Emily Sundblad
Born 1977 in Sweden. Lives and works in New York.
Founder and Director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
Singer with several groups, including the band Tvillingarna and A Night of Country with Richard Maxwell
Member of several art groups, such as Reena Spaulings and Grand Openings
Education
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2006 |
Studio Section The Whitney Independent Study Program |
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2003 |
BFA , Parsons School of Design |
Selected Exhibitions
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2011 |
Que Barbaro! Algus Greenspon, New York, USA Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex (RS), Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
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2010 |
If you leave me I will destroy you, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico Runaway Train, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden Don Juan in the Village, curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Lonesome Cowgirl, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, USA Re-dressing, Bortolami, New York, USA (RS), Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Germany Endless Bummer (RS), Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA Almeria (RS), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Systems Analysis (RS), West London Projects, London, United Kingdom Signatures (RS), Sutton Lane, Paris, France So Be It (RS), Andrew Roth, New York, USA (RS), Musee D’Art Moderne De La Ville De Paris, Paris, France Looking Back: The White Columns Annual (RS), White Columns, New York, USA The Evryali Score (RS), David Zwirner, New York, USA Pop Life: Art in a Material World (RS), Musée des beaux-arts du Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada Greater New York (RS), P.S.1, New York, USA Pop Life – Warhol, Haring, Koons, Hirst, … (RS), Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix (RS), CA2M, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain
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2009 |
Strip/Stripe, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA Womanneken Pis or Good Cop/ Bad Cop, Galerie Les filles du calvaire, Brussels, Belgium Marcel Broodthaers & Reena Spaulings (RS), Art|Basel|Miami Beach – Art Positions , Miami, USA The Belgian Marbles (RS), Sutton Lane, Brussels, Belgium (RS), Malmo Kunsthall, Malmo, Sweden (RS), Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany Pop Life (RS), Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex (RS), Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA
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2008 |
Rental: Fair Market Les femmes qui dormant (with Amy Granat), Castillo/Corales, Paris, France, Project (with Amy Granat), Amy, White Columns, New York, USA My Brain’s a Cliff and My Heart’s a Bitter Buffalo (with Amy Granat), Castillo/Corales, Paris, France The Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia Courbet your enthusiasm (RS), Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris, France L’argent (RS), Le Plateau, Paris, France Records playing Backwards (RS), The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Monologue 0, Test, Lisbon, Portugal (RS), Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA Power Structure (RS), Roth, New York, USA Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix (RS), Museion Bozen, Bolzano, Italy One Season in Hell (RS), MD72, Berlin, Germany Painting Now and Forever (RS), Part 2, Greene Naftali/Matthew Marks, New York, USA Some Neighbours (RS), Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany 945 + 11(RS), Frac-Collection Aquitane, Bordeaux, France Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art (RS), MoMA, New York, USA Die Wahrnehmung von Ideen führt zu neuen Ideen, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Faites vos je – Sextant et plus (RS), Galerie de la Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
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2007 |
Mask, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA Jalouse Show, Miami, USA Beneath The Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA How to Cook a Wolf (with Amy Granat), Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland The Perfect Man Show, White Columns, New York, USA Aspects, Forms and Figures, Bellwether Gallery, New York, USA Massiv Analogue Academy, Galerie Chrisitian Nagel, Cologne, Germany 24 November – 22 December (RS), Sutton Lane, Paris, France How to Cook a Wolf (RS), Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland Someone else with my fingerprints (RS), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France For The People of Paris (RS), Sutton Lane, Paris, France Terrible Video (RS), Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Otra De Vaqueros (RS), curated by Perros Negros, Mexico City, Mexico Make Your Own Life (RS), Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA Regroup show (RS), Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, USA Off Modern (RS), La Station, Nice, France
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2006 |
Carreround (Avec 2 Partis), CCS, Paris, France The Whitney ISP End of Year Exhibition, Chelsea Museum, New York, USA The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum, New York, USA Survivor, Curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami Gallery, New York, USA Make Your Own Life (RS), curated by Bennett Simpson, ICA, Philadelphia, USA Beware of a Holy Whore (RS), Chantal Crousel Gallery, Paris, France Bring The War Home (RS), Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA Bialystoker (RS), Sutton Lane, London, United Kingdom Globalización: indicaciones/ efectos secundarios/ advertencies (RS), Espacio 1414, Santurce, Puerto Rico Metro Pictures (RS), The Moore Space, Miami, USA Optik Schröder – Werke aus der Sammlung Alexander Schröder (RS), Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
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2005 |
Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters (RS), curated by GarethJames, Orchard 47, New York, USA Tbilisi2 (RS), curated by Daniel Baumann, Tbilisi, GeorgiaRupture des evidences (RS), Curated by Rita Ackermann, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France The Baltic Triennial 2005 (Black Market Worlds) (RS), CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, The One & Only (RS), HaswellEdiger&Co, New York, USA
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2004 |
Publish and be Damned (RS), curated by Emily Pethick, Cubitt Gallery, London, United Kingdom Robert Smithson (RS), Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA Curious Crystal of Unsual Purity (RS), curated by Bob Nickas, P.S.1, New York, USA So Few Opportunities, So Many Mistakes (RS), curated by Josh Smith, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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2003 |
Group Show, D’Amelio Terrass, New York, USA The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, USA
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2002 |
You’re Just A Summerlove But I’ll Remember You When Winter Comes, Priska Juschka Fine Arts, New York, USA |
Exhibitions Curated by the Artist & Special Projects
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2007 |
Skymningsfestivalen, a Compilation of Swedish Music for Radio DanieleBologna
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2006 |
Akademische Grafitti, with Seth Price Gone With The Wind, A Reena Spaulings Film
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2004-2005 |
White Light/ White Heat, Reena Spaulings CD Box Set featuring Barbara Sukowa, Rita Ackermann, Emily Speers Mears, Emily Sundblad, Josh Smith and others
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2004-present |
A Night of Country: An ongoing country music performance project in collaboration with playwright Richard Maxwell.
