BIOGRAPHY   1979 born in Växjö, Sweden Lives and works in Berlin AWARDS Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö, 2011 ars viva 2010/11, Chemnitz, Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft, 2010 Baloise Price, Statements Art 40 Basel, 2009 Location One, Arts Council Ireland residency stipend, New York, 2008/2009 Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Johanneum Graz, project award, 2008 Culture Ireland, Project stipend, 2008 Künstlerhäuser Worpswede, residency and stipend, 2008 Arts Council Ireland, Artist Bursary Award, 2007 Model Arts & Niland Gallery Fellowship, 2007 Firestation Artists’ Studios Residency, 2005-2008 Aileen McKeogh Award, 2005 Jönköping Cultural Committee Award, 2004   SOLO EXHIBITIONS   2012 Lautlos, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Tendrils, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair, Cubitt Gallery, London, England Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis 2011 Heart of the Matter, Galerie Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch, Berlin Matter of the Heart, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin Ode To Outer Ends, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2010 To Let Stay Projecting as a Bit of Branch on a Log by Not Chopping it Off, MUMOK, Wien 2009 Five Kinds of Water, Kunstverein Hamburg The New Mineral, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen Projects in Art and Theory, Köln Statements, Art 40 Basel Paradise [31], Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2008 Walking on No-Top Hill, Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin Digging a Hole, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Great Britain (collaboration w. Robin Watkins) Slight Heat of the Eyelid, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (collaboration w. Robin Watkins) 2007 LISTE Young Contemporary Art Fair, Basel Moon, Mist, Drum, Model Arts & Niland Gallery, Sligo 2006 Soft Mud & Parallel Happenings, T293, Naples 2005 We Woke Up With Energy, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin 2004 Obscured by Clouds, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland Regarder, Observer, Surveiller, Galerie Sequence, Quebec   GROUP EXHIBITIONS   2012 Les amas d’Hercule, Parc Saint Léger, Saint Léger en Bray Dorothea Von Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn Mexico City Blues, New York Gallery, New York / Shanaynay, Paris Into the Eyes as Ends of Hair, Cubitt Gallery, London Intense Proximity, Paris Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris The Devil's Fidelity, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris All our relations, Sydney Biennale, Sydney Oh you mean cellophane and all that crap, Calder Foundation, New York Made in Germany 2, Hannover Atelier+Küche, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany Nina Canell / Atsushi Kaga / Matt Sheridan Smith / David Sherry - I Love Those Paintings [art, Natural & Social Science], Mother's Tankstation, Dublin Sound Spill, Galerie West, The Hague 2011 Based in Berlin, Monbijou Park, Berlin Second Strike, Herzliya Biennial, Tel Aviv Twenty, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland Preisträger ars viva 2010-2011, Chemnitz, Istanbul Under Destruction, Swiss Institute, New York Edstranska Stiftelsen – Malmoe Art Academy, Malmoe, Sweden No color in your cheeks unless the wind lashes your face, online exhibition New Existensialism (Part 4), Altefabrik, Rapperswill, Switzerland Labor (Ars Viva Prize), SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey In Sardegna - Tutto é Tondo - Assembled by Joana Escoval at Vera Cortes, Lisboa, Portugal 2010 On Line, MoMA, New York Neue Alchemie (Kunst der Gegenwart nach Beuys), LWL Landesmuseum Münster Modernautställningen / The Moderna Exhibition 2010, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Unsichtbare Schatten, Marta Herford Fischgrätenmelkstand, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin Liverpool Biennale, Tate Liverpool On Destuction, Jean Tinguely Museum, Basel Beyond Entropy: When Energy Becomes Form, La Biennale di Venezia A Never Ending Story, Truth or Consequences, NM Runaway Train, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm Life: