Born 1976, Oslo; Lives and works in Tokyo.
EDUCATION
2026
CURRENT & FORTHCOMING
2026 ‘The Purpose of a System is What it Does’, Kode, Bergen
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 ‘Music Playing Over Speech’, Maureen Paley, London
2024 "Incendiary Test Area", Trykkeriet, Bergen
2023 ‘These Colors Don't Run’, Parapet Real Humans, Saint Louis
2022 ‘It's got to change. It's going to change. I mean, it's not a question of, I hope it changes. It's going to change, a hundred percent’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘Maybe it’s the calm before the storm. Could be the calm, the calm before the storm’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
2019 ‘How to Survive in the West’, The Modern Institute, Aird's Lane Bricks Space
Maureen Paley, London
2018 ‘Flagwaste’, Team Gallery, New York
‘Rawhide Down’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
2017 ‘Studies and Further Studies in a Dying Culture’, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2016 ‘Distinct Functional Layers Help Establish Hierarchy and Order’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘SHFT’, Team (bungalow), Venice
2015 ‘FREEDOM, MOTHERFUCKER. DO YOU SPEAK IT?’, Team Gallery, New York
‘A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy’, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum,, Aarhus
‘Clearing Operations and Carelessness’, Half Gallery, New York
2014 ‘Tarp’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘He Likes the Fiestas. He Likes the Music. He Likes to Dance’, Maureen Paley, London
‘Gardar Eide Einarsson & Richard Ramirez’, Home Alone 2 Gallery, New York
2013 ‘Versuchsstation des Weltuntergangs’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
‘The Story Of IXO’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
‘I Am The Only Free Man On This Train’, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2012 ‘Sorry If I Got It Wrong, But Something Definitely Isn't Right’, Team Gallery, New York
Maureen Paley, London
‘Infinite Crisis’, Home Alone Gallery, New York
2011 ‘Power Has A Fragrance’, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
‘Power Has a Fragrance’, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
‘Discourses, Institutions, Buildings, Laws, Police Measures, Philosophical Propositions, and So On’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Power Under Construction’, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
2010 ‘Power Has A Fragrance’, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik
‘ANOTHER MODERN MOMENT COMPLETED’, Team Gallery, New York
‘Power Has A Fragrance’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
Standard (OSLO), Oslo
2009 ‘Dog-Whistle Politics’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘FOCUS: Gardar Eide Einarsson’, The Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Forth Worth
‘I Caused Dreams Which Caused Death. This is my Crime’, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
2008 ‘No Chaos, Damn It!’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘South of Heaven’, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Genève
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis
2007 ‘South of Heaven’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
‘The Geometry of Menace’, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles
‘Judge’, Team Gallery, New York
‘All My Friends Are Dead’, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Total War’, Sorry We're Closed, Brussels
2006 ‘Tokyo Underworld’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘Population One’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
2005 ‘Leashed or Confined’, Team Gallery, New York
‘Master of My Fate’, Roberts and Tilton, Culver City
‘Black Iron Prison’, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2004 ‘Rank Xerox (with Matias Faldbakken)’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
‘Enter to Start’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘Come and Take It’, UKS Gallery, Oslo
‘We’ll Make the World You Live’, Fotogalleriet, Oslo
‘5 (words)’, Schnittraum, Cologne
‘Your Example Will Speak Louder Than Words’, Marres centrum beeldende kunst, Maastricht
2003 ‘o.u.t.l.a.w’, Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin
‘Violators Will be Fine’, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
‘Lösen Sie Ihren Bonus Ein (with Hinrich Sachs)’, Revolver, Frankfurt
‘That’s Not Made for That’, Norsk Form/ Fotogalleriet, Oslo
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 ‘Composition for the Left Hand’, Bergen
‘Shifting Views’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘To Gain a Hold of the Stone that Forever is Falling’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Multiples’, Oscaar Mouligne, Kyoto
2023 ‘Monochromes’, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
‘Before Tomorrow’, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo
‘LOL – Humor in Norwegian Art History’, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg
2022 ‘The Brain. In Art & Science’, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
2021 x_minimal, Cassina Projects, Milan
‘I Know Where I'm Going – Who Can I Be Now’, The Modern Institute, 14–20 Osborne Street, Glasgow
‘This is the Night Mail’, Whitechapel Gallery, London
‘Gardar Eide Einarsson / Kaz Oshiro’, PARCEL Gallery, Tokyo
2020 ‘… in these trying times’, FLAG Art Foundation, New York
‘WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano – The Collection of Erling Kagge’, Museion, Bolzano
‘WALKING. Movements North of Bolzano – The Collection of Erling Kagge’, Museion, Bolzano
