Erin Sexton (b. 1982) is a Canadian artist and radio amateur based in a dome in the forest near Oslo. Her sculptures and installations involve found objects, hidden forces, sci-fi narratives, everyday materials, and MacGyver-esque techniques. Psychedelic and emancipatory, her work explores alternate paradigms, strange topologies, soft apocalyptics, and metaphysical technologies. She tries to dissolve boundaries and subvert hierarchies, often using humour as a tactic.
Erin Sexton (f. 1982) er en kanadisk kunstner og radioamatør basert i en dome i skogen nær Oslo. Installasjonene og skulpturene hennes involverer funnede objekter, skjulte krefter, sci-fi-narrativer, hverdagsmaterialer og MacGyver-aktige teknikker. På psykedelisk og frigjørende vis utforsker hennes praksis alternative paradigmer, underlig topologi, myk apokalyptikk og metafysisk teknologi. Hun prøver å løse opp grenser og undergrave hierarkier, og bruker ofte humor som taktikk.
Erin Sexton (née en 1982) est une artiste et radioamateur canadienne basée dans un dôme dans la forêt près d’Oslo. Ses sculptures et installations impliquent objets trouvés, forces cachées, récits de science-fiction, matériaux du quotidien et techniques à la MacGyver. Psychédélique et émancipatrice, son travail explore paradigmes alternatifs, topologies étranges, apocalypses douces et technologies métaphysiques. Elle essaie de dissoudre les frontières et de renverser les hiérarchies, en utilisant souvent l’humour comme tactique.
email: contact<at>erinsexton.com
insta: @erin.sexton
CV
education
2015 – 2017 Bergen Art Academy – Department of Contemporary Art, Master of Fine Arts, Bergen, Norway
2004 – 2006 Concordia University, BFA with distinction, Interdisciplinary Studies, Fine Arts, Montréal, Canada
2001 – 2004 Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Integrated Media, Vancouver, Canada
solo exhibitions
2024 Cirka 7.373.37 Mhz, ISG, isgisgisgisgisgisgisgisgisg.com
2023 Low battery (nye måner), K4, Oslo, Norge
2023 Plans de Contingence (Contingency Plans), Le Lieu, Québec, Canada
2023 Contingency Planning, w/ Yohei Hamada, Galleri Memphis på Pentadomen, Hakadal, Norge
2021 Psychic technology, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
2020 Contingency Planning, w/ Yohei Hamada, Kurant visningsrom, Tromsø, Norway
2019 Contingency Planning, w/ Yohei Hamada, BEK, Bergen, Norway
2019 Harnessing, Prosjektrom C4, Bergen, Norway
2018 Jump Point, Rom 61, Bergen, Norway
2018 Hyperdimensional Variations III, RAKE visningsrom, Trondheim, Norway
2017 NOÖSPHERE, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2017 Hyperdimensional Variations II, Galerie Rezdechaussée, Bordeaux, France
2017 CONTACT, Galleri Bokboden, Bergen, Norway
2016 Résonateur Cosmique, w/ Alexander Wilson, Sporobole, Sherbrooke, Canada
2016 Inside the Out, Destroy Vancouver XVII, VIVO Media Arts Centre, Vancouver, Canada
2015 Until it is struck, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2014 Crystalline Domain, Biennale Internationale d’Art Numérique, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 Crystalline Domain, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, Canada
2007 Aircraft! vs Total Music, w/ Alain Lefevbre, DGC Gallery, Montréal, Canada
group shows
2026 ALIEN, Pentadomen; Vippetangen silo, Oslo, Norge (kommende)
2025 ALIEN, Beitostølen, Norge; Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki, Finland (kommende)
2025 TOTAL HARRYFAKTOR, kuratert av MacGyv’r, Pentadomen, Hakadal, Norge (kommende)
