Born 1967 in Norway

EDUCATION

The National Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen, Norway 1991-94
Accademia di Belle Arti Pietro Vanucci, Perugia, Italy 1990-91

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Kunstnerforbundet, Oslo, 2014
Atelier Populaire Oslo / Palestinerleir, collaborative project with Johanna Zwaig, Marius von der Fehr and members of the Palestinian Camp in Oslo, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, 2012
Riturnella, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, 2010
Jacques Butler – For All Occasions, Oslo Museum; Interkulturelt Museum, Oslo, 2009
Camp Dreamland, Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway, 2008
Selected videoworks, The Society of Mind/ Kiss the Frog. The National Museum – Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo. Curated by Marit Paasche, 2005
First Time We Live, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo. Curator Gavin Jantjes, 2003
Arabic Lesson, Stenersenmuseet, Oslo, Norway. As part of Oslo Open. Curators Caroline Ugelstad & Inger M. Renberg, 2003
Continual Shooting with Cannon, Galleri Paletten, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2002
Continual Shooting with Cannon, Galleri UKS, Oslo, 2001
Chapelle Saint-Jacques, Saint Gaudens, France. With Pierre Matte, 2000
Kiss me, Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger, Norway, 1998

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

State of the State, with the artist group Exiles, Galleri BOA, Oslo
All King, No Kingdom, with the artist group Exiles, Spriten Kunsthall, Skien, Norway
In the National Museum’s Blind Spot, The National Museum/ Architecture, Oslo, Bomullsfabrikken, Arendal, on tour throughout 2015. Curator Samir M’Kadmi
2013

Entry Denied, with the artist group Exiles, Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway
2012

Bet Aza, performance at The National Annual Autumn Exhibition with Atelier Populaire Oslo/ Palestinerleir, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
L’ARTE AIUTA L’ARTE (MA NON SOLO), MAAM (Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove di Metropoliz), Roma
Spazi aperti, Accademia di Romania, Roma, curator Eleonora Farina
Tidsaspekt:Systemkrise, Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst, Trondheim. With Kristin Tårnes, Shwan Dler Qaradaki, Silje Figenschou, Joar Nango, Thomas Kvam. Curator Sissel Mutale Bergh
2011

NO Sphere, New York, with Sverre Malling, Christer Karlstad, Vibeke Jensen, Tilda Lovell, Sol Kjøk. Curated by Sol Kjøk & Thale Fastvold
The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2007

CrossTalking, Contemporary Art Exhibition at the International Church Music Festival, Christiansands Kunstforening, Kristiansand, Norway. Curator Aage Langhelle
Facing Differences, Oslo Open video & filmprogram, Cinemateket, Oslo. Curator Farad Khalantary
Peer in Peer Out, The Moore Space, Miami. With Knut Åsdam, Jesper Just, Laars Lauman, Pia Lindman. Curated by Silvia Karman Cubiná in collaboration with Marilou Knode
Contemporary Scandinavian Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona. Curator Marilu Knode
LARM – Nordic Sound Art Festival, Stockholm. Curated by Maria Bjurestam, Maria Hägglund, Mona Petersson, Liv Strand
Hit the North – filmprogram, curated by Anna Linder at Filmform, Sweden, www.filmform.com. Screening at the Cinema K-Suns, Riga
Dreamlands Burn, Mucsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest. Curated by Edit Molnár & Lívia Páldi
2006

Stillhet, a cinemaprogram presented at Vika Kino, Parkteateret Scene and Sound of Mu, Oslo. With Lars Petter Hagen, Charlotte Thiis-Evensen and Ellen Bruno. In cooperation with Oslo Dokumentarkino. Stillhet also on radio at NRK: www.nrk.no/ulyd
The Singing, Swinging North, Paris Photo 2006, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris. Curated by Andrea Holzherr
No longer the same place, Hit the North – filmprogram curated by Anna Linder, Cinemateket, Stockholm
Migrations, Belfast Exposed, Belfast, Northern Ireland. With Anthony Haughey, Breda Bedan, Penny Siopsis, Terence Wright. Curated by Karen Downey
The Norwegian Short Film Festival 2006, Grimstad
2005

