Gunvor Nelson

Gunvor Eleonora Grundel Nelson (28 July 1931, Kristinehamn, Sweden – 6 January 2025, Kristinehamn, Sweden) was a Swedish artist. She began working as an experimental filmmaker in the 1960s. Some of her most widely known works were created while she lived in the Bay Area in the mid-1960s and early 1970s, where she became well established among other artists in the avant-garde film circles. As of 2006, she had to her credit 20 films, five videos, and one video installation.

Literature

• John Sundholm, "Avant-Garde Anomalies and Transnational Trajectories: The Place and Time of Gunvor Nelson’s Collage Films of the 1980s", in A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries since 1975, eds. Benedikt Hjartarson, et al., Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp 190-196. DOI.

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