2024 DAPWIGY; Your Pleasure, Our Pain: The ethics of luxury, PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norge
2024 Psi-harness, Expanding sun; Parallels, ISG, Supermarket Artfair, Stockholm, Sverige
2022 BORGE MED HOPF; Winter Solstice, Kroloftet, Oslo, Norge
2022 Fascist flayer, Vestlandsutstillingen Monuments, Kunstmuseet Kube, Ålesund; Sunnfjord Kunstlag, Førde; Haugesund Billedgalleri, Haugesund; Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger; Kunsthuset Kabuso, Øystese; Kunstgarasjen, Bergen, Norge
2021 De stabler steiner i bue og krysser fingre, ROM for kunst og arkitektur, Oslo, Norway
2019 Crystalline Domain, Vitalist Materialism, Hop Projects, Folkestone, UK
2018 Portals, Ludacrium (Is It A Game?), Kreutzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
2018 Entities, NOÖSPHERICS, Lydgalleriet / ØSTRE, Bergen, Norway
2017 LA1B test, Sonic Arcade: Shaping Space with Sound, Radius, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA
2017 3 x 2, Spirit Guide to Low Tech, AKA Gallery / Paved Arts / The Storefront, Saskatoon, Canada
2017 Triage, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2016 Hyperdimensional Variations I, Poekhali! Landmark, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
2016 Something that could easily be mistaken for nothing,Kreuzberg Pavillon, Fall Apartment, Bergen, Norway
2016 Never Say Die, RIFT, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway
2016 The chemicals talk, Resonant Structures, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, Stony Brook, USA; Babycastles Gallery, New York, USA
2015 The chemicals talk, PIKSEL15, S12 Galleri, Bergen, Norway
2015 Spectral Resonance, Systemic Sampling, Stream Gallery, New York, USA
2014 Crystalline Domain, Biennale Internationale d’Art Numérique, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 Electromagnetic Medium, Voices From Beyond: The EVP Project, Montréal, Canada; Send + Receive, Winnipeg, Canada
2013 Untitled (salt, water, electronics), MuseRuole, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy
2008 Ostinato 20 + 28, Le Son a des Jambes, SAT Galerie, Montréal, Canada
2007 Shot, Feminine Products, My Hero Gallery, Montréal, Canada
commissions
2020 Regnbuens Dimensjoner, public sculpture for Midtun skole / Bergen kommune, Norway
2019 Expédition, Dialogues avec Chantal Dumas, Avatar, Quebec City, Canada
2018 For MS (Michael Snow), Amplification: 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2014 Elementary Structures, w/ Magali Babin, Fountain House, Raumlabor Berlin/Goethe Institute, Montréal, Canada
2014 For MA (Maryanne Amacher), Musicworks Magazine, Toronto, Canada
2013 Space II, Volume: Hear Here, curator Christof Migone, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2008 Amiga, switch, feedback, Je Me Souviens 4, curator Eric Mattson, La Sala Rosa, Montréal, Canada
selected solo performances
2023 Le call magique, Plans de Contingence finissage, Le Lieu, Québec, Canada
2019 7.058 Mhz, Blue Rinse, Lydgalleriet, Bergen, Norway
2016 Electromagnetic Dimension, Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway
2015 Electromagnetic Dimension, STWST48, Linz, Austria; Sight + Sound festival, Eastern Bloc, Montreal, Canada
2014 Phase Space, Goldsmiths University + Hundred Years Gallery, London, UK; Piksel14, Bergen, Norway; Opekta, Köln, Germany; Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium; Echoraum, Vienna, Austria; Send + Receive festival, Actual Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; Electric Eclectics festival, Meaford, Canada; Manif d’Art 7, Québec, Canada; Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures In Sound Art, Toronto, Canada; Sight + Sound, Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada
