton University, University of Creative Arts, Derby University, Glasgow School of Art,
Newcastle University, Portsmouth University, Pratt Institute, Royal College of Art,
University of South Wales, Southampton Institute and Swansea College of Art.
   
Art Fairs Amsterdam Art Fair (2016) with Ravestijn Gallery
  ARTINTERNATIONAL (2015), Istanbul, with Galerie Raum Mit Licht
  Amsterdam Art Fair (2015) with Ravestijn Gallery
  Art Brussels (2015) with Galerie Raum Mit Licht
  Photo London (2015) with Ravestijn Gallery
  Art Herning (2015), Denmark, with Peter Lav Gallery
  Unseen, Amsterdam (2014) with Ravestijn Gallery
  Market Art Fair, Stockholm (2014) with Peter Lav Gallery
  Unseen book market (2013) with Ravestijn Gallery
  FotoFever, Paris and Pan Art Fair, Amsterdam (2013) with Ravestijn Gallery
 

SPLINTER (2013) – an independent photography dealers' fair, with Brad Feuerhelm, London

  Glasgow Art Fair (2009) with Pavilion
  Free Art Fair (2009) at the Barbican Centre Foyer, London
  Photo London and Paris Photo (2007) with The Photographer's Gallery
  Photo London (2004-2007), Paris Photo(1999-2007), Art Bruxelles (2004-2005),
ARCO (2005), Art2003 London (2003)
and Art 31 Basel (2000) with Eric Franck Fine Art
   
Collections Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Collection, London (UK)
  Tate Gallery Collection (UK)
  Pavilion, Leeds (UK)
  The Arts Club, London (UK)
  Grosvenor, London (UK)
  The Andaz Great Eastern Hotel, London (UK)
  Royal College of Art, London (UK)
  Private collections in Europe and Asia