INGA SVALA THÓRSDÓTTIR
Inga Svala Thorsdottir was born in Iceland in 1966. She graduated in 1991 from the Painting Department of the Icelandic School of Arts and Crafts, and in 1995 from the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 1993 she founded Thor’s Daughter’s Pulverization Service, and in 1999 she founded BORG. She lives and works in Hamburg, Shanghai and Reykjavík.
In 1991, Thorsdottir began to work with renowned Chinese conceptual artist Wu Shanzhuan. Since then, they have been working and exhibiting collaboratively.
Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan’s recent solo exhibitions include: The Printer, The Paper, The Layer, The Thing’s Right(s), The Little Fat Flesh, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore (2014); Artic Fox Arc—Temperature War—Large Collage, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong (2013); What A Form: A Reportage, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen (2013) and kuo xuan, Long March Space, Beijing (2011). Their recent group exhibitions include: Tales from The Taiping Era, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (2014); Surplus Authors, Witte de With, Rotterdam (2012) and Place * Time * Play: Contemporary Art from the West Heavens to the Middle Kingdom, Shanghai (2010).
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