Born: Luleå, Sweden, 1962
Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden
Education
1986-93
Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden
Awards and Prizes
2018
Guerlain Drawing Prize, Paris, France
2006
Carnegie Art Award, Sweden
Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions
2023
Mamma Andersson & Tal R: About Hill, Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands and Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden (two-person, touring, catalogue)
2022
Mamma Andersson & Tal R: About Hill, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Aalborg, Denmark (two-person, touring, catalogue)
2021
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (catalogue)
2020
The Lost Paradise, David Zwirner, New York
2018
Mamma Andersson: Memory Banks, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
2017
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2016
Mamma Andersson & Tal R: Svanesang, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mamma Andersson & Tal R: Svanesang, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2015
Mamma Andersson: Behind the Curtain, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA
2013
Gooseberry, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Tick Tock, Konsthallen, Luleå, Sweden
2012
Dog Days, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2011
Dog Days, Museum HausEsters, Krefeld, Germany
One Two, House of Sweden, Washington, D.C. (two-person exhibition with Jockum Nordström)
2010
Mamma Andersson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Who is sleeping on my pillow, David Zwirner, New York (two-person exhibition with Jockum Nordström)
2009
Three New Color Etchings, Crown Point Press, San Francisco
Cry, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2008
Cry, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (touring, catalogue)
Officescapes, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2007
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; travelling to Camden Arts Centre, London England, and Helsinki Taidehalli, Helsinki, Finland
2006
Rooms Under The Influence, David Zwirner, New York
2005
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
2004
Paintings, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
New Paintings, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Konstens Hus, Lulea, Sweden
Galleri 1, Gothenberg, Sweden
2000
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Galleri Krister Fahl, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
Galleri 1, Gothenberg, Sweden
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Västerås, Sweden
1992
Galleri Megan, Stockholm, Sweden
1988
Galleri Tornhuset, Luleå, Sweden
1985
Norrbottensmuseet, Luleå, Sweden
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2023
Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art, Cauldfield East, Australia (catalogue)
2021
Stephen Friedman Gallery at The London House of Modernity, London, England (collaboration with Modernity, Stockholm, Sweden)
Heat/Energy, Kummelholmen, Stockholm, Sweden; travelling to Körsbärsgården, Gotland, Sweden (touring)
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Works on Paper from a Distinguished Private Collection, Pace, New York, New York, USA (in partnership with Acquavella Galleries, and Gagosian, New York, USA)
Inner Spaces, 7th Biennial of Painting, Museum Dhondt–Dhaenens (Deurle), Sint-Martens, Belgium
The Future is Female II - Love Letters, CODA Museum Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Signature Women, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden (catalogue)
Marina Adams | Mamma Andersson | Virginia Overton, Niels Borch Jensen Gallery & Ediitons, Berlin, Germany
2019
Material: Wood, Long Gallery, Messums Wiltshire, Salisbury, England
2018
33rd Bienal de São Paulo: Affective affinities, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
Figure in a Landscape, Foxy Production, New York, New York, USA
Nordic Impressions: Art from Åland, Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, 1821–2018, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle; The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA (touring, catalogue)
Acquisitions récentes du Cabinet d'Art Graphique, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
A Murmur of History, Bridget de León, London, England
Cries and Whispers, Trafo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway
Queen Kristina!, Kristinehamns konstmuseum, Sweden
2017
House Work, Victoria Miro, London, England
2016
Collected Works! 30 years with the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
House Work, Victoria Miro, London, England
2015 - 2016
Impressions. Five Centuries of Woodcuts, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
2015
Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Galerie de L'Epoque, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Jubileumssamling, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, Sweden
Collection & Contemporary, Skagens Museum, Denmark
2014
Har/Nu (Here/Now), Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
Samling Saltarvet, Saltarvet, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden
An exhibition of current interest, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
Time Waits for Us, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
The Inevitable Figuration, Centro Per L'Arte Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
Nightfall. New tendencies in figurative painting, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
In Case We Don't Die, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California (catalogue)
Jubilee exhibition, Kulturens hus/Konsthallen, Luleå, Sweden
Decorum - Carpets and Tapestries by artists, Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
2012
150 years of Swedish Art: Highlights from the Swedish National Collections in Stockholm
(Moderna Museet and Nationalmuseum), Hillstrom Museum of Art, Minnesota, USA
2011
North by New York: New Nordic Art, Scandinavia House, New York, New York, USA
The scholarship holders, Sven-Harrys (Konstmuseum), Stockholm, Sweden
The House Without the Door, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA
Artists for Haiti, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA
Välkommen tillbaka! Saltarvet 10 år, Fiskebäckskil, Sweden
Stipendiater, Sven Harrys Konstmuseum, Sweden
2010
Who is sleeping on my pillow, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA
Friedrich, Eight Contemporary Commentaries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Idag Är Igår Imorgon/Today Is Yesterday Tomorrow, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Home and Origin, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden
New Narrative, Heskin Contemporary, New York, New York, USA
Thrice Upon a Time, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Sweden
2009
Friedrich - Åtta samtida kommentarer/Friedrich - Eight Contemporary Commentaries,
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Helmer Osslund och Karin Mamma Andersson, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköpings, Sweden
Märta Måås-Fjertterström, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Samtidigt: Svenskt måleri på 2000-talet/Swedish Painting in the 21st Century, Borås Konsthall, Borås, Sweden
The Armory Show, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, New York, New York, USA
2008
The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA
In silent conversation with Ingmar Bergman, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
S:t Knuts torg, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden
2007
Hammer Contemporary Exhibition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Fast Forward: Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA (catalogue)
Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA
2006