2013 L’Espace, Cristaux, Électroniques, Feedback, Le Lobe, Chicoutimi, Canada
2012 Other dimensions VIII, Sounds in a Room, Victoria, Canada
2012 Dimensional Refractions, Ende Tymes Festival, Outpost Artist Resources, New York, USA
2011 Other dimensions IV – VII, AKA Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada; Knot Gallery, Athens, Greece; Arteleku, Donostia, Spain; Sucked Orange Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 Other dimensions II, Send + Receive v.12, Urban Shaman, Winnipeg, Canada
2009 PLAY 2 , Mutek 10, Monument National Theatre, Montréal, Canada
2007 Very, New Forms Festival, Scotiabank Dance Center, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Oscillators, shortwave, bass feedback, Nuit Blanche, Gallerie B312, Montréal, Canada
selected performance collaborations
2023 23 : 23, PAF Summer University closing ritual, w/ L EXP Berlin, St-Erme, France
2016 Disnovation / Drone 2000, w/ Nicolas Maigret, transmediale, HKW, Berlin, Germany
2014 Duo w/ Katherine Liberovskaya, Optosonic Tea, Silent Barn, New York, USA
2013 Mouvements, FÜNF, Akousma X, Usine C, Montréal, Canada
2012 Ænth, w/ Alexander Wilson, VIVO, Vancouver, Canada
2011 Duo w/ Seiji Morimoto, Experimontag, Madame Claude, Berlin, Germany
2011 Ænth, w/ Alexander Wilson, No Central, Athens, Greece; Platform for Performance Artists, Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
2011 FÜNF, Travaux Electroniques Feminins, Conservatoire de Musique du Québec, Montréal, Canada
2010 Duo w/ Magali Babin, w/ nocinema.org, Share, Issue Project Room, New York, USA
2008 Duo w/ Emilie Mouchous, Bent Festival, DCTV/The Tank, New York, USA
publications + catalogs
2025 Your Pleasure, Our Pain, PRAKSIS / In Pursuit of Luxury Journal special issue, Intellect, Bristol, UK (kommende)
2025 Chaos Streams 02, Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT), Kuriozum Press, UK (kommende)
2018 NOÖSPHERICS, artist book, Topos Bokforlag, Bergen, Norway
2017 Making Contact, Erin Sexton, NRRL Amatør Radio Magazine, No. 1 – January 2017, p. 14 – 15
2016 Sound Art: Sound as a Medium of Art, Peter Weibel, Canadasonic, essay by Christof Migone, ZKM / MIT Press
2016 Resonant Structures, catalog, Perceptual Limits, essay by Flannery Cunningham, Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery, NY
2015 Volumes, Book + Vinyl, Christof Migone, Martin Arnold, Blackwood / Mackenzie / SBC Galleries, Canada
2015 Systemic Sampling,catalog, Stream Gallery, New York, USA
selected press
2020 Wearable sculptures and speculative cosmology, Emelie Ieremia, Hakapik.no, interview, April 27
2020 Plan B, Nicholas Norton, Kunstkritikk.no, Kritikk, March 23
2020 Kunst i andres kanaler, Ragnhild Aamås, Kunstkritikk.no, Nyhet, March 20
2019 De beste kunstopplevelsene i Bergen denne uken, Vilde Rolfsnes, Subjekt.no, Sept 9
2019 Det beste på kunstfronten i Bergen denne uken, Nora Forsbak Håskjold, Subjekt.no, Sept 2
2019 Best i Bergen akkurat nå, Ingrid Tellefsen Relling, Subjekt.no, May 2
2018 Amplification, Amber Berson, Canadianart.ca, kritikk, 23 oktober
2018 Hyperboreans in Hyperspace: Postcards from the Noöspherics Conference in Bergen, Eirik Storesund, Brutenorse.com, June 4
2015 La Nature en DIY / The Nature of DIY, Esther Bourdages, ETCMEDIA 105, p. 56 – 69
2015 Sonic Encounters: In Conversation with Sound Artist Erin Sexton, Deanna Radford, Herizons Vol. 29 No. 2, p. 40 – 42
