Biography
A. Skogstad, New York Studio by Jan Sobottka, 2009
Anselm Skogstad (born 1983 in Starnberg, Germany) is a German-American artist and journalist. He lives in New York and Munich, working internationally.
In New York he attended the International Center of Photography and the School of Visual Arts. At the same time he worked for Magnum Photos and renowned artists Christopher Makos and David LaChapelle. In California he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute.
He works in series where each visual is part of a whole not titled individually. He does not modify or manipulate his negatives or digital files. This forces him to compose each image immediately.
Anselm Skogstad had numerous solo and group exhibitions. He is represented by galleries and curators in New York, Boston, Paris, Zurich and Munich.
“I was fortunate to have had the means to ‘customize’ my own education. As an artist and journalist, I was influenced by my teachers at the International Center of Photography, the School of Visual Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. I have also been inspired by Christopher Makos as a mentor, and by my traineeship with David LaChapelle and Magnum Photos. Looking back I notice how all stages and experiences have shaped me personally and as an artist. I strive finding abstraction, beauty and fantasy deep within our vivid and challenging reality. To this day, I did not crop or manipulate any negative or digital file.”
--- Anselm Skogstad
solo exhibitions
- 2011 “Anselm Skogstad. New York.”, Kreissparkasse München Starnberg Ebersberg, Starnberg, Germany
- 2011 “Anselm Skogstad: Impressions + Roter Faden (Red Thread)”, HypoVereinsbank, Reichenbachplatz, Munich, Germany
- 2011 “Anselm Skogstad - NYC Subway (2009-2010)”, Hogan Lovells International, Munich, Germany
- 2010 “Parity on Newbury Street”, Lorand Gallery, Boston, MA
- 2010 “NYC Subway”, Objekt Consult, Starnberg, Germany
- 2010 “Abstract & Financial Landscapes”, Private Exhibition, Collector's Home, New York, NY
- 2010 "New York City, 2.25$ - Unlimited Ride", G5 Kultur, Munich, Germany
- 2010 “Abstracts From Above”, Private Exhibition, Trump World Tower, UN Plaza, New York, NY
- 2009 “Inside The Conference Room”, Brock Capital Group, New York, NY
- 2009 “NYC Subway (2005 – 2008)”, KIM, Berlin, Germany
- 2009 “Unities”, Nörr Stiefenhofer Lutz, New York, NY
- 2009 “Studio Exhibition”, New York Studio,New York, NY
- 2009 “NYC Subway”, Raum Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland
- 2007 “New York Photographs”, The Empire State Building, New York, NY
group exhibitions
- 2011 “Benefiting”, New Urban Arts, Silent Art Auction, UN Plaza, New York, NY
- 2011 “Members’ Fall Show 2011 – EUR/USD”, Bermuda Society Of Arts, Hamilton, Bermuda
- 2011 “Buy What You Love 2011” (The Rema Hort Mann Foundation), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
- 2010 “New York Promenade - USA Underground”, Galerie David Guiraud, Paris, France
- 2010 “Opening of ‘The apARTment’”, Galerie Filser & Gräf, Munich, Germany
- 2010 “24. Mainzer Kunstpreis Eisenturm 2010”, Endjury, Mainz, Germany
- 2010 “Work Progress Collective”, LMCC Swing Space, Governors Island, NY
- 2010 “American Portrait: Diversity In Our Land”, Still Point Art Gallery, Brunswick, ME
- 2010 “Zu Besuch Bei CONNEX”, CONNEX, Halle, Germany
- 2010 “SMaLL”, Corden|Potts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- 2009 “Third Invitational Art Show”, The Heart & Soul Charitable Fund at Reidy Friendship Hall, New York, NY
- 2009 “Zu Besuch Bei CONNEX”, CONNEX, Leipzig, Germany
- 2009 “Innen//Aussen//Innen”, Tapetenwerk, Leipzig, Germany
- 2009 “Art Bazaar”, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, NY
- 2008 “Portraits of Women”, Jeannie Freilich Contemporary, New York, NY
- 2008 “Objects of Desire II”, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, New York, NY
- 2006 “Fragments of Contemporary Urban Life”, San Francisco, CA Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, CA
- 2005 “18 Jahre Galerie-Geburtstag”, Galerie Ilka Klose, Würzburg, Germany
- 2005 “6 In The City”, Galerie Ilka Klose, Würzburg, Germany
- 2005 “Fragments of Contemporary Urban Life”, Sala d’ Ercole, Palazzo d’ Accursio, Bologna, Italy
publications
- 2010 “Mois De La Photo À Paris 2010 - Paris Collectionne”, Official Catalogue Paris Photo, Paris, France
- 2010 “Subway-Show”, Kultur Kalender Mai 2010, VOGUE (Deutsch), Condé Nast Verlag GmbH, Munich, Germany
- 2010 “Panoptikum des Lebens in der U-Bahn”, May 3rd 2010, Abendzeitung, Munich, Germany
- 2008 “Neue Welten Entdecken”, Dresden International, Dresden, Germany
- 2008 “Gier ist ein Teil der menschlichen Natur”, April 1st 2008, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany (Portrait of David Rockefeller)
- 2007 “Picture This - A Resource For Creators...” Entertainment Industries Council Inc. & AstraZeneca International, New York, NY
- 2006 “Kloster Vinnenberg – Warte Räume” hardcover book published by Dialog Verlag, Münster, Germany
- 2005 “Project Happy at Hunter College”, a nonprofit physical education program for people with disabilities, New York, NY