A N D Y   A L L E N - O L I V A R


CV


B. 1995 in Colombia, raised in the UK and Buenos Aires, studied in London and Sweden.

Currently living and working in Stockholm.

a.allenolivar@gmail.com

+46793329552


STIPENDIUMS, AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 

Bernadotte Program from Konstakademien  2025

Konstnärsnämnden one year artist grant 2023, 2026

Clara Lachmann Stipendium 2026

Residency at Koik Contemporary in CDMX, Mexico. 2025

Helge Ax:son Johnson's Foundation 2024

UNMUTE [light] Residency for Värmeverket 2024

Norra Tornen Art Residency 2024

Konstnärsnämnden Travel grant: 2018 ,2020, 2023, 2024, 2024, 2025

Snabb Slant Stockholm: 2020

Axel N Andersson Foundation: 2020

Gothenburg Snabb Slant: 2017, 2019

Dialog-89: 2019, 2023


EDUCATION

Post Masters in Decolonising Architecture at KKH, Stockholm, Sweden. 2023-2024

Masters in Fine Art at Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. 2020-2022

Art Practice Summer Course, Kungl. Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden. 2022, 2023

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


FEATURED WORK

Script advisor for Tuva Bjork and Natacha April Souyris for ‘In the Bloom of Dying Amber’ 2026

Co-founder of ‘Sea Palace’ Residency with Centrum for Social Skulptur. 2025

Script advisor for Tuva Bjork in Guldbagge-nominated ‘Fear Fokol’ 2025

Script advisor for Olga Krüssenberg for ‘Late Blue Winter’ [still in production] 2025

Press photographer for ‘Celtic Utopia’ by Dennis Harvey & Lars Lovén. 2025

Script advisor for Tuva Bjork and Sally Jacobson in ‘Unanimal’ 2025

Technician at Färgfabriken for Architecture biennale. 2025

English Editor for Katja Tähjä’s photobook ‘Letters from a Land that Does Not Exist’. 2025

Runner and rain-maker for Lisa Forslund and MDEMC for ‘Clementine Orange’. 2025

Performer for Rasmus Richter for RUSMUS - Temporary Spaces by Uppsala Region. 2024

Advisor to ‘The building and burning of a refugee camp’ by Dennis Harvey. Guldbagge winner. 2024

Photography assistant to Anders Edström both in the studio and on fashion sets. 2019-2022 Assisting  with the film ‘The Works and Days’ by Anders Edström and C. W. Winter 2021

Runner to Kim Ekberg and MDEMC for ‘XXL’. 2024

Assistant to Lotta Antonsson for Market Stockholm 2022

Studio Manager and accountant to Stockholm Art Collective Glada Sprutan 2019-2023

Assistant to art studio ‘Nonhuman Nonsense’. 2021

Assistant to Marc Quinn for Arts Week London, UK. 2016

Directors assistant to Sarah Parkman’s ‘Vreden’ by Kim Ekberg & Lasse Långström 2020

Exhibition text for Freya Sif Hestnes’s ‘Spare Parts’ at Galleri Image, Copenhagen. 2020

Postman for Royal Mail. 2012-2016


UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS

Konstepidemin - Gothenburg. 2026

Museo del Instituto de Geología de la UNAM, CDMX. 2027


FEATURED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Solkatt - Konstakademien, Stockholm. 2026

Eight Times Folded - Nye Bokboden, Bergen, Norway. 2024

Elephants after the Rain - Haninge public art exhibition. 2024

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 PERFORMANCES

Preparations vol iii [co-curated with Lateworks] - Konstakademien, Stockholm, 2026

You & I are Mud - Campo Paradiso. Diso, Italy, 2024

Dirge on the 161 - Collective Ending. London, UK, 2024


FEATURED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


Rotation - BAS Konsthall, Järfälla. 2026


Entre Azul y Buenas Noches - Koik Contemporary, CDMX, Mexico. 2025

Meanwhile- Fotografiska, Stockholm. 2025

Salong  no. 2 - Studio Tabac, Stockholm. 2025

Photobook dummies - Studio Tabac, Stockholm. 2024

Andy Allen-Olivar och Nils Johansson: Fotografier - Post Museum, Stockholm. 2024

Underverket - Värmeverket, Stockholm. 2024

Group Show - Crum Heaven, Stockholm. 2023

Salong 2022 - CFF, Stockholm. 2022

Act 1 - Galleri Konstfack II, Stockholm, Sweden, 2021

Graduation Film Gala [Biskops Arnö Folkhögskola] Bio Zita, Sweden 2020

The Absence of Something is Not Enough - Röda Sten Konsthall Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden. 2017


FEATURED PUBLICATIONS


Impressions of CDMX - from the perspective of an art residency - article for C-Print. 2025

Photos for Kevin Breathnach’s ‘Ursonate, Ursonate!’ for Holy Show Issue 7. 2025

‘The scene with ashes’ essay for ‘The Exposed Eye #2’ by Anna Strand & Helga Härenstam. 2025

‘The scene with mud’ essay for Avart issue no 6 - Naturen. 2025

‘I’ve got your Nose’ - essay for L’amore - la Mort edition ‘Problem/Solution. 2025

front and rear cover images for Avart issue no. 5 - Smuts. 2024

‘Slow Hands’ featured in UCS Scandinavia for Supermarket  in Stockholm. 2024

Eight Times Folded - Master thesis from Konstfack. 2022

Correspondance - NEJD publication featuring Details from ‘Slow Hands’ Piece. 2022





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