b. 1955, Denmark
Svend Danielsen (born 1955 in Holte, Denmark) graduated in 1978 from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. He has widely shown in solo and group exhibitions across Denmark and was subject of a solo exhibition at Overgaden, Institute for Contemporary Art, in Copenhagen in 2018. Danielsen is recipient of the prestigious Three Years Working Grant by Danish Arts Foundation (2013) and the Niels Wessel Bagges Kunstfond grant (2018) and is represented in various Danish institutional collections including National Gallery, Hygum Art Museum and the Danish Art Foundation. ‘Alte Freunde, neue Freunde’ is his first exhibition in the UK. Danielsen lives and works in Copenhagen.