A N D Y A L L E N - O L I V A R
CV
B. 1995 in Colombia, raised in the UK, studied in London and Sweden
Currently living and working in Sweden, Buenos Aires and Berlin
a.allenolivar@gmail.com
+46793329552
WORK
Assistant to Anders Edström. 2019-2021
Studio Manager and accountant to Stockholm Art Collective Glada Sprutan. 2019-2022
The Works and Days - Studio Assistant to C. W. Winter and Anders Edström. 2021
Directors assistant to Sally Jacobson and Tuva Björk for ‘Laws of the Wild’ produced by Story. 2019-2022
Assistant to art studio ‘Nonhuman Nonsense’. 2021
Directors assistant to Sarah Parkman’s Music video directed by Kim Ekberg and Lasse Långström. 2020
Assistant and B cam to Director Kim Ekberg for his film ‘Salsa Verde’. 2020
Author Photo for Nioosha Shams. 2020
Press Photo for Henrik Möller for his music project ‘Dark Sven’. 2020 and 2021
Assistant in Panoramica film festival, Stockholm. 2019
Cameraman to the Eisteddfod Festival of Trevelin, Argentina. 2018
Assistant to Marc Quinn for Arts Week London, UK. 2016
Film Editor for iOpener, Palu Bikes and other small businesses. 2013-2016
The Wind Bloweth Where it Listeth - Film Assistant to Director Kim Ekberg. 2016
Cesare - Director of Photography to Writer and Director Louis Rogers. 2017
Act 1 - Technician to Tuva Björk - Konstipedemin Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017
Member of ‘Stockholm analog film Coop’. 2019-2022
Postman for Royal Mail. 2012-2016
EDUCATION
Masters in Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 2020-2022
Individual Artistic Practice Course, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022
Documentary Film Course, Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola, Sweden. 2018-2020
Bachelors in Fine Art Photography at Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016-2017
Bachelors in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London, UK. 2015
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Coming From Within - Post Museum, Stockholm. 2023
Salong 2022 - CFF, Stockholm. 2022
FEATURED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Eight Times Folded Window exhibition, CFF, Stockholm. 2022
Eight Times Folded - Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022
Zombie Movie - Gallery Rotor2, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017
Slow Hands (or Here to There From The Perspective of a Postage Stamp) - Gallery Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
FEATURED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Spring Exhibition - Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden, 2022
Salong at CFF - CFF, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
MA1 Group Show - Vita Havet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
Act 1 - Galleri Konstfack II, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021
Graduation Film Gala - Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola, Sweden 2020
Film Gala - Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola, Sweden 2019 Hay Mucho Ruido Aquí - Galería Mugre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2019
No. 1 - Galeria Darwin, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2018
The absence of Something is Not Enough - Röda Sten Konsthall Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017
What’s Left - Gallery Entrance, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017
New Order - Avenue Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
Vår - Penthouse Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016 Kollektiv Gladboll - Gallery Rotor2, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
Photobooks - Gallery Entrance, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
Bring Me Back Something Nice - Gallery Basement, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
This is Where My Friend Lives - London, UK. 2016
Photobook Festival - Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
Creation, Collection, Curation - Gallery Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2016
Is It Wicked Not To Care - Hartslane Gallery, London, UK. 2015
PUBLICATIONS
Eight Times Folded - Master thesis from Konstfack. 2022
Exhibition text for Freya Sif Hestnes’s ‘Spare Parts’ at Galleri Image, Copenhagen, Denmark. 2020
MFA Exhibition Catalogue - Konstfack. 2022
Correspondance - NEJD publication featuring Details from ‘Slow Hands’ Piece. 2022
Upwards and onwards, I guess - Group publication for MA1 Fine Art Class of Konstfack. 2021
Nostalgia - Photography as a Fossil and its relationship with the Past, particularly concerning our Memory - Bachelor thesis from Akademin Valand. 2017
TAOSINE - Group exhibition publication as part of Bachelors graduation show in Röda Sten Konsthall Gallery. 2017
STIPENDIUMS AND AWARDS
Konstnärsnämnden Travel grant: 2020
Snabb Slant Stockholm: 2020
Axel N Andersson Foundation: 2020
Gothenburg Snabb Slant: 2017, 2019
Dialog-89: 2019
Konstnärsnämnden Travel grant: 2019
KulturUngdom: 2017, 2018
BIO
Andy Allen-Olivar (b.1995) was born in Bogotá, Colombia, raised in Oxford, England and in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied Bachelors in Fine Art at Chelsea School of Art, London, UK (2015), Bachelors in Fine Art Photography at Akademin Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden (2016-2017), Documentary Film-making in Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola, Sweden (2018-2020) and Masters in Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden (2020-2022). He now lives and works between Stockholm, Buenos Aires and Berlin. Before working in the Arts he worked in the Postal Industry.
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