20 years! Grant Recipients of the Maria Bonnier Dahlin Foundation 1985 -2005, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Essential Painting, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Back to the Figure-Contemporary Painting, Die Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
15th Biennale of Sydney: Zones of Contact, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Syndey, Australia
Carnegie Art Award Nordic Painting, travelled to Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Reykjavik, Nice, London
The Moderna Exhibition 2006, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
The Gallery, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Ten Year Anniversary Exhibition, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Symbolic Space: The Intersection of Art and Architecture Through the Use of Metaphor, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, USA
2004
3rd Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
MATRIX 213, UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
The Undiscovered Country, UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles, Californiam, USA
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
The 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie International 2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2003
Devil-May-Care, Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy
Complex Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
2002
Art Forum Berlin, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Berlin, Germany
Blir du Lonesome Lille Van, Konstnarshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2001
Liste 2001, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Basel, Switzerland
Carnegie Art Award-Nordic Painting, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Oslo, Helsinki, Reykjavik
2000
Group Show, Galleri Kavaletten, Stockholm, Sweden
Edition, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
1999
X:et 100 ar, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Aptittretare, Konstakedemien, Stockholm, Sweden
12 Konstnarsvanner, Galleri Doktor Glas, Stockholm, Sweden
1998
Carnegie Art Award - Nordic Painting, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
Galleri pa turne, Galleri Magnus Karlsson in Folkets Hus och Parker, touring Sweden
2+2, Jonkopings Lans Museum, Sweden
Stockholm Art Fair, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
1995
Alone Together, Liljewalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Västerås, Sweden
Nu SAK, Konstakademien, Stockholm, Sweden
1995
Aterkomst Konstens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
1994
Galleri St. Olof, Norrköping, Sweden
1993
Blommor, Galleri Kavaletten, Uppsala, Sweden
Invasion, Millesgården, Stockholm, Sweden
Avgångselever, P.E Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden
8, Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Catalogues and Publications (selected)
2023
Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art, Cauldfield East, Australia
2022
Mamma Andersson & Tal R: About Hill, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark
Great Women Painters, Phaidon Press, New York, USA
2021
Mamma Andersson, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
2020
25 Years, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
Signature Women, Artipelag, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism, ed. Todd Bradway, Distributed by Art Publishers Inc., New York, New York, USA
Work on Paper, Galleri Bo Bjerggaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mamma Hanna Martina Text Paintings Photos, ed. Lars Forsberg, Published by MOON
2018
Memory Banks, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Autofiktionen - Zeichnung der Gegenwart, Distanz Verlag, Berlin
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner Books, New York, New York, USA
Nordic Impressions, The Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA
2017
Mamma Andersson Woodcuts 2015-2016, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
2015
20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue)
Painting Beyond Pollock, Phaidon Press, London, England
2014
Claesson, Paolo Colombo & Krüger, Anders, Who is sleeping on my pillow: Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström, David Zwirner, New York, New York, USA (revised and expanded edition; originally published in 2010)
The Twenty-First Century Art Book, Phaidon Press, London, England
2013
In Case We Don't Die, Torrance Art Musuem, Torrance, California, USA
La Figurazione Inevitabile/The Inevitable Figuration, ed. Marco Bazzini and David Ferri, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2012
Dog Days, Jelinek, Elfriede & Hentschel, Martin, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Nightfall: New Tendencies in Figurative Painting, MODEM Modern Debreceni Nonprofit Kft., Debrecen, Hungary
2011
Pietropaolo, Francesca & Storr, Robert, North by New York: New Nordic Art, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, New York, USA
2010
Hoptman, Laura; Molon, Dominic & Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi, Mamma Andersson, Aspen Art Press, Aspen, Colorado, USA
Who is sleeping on my pillow: Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström, Claesson, Paolo Colombo & Krüger, Anders, David Zwirner, New York, New York
Home and Origin, Rodrigo Mallea Lira, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden (features in)
2009
Cry, Mamma Andersson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Friedrich - Åtta samtida kommentarer/Friedrich - Eight Contemporary Commentaries, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
Painting Today, text by Tony Godfrey, Phaidon Press, London, England
Samtidigt: Svenskt måleri på 2000-talet/Swedish Painting in the 21st Century, text by Sophie Allgårdh. Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden
2008
This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
2007
Mamma Andersson, ed. Ann-Sofi Noring, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Poets on Painters, Katie Geha & Travis Nicholas, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA (features in)
Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, ed. María de Corral and John R. Lane, Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
2006
Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (features in)
Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, Austrailia
2005
Carnegie Art Award-Nordic Painting, Carnegie Art Award Publishing, Stockholm, Sweden
2004
54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Komplex Berlin/Complex Berlin, ed. Ute Meta Bauer, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne, Germany
MATRIX 213: Some Forgotten Place, Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
Svenskt konst nu: 85 konstnärer födda efter 1960/ Swedish Art Now: 85 Artists Born After 1960, Wahlström & Widstrand, Stockholm
The Undiscovered Country, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
2003
Devil-may-care, ed. Anne Karin Jortveit & Andrea Kroksnes, The Nordic Pavillion at the 50th Venice Biennial 2003, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway
2000
Mamma Andersson: jag glömde bort mi, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Projects
2021
Le Charme Discret, Svenskt Tenn, Stockholm, Sweden (interior design collection)
2013
Stargazer - An exhibition curated by Karin Mamma Andersson, Sven-Harrys Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Apoteket AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Stockholm, Sweden
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
City of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, USA
Kultur I Länet, Uppsala läns andsting, Uppsala, Sweden Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
Magasin III Museum and Foundation for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden
MOCA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo, Norwa
Satens Konstråd/National Public Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden
The Broad Art Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden