Catrine Bodum

catrine.bodum@gmail.com
www.catrinebodum.com

Born 1983 Luzern, Switzerland

Work/Live: Switzerland and London

I was born to my Danish parents in Switzerland, where I grew up with two sisters and a brother, and still return to live and work when I am not abroad for studies or travel. After having graduated from Parsons in New York, in May 2007, I committed to my focus in painting. I decided to stay another year in New York, to continue my studio work, and to find out whether this was really what I wanted. I now find myself doing a masters in London at Byam Shaw School of Art, graduating in September 2009, and am still determined. My work, which is predominantly large scale, ranges from collage to acrylic and oil paintings, but focuses mainly on oil painting. It stems from my everyday life, my naive daydreams and, at times to despair, extreme exaggeration of feelings. I get influence from music, animals, visual imagery I receive from passages in books, patterns in architecture or fabrics, 18th century art, Baroque and Rococo especially, with their romantic/erotic connotations, boats, colour schemes in magazines and of course Google image search. I am currently doing a new series of work, based off inspiration I am getting from listening to Steve Reich and Philip Glass. This work has a monochrome background and uses black oil paint or china ink to make marks.

I grew up in a design conscious family so I cannot deny that design has an impact on my work and is part of my thinking when I build a painting. I strongly believe that things must have beauty to them and that pleasure is an essential part of life. This is not something you buy or take like a medication but something you look for and make yourself aware of. And it is something I look for and make myself aware of when I work.

Education

2008-2009 Byam Shaw School of Art, London, UK for MA

2004-2007 Parsons School of Design, BFA Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002-2004 Hampshire College, Dance and Psychology, Amherst, MA

1996-2002 The Riverside School, Zug, Switzerland

1987-1996 Montessori Schule, Luzern, Switzerland

Selected Exhibitions

2008 Catrine Bodum @ Le Mécène Café, Paris, France, Nov. 7- Dec. 2, 2008
2007 “MINE”, Parsons BFA Show, MC Gallery NYC, May 9-19, 2007

2006 "Madness", Parsons BFA Junior Year Show, NYC, 2006

2006 “Generations 5”, A.I.R Gallery, NYC, March 9-April 1, 2006

Public Projects

2006 Studio in the park, Riverside Park Fund, installation and production support for Elana Herzog, NYC, NY

Freelance/Internships

01/08-06/08 Production Associate, Graphis, NYC

09/07-01/08 Teachers Assistant, HiArt! and Time In, NYC, assisting teachers during class time, taking kids to galleries and museums.
09/07-12/07 Directors Assistant and Production Artist, HiArt! and Time In,
NYC, managing all aspects of fundraising, special events, creating logos and flyers for events.
2006-2007 Assistant to Elana Herzog, Artist, Brooklyn, NYC