‘Entangled Paperworks’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘Art Basel in Oslo / STANDARD (GRÜEZI)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘One Plus One’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Ups & Downs – 15 years of STANDARD (OSLO)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘You Are Right Here Right Now’, Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, Næstved
‘Unleashed Speed, Unleashed Speech (Misfits)’, Kotoro Nukaga, Tokyo
‘I Hate You’, Plymouth Rock, Zurich
2019 ‘Resolution of time and space’, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen
‘So Indolent So Sneaky (with Valentin Carron)’, Noire Gallery, Turin
2018 ‘Becoming Animal’, Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘The Phantom of Liberty’, RISD Museum, Providence
‘The Phantom of Liberty : Contemporary Works in the RISD Museum Collection’, RISD Museum, Providence
‘Faithless Pictures’, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
‘1000 Images. A Word Is Worth A Thousand Pictures’, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Arts, Lisbon
‘Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Adam McEwen Selects’, Gladstone Gallery, New York
‘Becoming Animal’, Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig
2017 ‘Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon’, Maureen Paley, London
‘At This Stage’, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
‘Feedback’, Marlborough Contemporary, New York
‘PAINTING |OR| NOT’, KaviarFactory, Henningsvær
2016 ‘Send in the Clowns’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘Golden Eggs’, Team Gallery, New York
‘(UN)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘(UN) (with Per Krohg)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘No Man is an Island – The Satanic Verses’, ARoS Aarhus Art Museum,, Aarhus
‘PUNK: Its Traces in Contemporary Art’, Museo Universitario El Chopo, Mexico City
‘For Pete’s Sake’, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm
‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’, Untilthen, Saint Ouen
2015 ‘Marlborough Lights’, Marlborough Broom Street, New York
‘The World is Made of Stories: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur’, Museo Jumex, Mexico City,
‘Taguchi Hiroshi Art Collection; A Walk around the Contemporary Art World after Paradigm Shift’, The Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu
‘Slam Section’, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm
2014 ‘The Disappearance of the Fireflies’, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon
‘New Ways of Doing Nothing: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, Oscar Tuazon’, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
‘The Theater of the World / El Teatro Del Mundo’, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
‘Chez Perv’, Team Gallery, New York
‘The Crime Was Almost Perfect’, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
‘Grip friheten! Take Liberty!’, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2013 ‘Out Of Memory’, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
‘Awaiting Immanence’, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm
‘Lies About Painting’, Moderna Museet, Malmö
‘Déjà vu : Contemporary Art From Malmö Art Museum's Collection’, Turku Art Museum, Turku
2012 ‘F For Freedom’, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
‘La Décadence’, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
‘Unpainted Paintings – Materials That Speak’, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
‘Breuning, Bäckström, Einarsson, Gamdrup, Kvie, Kvium, Lagomarsino, Rødland, Storch, Superflex’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘To Be With Art is All We Ask’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘Oscar knows Gardar. Gardar knows Matias. Matias knows Fredrik. Fredrik sort of knows Gardar. Gardar knows Marius. And that Gardar knows Matias we already know. But Matias also knows Anders’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘At the Edge: Recent Acquisitions’, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, BAM/PFA, Berkeley
‘A Child’s Guide to Good & Evil’, Ramiken Crucible, New York
2011 ‘I don't know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly…’, IMO, Copenhagen
‘Black Swan: The Exhibition’, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
‘Secret Societies. To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Keep Silence’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
‘New York Minute Moscow’, The Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
‘The Last First Decade’, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
‘Investigations of a Dog’, Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
‘Litos Grafera’, KunstCentret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg
‘In The Name of the Artists : Astrup Fearnley Collection’, Biennial Pavilion, São Paulo
‘Pawnshop’, Thessaloniki Biennial, Thessaloniki
‘The Last First Decade’, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
‘North By New York: New Nordic Art’, Scandinavia House, New York
2010 ‘Supernature: An Exercise in Loads’, AMP, Athens
‘I Like the Work, but my Wife Is Still Concern. Please Keep Me Inform about New Works’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Is There Any Hope for an Optimistic Art?’, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
‘Ever Prosperity’, Bugada & Cargnel, Paris
‘Investigations of a Dog’, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
‘Tracks, New acquisitions in Malmö Art Museum collection of Nordic Contemporary Art’, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
