CV

Born 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm.
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Education

2004-05 Postgraduate Studies, Aalto University – School of Arts, Design and Architechture, Helsinki
2000-02 MFA, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm
1997-00 BFA, School of Photography at Göteborg University, Göteborg
1996-97 School of Photography, Midsommarkransen, Stockholm
1991-92 School of Photography, Kulturama, Stockholm

Selected Solo Shows

2017 Flying Change, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Maybe I’d Harboured the Dream Too Long, Loge, Berlin
2012 Stay, Norrtälje konsthall, Sweden
2011 Ground Rules – day after day, Swedish Photography, Berlin
Turn Down Center Line, Gallery TAIK, Berlin
2010 Tidslighet/Temporality, (together with Sara Appelgren och Johan Wilner), Galleri Format, Malmö, Sweden
2009 Everyday Walk, Kramfors Konsthall, Kramfors, Sweden
2006 Återspeglingar/Reflections, (together with Aino Kannisto and Cathrine Sundqvist), Kulturhuset, Stockholm
2003 Close, Björka Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Close, Midlanda Konsthall, Timrå
Close, Galleri Stockselius, Skövde
Close, CFF – Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm
2001 Close, Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm
1999 Du är inspanad (You’ve Been Captured), Galleri Garderoben, Göteborg

Selected Group Shows

2018 Published – Photo Books in Sweden, Hasselblad Foundation, Göteborg
2017 Like A Horse, Fotografiska museet, Stockholm
Photo Basel, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Switzerland
Life in the Bubble – Video Works, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
2016 Perceptions, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Berlin
Fryspunkt/Freezing Point, Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm
Still Life/Work Life – From the Hasselblad Foundation Collection, Västerås Konstmuseum
2015 Macrocosmi, Due Punti Lab, Bologna, Italy
2014 Scope Miami, Gallery Grundemark Nilsson, USA
Det synliga. Samtida svensk fotografi/The Visible. Swedish Photography, Artipelag, Stockholm
2013 Still Life/Work Life – From the Hasselblad Foundation Collection, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
Flygande farkost och dansande kentauer, Södertälje konsthall, Stockholm
2012 Context Art Miami, Gallery Grundemark Nilsson, USA
2011 A Female View/Part 2, Foto-Raum, Vienna, Austria
Touching Dreams-Helsinki School Vol.3, The Danish National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
Sport i Konsten/Sport in Art, Kristianstads Konsthall, Skövde Konsthall and Mjellby konstmuseum, Sweden
2010 Photography and Video NOW, Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland
2009 Art Forum Berlin, Gallery TaiK, Germany
Samlingsutställning, Galleri Mårtenson & Persson, Båstad, Sweden
On Top of the Iceberg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
2008 Rose Boréal, Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, France
La croisée des regards, Centre culturel suédois, Paris, France
Blandad blick/La croisée des regards, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm
Rose Boréal, Galeries d´exposition, Beaux-arts de Paris, France
2007 Towards a New Ease – Set 4 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Art Forum Berlin, Gallery TaiK, Germany
New Photography by TaiK, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Photo Finnish – The Helsinki School, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway
Konstfeminism (Art Feminism) Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg
2006 Modellverkstaden, Statens Konstråds galleri (Gallery of the National Public Art Council of Sweden), Stockholm
Vad är fotografi? (What Is Photography?), Borås konstmuseum
Dialog – Helsinki School, Langhans Galerie, Prague, Czech Republic
The Helsinki School – Finnish Photography from the 21st Century, City Hall of Brussels, Belgium
Konstfeminism, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm and Hälsninglands Museum, Hudiksvall
2005 Paris Photo, Gallery TaiK, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Art Forum Berlin, Gallery TaiK, Germany
Konstfeminism, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg
Ny svensk fotografi (New Swedish Photography), Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
Die Vierte Generation, PPS Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Finnish Versions – The Helsinki School, CFF – Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm
Instabilt: nya riktningar inom svensk fotografi (Unstable: New Directions in Swedish Photography), Bildmuseet, Umeå
2004 Instabilt, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Ny svensk fotografi, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg
2003 Show Unit, Riksutställningar (Swedish Travelling Exhibitions), Sweden
Hästen – tyglad, piskad och älskad (The Horse – Bridled, Whipped and Loved), Nordiska Museet, Stockholm
Arghh, Edsviks konsthall, Stockholm
Wish you were here…, Galleri Brändström, Stockholm
2002 Prospects, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Några skärvor och ett dussin krukor (Some Shards and a Dozen Flowerpots), Sjöhistoriska muséet, Stockholm
2000 ArtGenda, Makasiinit, Helsinki, Finland
Exercis, Exercishuset, Göteborg

Public Commission

2017 Jag tar mig dit. – permanent installation at Mölndals sjukhus, Göteborg. Commissioned by Väsra Götalandsregionen
2014 Sekvenser – permanent installation at Vallda idrotshall, Kungsbacka. Commissioned by Kungsbacka kommun
2006 Ground Rules – permanent installation at KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. Commissioned by the National Public Art Council of Sweden
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Selected Bibliography

