Sigrid Sandström b. 1970

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.