‘To The Arts, Citizens!’, Museu Serralves, Museu de Art Contemporanea, Porto
‘Les Recherches d'un Chien’, La Maison Rouge, Paris
‘Where Do We Go From Here? : Selections from La Coleccion Jumex’, CAC, Cincinnati
‘It is it’, Espacio 1414, Santurce
‘The Beauty and the Distance’, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
‘Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects & artists 2005 – 2010’, Gering & López Gallery, New York
‘The Secret Knows’, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), Los Angeles
‘New York The Loudest’, Gallery Koko, Tokyo
2009 ‘I Love Malmö’, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn
‘The World Is Yours’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
‘Chasing Napoleon’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘Beg Borrow and Steal’, Rubell Family Collection, Miami
‘Einarsson, Rhodes, Whitney’, Team Gallery, New York
‘Rotating Views #2’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘Living Together’, MARCO, Vigo
‘Zwischenzonen – La Colección Jumex’, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna
‘Investigations of a Dog’, Works from the FACE Collections, Turin
‘Minimal Means’, Frank Cohen Collection, Wolverhampton
‘That’s All Folk’, Stadshallen, Bruges
‘Lessons In The Art Of Falling – Norwegian Performance And Process Art 1966-2009’, Preus Museum, Horten
‘New York Minute’, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome
‘Every Revolution Is a Roll of the Dice’, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2008 ‘Murder Letters’, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
‘The Whitney Biennial’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
‘Lights On!’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘Meet Me Around the Corner’, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
‘We never met before, but it’s with great anticipation of your understanding that I’m writing you and I hope you will in good faith give a deep consideration to my proposal below’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Living Together’, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
‘The Soft Shields of Pleasure’, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
‘Come, Come, Come into My World’, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
‘Listen Darling… The World is Yours’, Ellipse Foundation, Cascais
‘That Was Then … This Is Now’, P.S.1, New York
‘Hardcore’, Sørlandet Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
‘Norsk’, Hydro Art Collection, Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Oslo
2007 ‘Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice’, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
‘My Sweet Sixteen Party’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
‘Last Attraction Next Exit’, Max Wigram Gallery, London
‘In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love’, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
‘Bastard Creature’, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
‘In Practice Projects’, Sculpture Center, New York
Taka Ishii Gallery, Kiyosumi, Tokyo
‘Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
‘Kick It Till It Breaks’, The Kitchen, New York
‘I Love Malmo, Works from the Malmo Art Museum’, Turku Art Museum, Turku
‘White Light’, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand
‘Painting, Space, and Society’, Göteborg Konsthall, Göteborg
‘Sweet Bird of Youth’, Arndt & Partner, Berlin
‘Beneath The Underdog / Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes)’, Gagosian, New York
‘Conditions of Display’, Moore Space, Miami
‘Extraordinary Rendition’, Nogueras Blanchard, Barcelona
2006 ‘In The Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love’, Artists Space, New York
‘Survivor’, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York
‘Collection’, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
‘The Complex of Respect’, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
‘View Nine: Scene 2’, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
‘Samle Sammen’, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
‘Street: Behind The Cliché’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
‘Mafia (Or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes)’, Standard (OSLO), Oslo
Marc Selwyn Gallery, LA
‘Defamation of Character’, P.S.1, New York
‘The Norwegian Sculpture Biennial’, The Vigeland Museum, Oslo
‘And Yet It Moves’, MOT Gallery, London
‘War On 45 / My Mirrors Are Painted Black (For You)’, Dayan, New York
‘Theater Of Life – Rhetorics Of Emotions’, Stadtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus, Munich
‘Down by Law’, Whitney Museum and The Wrong Gallery, New York
2005 ‘Downstrokes and Feedback’, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
‘In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write The Word Love’, CCA, Glasgow
‘Populism’, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
‘Walls ‘n Things’, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
‘To Be Continued’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘Performance Festival’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Populism’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Damien Deroubaix,Gardar Eide Einarsson, Jakob Kolding’, Team Gallery, New York
‘Greater New York’, P.S.1, New York
Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul
‘Populism’, The National Museum, Oslo
‘Populism’, CAC, Vilnius
Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
‘Master of my Fate’, Roberts and Tilton Gallery, Los Angeles
‘L’Altro’, Franco Soffiantino Arte contemporanea, Torino
‘Blast’, G Fine Art, Washington D.C.
