L C Persson

Qualifications, training and research:

2011 - 2012 Artistic research (Mejan residents), Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden

2005-06 MFA 1st Distinction (sculpture) research ISVR, Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, Winchester

1999-02 BA, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

Selected exhibitions /projects:

Exhibitions / publication / prizes selection

Upcoming/ Kommande

2025 Duo exhibition with Sigrid Holmwood at Ronneby Konsthall
2024 solo presentation at Rotundan, Kalmar 
2023-24 Ett frö är en sten tills den sås / A seed is a stone until sown, Smålandstriennalen.  Länk: https://www.smalandstriennalen.se/utstallningar-och-projekt/ett-fro-ar-en-sten-tills-det-sas
Publication is in progress with Dr Liam Sprod (2024)
2023 Stjärnstoff offentligt verk för / a public art commission for Uppsala Kommun, Flädervägen, Lövstalöt under process (Inaguration Nov 2023)


-Kvinnor i Skogen, egeninitierat projekt som kartlägger och intervjuar kvinnliga, trans, icke-binära konstnärer i Småland (långsiktigt) https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1672271116/kvinnor-i-skogen-women-in-the-forest

Recent/ Tidigare
2023 Virserum Konsthall- Smålands Triennalen (med Kerstin Björk, Moa Franzén & Åsa Jungnelius) vernissage 7 Juli- 3 September
-Publication: Monica Sjöö collective Dear Monica...written contribution editor Su Fahy available at MAN museum, Skellefteå, Moderna Museet Stockholm, Arnolfini Bristol, UK and online for purchase.
2023 Statens Konstråd / Folkets Park Husqvarna, Let’s Face it! -
Offentligt verk i sten invigs 20 April 2023
-Möt Konstnären: Statens Konstråd presentation och samtal på Skeppsholmen, Stockholm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCRYXSgqHZw
-Publication: Monica Sjöö collective Dear Monica...written contribution. Can be bought at Arnolfini UK, Moderna Museet Stockholm
2022 Beaconsfield, London , Storbritannien/ UK (with/med Feminist Library & Monica Sjöö)
- OHSH projects, London, Storbritannien/UK, POST TOTEM, grupputställning, kurerat av Adam Dix & Dale Adcock
-Med trötta ryggar & hjärtan med plats för fler,  Kalmar Konstmuseum. Samarbete och ett forskningsprojekt mellan vård och kulturarbetare, organiserat av Jenny Richards och Ulrika Flink. Jag deltar med undersköterskan Katrin Jonsson i ett podd-ljudverk.
-Gylleboverket, Skåne , soloutställning / performance, HexVÄRK, Påsk/Easter week
-Kvinnor i Skogen, egeninitierat projekt som kartlägger och intervjuar kvinnliga, trans, icke-binära konstnärer i Småland (långsiktigt)

2021 Henprojects, Stockholm, Flogging a dead horse, 12. November - 4. December  2021
- "Stories from the Bottom of the Lake" at Creevagh in Ireland, Symposium where I presented the Black Opal project/SiO2n.H20 Oct
- Art Lab Gnesta, Sverige, The useless mouths (group exhibition/ grupp utställning) Sep-Oct
- Kronobergs Konststipendium, Småland
2020-21 Mycolective at Chisenhale Studio programme, London (Sept/ performance/online event/ publikation) 1 year program, Sep 2021
2021 Skissuppdrag Örebro Kornellen, March
2021 Sommarutställning i Pukeberg, Nybro , Sweden. Curator and exhibitiondesign (utställnings-design, koncept, kurering)
2020 South Kiosk, "the Hand is Dealt" London. Groupexhibition/grupp utställning  
2020 Omaka resturang, Stockholm, Sculpture/fontain in ceramic, acquired/ Keramisk skulptur fontän, beställning 
2020 Haninge Kommun, Blickfång, public art light sculpture/ offentligt ljus skulptur verk (otrygga platser) (2018-20) 
2020 Örebro Konsthall, START,  group exhibition/grupp utställning 
2019/20 Växjö Konsthall soloexhibition, To breathe through the bones of the dead
2019/20 Van Gelder Galerie, soloexhibition kurerat av Birta Gudjonsdottir (Between Old Bones &New Moons) 
2019 Thames & Hudson, publication, 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow, nominerad & utvald för boken 100 Skulptörer 2019 
2019-Maj-Juli Bundorra Homestead Arts Centre, Melbourne Australien -Maj-Juni

