Owen Gump
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b.1980 in Kentfield, California, lives and works in Northern California

2008                Diplom, Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig
2003-2005       Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
2002                Bachelor of Arts, University of Washington, Seattle

Grants, Residencies and Awards:

2017                 PLAYA Residency, PLAYA Foundation, Summer Lake, Oregon
2015                 Leipziger Volkszeitung Art Award
, Leipziger Volkszeitung, Leipzig
2013                 Bremerhaven Prize and Residency, City of Bremerhaven
2010                 Chargesheimer Prize for Media Arts, City of Cologne
2009                 Nachwuchsförderung Grant, Kunststiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
2008-2011        Studio Residency, Kölnischer Kunstverein/Imhoff Stiftung, Cologne
2007                 Artist in Residence, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
2003                 DAAD Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service, Bonn

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2017                The Narrows, Kunstverein Freiburg
2015                El Niño,
Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig
                        Fault Zone, BQ, Berlin
2013                The Ephemeral Nature of Interrelated Things, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven
                        Tiff's Desk, Tiff Siegfrieds, Los Angeles
2012                 Nukuhiva, BQ, Berlin
2011                 Island Arc,
Apartment 2, Los Angeles
2010                 Island Arc, BQ, Berlin
                         Pied-a-terre, Half Moon Bay, California
2009                 Proving Ground, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah

2007                 BQ, Cologne
2004                 Goethe Institut, Düsseldorf
2002                 American Institute of Architects, Seattle

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2019                 Next Generations: Aktuelle Fotografie made im Rheinland, Museum Morsbrioch, Leverkusen
                         Blosse Landschaft, Städtische Galerie Waldkreiburg
2018                 Both Sides of the Visible: Traces in the Photographic Narrative, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig
                      Why are My Friends Such Finks, BQ, Berlin
2017
              The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
                         Produktion. Made in Germany Drei (with Lonelyfingers), Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2015               Stranger Than Paradise, Sies + Höke Gallery, Düsseldorf
2013                 Lonelyfingers: Conversation Pieces, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2011                 Localhost: International Artists in/from NRW, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster
2010                 In situ, Galerie Clages, Cologne  
2009                 Arrival Inside, Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow

2007                 Nach dem Sputnik, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
2006                 Emprise Art Award, Stadtmuseum, Düsseldorf
2005                 Regarding Düsseldorf, Kunstverein 701, Düsseldorf


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