SEBASTIAN HELLING, mixed media on canvas, signed
"Untitled". 220 x 183 cm.
Born in London in 1975, Oslo-based Sebastian Helling received his BA from the London College of Printing in 2001 and went on to receive an MA from the Royal College of Art two years later. In 2011 he received an MA from the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo. Recent solo exhibitions include Somnambulist, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery (2016), I Run This [Full Stop], Island, Oslo (2016), Dive, QB Gallery, Oslo (2015), Gi Labb!, Galleri Lab, Oslo (2014), Grande Days, Trafo Kunsthall, Asker (2013) and When I Was Young, NoPlace, Oslo and at Bukowskis (2012). He has exhibited in group shows as far and wide as Norway, Sweden, Poland, the UK and USA, including Grafforists, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, 2016, Too Much of a Good Thing, Nordic Contemporary, Paris (2015), Tilfældet Oslo i Ringsted, Ringsted Galleriet, Copenhagen (2015), Verve, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London (2015), Shattered Preface, OSL Contemporary, Oslo (2014), Fluxus autonomus, Hvitstensalong, Hvitsten (2014), and The City is Empty, Kronika, Poland (2013). Helling was the artist-in-residence at Hooper Projects, Los Angeles, in the summer of 2015. Helling lives and works in Oslo. (info from kristinhjellegjerde.com)