2019 SPEAKING IN TONGUES, Solo exhibition Private Projects, Moonah, Hobart, Australia

2019 PRIMA MATERIA, Bundoora Homestead Arts, Melbourne, Australia

2018 ISCP New York, with curator Elina Suoyrjö 

2018-19 SPACED 3: NORTH BY SOUTHEAST | ART GALLERY OF WA Australia

2017 TURF PROJECTS, London, Desert Apps, workshop 15th July

2017 Momentum Biennial, Norway, 9th edition, Alienation curated by 

CURATORS:

Ulrika Flink (SE), Ilari Laamanen (FI), Jacob Lillemose (DK),Gunhild Moe (NO), Jón B.K Ransu (IS)

2017 TURF PROJECTS, Exhibition, London, Last wordsm So it goes, curated by Jack Friswell

2017 Experimental Heritage, ongoing project (2016-2018) Öland, Sweden, stonequarry, cursed landscape, technology, archology with Anna Winberg (author), Bodil Petersson (archelogist), Helle Kvamme (artist), Walle Dickson (artist / gallerist)

2017 Oct-Feb Higher Her...with Laure Prouvost, Kunsthalle Luzern (Lucerne) Switzerland, I was showing 'Eidola' soundpiece and a performative costume, eyemask with ceramics

2016

Oct-Dec Commission by International Art Space [SPACED] / Perth Australia, http://three.spaced.org.au/spaced-3-north-by-southeast/

Residency in Leonora, Western Australia with The Walkatjurra Culture Centre an Aboriginal Australian art and cultural centre managed by the Tjupan Ngalia Tribal Land Council Aboriginal Corporation.

26-28 August a new version of 'The Green Room: after Henning... called Stone tensions' perfromance at Velferden in Sokndal, Norway as part of ////// /O/O/O/O (Der Mund spricht die Gedanken aus - Die Landschaft gibt ihren Klang) curated by Nico Anklam and co-organised by Velferden and Rogaland Arts Centre, Norway http://www.reddvelferden.org/                                http://www.rogalandkunstsenter.no/

19th August: Screening of 'The Astral Women' as part of the public programme of RIN (Residence in Nature) organised by Åsa Jungnelius. Summer programme:         http://residence-in-nature.se/en/project/residence-in-nature-2016-en/#57487e9d71718

18th June - 18th of Sep, 2016 Groupexhibition, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Sweden,          'Songlines for a new Atlas' curated by Torun Ekstrand,  http://www.kalmarkonstmuseum.se/en/exhibition/songlines-for-a-new-atlas/

25-26June: A new performative piece for the Exhibition, Kunsthal 44, Møen, Denmark______ ////// /O/O/O/O (Der Mund spricht die Gedanken aus - Die Landschaft gibt ihren Klang) to open June 25th 2016 curated by Nico Anklam http://www.44moen.dk/

May 28th Perpetual Liquidity: screening curated by Hannah Conroy and Adam Chodszko as part of the exhibition 'of the sea' at the Dockyard, Kent, UK.                                                          Screening of "The Astral Women" 2016

http://heyevent.uk/event/dpxdspur7rwfca/perpetual-liquidity-screening

March: Research trip to Denmark, Møen of the Henning Christiansen Archive

Feb/March: Screening premier of "The Astral Women" at Canapé Canopy, Auckland, New Zealand

http://www.canapecanopy.com/

2015 

DEC: Screening 1st version of "ZEUS TEARS" at SPACE London / LUX event 10 Dec
http://lux.org.uk/whats-on/events/bring-your-own-beamer-byob-space-studios-10-december-2015

DEC: HOUSEPROJECT 27//2: with Darren Banks, Jenny Bergman, Bridget Currie & Tamara Henderson, Diana Duata, Mark Essen, Jack Beauchamp Hadley, Trevor Kiernander, Linda Persson, Amanda Simon, Victoria Skogsberg, Pip Stafford, Nancy Wallace (musician / singer)

DEC: Bilbao, Spain, film / sculpture collaboration with Bridget Currie

NOV: Artist in Residence Skaftfell Visual Arts, Iceland

AUGUST / SEPT: Artists in Residence IMA GAllery, Brisbane Australia supported by IMA and Australian Arts Council, Artist International development fund supported by Arts Council England and British council
for project Landscape/Black Opal/Technology project in Lighting Ridge Australia

http://www.ima.org.au/event/walk-collect-make-exhibit/

http://www.swedenabroad.com/Pages/CalendarEvent.aspx?id=95514&epslanguage=en-GB

AUGUST- Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Imago Mundi group show

