About

b. 1993, Canterbury, England
Based in Bergen, Norway and Göteborg, Sweden

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hanlmcd/

Research blog: http://www.hanlmcd.tumblr.com/

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CV

Education:

2023/2025 - MA in Fine Arts, KMD, University of Bergen

2011/2015 - BA(Hons) in Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art

2013 - Erasmus exchange term on the BA Fri Konst course at Akademin Valand, Göteborg

Solo Exhibitions:

2024 - Surface Tensions, Galleri Taxi, Bergen

2024 - Welcomed Uncertainties, Rom61, KMD, Bergen

2023 - Re-re-remembering, Konstnärscentrum Väst, Göteborg

2019 - Transcript of a Wall, as part of Open Space Zeitz, Zeitz, Germany

2019 - The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2017 - The Collected Moments of Idleness, Open Space Zeitz, HO Café Brühl, Zeitz, Germany

2017 - The woman below the salt, Viktors Kaffe, Göteborg

2016 - We make new stock from the salt, Fabriksg. 48, Göteborg

2015 - Only a Little Water, Undergraduate Degree Show - Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

2015 - The Hinge of I and It, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

2015 - A blindfolded surface, Tontine Building, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions:

2023 - In Tandem, Duo show with Martin Holm, Pannrummet, Konstepidemin, Göteborg

2023 - ArtFairAbstrakt, ArtMobile, Västerås Konsthall

2023 - Bookbound, NABO, Göteborg

2022 + 2021 + 2019 - Medlemsutställningen, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2022 - ANAD GLÖD, NABO, Göteborg

2022 - ArtFairLustarnasTrädgård, ArtMobile, Västerås Konsthall

2021 + 2020 + 2019 - Upplaga 2, 3 + 4, Nejd, Göteborg

2021 - Vad är nytt, Lindholmen, Göteborg

2020 - Höstutställning, members show at Göteborgsbildverkstad, Linnégatan 21, Göteborg

2020 - The Curse of Knowledge, Upper Hand, Göteborg

2020 - Videorama 1, Galleri 54, Göteborg

2018 - Here Comes the Water Works, with Rickard Eklund and Karl Bergström, Upper Hand, Göteborg

2018 - Tenthaus Winter Depot, Galleri Box, Göteborg

2015 - PrintLab, as part of The only way to do it is to do it, The Hunterian, Glasgow

2015 - All You Can Eat, Truman Brewery, London

2015 - Breathing Space, with Stella Stewart, The Art School Union, Glasgow

2014 - I am <----> For You, Fleming House, Glasgow

2014 - A Red Apple Among the Oranges, Keiller Library, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 2, Edinburgh

2013 - Work as Play, Göteborg International Biennale for Contemporary Art, Galleri Rotor 1+2, Göteborg

2013 - One Night in a Little Room, with Lewis Prosser, Lilian Ptacek and George Ridgway, The Art School Union, Glasgow

2012 - Drawing and Spoken Word, Studio 41, Glasgow

Performances and Other Work:

2023 - it needs to explode out of me and vomit onto a canvas, Time-Based Evening, OVE Galleri at Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen

2023 - Today and today and today, 13festivalen, Konstepidemin, Göteborg

2022 - 30 words after I love you, KALEJODOSKOP performance festival at Galleri 54, Göteborg

2020 - Entanglement, 8 x 2.3m mural at Friplanket + dance event with Emilie Leriche and Maxime Lachaume, Frilagret, Göteborg

Curated Shows:

2021 - Vad är nytt, showcase of over 100 Göteborg artists in Götaverkens Gamla Industrilokaler, Lindholmen, Göteborg

2020 - The Curse of Knowledge with Joel Danielsson, Dick Hedlund, Martin Holm, Laleh Kazemi Veisari and Anton Josephson, Upper Hand, Göteborg

Stipends:

2021 + 2020 - Krisstipendium 2+3, Konstnärsnämnden

2020 - Tillfälligt stipendium, Göteborgs Stad

2020 + 2018 - Projektstöd Pronto from Göteborg Stad

Publications:

2022 - 30 words after I love you

2022 - Zigzag on zigzag on zigzag

2021 - Patterns and repetitions and repetitions and repetitions

2020 - Decay/Physis, (Artist book with Martin Holm)

2019 - The devil makes work for idle hands

Experience:

2019/2021 - Co-hosted gallery Upper Hand, Göteborg, with Rickard Eklund, Karl Bergström and Tove Posselt

2013 - Volunteered at David Dale Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2013 - Volunteered at Studio 41 Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2011 - Volunteered at the Sydney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury, England

2010 - One week’s work experience with international artist Nigel Cooke