Gardar Eide Einarsson

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Tokyo-based Norwegian artist Gardar Eide Einarsson explores the concept of subcultures and the moments when individuals are driven to question the establishment. Working in painting, sculpture, and installation, Einarsson recontextualizes and appropriates found images to comment on the ways in which individuals are forced to deal with societal and governmental power structures. Exploring how the body relates to the state, unsettling works such as The Riotmakers (2017) point obliquely towards the ways in which individual freedoms, such as the right to protest, are sometimes violently obstructed in contemporary societies. Einarsson studied at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, the Städelschule Academy of Fine Arts in Frankfurt am Main, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.