JUNE / AUGUST 2015: Filming The Witch Island in Sweden

JUNE 13th HOUSEPROJECT / S T r U c t U R A l  O b J e C T (with Sophie Yetton)

2014 - Top of The World, Sami Center for Contemporary Art, Karasjok, Norway

2014 NO MEANING, 5 months, London

2013 Haninge Konsthall, Sweden, curated by Åsa Mårtensson

2013 Nordenhake Galerie, Stockholm, Sweden, curated by Stefanie Hessler

2012 Pavilion Projects “Auditorium” Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K & Dilston

Grove, London

2011 Normalcy Bias2, Listros Gallery, Berlin

2011 Commissioned solo exhibition at AIRSPACE, stoke-on-trent, U.K

2011 The Drawing Room Biennial London, U.K2011

2011 SAGS Woodmill Projects

2010 Örebro Länsmuseum, Sweden, group show

2010 The Allegory of the Cave, Non Grata Art Container, Tallinn, Estonia

2010 ‘Episode 1- Acute melancholia’ Studio 44, Stockholm, Sweden (artist &

curator)

2010 ‘ The Devil’s Necktie’ Woodmill Projects, London

2009 Echo Projects and The Coma Lounge, at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh

2008/09 Nordic (P.A.M) Utsikten Kunstsenter, Kvinesdal, Norway

2008 The Wharf Road Project, Atrium, London

2007 AK28, Stockholm, Sweden ‘Encounter’ (solo show)

Screenings

2013/2012 Auditorium, Pavilion, Dilston Grove/Limbo Margate (Encounter)

2010 XRAY@ResoVision, Frieze Arts Fair, London 2010

2010 April Sierra film festival US (Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival

Nevada City) ‘At the foot of a mountain’

2010 March XRAY at SHORTWAVE cinema in collaboration with Vitrine gallery

2009 May Lumen Evolution Festival 2009 with The Projection Gallery, Leeds, UK

2009 March Festival International de Vidéo Danse du Breuil, Burgundy, France

Performances (selected)

2012 Ontological Mediator (Mudhead) Skaftfell Residency

2012 June-book launch/performance-Royal Institute of Arts, Stockholm

2010 Art Container, Tallin, Estonia as part of exhibition the Allegory of the cave, with dancer Laura Kveilsten

2010 Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden

Awards/ Residencies (selected)

2014 Foundation Längmanska Culturefund

2013 KKNORD travel stipend, Norway

2013 Individual Arts Award, Swedish Arts Commitee

2013 Iaspis International Exchange (Sámi Centre of Contemporary Art)

2012 Skaftfell Visual Arts residency 2 months, Iceland

2012 Iaspis international exchange “ Matter of Contradiction”

2012 Swedish Committee grants fund International exchange-Film Margate/London

2012 Mejan Residents (Royal Institute of Arts, Sweden)

2011 IASPIS / Konstnärsnämnden grant for soloustställning/solo show in the U.K

2010 British Council UK (EPISODE 1: Acute melancholia) Studio44 (curated)

2009/10 Mobility funding KKNord

2008 Residency Ricklundsgården Sweden

2007 Travel award, Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse

2007 Individual grant from the Arts Council in England

2006/07 Royal Academy Schools Artist in Residence (Loughborough University)

Commission

2013 SLUTRAPPORT på Galleri BOX, Gothenburgh, Sweden

2012 Arena Babou: 16mm film, ‘Handstands through Difference and Repetitions’

2008 Nightingale Primary School small sculpture commission

Bibliography  (selected)

KonstNet / SvD Thinking and Speaking, Nordenhake Galerie, Review

Essay by Lars-Erik Hjertström Lappalainen ‘To leave History through its material’-

‘Trying to draw blood from a stone’

Interview by Kim West, publication by Royal Institute of Arts, 2012

SIRP Eesti Kultuurileht, Margus Kiis, 3rd Sept 2010

The Guardian (Jessica Lack) 22 Augusti 2009

Time Out London (Martin Comer) 30 maj 2007 “Nordic stories”

Svenska Dagbladet (Rikard Ekholm) 20 April 2007 “Roligt och underfundigt men lite

retfullt”

City konst (Lisa Wennersten) 20 April 2007, “Både kusligt och lugnande”

Nerikes Allehanda (Stefan Nilsson) 2 Juni 1999 “Kreativ trolöshet utan gränser”

Work related:

Teaching / lecturing:

ongoing: Örebro Konstskola, Sweden

Reading University, Kingston University, Loughborough University

With Liam Sprod: The Royal Institute of Arts Stockholm, Eligstadir College Iceland,

Örebro Konstskola