Robert Meyer Collection, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
Northern Lights Film Festival, Newcastle, UK
Others, Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway. Curator Frank Falch
2004

Enzimi Film Festival 2004, Rome, Italy
MOMENTUM – Nordic festival for contemporary art, Moss, Norway. Curated by Caroline Corbetta & Per Gunnar Eeg-Tverbakk
Criss-Cross, Video-Film-Documentary programme produced by Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art (NIFCA), premiér at Frankfurter Kunstverein, international tour in 2004-2006.
2003

Coup de coeur/ A sentimental choice, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France
Remembrance + The Moving Image: Persistence of Vision, Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Melbourne, Australia. Curated by Ross Gibson
Videorium 01, Les Abbattoir, Toulouse, France. Curated by Pascal Pique
2002

Fundametalisms of the New Order, Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Lars Bang-Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Charlotte Brandt
Refuge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, Norway. Curator Gavin Jantjes
Tusen Blomster, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway
2001

The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, Norway
Milano Europa 2000, La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1999

Engasjert Kunst, Stenersen Museet, Oslo, Norway
Signs of Life, Melbourne International Biennial, Australia. Curated by Juliana Engberg
Galleri 54, Gothenburg, Sweden
1998

UKS Biennial 98, Hennie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo/ Rogaland Art Museum, Stavanger/ Trondheim Art Museum/ Tromsø Kunstforening, Norway. Curated by Maria Lind & Søssa Jørgensen
Twelve Nights, USF Kulturhus, Bergen, Norway. Curated by Jana Winderen
1997

Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger
The Other Art, Galleri UKS, Oslo, Norway
NOR-A-WAY, Stadtgallerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany. With Ole Jørgen Ness, Vibeke Tandberg, Anneé Olofsson, Jeanette Cristensen, Torbjørn Rødland, Sven Påhlsson. Curated by Claus Friede & Knut Nievers
OSS3, Galleri Sølvberget, Stavanger, Norway
Twisted, Eikaasgalleriet, Jølster/ Nord-Trøndelag Fylkesgalleri, Namsos/ Rogaland Kunstmuseum, Stavanger, Norway. Curated by Galleri Struts, produced by Norwegian National Touring Exhibitions
1996

Twisted, Forumgalleriet, Malmö, Sweden
Brudd, Bergen Fine Arts Society, Bergen, Norway
The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
Straight from the Heart, Galleri Hippolyte, Helsinki, Finland. With Tom Sandberg, Torbjørn Rødland, Sunny Heart Videos, Jenny Rydhagen, curated by Jonas Ekeberg
Signed-Sealed-Sold, The International Artist Centre, Poznan and Galeri Teraz, Sczeczin,Poland
1995

DIXI, 34 emerging Norwegian artist, Langesgt.1, Oslo, Norway
Living Texture - Scandinavian Artproduction in the Nineties, Bildraum, Zürich, Switzerland. With Bjørn Bjarre & Bjarne Melgård
Galleri Struts at Saga Basement, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galleri Struts at Galleri Struts, Oslo, Norway
1994

The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1992

Face to Face, Historisk Museum, Bergen, Norway. With Tor Børresen and Aage Langhelle

PROJECTS & WORKS IN COMMON SPACE

2012

Atelier Populaire Oslo / Palestinerleir, collaborative project
Kome til deg i Tiende/ GETTING TO YOU TIDENDE – volume I and II, a meta newspaper, curatorial team Anne-Marie Creamer and Kjetil Berge, collaborating project by Lars Sture
2010

Omar Al-Mukhtar Liberty Bangers, for Snowball Edition.com
Pay Attention Motherfuckers, big-size posters in Clear Channel commercial stands around Oslo city centre and at Oslo Airport, and on digital displays at Oslo Airport. In connection with solo exhibition Riturnella in Stenersenmuseet
2009

