Trude Viken
Portraits from everyday life are those that interest me the most. They have developed into fantasies of how we feel behind our facade. I want to express those feelings and they must be genuine. When I have bad days, I know that most people also have them. Those days, hours or minutes are part of our life. We keep smiling happily and seem untouched to those around us. In the end we only fool ourselves. The difficulty of showing those tough sides of life makes me curious. This gives me a desire to continue my project.
Artist Statement 2021 —— Artist Statement 2018 —— NRK Documentary
Resumè
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Inside Out, Belenius, Stockholm
2023 Night Crawlers, Fortnight Institute NYC
2022 OTP, Double Portraits, Copenhagen
2022 Enter Art Fair, Belenius, Copenhagen
2022 Independent Art Fair, New York
2021 Fortnight Institute, Midnight Theater, New York
2019 M+B Gallery, Unmasked, Los Angeles
2018 Fortnight institute, Faces and Traces, New York
2016 Palazzo Stabile/Galleri Albin Upp, Maskefall, Oslo
2015 Galleri Ramfjord/Debutant Veggen, Diarynotes, Oslo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Art Brussel, Belenius, Belgium
2024 Arusha Gallery, London
2023 Strange Figures, Marvin Gardens NYC
2023 Jari Lager Gallery, Art Busan Sør Korea
2023 The Collector, KHÅK Kunsthall, Ålesund Norway
2023 Inside Out, Kaviar Factory, Lofoten Norway
2023 Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Nesten Voksen, Vestfossen
2022 Galleri Golsa, Good to See You, Oslo
2022 Chart Art Fair, København
2022 Venus Over Manhattan, PERSON(A), New York
2022 Market Art Fair, Belenius, Stockholm
2022 Nasjonalmuseet (The Norwegian National Museum) Åpningsutstillingen, Oslo
2022 WOAW Gallery, Romancing Relevance, Hong Kong
2022 Harper's Books, Zona Maco, Mexico City
2022 Art Brussel, Belgium
2021 Art Antwerp, Belgium
2021 Buer Gallery, Konstellasjoner, Oslo
2021 Everyday Gallery, I Have My Eye on You, Antwerp
2021 303 Gallery, Hunters In the Snow, New York
2021 Østlandsutstillingen, Kunstbanken Hedmark Kunstsenter, Buskerud Kunstsenter og Østfold Kunstsenter
2020 Bærum Kunsthall, Dialogues With the Past (Trude Viken/Ryszard Warsinski) Bærum
2020 Buer gallery, Åpningsutstillingen, Oslo
2020 QB Gallery, Lit Nights Mexico ( Oh Brother ), Oslo
2019 Edvard Munch’s Studio, Markus Brendmoe, Yngvar Larsen og Stein Koksvik,Oslo
2019 Galleri Golsa, Velvet Ropes, Oslo
2018 Bærum Kunsthall, Grant Exhibition, Bærum
2018 Galleri Fine Art, Sommerutstillingen, Oslo
2017 Østlandsutstillingen, 500 Years of the Reformation, Kiel (Germany) and Oslo
2017 Bærum Kunsthall, Borders and Boundaries, Bærum
2016 BKIB, Åpen Dør, Bærum
2016 Galleri Ramfjord, Grant Exhibition, Oslo
2015 Romeriksutstillingen, Ullensaker Kunstforening og Lørenskog Kunstforening
2015 Galleri ramfjord, Grant Exhibition
2015 Kunstland, 2015 Exhibition, Lomsjøen
2014 Rådhusgalleriet, SUM, Oslo
2012 Rådhusgalleriet, Graduation Exhibition DTK, Oslo
2009-2012 Workshops , Different group and Student Exhibitions
Education
2012-2015 Studied at Rommen Art School
2009-2012 DTK Det Tverrfaglige kunstinstitutt
2021 Documentary Film: Trude Viken og Edvard Munch - Kunstnerliv, NRK
2021: Night Eyes, Vestfossen Kunstlabratorium, Ansten Press
2018: Zine, Drawings, Innen Books, Zurich, Switzerland
Publications
Press
Articles and documentaries
2024 Magasinet KUNST: Trude Viken, SIN EGEN HERRE
2022 Article: Trude Viken: Bak Fasaden by Hilde Mørch, Kunsthistorisk Prosjektsenter
2022 Kapital: Surrealistisk suksess
Member of Association of Norwegian Visual Artists (NBK), The Association of Visual Artists Oslo (BO) and The Association of Visual Artists Bærum (BKIB)