Biography
Education
2005-2008: First class BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art.
2006, Sep-Dec. Exchanges to Japan; Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Art – Printmaking Department; photography section under Professor Musashi san.
2004-2005: Copenhagen Technical College - The Graphic Department.
2002-2003: Skolen for Fotografi by Johnny Jensen and Mads Gamdrup.
2002: Sortedam - skolen for kunstnerisk fotografi by Eva Mertz and Thomas Seets.
2001-2002: Københavns Medieskole Rampen by Laura Erikson.
1982: Born in Aahus, Denmark.
2011 Founder and director of Green Is Gold Studio, w/ Amalie Bønnelycke Lunøe. www.gigstudio.dk
Shows
2011 Never Express yourself more clearly than you are able to think, w/Asle Lauvland Pettersen, Four Boxes Gallery, Skive/DK
2011 Group Exhibition with Silja Leifsdottir, Marius Almås Johansen & Asle Lauvland Pettersen. Sommer Melbu/Norway.
2010 We Just Live Here, The Forgotten Bar, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2010 Possible Realities 3 – Dark Castle, Solo Exhibition w/ duo Ditte Knus & Silja Leifsdottir, Roter Pavillion, Bad Doberan/Germany
2010 Barbar, @apartment, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2009 Possible Realities, Solo Exhibition w/ duo Ditte Knus & Silja Leifsdottir, One Night Gallery, Oslo
2009 Alt_Cph09, Alternative Art Fair, Photo marathon w/ SPARK Gallery, The Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen
2009 VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition, Group Show, Ex Templo de San José, Campeche/Mexico
2009 MV inspiriert – China, Dänemark, Duschland, Group Exhibition, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborg, Seebad Kühlungborn/North Germany
2008 ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N°9, Group Exhibiton, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2008 Catalyst Student Art Show, Curate group show at Catalyst Gallery, Belfast, N. Irland/UK
2008 Through the Looking Glass, Group Show curate by DUNK! At +44 141 Gallery/the SWG3, Glasgow
2008 Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Solo Exhibition, Ard Bia, Galway/IR
2008 Artisit?, Group Show curate by Mary Nally & Sharon O’Grady, McDonagh Building, Galway/IR
2008 Degree Show 2008, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2008 A Psycho Piece – the Dragons & the Shed, solo installation, the Cell, Glasgow
2008 Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh
2008 Homesick, w/ Ina Tyrdal and Ane Østem at the Cell, Glasgow.
2007 I tell you tell me, w/ Ina Tyrdal, the Vic Gallery, Glasgow
2007 Throb, Exibition venue at the Flying Duck, Glasgow
2007 Kp07 – Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, censored grow show at Kunstbygningen, Aarhus/DK
2007 Expanded Photography, students show at Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow
2006 Shared Vernacular, students show at Newberry Gallery, Glasgow
Grants
2011 Kultur Kontakt Nord
2011 Sommer-Melbu
2010 Danish Art Council
2010 Det Letterstedtske Selskab
2009 Ragnvald & Ida Blix' Fond
2008 Artist grant from the British Council
Residences and Collections
2010 Hóll- The Birgir Andresson Residency, Seydisfjordur, Iceland. Possible Realities II with Silja Leifsdottir.
2009 VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition and study program, Ex Templo de San José Campeche, Mexico.
2009 Art at the Baltic Sea - MV inspiriert, International Artist in Residence Program.
2007 Residence art project for the KPMG head office in London, where I spent time with UK’s larges homeless organization St. Mungo’s, one of the many clients that KPMG support, to creative work that is to be found in KPMG permanent art collection in London.
www.kpmg.com, www.mungos.org
Publication and others
2010 Featured in the first number of the online art and poetry magazine: www.morgenrøde.dk
2009 Artist Catalogue for VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition
2009 Interview in the Danish Association for Visual Artists magazine; Billedkunstneren
2008 Graduate photography online, Source Magazine. www.source.ie
2008 Became member of BKF, The Danish Association of visual Artist, www.bkf.dk
Copyright: No part of this website or any images contained within, may be reproduced, in any form or by any means without prior permission from Ditte Knus Tønnesen
© 2011
2005-2008: First class BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography, Glasgow School of Art.
2006, Sep-Dec. Exchanges to Japan; Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Art – Printmaking Department; photography section under Professor Musashi san.
