Ingrid von Sydow

b. 1975, New York, NY

lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

BFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2010

"The Road to Hell is Paved", LA, CA (upcoming)

"Tumbleweeds and Other Histories", Gallery 533, LA, CA

"Diversions", EPMoA, (Elysian Park Museum of Art), LA, CA

"Hybrid 2", Ave 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA

LACE Art Auction, LA, CA (upcoming)

2009

California African American Museum, (2009-2010), LA, CA

“Man”, Diamondhead Gallery, LA, CA

“Black Mirror”, D301, Valencia, CA

2008

“Black Space Residency”, D301, CalArts, Valencia, CA.

“Black Box Recordings”, Bliss Gallery, Queens, NY

Group Shows

2009

“An Idea Called Tomorrow”, Skirball Cultural Center, LA, CA (upcoming)

"Guadalajara International", Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

"MFA Conversations Part II", I-5 Gallery, LA, CA

“Why Theory?”, Spring Arts Tower, LA, CA

“Back in the Discourse”, Main Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA

2008 "Staybite", an Artists for Social Justice show, Mint and Lime Galleries, CalArts, Valencia, CA

“Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder”, Mint Gallery, CalArts, Valencia, CA

“Alt_Cph”, at the Kunst og Kultur Fabrikken, Copenhagen, Denmark

2007 “A Study in Reversal”, L-Shape, CalArts, Valencia, CA

2006 “Bling”, curated by Mark Steven Greenfield, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA

"Action Speaks Louder", at Råhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark

2005 “What”, A402, CalArts, Valencia, CA

2004 “Benefit”, Rowayton Art Center, Rowayton, CT

Conferences/Panel Discussions

2008 "The Other" in contemporary art discourse: Owning, Speaking and Being “The Other”

Awards

2008 Lovelace Scholarship to attend CalArts, Valencia, CA

2007 CalArts Grant, Valencia, CA

2006 Dean’s Grant, CalArts, Valencia, CA

CalArts Grant, Valencia, CA

2005 Ahmanson Grant to attend CalArts, Valencia, CA

Alpert Grant to attend CalArts, Valencia, CA

Black Mirror

"hand mirror"

carved burned cork

spring 2009
installation view
installation view
installation view
installation view

Drawings

Reflection Study, 2008

graphite on paper

5' by 3'

Video Work

Stills from a series of analog video art work entitled, Black Box Recordings

http://www.youtube.com/my_videos

Title: Mapping the Invisible
Media: Video , (please see youtube link for excerpts) with sound
shown on portable b/w, tv/radio, (the last photo of the series above is an installation view from the Artists for Social Justice Show

Journal entry 02/14/08, Observations from the Black Space Residency

In a field 
I am the absence 
of field. 
This is 
always the case. 
Wherever I am 
I am what is missing. 

When I walk 
I part the air 
and always 
the air moves in 
to fill the spaces 
where my body's been. 

We all have reasons 
for moving. 
I move 
to keep things whole. 

-Mark Strand. from the poem, Keeping Things Whole

During time spent taking part in The Black Space Residency Program I collected this footage. I lost track of the storms, all I have to document my time there is this artifact, everything else is immaterial. In that black space, the environment or atmosphere appears in reverse, with light space dark and dark, light...the air swallows everything.