Sophie Tottie, Written Language (line drawings), 2008-2009. Indian ink on paper, 113 cm x 216 cm (each). Galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin, 2009. Photo Bernd Bochardt

Tottie is an artist whose work departs from painting and drawing. Her work was most recently shown in the solo exhibitions Written Language at galerie Konrad Fischer, Berlin in 2009; Planes & Squares at galleri Brändström Stockholm in 2008; Fiction Is No Joke at Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm in 2007; and in the group shows From Place to Place at the Museum of Sketches (Archives of Public Art), Lund (Sweden) in 2009; Wandauftrag, Leverkusen (Germany) in 2007; and Common Destinations at the Drawing Center, New York City in 2006. In 2008 Tottie was commissioned by the the National Public Art Fund to do a work now on permanent view at the Library of the Philosophical Institution of Lund University in Sweden. Tottie has received a number of grants and artist residencies, including the International Studio Program in New York City (1994), Elisabeth Foundation (1996), I.A.S.P.I.S. in Stockholm (1998), the DAAD artist-in-residency in Berlin (2000),  Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbertide in Italy (2002), and the Swedish Art Council’s work grant (2006). Starting in 2001 Tottie has been a professor of fine arts at the Malmö Art Academy in Sweden. Additional teaching experience includes workshops, tutoring, studio visits, and lectures at the Industrial School of Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm; at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå, at the University Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver; Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris; Beckmans School of Design, Stockholm; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; the Art Center in Los Angeles (in Berlin); Weissensee Art Academy and Universität der Künste in Berlin. Tottie is educated at the painting department of Kungliga konsthögskolan (The Royal Academy of Fine Arts) in Stockholm (1986–1991) and with Pontus Hultén, Daniel Burén, Sarkis and Serge Fauchereau at Institut des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques in Paris (1989—1990).

Artist Talk: Thursday, September 24, CCVA Room B04, 6 pm