Kasper Akhøj

Kasper Akhøj (Copenhagen, 1976) works primarily with sculpture, film and photography. He studied at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. The artist completed the Whitney Independent Study Program, in New York, in 2009. He has held recent solo exhibitions at Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the De La Warr Pavilion, United Kingdom; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Baltimore Museum of Art, United States; and WIELS Contemporary Art Centre, Belgium. His work has also been shown at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, United States; the 55th and 56th Venice Biennials, Italy; the 28th and 31st Sao Paulo Biennials, Brazil: the 11th Sharjah Biennial, United Arab Emirates, and MoMA PS1, United States. In 2018 he won the Faena Prize for the Arts together with Brazilian artist Tamar Guimaraes, and will have forthcoming solo exhibitions at the Faena Art in Buenos Aires and Miami, as well as participate in group exhibitions at Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico and at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. His work is part of the collections of Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Frac des Pays de la Loire, Nantes; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco.