EDUCATION
2015 – 2019
PHD, funded through Northern Bridge Doctoral Partnership (AHRC), Newcastle University http://www.northernbridge.ac.uk/aboutus/people/currentstudents/ceciliastenbom.html Thesis available via this link: https://theses.ncl.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10443/4700/1/Stenbom%20JC%202019.pdf
2003 – 2005
Master of Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, UK
1999 – 2003
Bachelor or Fine Art, Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Art), Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED SOLO PRESENTATIONS
2023
Radio Off, solo exhibition, Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2020
Innsbruck International, solo presentation, Austria
2018
Rules of Engagement, screenings and talks. Regent Street Cinema (London), CCA (Glasgow), Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle-upon-Tyne), The Maltings (Berwick Upon Tweed) and The Tetley (Leeds)
Beam Reach Blasting, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland
2014
The List, Figure two, BALTIC 39, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Everyday Collateral, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
2013
Nobody Gets Out of Here Alive, Kaapelin Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
Manual, participatory event, facilitated by Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK
2010
Homeland Security, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Daily Escapes I-III, Forum Box, Helsinki, Finland
2006
Daily Escapes, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2002
They don’t know we’re faking it, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
SELECTED GROUP PRESENTATIONS
2025
Freedom to Move, Inclús, Barcelona International Disability Film Festival. https://inclus.cat/en/films/freedom-to-move/
2024
What Are Words Worth?, Gallery North, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2023
Switch 23, Nenagh, Ireland. http://www.s-w-i-t-c-h.org
Bad News, London Short Film Festival, New International Shorts, Cues for the Inbetween. https://richmix.org.uk/cinema/cues-for-the-inbetween/
2022
Manchester Contemporary, Workplace Foundation, UK
2021
Dark Matter, Group Exhibition, Workplace Foundation, UK
2019
Everything Must Go: Part 2, Workplace Foundation, UK
Rules of Engagement, Crossed Wires, London Short Film Festival
Rules of Engagement, CineKasimanwa film festival, Philippines
2018
Which Way North, Great North Museum, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2017
Somewhere Becoming Sea, curated by Film & Video Umbrella, Humberside Gallery, Hull https://www.fvu.co.uk/whats-on/current-coming-up/fvu-touring-somewhere-becoming-sea
MY PART OF YOUR HOME, Group Exhibition curated by CIRCA, Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead. https://www.circaprojects.org/exhibition/26-Chris.html
Moving on up, Moving on out, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2016
REMAKE, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
REMAKE, Lightwaves, Salford, UK
In Waiting, London Short Film Festival, UK
No Niceties, NewBridge Bookshop and Annex, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2015
A Foreign Encounter, Gallery FOE 156, Munich Germany
In Waiting, Official Competition, Reggio Film Festival, Reggio, Italy
SYSTEM, Short Film Night, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
In Waiting, Century Short Film Festival, London
Rakas Puree, screening curated by AV-arkki at Joensuu Art Muesum, Finland
The Case, Nordic Competion at Minimalen Short Film Festival, Trondheim, Norway.
The Case, Crossing the Line – Artist Moving Image, Derby Film Festival, UK
SYSTEM, Glasgow Short Film Festival, UK
The Case, 28th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
SYSTEM, London Short Film Festival, UK
2014
SATELLITE SATELLITE, Workplace Gallery, London, UK
International Print Biennale, Newcastle & Gatesehead, UK
SYSTEM, Underwire Festival, London, UK
In Waiting, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
SYSTEM, Aesthetica Short Film Festival, York, UK
The Case, 6th Cairo Video Festival, Egypt
The Case, DINAMO P&I Screening, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Holland
The Case, Glasgow Short Film Festival, International competition, UK
The Case, London Short Film Festival, UK
2013
North by North East, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, UK
Tip of the Iceberg, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
One Last Goodbye, Death of Analogue, NGCA, Sunderland, UK
How To Choose, DanubeVIDEOARTfestival, Grein, Austria
How To Choose, Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, UK
How To Choose, International Short Film Festival, Detmold, Germany
The Rescue, Queen Hall Arts, Hexham, UK
(I’m Having) The Time of My Life, Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
2012
Happy Fashion, group exhibition, VIAINDUSTRIAE, Perugia, Italy
The Rescue, 25th Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany
Daily Escapes I-III, Carte Blanche, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
Daily Escapes I-III, Reikäreuna Film Festival, Orivesi, Finland
2011
Gadgets, Culture Tram, organised by Korjaamo and AV-arkki, Helsinki, Finland
Northern Lights, Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, UK
Rotate, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
Moving Image Art Fair, NY, USA
The Rescue, Mismebinga film festival, Cameroon
2009
13th Media Art Biennale WRO 09, Wroclaw, Poland
Trickle-down Theory, group exhibition, Korjaamo, Helsinki, Finland
In the City, group exhibition curated by /sLab, Sunderland city centre, UK
Daily Escapes I-III, Vilnius International Film Festival, Kino Pavasaris, Lithuania.