‘Next Generation : No Ordinary Sanctity’, Kunstraum Deutsche Bank , Salzburg
‘Opacity’, Unge Kunstneres Samfunn, Oslo
2004 ‘Adaptations’, Apex Art, New York
‘Black Friday’, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
‘No More Reality’, Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
‘On The Carnivalesque’, Shedhalle, Zurich
‘Planet B: Das B-Movie in der zeitgenössichen Kunst’, Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz
‘Now And Ten Years Ago’, Kunstwerke, Berlin
‘Boys Keep Swinging’, Champion Fine Arts, New York
‘New Acquisitions’, Malmo Art Museum, Malmo
‘Adaptations’, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel
2003 ‘Between The Lines’, Apex Art, New York
‘Art For the People’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
‘Art For the People’, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
‘Put Out More Flags’, Sutton Lane, London
‘Definitively Provisional’, Whitechapel Project Space, London
‘10th Biennale de l’image et mouvement’, Centre pour l’image Contemporaine, Geneva
‘24/7: New York-Vilnius’, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
‘Kunstladen’, Kunstverein Munchen, Munich
‘Electric Visions’, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
‘Copy Cat’, Art Academy Aarhus, Aarhus
‘Copy Cat’, Mess Hall, Chicago
2002 ‘Lars Von Trier (with Gareth James)’, American Fine Arts, New York
‘Mind the Space (with Jan Christensen)’, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo
‘CMYK/ Greyscale’, Tramway, Glasgow
‘6’ Under (with Carissa Rodriguez)’, White Box, New York
‘Strike’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton
‘Esplanaden’, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen
‘Where am I Now 2’, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
2001 ‘Schpaa’, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
‘Schpaa’, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
‘Kosmos’, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
‘Audit’, Casino Luxembourg Forum d' Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
‘What's Wrong’, The Trade Apartment, London
‘Osculum Infame’, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki
‘Schpaa’, Bergen Kunstforening, Bergen
‘Reol’, Galleri OTTO, Copenhagen
2000 ‘Coal by Any Other Name’, American Fine Arts, New York
‘Presenting the Piece’, Galleri OTTO, Copenhagen
Festival Junge Talente, Offenbach am Main
‘Propaganda Village’, Galleri G.I, Oslo
‘Propaganda Village’, Henie Onstad Artcente, Oslo
‘Momentum’, Nordic Festival for Contemporary Art, Moss
‘Presenting the Piece’, Rhizom, Aarhus
1999 ‘Notes From the Underground (with Marius Engh)’, Galleri 21:25, Oslo
‘Videolounge’, Museum Friedericianum, Kassel
‘Videoscreening’, Centro Cultural, Casa Guillermo, Bogota
PERFORMANCES
2006 ‘Ship of Fools’, The Swiss Institute, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
PUBLICATIONS
2018 Conservator’s Notes, At Last Books, Copenhagen
2017 TARP, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
2015 A Madman, a Patient, a Condemned Man, a Worker or a Schoolboy, Aaros Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus
2014 Stainless Steel / Fluorescent Pink, Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo
The Mess, Karma, New York
2013 Versuchsstation Des Veltuntergangs, Bergen Kunsthall / Sternberg Press, Berlin
2010 Power Has a Fragrance, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
2007 South of Heaven, Frankfurter Kunstverein / Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve / Revolver, Frankfurt
2004 Long Haired And Freaky People Need Not Apply, Revolver, Frankfurt
