Sigrid Sandström

Untitled

2015

Sigrid Sandström studied at Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY (1995); earned a BFA at Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands (1997); attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2000); and received an MFA in painting from Yale University, New Haven, CT (2001). She has been awarded numerous fellowships and residencies, including at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm (2016); the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY (2008); and the Core Fellowship at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (2001–03).

Sandström has exhibited widely across the United States and in her native Sweden. Recent solo exhibitions include shows at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX (2016); Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA (2016); Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm (2015); and Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm (2015). Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT.

Sandström is currently a Professor of Fine Arts at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm.

(Biography provided by Inman Gallery)