The Protocol, VIEW 09, Cable Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2008
The Inspector, Beyond Film, Durham Film Festival, Durham, UK
The Inspector, VIEW 08, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland
Search and Destroy, Propeller TV, UK
2008
Connecting Principle, Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK
Tomorrow the future, Fishmarket Gallery, Northampton, UK
All my favourite singers couldn’t sing, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Breslau CV, Rydek, Wroclaw, Poland
King Fisher’s Tales, Union Gallery. London, UK
Pikinen Polku, Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
2007
False Witness, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead, UK
Zoo Art Fair, Workplace Gallery, London, UK
Pulse Art Fair, Workplace Gallery, New York, US
Gadgets, Little Jewel Cinema Film Programme, Waygood Gallery, Newcastle, UK
Search and Destroy, Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland
Search and Destroy, VIEW 07, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland
The Interpreter & The Wrongly Accused, Saison Video, Espace Croisé , Roubaix, France
2006
Helsinki International, Korjaamo, Helsinki, Finland
Formal Dining, group exhibition, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Blue Star Red Wedge, Glasgow International, Glasgow, UK
The space in-between the sole and the Heel, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
Daily Escapes I-III, VIEW 06, Korjaamo Culture Factory, Helsinki, Finland
2005
Glasgow/Beijing, Museum of Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Exit Strategy, MFA Degree Show, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
RCCA Spring Animal Show, Park Circus, Glasgow, UK
Leisure Paintings, Leisure Projects, Montreal, Canada
Everyday Conversations, Love Bites – Rakkaus puree, Love and Anarchy, Helsinki
International Film Festival, Kiasma, Finland
Scenes From A Disturbed Relationship, Urban Flesh and Blood, Curated by The Kaliningrad Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Russia, and International ArtExpo, Italy
Scenes From A Disturbed Relationship, Artificial Life, Aspex gallery, Portsmouth, UK
Everyday Conversations, Traveling 16, The Rennes Film Festival, Rennes, France
(I’m Having) The Time of My Life,VIEW 05, Andorra, Helsinki , Finland
Everyday Conversations, Finskt Konstvideomaraton, 300m3, Gothenburgh, Sweden
2004
Lopputyönäyttely, Kunsthalle and Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Interim Show, Mackintosh and Newbery Gallery, Glasgow, UK
The games we Play, Magyar Képzömüvészeti Egyetem, Budapest, Hungary
Mixed Tape, Platform Gallery, Vaasa, Finland
Everyday Conversations, Kosova Festival, Prishtina Museum, Kosovo
Everyday Conversations, World Video Art Festival, NOASS Gallery, Riga, Latvia
Everyday Conversations, VIEW TOUR – KvadraT Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Everyday Conversations, VIEW 04, Andorra, Helsinki, Finland
Everyday Conversations, Tampere Filmfestival, Tampere, Finland
2003
Extracts, Akademijos galerijoje, Vilnius, Lithuania
When subjectivity meets reality, Gallery 3:14, Bergen, Norway
2002
Crowd Pleasers, The San Francisco Art Institute and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland and San Francisco, USA
2001
Digitage, Muu Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
So Nearly Exotic, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Paha Maito, Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
RESIDENCIES
2017
Connect/Exchange, Chapter Gallery, Cardiff
2013
MAWA, Research residency, Winnipeg, Canada
Berwick Visual Art and Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, residency and commission, UK
2010
ISIS Arts, Research Residency, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
2007
/sLab, Artist in Resident, Sunderland University, UK
COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS
2018
FEATURE EXPANDED, European feature film development program, HOME, Manchester & Lo Schermo dell’arte, Florence
2016
Tall Ships Commission and Residency, Northumberland County Council, Blyth, UK and Gothenburg, Sweden.
2015
RISE, Film development programme, Northern Film & Media in partnership with Women in Film and Television
2014
In Waiting, commission by Creative England and BFI.NETWORK for the iShorts scheme.
