Erlend Grytbakk Wold

BIO | SELECTED WORKS

Erlend Grytbakk Wold (Trondheim,NO, 1986) lives and works in Oslo, Norway. His paintings show the very moment where we don’t see clearly, the place between seeing and understanding, and ask us to think about what this experience entails. Painting with watercolor on unprimed linen, with red, yellow and blue - the primary colors that became emblematic for modernism and the Neoplasticism’s ideology for harmony and order - spray painted in innumerable alternate layers on the canvas. The method creates a surface that at first glance appears almost brownish, with lines and fields of foggy shadows. Inviting you to spend time in their company, colors and shapes emerge from or fading into the surface of the canvas.

Erlend Grytbakk Wold has a BFA from Oslo Academy of the Arts and an MFA from Malmö Art Academy, Sweden  In 2017 Erlend Grytbakk Wold had his first institutional solo at Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art in Trondheim, Norway. In 2018, he had a solo in the renowned Kunsterforbundet in Oslo. In 2019 he had a solo show in Galleri Golsa in Oslo.

CV

Erlend Grytbakk Wold
Born in 1986
Lives and works in Oslo, Norway

Education

(2012 – 2014) Master of Fine Art, Malmö Art Academy

(2008 – 2011) Bachelor of Fine Art, Oslo Academy of the Arts

(2006 – 2008) Nordland Art- and Film school, Department of Art

(2005 – 2006) NTNU, Trondheim, Norway, one-year study of Art History

Solo and duo show

2019
Light Fall Day Break, Galleri Golsa, Oslo

2018
Until the Light Takes Us, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo

2017
Till the Last Light Fades, Trønderlag Center of Contemporary Art, Trondheim

2016
Remain in Light, LNM, Oslo

2015
Secondhand Daylight, BLOKK, Bergen

2014
The Daylight Between Us, Graduation show, KHM Gallery, Malmö

2011
Bordet og Bildet, One Night Only Gallery, UKS, Oslo
When Looking for Horizons, Collaboration with Siri Leira, Hovefestivalen, Tromøya, Norway

2010
New works, Studio show, Open Academy, Oslo, Norway
UNTITLED (RGB 0,0,0), Gallery 21:25, Oslo, Norway

2009
After Exposure, Collaboration with Halvor Rønning, Pavilion, Oslo
“IT’S ALIVE!”, Collaboration with Siri Leira, Pavilion, Oslo

Selected group shows

2019
Reflections In Transition, Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Belgium

2018
Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Barbé-Urbain Gallery, Belgium
LNM 50 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Got It For Cheap, Galleri Golsa, Oslo

2017
Annual Christmas Exhibition, Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo
UKS #4 Minibar: One Night Only, UKS, Oslo
Mellom Linjene, Oslo Kunsthandel, Oslo

2015
Jóhan Martin Christiansen, Jesper Veileby, Erlend Grytbakk Wold, group show, Galleri Arnstedt, Båstad

2014
Edstrandska Stipendium utställning, Malmö
SEART, No Picnic, Stockholm

2013
Statens 126. Kunstutstilling Høstutstillingen 2013, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Annual Exhibition, Malmö Art Academy, Malmö

2012
Introducing Barflyfriends, Barflyfriends, Berlin
New Students Exhibition, KHM Galleri, Malmö
Planka 2 i Tromsø, Galleri Planka, Tromsø

2011
Eyes On Your Instruments, Group show, One Night Only Gallery, UKS, Oslo, Norway
The Strange Fête (End), Graduation show, MFAPS, Oslo, Norway
The Educational Art Show, Group show, MFAPS, Oslo, Norway

2010
The Cluster Show, Group show, Semikolon, Oslo, Norway
ONO vs. UKS, Group show, One Night Only Gallery, UKS, Oslo, Norway
PODIUM LIVE!, Group show, Podium, Oslo, Norway
Men Paint Women Faint, Group show, One Night Only gallery, Oslo, Norway

2009
Multiple Stress, Group show, Kunstakademiet kommer til museet #3, former library at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Langt inni skauen er det bare mere skau, Group show, Hønefoss, Norway
Initiation, Group show, Gallery 21-24, Oslo, Norway

2008
ICEBREAKER, Group show, NKFS Gallery, Kabelvåg, Norway
Mama Didn’t Raise No Fool, Graduation show, Galleri Lille Kabelvåg, Kabelvåg, Norway

Publications

2012
bright! TYPOGRAPHY BETWEEN ILLUSTRATION AND ART, Slanted / Magma, DAAB media

2011
The Strange Fête (End) Le Grand Maulnes, Collective Artist Book, published on the occasion of Oslo National Academy of the Arts’ BFA Degree show

2005
FAR, Fanzine, collaboration with Siri Leira
TURN THE PAGE, 150 pages edition of 7+1, Oslo Stress Press
EXCUSE ME I NEED TO USE THE RESTROOM, Fanzine, project organized by Annika Ström

Curatorial projects

2010 – 2012
One Night Only Gallery, Curating and running the space together with Mohammed Fadlabi, Tito Frey and Jon Benjamin Tallerås, Oslo, Norway

2012
Nein Teen #1, Co-curated by Halvor Rønning, Group show, One Night Only Gallery, UKS, Oslo

2011
Eyes On Your Instruments, Group show, One Night Only Gallery, UKS, Oslo, Norway

2009
PAVILION, Curating together with Siri Leira, Oslo, Norway

2008
ICEBREAKER FESTIVAL, Curator and Co-ordinator, Kabelvåg, Norway

Artist In Residence

2017
Cité Internationale des Arts Paris

Memberships
UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund)
LNM (Landsorganisasjonen Norske Malere)
NBK (Norske Billedkunstnere)