2004-2005: Copenhagen Technical College - The Graphic Department.
2002-2003: Skolen for Fotografi by Johnny Jensen and Mads Gamdrup.
2002: Sortedam - skolen for kunstnerisk fotografi by Eva Mertz and Thomas Seets.
2001-2002: Københavns Medieskole Rampen by Laura Erikson.
1982: Born in Aahus, Denmark.
2011 Founder and director of Green Is Gold Studio, w/ Amalie Bønnelycke Lunøe. www.gigstudio.dk
Shows
2011 Never Express yourself more clearly than you are able to think, w/Asle Lauvland Pettersen, Four Boxes Gallery, Skive/DK
2011 Group Exhibition with Silja Leifsdottir, Marius Almås Johansen & Asle Lauvland Pettersen. Sommer Melbu/Norway.
2010 We Just Live Here, The Forgotten Bar, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2010 Possible Realities 3 – Dark Castle, Solo Exhibition w/ duo Ditte Knus & Silja Leifsdottir, Roter Pavillion, Bad Doberan/Germany
2010 Barbar, @apartment, Group Exhibition, Berlin
2009 Possible Realities, Solo Exhibition w/ duo Ditte Knus & Silja Leifsdottir, One Night Gallery, Oslo
2009 Alt_Cph09, Alternative Art Fair, Photo marathon w/ SPARK Gallery, The Factory for Art and Design, Copenhagen
2009 VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition, Group Show, Ex Templo de San José, Campeche/Mexico
2009 MV inspiriert – China, Dänemark, Duschland, Group Exhibition, Kunsthalle Kühlungsborg, Seebad Kühlungborn/North Germany
2008 ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N°9, Group Exhibiton, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
2008 Catalyst Student Art Show, Curate group show at Catalyst Gallery, Belfast, N. Irland/UK
2008 Through the Looking Glass, Group Show curate by DUNK! At +44 141 Gallery/the SWG3, Glasgow
2008 Ditte Knus Tønnesen, Solo Exhibition, Ard Bia, Galway/IR
2008 Artisit?, Group Show curate by Mary Nally & Sharon O’Grady, McDonagh Building, Galway/IR
2008 Degree Show 2008, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2008 A Psycho Piece – the Dragons & the Shed, solo installation, the Cell, Glasgow
2008 Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition, The Mound, Edinburgh
2008 Homesick, w/ Ina Tyrdal and Ane Østem at the Cell, Glasgow.
2007 I tell you tell me, w/ Ina Tyrdal, the Vic Gallery, Glasgow
2007 Throb, Exibition venue at the Flying Duck, Glasgow
2007 Kp07 – Kunstnernes Påskeudstilling, censored grow show at Kunstbygningen, Aarhus/DK
2007 Expanded Photography, students show at Pentagon Business Centre, Glasgow
2006 Shared Vernacular, students show at Newberry Gallery, Glasgow
Grants
2011 Kultur Kontakt Nord
2011 Sommer-Melbu
2010 Danish Art Council
2010 Det Letterstedtske Selskab
2009 Ragnvald & Ida Blix' Fond
2008 Artist grant from the British Council
Residences and Collections
2010 Hóll- The Birgir Andresson Residency, Seydisfjordur, Iceland. Possible Realities II with Silja Leifsdottir.
2009 VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition and study program, Ex Templo de San José Campeche, Mexico.
2009 Art at the Baltic Sea - MV inspiriert, International Artist in Residence Program.
2007 Residence art project for the KPMG head office in London, where I spent time with UK’s larges homeless organization St. Mungo’s, one of the many clients that KPMG support, to creative work that is to be found in KPMG permanent art collection in London.
www.kpmg.com, www.mungos.org
Publication and others
2010 Featured in the first number of the online art and poetry magazine: www.morgenrøde.dk
2009 Artist Catalogue for VI Euro-American Visual Arts Exhibition
2009 Interview in the Danish Association for Visual Artists magazine; Billedkunstneren
2008 Graduate photography online, Source Magazine. www.source.ie
2008 Became member of BKF, The Danish Association of visual Artist, www.bkf.dk
Copyright: No part of this website or any images contained within, may be reproduced, in any form or by any means without prior permission from Ditte Knus Tønnesen
© 2011