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2003-present |
Reena Spaulings Fine Art, A New York Gallery |
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2002 |
Youʼre Just a Summerlove But Iʼll Remember You When Winter Comes, Co-Curated With Hanna Liden
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Ongoing |
Lee Williams: An artist-persona created with Jutta Koether
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Selected Performances
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2010 |
Grand Openings High Liners (GO), Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden, May 26 Street Performance, Centro Historico, Gante y 5 de mayo, March 10 Opening Night Performance, GAGA, March 11 Gene Beery Opening, Algus Greenspon Gallery, September 28
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2009 |
Betteraves Club: Emily Sundblad and Margaret Lee, November 8 (GO), Sculpture Center, New York, USA, September 13 – November 30
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2008 |
Bumbershoot 2008 (GO), The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA August 30 – September 1 Carrier Waves, Nichts IST AUFREGEND. Nichts IST SEXY. Nichts IST NICHT PEINLICH (GO), Mumok Factory & Museum Modern Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria, April 12 – April 20 (GO), Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, April 24 & April 25 Songs For Bjarne, Greene Naftali, New York, USA, February
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2007 |
I Love Nobody, with Stefan Tcherepnin and Marten Holmberg, Radio Daniele WFMU, Vizcaya, Miami, USA, December Tvillingarna, Tour- Pussycat Lounge NYC, The Mandrake LA and Pasaguero Mexico City, Mexico, October Montevideo, with Rita Ackermann and Askar Brickman, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, May The Anita Berber Picture Palace Performance, Bellwether Gallery, New York, USA, March
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Tvillingarna on The Boat Bellman, Stockholm, Sweden, August (GO), Tsunan High School, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006, Nigata, Japan, August (GO), Magical Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, August JJJE, with Jay Sanders and Josef Strau, New York, USA, May Tvillingarna at Ugglan, Stockholm, Sweden, May Lee Williams, with Jutta Koether, New York, USA, January Meerettich on Ice, Volksbuhne, Berlin, Germany, December
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2005 |
Grand Openings, Curated By Jay Sanders for Performa05, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA, November 20 A Night of Country #5 Cajun, Whitney, New York, USA, November 18 Tbilisi2, curated by Daniel Baumann, Tbilisi, Georgia, October A Night of Country #4 Carter Family, at BAM Café, Brooklyn, USA, July 22 “New York New York”, Swing Cats Club, Basel, Switzerland, June 14 Crime or Emergency, a play by Sibyl Kempson, Dixon Place, New York, USA, April 8 & 9 A Night of Country #3 The 70ʼs at HaswellEdiger&Co, New York, USA, March 10
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2004 |
A Night of Country #2 The 60ʼs at Passerby, New York, USA, October 10 Darkness of This Reading, Movie by Rich Maxwell, Reading, Pennsylvania, June-July “Anita Berber” for LTTR Explosion, Art in General, New York, USA, July 17- August 5 A Night of Country #1 (with Richard Maxwell), Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, USA, March
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2003 |
Schubert/Jealous Guy, REACT AIDS Benefit, Participant Gallery, New York, USA, December Skeleton Drumming, Trad, Gras och Stenar, Kenny Schacter Gallery, New York, USA, May |
- Neil, Jonathan T. D., "Dissonant Returns at Art Basel Miami Beach." Art Agenda, December 2011
- Bankowsky, John, "Best of 2011: Top Ten." Artforum, December 2011
- McKenzie, Robert, "Que Barbaro." MAY, October 2011
- Westreich, Thea, "Roving Eye: Some Thoughts on Art Market Alternatives." Art in America, October 7, 2011
- Guagnini, Nicolás, "!Que Bárbara!" Texte Zur Kunst, September 2011
- Marshall, Piper, "Emily Sundblad." Frieze, September 2011
- Kley, Elizabeth, "Emily Sundblad, Sunday Painter." Artnet.com, May 17, 2011
- Swerdloff, Alexis, "The Unassuming Doyenne of New York’s Experimental Art World: Emily Sundblad." Papermag.com, October 10, 2009
- Fiduccia, Joanna, "Amy Granat & Emily Sundblad." Frieze, May 20, 2008
- Lewis, David, "My Brain’s a Cliff and My Heart’s a Bitter Buffalo." Artforum.com, March 14, 2008
- Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review; Aspects, Forms and Figures." The New York Times, March 2, 2007
- Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review; Whitney Independent Study Program." The New York Times, May 12, 2006
- Rosenberg, Karen, "Who Are These People." New York Magazine, February 27, 2006
- Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review; Reena Spaulings." The New York Times, February 4, 2005