Unspoken, Byker Metro Art Commission, Newcastle, UK
2012
The Artist Cut, Short film commission by Northern Film and Media in association with Channel4, How to Choose produced with Third Films
2007
Lounge Art, Commissioned by Inspire, Wansbeck District Council, UK
Untitled (Dog and Pattern #1), collaboration with Paul Moss, Commissioned by Waygood Gallery and Studios, Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANTS
2021 Develop Your Own Creative Practice, Arts Council England
2017 Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England
2015 Scholarship, Northern Bridge Doctoral Partnership, Arts and Humanities Research Council
2012 Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England
2009 Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England
2005 Grants for the Arts Scheme for individual artists, Arts Council England
2002 Project grant, Taiteen Keskustoimikunta, Arts Council Finland
SELECTED AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2016
REMAKE, winner of Northern Artist Film Competition, Quays Culture, Salford
In Waiting, nominated for Best Female Director, London Short Film Festival
2015
In Waiting, Winner of best short film at Century Short Film Festival
SYSTEM, Nominated for Channel 4 AWARD for innovation in storytelling at Glasgow Short Film Festival
SYSTEM, Long listed for Aesthetica Art Prize
2014
Winner of Visual Artist of the Year, The Journal Culture Awards
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Stenbom, C. (2024) Radio Off, Sightlines Journal, Issue 6. Peer reviewed. Exhibition documentation and critical statement https://www.aspera.org.au/sightlines-contribution/radio-off
Stenbom, C & Young, B (2023) ‘Bad News’ in Screenworks Vol. 13.1 Peer reviewed. Film and critical statement https://www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volume-13-1/bad-news
Dupree, C (2018) ‘Profile: Cecilia Stenbom’, NARC Magazine, February, 2018. In print and online https://narcmagazine.com/profile-cecilia-stenbom/
Federico, C (2015) ‘Future Now’, Aesthetica Art Price, Aesthetica Magazine Ltd
Travis, R. (2014) ‘Cecilia Stenbom: Everyday Collateral’, exhibition review, This Is Tomorrow http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/cecilia-stenbom-everyday-collateral
North East Contemporary Visual Artist Network (2014) ‘The Work of Cecilia Stenbom’ Artist Profile featured in This Is Tomorrow http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/the-work-of-cecilia-stenbom
Baltic Archive (2014) ‘BALTIC 39: FIGURE TWO. Week 1: Russell Hill, Cecilia Stenbom, Jude Crilly, Natalie Price Hafslund and Laura O’Neill.’ Short film about exhibition https://vimeo.com/102826373
Oswald, S. (2014) Cecilia Stenbom, feature, NARC Magazine, March, 2014. In print.
Robertson, A. (2014) The Case, Review, Eye For Film, 16.02.2014 http://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/review/the-case-2013-film-review-by-andrew-robertson
Warman, H. (2014) Aesthetica 2014; shorts circuit York, Film festival review, Sight & Sound http://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/aesthetica-2014-shorts-circuit-york
Sherwin, S. & Clark, R. (2014) ‘Exhibition of the Week’ The Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jun/20/dennis-hopper-bruce-mclean-exhibitionist
Allan, H.E. (2013) ‘Interview: Cecilia Stenbom’, Corridor8, 25.09.2013 http://www.corridor8.co.uk/online/interview-cecilia-stenbom-2/
Vegh, S (2007) gun-shy gun dogs: on the art of Cecilia Stenbom. Essay commissioned by Workplace Gallery, UK
Anttila, H.M. (2006) Daily Escapes I-III, Taide #3, Finland
Brander, P (2004) Everyday Conversation, review Pirjetta Brander, Taide #3, Finland
Stenbom, C. (2004) A Tale of an iPod or how/why I spend £299 on a technical device, Published by Shoal of Mackerel, UK
SELECTED VIDEOGRAPHY
2014
North East Contemporary Visual Artist Network: The Work of Cecilia Stenbom, Artist Profile, Produced by CVAN: http://thisistomorrow.info/articles/the-work-of-cecilia-stenbom
BALTIC 39: FIGURE TWO. Week 1: Russell Hill, Cecilia Stenbom, Jude Crilly, Natalie Price Hafslund and Laura O’Neill. https://vimeo.com/102826373
RESEARCH AFFILIATIONS
BxNU Centre for international artistic and curatorial research and practice, Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art
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