A User´s Manual, Art Sheffield, Sheffield Performative Attitudes, Kunsthaus Glarus Leopards in the Temple, Sculpture Center, New York Das Wesen im Ding, Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt 2009 The Knight’s Tour, De Hallen, Haarlem The Actuality of the Idea, Stuart Shave / Modern Art, London All That is Solid Melts into Air, MuHKA, Antwerp/Mechelen Canell/Egan/Nowak, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf Coalesce Happenstance, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam 2008 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea Manifesta 7 - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Trentino, Südtirol Auto – Stop, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden Sometimes You Fall in Love with an Idea, Cluster, Berlin Mima: Sound Space, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art 2007 No Borders (Just News), La Centrale Electrique - European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels / Centre of Contemporary Art of Thessaloniki Beyond the Country: Perspectives of the Land in Historic and Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork Movement, Contingency & Community, Gallery27, Seoul What Remains, Spazio Lambretto, Milano Come Together, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin 2006 Bigger Bang, Galleria Ja Projektitila Huoltamo, Tampere, Finland Bring the Noise, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland Plane, Royal Hibernian Academy & The Dock, Dublin & Carrick-on Shannon Dangerous Obsessions and the Culture of Excess, Mother's Tankstation, Dublin 2005 Here Comes Everybody, Project Arts Centre Gallery, Dublin Precaution, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin Live, Interim-Projekte, Frankfurt 2004 Obscured by Clouds, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin Regarder, Observer, Surveiller, Galerie Sequence, Quebec   PUBLICATIONS   Nina Canell: To Let Stay Projecting as a Bit of Branch on a Log by not Chopping it Off, Walter König Verlag, Köln and Mumok, Vienna 2010 Nina Canell: Evaporation Essays, Kunstverein Hamburg, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, (Hg.), Berlin 2010 Creamier: 100 Contemporary Artists, Phaidon Press, 2010 Nina Canell: Shedding Skin (Perpetual Current for Twenty-Four Buckets), LP, KH Worpswede, 2008 Nina Canell: 29 Infra-Ordinary Meteors, 7” locked groove record, Economic Thought, 2008 Champagne Diamond/The Brilliant Light, LP, Caff-Flick, 2007 + CD, Kaleidoscope, 2008 Arpeggio Book, Artist publication, The Model Arts & Niland Gallery, 2007 Luftkluster/Luftfluks, LP, Oscillatone, 2006 The New Heat/Obscured by Light, LP, Oscillatone, 2005 ARTICLES AND REVIEWS Cubitt, review by Martin Herbert, Frieze # 147, 2012 Under Destruction, Ed. Jetzer, Sharp, Distanz Verlag with Museum Tinguely & SI, 2010 Nina Canell, article by Chris Sharp, Art Review, Jan-Feb, 2010 The Knights Tour, text by Xander Karskens, De Hallen, Haarlem, 2009 Nought to Sixty, text by Isobel Harbison, ICA, London, 2009 Younger than Jesus; Artist Directory, Phaidon Press and New Museum, 2009 Walking on No-Top Hill, review by Chris Sharp, MAP: Journeys in Contemporary Art #17,2009 Walking on No-Top Hill, review by Renate Puvogel, Kunstforum International, Band 195, 2009 (E)merging Artists, article by Martin L. Herbert, Modern Painters, December, 2008 Walking on No-Top Hill, review by Quinn Latimer, Frieze Online, 2008 Movement, Contingency & Community, edited by Hyunjin Kim, Darun Books, 2008 Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report, edited by Okwui Enwezor, exhibition catalogue, Gwangju Biennale, 2008 The Glue & the Wedge, artist interview, Circa # 124, 2008 Manifesta 7: Index, text by Adam Budak, exhibition catalogue, 2008 Slight Heat of the Eyelid, review by Luke Clancy, Art Review # 22, 2008 Come Together, essay by Declan Long, exhibition catalogue, Douglas Hyde Gallery, 2007 Together, Again, essay by Sarah Pierce, Mother’s Annual, MTS, 2006 We Woke Up With Energy, review by Sally O’Reilly, Frieze # 98, 2006 We Woke Up With Energy, review by Declan Long, Circa # 115, 2006 Precaution, exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005 Obscured by Clouds, essay by Sinead Halkett, exhibition catalogue, TBG&S, 2004