Sigrid Sandström b. 1970

Overview

Working primarily with painting, Sigrid Sandström has continuously been exploring site as a concept as well as emotional experience. Over time, the often depicted large-scale, barren and uninhabited landscapes have become more abstract. Her paintings fail to conform to categories, and continuously explore the ontological conditions and limitations of painting. The indeterminate, or unnamable, plays a central role both in Sandström's investigative work process and in relation to the viewer.

 

Sigrid Sandström (b. 1970) received her Master of Fine Arts from Yale University, New Haven, CT in 2001. She attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, in 2000. She studied at Cooper Union School of Art in New York in 1995, and subsequently earned her BFA at Academie Minerva, Groningen (NL) in 1997.  She is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki and has previously been a professor at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2010-2020) and an Assistant Professor at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (2005-2010).

 

Recent exhibitions include Perrotin Tokyo, Perrotin Shanghai, Vandalorum, Värnamo, Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Reykjavik Art Museum, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, Inman Gallery, Houston, Västerås Art Museum, Sweden. Sandström's work is included in the collections of Moderna Museet, Public Art Agency Sweden, Malmö Art Museum, Borås Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, to name a few.

 

Residencies, grants and fellowships include the Brown Foundation Fellows Program at the Dora Maar House, Ménerbes (FR), The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts residency scholarship at Grez-sur-Loing (FR), The 2008 Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.

Exhibitions
Works
  • Sigrid Sandström, In Rising, 2025
    In Rising, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Behind In Front, 2025
    Behind In Front, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Shadow Play, 2025
    Shadow Play, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Velvet Rising, 2025
    Velvet Rising, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, En Route, 2025
    En Route, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Blue Tumbler, 2025
    Blue Tumbler, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Framtidens skugga I, 2025
    Framtidens skugga I, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Framtidens skugga III, 2025
    Framtidens skugga III, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Framtidens skugga VIII, 2025
    Framtidens skugga VIII, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Hunter’s Moon II, 2025
    Hunter’s Moon II, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Hunter’s Moon I, 2025
    Hunter’s Moon I, 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Elsewhere (Front), 2025
    Elsewhere (Front), 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Elsewhere (Overcast Contour), 2025
    Elsewhere (Overcast Contour), 2025
  • Sigrid Sandström, Red Accumulation, 2024
    Red Accumulation, 2024
  • Sigrid Sandström, Faraway Here, 2023
    Faraway Here, 2023
  • Sigrid Sandström, Game Changer, 2023
    Game Changer, 2023
  • Sigrid Sandström, Färden, 2023
    Färden, 2023
  • Sigrid Sandström, Any Which Way, 2023
    Any Which Way, 2023
  • Sigrid Sandström, Outer Space, 2022
    Outer Space, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Assembly, 2022
    Assembly, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Bouncer, 2022
    Bouncer, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Actant, 2022
    Actant, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Facing Scarlet, 2022
    Facing Scarlet, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Hinterland, 2022
    Hinterland, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Lunar Distance, 2022
    Lunar Distance, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Proof, 2022
    Proof, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Proverbial Suspense, 2022
    Proverbial Suspense, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Trope, 2022
    Trope, 2022
  • Sigrid Sandström, Dot, 2021
    Dot, 2021
Press