Jacques Butler 100 år, project for the newspaper Morgenbladet, 30. April- 7. May 2009
2005

Adhan Corner III, outdoor audio installation, as part of the exhibition Others at Sørlandet Art Museum, Kristiansand, Norway. Curator Frank Falch
Normalia – After the Ball, outdoor audio installation, text and flag presented on the touring exhibition Unizone, – visiting 17 sites on the Norwegian-Swedish border. Produced by Norwegian & Swedish National Touring Exhibitions, curated by Stina Högkvist, Anne Britt Strømnes, Mathias Strömer
Normalia – After the Ball, presented in the weekly newspaper Morgenbladet’s art project pages, 05.–12. August 2005.
2002

Adhan Corner II, audio installation at Kongens Nytorv, as part of Fundamentalisms of the New Order at Kunsthall Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Lars Bang-Larsen, Cristina Ricupero, Charlotte Brandt
2001

Adhan Corner I, outdoor audio installation and wall piece, By The Way – Gallery for Contemporary Art, Bergen, Norway
Song for Gadjo, outdoor audio installation, The Royal Garden, as part of The National Annual Autumn Exhibition, Oslo, Norway
1999

Welcome to Norway, poster project in the centre of Oslo. Curated by Young Artist Society (UKS)
1997

Wer Immer Du auch bist, handwritten signs in the centre of Kiel, part of NOR-A-WAY, Stadtgallerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany. Curated by Knut Nievers and Claus Friede
1996

One Minute of Silence, audio, National Swedish Radio P1, part of 27.680.000 Contemporary Nordic Art in the Mass Media. Curated by Jørgen Svensson & Stefan Karlsson
To See the Nature as it is, supermarket Pozperito, Poznan, as part of Signed-Sealed-Sold, The International Artist Centre, Poznan, Poland

OTHER ARTISTIC ACTIVITY

Curator, Exiles - a filmprogram at Spriten Kunsthall, Skien 2014
Curator, Exiles - a filmprogram at Cinemateket in Bergen 2013
Presentation and discussion, FOLKEBIBLIOTEKET #14, Deichmanske Bibliotek Grunerløkka, 07.11.2012
Presentation and discussion, NEW FRONTIERS #1, TeaterTanken – Dælengata, 12.02.2012
Artist-in-Residence, Palestinerleir, Oslo, Dec. 2011 - Sept. 2012
Appeal and panel contribution at open meeting about GI (artist grant policy), Kunstnernes Hus and article in the daily newspaper Klassekampen, January 2012
Member of The National Board for State Grants, 2011/12
AKULBI, public launch and campaign for Academic and Artistic Boycott of the State of Israel, 2010
Appeal, Kunstneraksjon, at Billedhoggerhuset Oslo and in the art magazine Billedkunst, 2008
Aksjonsgruppa for kunstneres levekår, with Halvor Haugen, Marianne Heier og Eivind Slettemeås, 2007
Contribution to Manifest for an Independent Art scene by Tone Hansen, 2005
Guest-teacher and external examiner, Institutt for farge, Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), 2001-05
Member of the Norwegian National Jury (DNJ), 1998-99
Guest-teacher Asker Kunstskole, 1998-99
Curator and producer, Oslo – One Night Stand, Nordic video-& performance art, a Galleri Struts production at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, 1995
Founder & curator at Galleri Struts, artist run exhibition space in Oslo. With Per Odd Bakke, Svein Flygari Johanessen, Tor Børresen, Anne Britt Strømnes, Kjersti Myrhagen, 1994-98

PUBLISHED BY THE ARTIST

Normalia featuring Jaqcues Butler, artist book with audio work/ CD, 64 pages, ed. 300. ISBN 978-82-303-1237-7. 2009
Camp Dreamland, catalog, 20 pages, with text by Line Ulekleiv. 2008

WORKS IN COLLECTIONS

Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Norway
Arts Council Norway
Christian Bjelland Collection, Norway
The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Norway