2014 Erin Sexton tunes in to the eternal music of matter, Deanna Radford, Musicworks #119, p. 28 – 31
2013 Sight & Sound’s digital self-reflexivity, Juan Camilo Velasquez, The McGill Daily, May 27, p. 1 – 6
residencies
2024 Your Pleasure, Our Pain: The ethics of luxury, PRAKSIS, Oslo, Norge
2014 Music in the Brain Research Group, Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (CFIN), Aarhus, Denmark
2014 Art Now Series w/ Christof Migone, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
2014 Deep Wireless Festival, New Adventures In Sound Art, Toronto, Canada
2012 Crystalline Domain, Studio XX, Montréal, Canada
2010 Real-Time-Space, Excavation Sonore series, Avatar, Québec, Canada
workshops
2020 Contingency Planning, w/ Yohei Hamada, Kurant visningsrom / Kunstakademiet i Tromsø, Norway
2019 Contingency Planning, w/ Yohei Hamada, BEK, Bergen, Norway
2015 lumière sonore, w/ Magali Babin + Productions Supermusique, Eureka! Festival, Montréal, Canada
2014 electrochemical improvisation: experiments with electronics, sound, and crystallization, presented at: Eastern Bloc, Montréal, Canada; Bauhaus University, Faculty of Media Arts, Weimar, Germany; PIKSEL14, Bergen Kjøtt, Bergen, Norway; ?IPke, RAMPA Lab, Ljubljana, Slovenia
discography
2015 Galerie Pache 100, digital album compilation, duo w/ Érick D’Orion, Galerie Pache, Paris, France
2014 FÜNF, la règle, CD, DAME / Ambiances Magnétiques, Montréal, Québec
2013 An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music #7, 1930 – 2012, CD compilation, Sub Rosa, Brussels, Belgium
2012 Compilado Sonoro Ursonate Vol. 2, 2 CDr compilation, limited edition, Ursonate Magazine, Madrid, Spain
2011 Horizon, double CD, w/ Magali Babin, Martin Tétreault, Érick d’Orion, Hélène Prévost, les encodage de l’oubli
2008 Ostinato 20 + 28, CDr compilation, limited edition, ORAL
2004 Aircraft, CDr, independent
grants + awards
2024 Prosjektstøtte, visuell kunst, Kulturdirektoratet, Norge
2023 SKS Arbeidsstipend, Prosjektstøtte, Kulturdirektoratet, Norge
2021 SKS Arbeidsstipend, Kulturrådet, Norway
2020 Stipend, Norske Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond, Norway
2019 Utstillingsstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen, Kulturrådet, Norway
2019 Profesjonelle kunst- og kulturtiltak, Tverrfaglig prosjekt, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2018 SKS Arbeidsstipend for yngre nyetablerte kunstnere, Kulturrådet, Norway
2018 Prosjektstøtte, Billedkunstnernes vederlagsfond; Internasjonal kunst- og kulturutveksling, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2017 Profesjonelle kunst- og kulturtiltak, Tverrfaglig prosjekt, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2017 Utstillingsstøtte til kunstnere i etableringsfasen, Kulturrådet, Norway
2017 Diversestipend for Graduate Artists, Kulturrådet Norway; Etableringsstipend, Bergen Kommune, Norway
2017 USF graduate studio 2017/2018, UiB KMD, Bergen, Norway
2016 Production Grant, Travel Grant, Canada Council for the Arts
2014 Production Grant, Canada Council for the Arts; Composer’s Residency Grant, SOCAN; Travel Grants, CCA + CALQ
2013 Research and Creation Grant, Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec (CALQ)
other professional experience
2016 Assistant to Joe Davis for Det nye Eden, Sølvberget Galleri, Stavanger, Norway
2016 Guest instructor, Darsha Hewitt’s Sensing Space with Sound class, Bauhaus, Weimar, Germany
2015 – 2017 KHiB Masters Seminar Coordinator, Bergen, Norway
2015 Canada Council for the Arts, Peer Assessor for the New Music program, Ottawa, Canada