2016-2019 Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (Cand.Art.Perit)
2013-2016 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Arts
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS (selected)
2023 Roskilde Festival, Denmark - Art and Activism programme (group)
2023 Sorø Kunstmuseum, Denmark - ‘Open Studios’ (group, pop-up exhibition event)
2022 Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden - ‘Shape/Build/Form’ (duo)
2022 Lemvig Church, Lemvig, Denmark (solo screening)
2021 Til Vægs Public Exhibition Platform, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘No.’ (solo)
2021 Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Young Danish Photography ‘21’ (group)
2021 OK Corral Experimental Space, Frederiksberg, Denmark - ‘An Empty Container Of ’ (solo)
2021 Malmö Museum of Art, Malmö, Sweden - ‘(in)visible: abstractions and fragments of queerness’ (group)
2021 Vejle Museum of Art, Vejle, Denmark - ‘KROP (BODY)’ (permanent collection exhibition, group)
2020 Lys.Mur, public screening program, Svendborg, Denmark (solo screening)
2020 Enter Art Fair, Curated Art Program, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Thinking Feelings’ (group)
2019 Jir Sandel, ArtViewer.org ad space selfie project
2019 621 Gallery, Tallahassee, FL, USA - ‘>7’ (group)
2019 Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘AFGANG19’ (MFA Degree Show)
2018 Pass7, Lisbon, Portugal - ‘Build It_Here’ (group)
2017 Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Cross-Aesthetic’ (group screening)
2016 Dansehallerne, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘Spring Collection’ (group)
2015 Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark - ‘KE15’ (group)
2012 Gallery North, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom - ‘New A-Gender’ (group)
TEACHING (selected) - Incl. critique classes, workshops and studio visits, with a focus on artistic feedback.
2023 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, Denmark, external censor, admissions, BFA
2023 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVS, Denmark, guest semester teacher, BFA
2022 Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal Summercamp, Denmark, workshop teacher
2022 Kunsthal 6100 summer school, School of Visual Communiction, Kolding, Denmark / Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany, project mentor, BFA+MFA
2022 Jutland Art Academy, Denmark, guest teacher
2020 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVS, Denmark, substitute for assoc. prof. Hannah Heilmann, BFA
2020 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, Denmark, mentor, post-grad mentorship programme, MFA
2020 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, Denmark, guest teacher, BFA
2018 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, Denmark, teaching assistant, for assoc. prof. Luca Frei, BFA
PROGRAMS, RESIDENCIES & OTHER (selected)
2023 The Danish Institute of Athens, Greece, 1 month residency
2022 Art Hub Copenhagen Residency To Go (fka. Bikuben Foundation Studio Program), Denmark, 6 month residency
2021 Statens Værksteder for Kunst (Danish Arts Workshop), Denmark, 6 week residency
2021 Institute Funder Bakke, Denmark, 2 week residency
2021 Ashkal Alwan, Home Workspace Program, Beirut, Libanon, 10 month online study programme
2019-2021 Subterranean Wednesday Evening Video Art Club, co-founder and organiser, an international independant collective for young video artists; running workshops, lectures, critique class & reading groups
2015-2017 FORUM, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, SoVA, Denmark, organiser, a student-run educational program
TALKS (selected) - Artist talks, readings and panels.
2023 The Danish Institute of Athens, Greece, ‘Fatness as a Queerness’
2022 Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, ‘Conversations across generosity - privilege, class and location’
2022 Copenhagen Pride, ‘Expectations of the gay body’
2021 Rønnebæksholm Kunsthal, ‘Flydende Fiktioner’
2021 Fotografisk Center, FotoForum
2020 Copenhagen Pride, ‘Fat and queer - solidarity against fatphobia?’
2020 Fahads Forsamlingshus, ‘Body, Gender and Activism’
2019 MIX Copenhagen LGBTQ+ Film Festival
2019 The Curatorial Thing, SixtyEight Art Institute
PUBLICATIONS (selected) - Incl. contributions as artist and writer, plus mentions, interviews and analysis.
2022 ‘ORD’, Politikens Forlag
2022 ‘An Impromptu Conversation about Works in Progress, in Body, in Refusal, in Hiding’, idoart.dk
2021 ‘Bøssernes Danmarkshistorie’ (The Gay History of Denmark), Forlaget 28b
2021 ‘Jir Sandel, Art Viewer Ads’, 2nd Cannons Publications
2020 ‘Kunstnernes Efterårsudstilling 120 år’, I Do Art Books
2020 Profiled by DR Kultur, Danish Broadcasting Corp., Culture section
2019 ‘Fatness in culture, art and language’, Konfront & Gordo Zine
2019 ‘Krop i System’ (Body in System), Activistcollective Bøvl
2019 ‘Bergen/Copenhagen Papers’, no. 2. Really Simple Syndication Press
INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Vejle Museum of Art, Denmark
Malmö Museum of Art, Sweden
GRANTS & AWARDS (selected)
2021, 2022 Danish Arts Foundation work grants and production grants
2020 Danish Arts Foundation ‘Career Program - The Young Artistic Elite’ grant
2019 15. Juni Foundation Honorary Art Prize
2019 Poul Erik Bech Foundation Art Prize
2017-2018 MFA scholarship grants include Nordea Foundation, Oticon Foundation, Knud Højgaards Foundation & Augustinus Foundation