2017 Turn Down Center Line – monograph by Pernilla Zetterman, concept & form: Sandra Praun & Oscar Guermouche, text by Timothy Persons, Kerber Verlag, Germany
Like a Horse, text by Sophie Mörner and Lisen Bratt Fredricsson, Max Ström Publishing, Sweden
Mirada De Mujer/Womens Gaze, Exit Publishing, Madrid, text by Helene Boström
2015 Minimo/Minimum, Exit Publishing, Madrid
High Tails, Capricious Publishing, New York
2014 100 Fotografos Europeos, Exit Publishing, Madrid
The Helsinki School – From the Past to the Future, texts by Holger Broecker, Alistair Hicks, Erika Hoffman-Koenige, Andréa Holzherr, Timothy Persons, Lyle Rexer, Pari Stave, Christoph Tannert, Jyrki Parantainen. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
Det synliga. Samtida svensk fotografi/ The Visible. Contemporary Swedish Photography, text by Niclas Östlind, Bo Nilsson, Jessica Höglund and Magnus Jensner. Arena Förlag
2013 Still Life/Work Life – From the Hasselblad Foundation Collection / No.1. Texts by Dragana Vujanovic and Louise Wolthers. Art and Theory Publishing
2012 Contemporary Swedish Photography, texts by Irene Berggren, Charlotte Cotton, Bo Madestrand, Estelle af Malmborg, Anders Olofsson and Niclas Östlind. Art and Theory Publishing
Tidslinjen/Timeline, text by Niclas Östlind
2011 The Helsinki School Vol. 4 – A Female View, texts by Andréa Holzherr and Timothy Persons. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
School of Photography University go Gothenburg 2011, essay by Mette Sandby
Planket 2011: Det osynliga/Das Unsichtbare, texts by Milou Allerholm, Ute Noll, Hannah Goldstein, Iréne Berggren and Laars Hall
Swedish Photography One, text by Svante Larsson
Studija 77/2011, text by Charlotta Nordström
2009 Behave – monograph by Pernilla Zetterman, texts by Urs Stahel and Helene Boström, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany › Go
The Helsinki School – Young Photography by TaiK Vol.3, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany
2008 Rose Boréal, Éditions de l’École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris, France
2007 Set 4 – The Collection Publication Catalogue, Fotomuseum Winterthur
FOTO #9 (magazine, artist in focus section)
Catalogue #36, National Public Art Council of Sweden, text by Milou Allerholm
The Helsinki School – New Photography by Taik, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany. Reprinted and translated into German in 2009.
2006 Capricious #5, editor and publisher Sophie Mörner, New York
Känn dig själf – Genus, historiekonstruktion och kulturhistoriska museirepresentationer, dissertation by Wera Grahn, Linköping University, Linköping
Konstfeminism (Art Feminism – Strategies and consequences in Sweden from the 1970s to the present), published collaboratively by Dunkers Kulturhus, Liljevalchs Konsthall and Riksutställningar
2005 Die Vierte Generation, exhibition catalogue, PPS Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
2004 Hasselblad Foundation Catalogue 2004
Instabilt – nya riktningar inom svensk fotografi, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Fotografisk Tidskrift #4, text by Gösta Flemming
2003 Arghh, Edsviks Konsthall, Stockholm
2000 Exercis – fotografiet står i centrum, School of Photography at Göteborg University, text by Julia Tedroff

Grants, Awards and Residencies

2015 The Art Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2012 Swedish Authors’ Fund, one-year working grant
Residency at Kunstnerhuset in Svolvaer, Norway, The Norden Association
2009 Iaspis, International Exhibition
The Art Grants Committee, two-year working grant
Scholarship Längmanska Foundation
2008 Höga-Kusten Artist Scholarship
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
2007 The Art Grants Committee, project grants
Selected to participate in Plat(t)form, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
2006 Nominated for the Stockholm Award
2005 Iaspis, International Exhibition
Culture Foundation Sweden/Finland
2004 The Victor Fellowship, Hasselblad Foundation
The City of Stockholm’s Artist Scholarship
Grundsunda Artist Scholarship
2003 The Art Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2002 Scholarship Nils-Johan Sjöstedt Foundation, University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm
Sthlm Art Fair/The Academic House Grants Award of Honour
2001 Scholarship Beata Brummer Foundation, University College of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm
2000 Scholarship Robert Frank, Göteborg
1999 Crimsons Photography Foundation, Stockholm

Works in Collections

Hasselblad Foundation
Fotomuseum Winterthur
Borås Konstmuseum
Municipality of Norrtälje
Municipality of Kramfors
Norrköpings museum
County council of Värmland
Photo-Raum Austria
The Academic House
General art society
Carlsberg corporation
Pfizer corporation
General art society
Municipality of Skövde
Södertälje Konsthall
Private collectors in Sweden, Finland, Germany and Austria