Mamma Andersson Born: Luleå, Sweden, 1962 Lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden Education 1986-93 Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm, Sweden Solo Exhibitions (selected) 2015 Mamma Andersson: Behind the Curtain, David Zwirner, 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., USA (two-person exhibition with Jockum Nordström) 2010 2011 Mamma Andersson, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA 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, USA Cry, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2008 Cry, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; travelling to Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 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, USA
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) 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 2014 Har/Nu (Here/Now), Artipelag, 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, USA
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, USA The scholarship holders, Sven-Harrys (Konstmuseum), Stockholm, Sweden The House Without the Door, David Zwirner, New York, USA Artists for Haiti, David Zwirner, 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, 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, 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, USA 2008 The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York, USA In silent conversation with Ingmar Bergman, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland Collecting Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA S:t Knuts torg, Ystads Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden 2007 Hammer Contemporary Exhibition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Fast Forward: Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, 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, USA Huts, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland The 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie International 2004, Pittsburgh, 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, Gallerie 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) 2015 20 Years, essays by Stephen Friedman and Sarah Thornton, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England (catalogue) 2014 Claesson, Paolo Colombo & Krüger, Anders, Who is sleeping on my pillow: Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström, David Zwirner, New York, USA (revised and expanded edition; originally published in 2010) 2012 Jelinek, Elfriede & Hentschel, Martin, Dog Days, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden 2011 Pietropaolo, Francesca & Storr, Robert, North by New York: New Nordic Art, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, New York, USA (features in) 2010 Hoptman, Laura; Molon, Dominic & Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi, Mamma Andersson Aspen Art Press, Aspen, Colorado, USA Claesson, Paolo Colombo & Krüger, Anders, Who is sleeping on my pillow: Mamma Andersson/Jockum Nordström, David Zwirner, New York, USA Mallea Lira, Rodrigo, Home and Origin, Bukowskis, Stockholm, Sweden (features in) 2009 Cry, Mamma Andersson, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland 2007 Ed. Noring, Ann-Sofi, Mamma Andersson, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Geha, Katie & Nicholas, Travis, Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA (features in) 2006 Essential Painting, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (features in) Carnegie Art Award Nordic Painting (features in) 2003 Jortveit, Anne Karin & Kroksnes, Andrea, ed. 2003, Devil-may-care, The Nordic Pavillion at the 50th Venice Biennial 2003, Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Oslo, Norway (features in) 2000 Mamma Andersson: jag glömde bort mi, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Bibliography (selected) 2015 Chew-Bose, Durga, Mamma Andersson: crepuscular studies of the everyday, The Guardian, 8 January Lund, Christian, Three Artists on a Spider by Louise Bourgeois, Huffington Post, 4 January 2013 Sherwin, Skye, Mamma Andersson: Gooseberry, AnOther Magazine, 8 May Wiley- Garcia, Gloria REVIEWED: Mamma Andersson: Gooseberry, Art World Now, 20 May Potts, Rachel, The unvarnished place: Painter Mamma Andersson on Gooseberry, Culture Critic, 13 May Güner, Fisun, Mamma Andersson/ Andreas Eriksson, Stephen Friedman Gallery, The Arts Desk, 6 May Mamma Andersson. Gooseberry, Wall Street International, 23 April 2012 Simon de Pury's Greatest Show on Earth, Baku Magazine, Spring, Issue 3 Labuzan, Niels, Mamma Andersson: en attendant le lever de rideau, Artpress magazine, May Stopa, Jason, In conversation, NY Arts Magazine, New York 2011 MacMillan, Kyle, Mamma Andersson, Artforum, April 2010 Mamma Andersson and Jockum Nordstrom Exhibit at David Zwirner, Art Daily, 25 June 2009 Dunne, Aidan, Paintings that shoot straight from the hip, The Irish Times, 25 February Conly, Sue, Taking Gravity to Art, The Evening Herald, 5 March Kenny, Ruth, How to Read a Painting, The Dubliner, Issue 82, March Butler, Kate, Mamma Andersson: Cry, The Sunday Times, 22 February White, Lucy, Art Round-Up, Metro Ireland, 2 March Lack, Jessica, Mamma Andersson, The Guardian, 28 October New Work Extra, Art World, Feb - March Degen, Natasha, Mamma Andersson, ArtForum Online, 12 January 2008 Lack, Jessica, Mamma Andersson, The Guardian Guide, 28 October Güner, Fisun, Mamma Andersson, Metro, 1 December Niemi, Ilona, Karin Mamma Andersson, Art Papers, January-February Recommended, The Big Issue, Christmas, No. 825 2007 Mamma Andersson, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Jones, Ronald, Mamma Andersson, Frieze, Issue 109, September Coomer, Martin, Her Indoors, Art Review, Issue 14, September Hawke, Christian, Mamma Andersson, Bomb, Issue 100, Summer, pp. 24-32 Guner, Fisun, A Sense of Place, Art World, Issue 1, November-December 2006 Kane, Erika, Mamma Andersson, Contemporary, No. 86, pp. 44-45 Cave, Caroline, Come into my parlour, Art Review, May, p. 27
Lange, Christiana & Matzner, Florian, Zurück zur Figur-Malerei der Gegenwart, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Münich, Germany and Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, Switzerland, Prestel Verlag, Münich, Germany, pp. 54-55 Mullins, Charlotte, Painting People: Figure Painting Today, Distributed Art Publishers. New York, USA Bullock, Natasha & Keehan, Reuben (ed.), Zones of Contact: 2006 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 2005 Herbert, Martin, Reviews: Mamma Andersson, Time Out, 11-18 May, p. 57 Steen, Paul, Made in Sweden, Bon, Spring, pp. 62-63 LOYAL, Interview by Kristian Bengtsson, No. 9 Konsten att överleva, Interviews by Sara Stribe, AnnaMaria Jansson & Alberte Bremberg, No. 19 2004 Herbert, Martin, Rewind: Mamma Andersson & Tal R go back to move on, Dec 2004/January 2005, pp. 50-51 Af Malmborg, Estella, Karin Mamma Andersson, Svensk konst nu 85 konstnärer föddaefter 1960, SAK/W&W Matsui, Midori, Mamma Andersson, 54th Carnegie International, Catalogue, pp. 50-52 Sundgren, Nils Petter, Höstens konstnär Karin Mamma Andersson, KONSTKATALOGEN Olsson, Thomas, Par i Konst, Konstvärlden & Disajn, No.4 Lind, Ingela, Här hänger vi ihop, Dagens Nyheter, 15 May von Dörrzapf. Anke, Fräulein Karin Gespür für Geschichten, ART Das kunstmagazina, No.3, March Björling, Sanna, Mamma vill måla så det bränns, Dagens Nyheter, 2 January Krosnes, Andrea, A Wild Practice, Book for Devil-May-Care, Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy, pp. 12-25 Bal, Mieke, Strings Attached, Book for Devil-May-Care, Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy pp. 116-124 Jortveit, Anne Karin, At a 'Devil-May-Care' Angle, Book for Devil-May-Care, Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennale, Italy pp.170-176 2003 Devil May Care, The Nordic Pavilion at the 50th Venice Biennial, Hatje Cantz Charlesworth, JJ, Northern Exposure, Art Review, December 2002-January, pp. 120-121 O'Reilly, Sally, Mamma Andersson, Art Monthly, December 2002-January 2003, pp. 38-39 Eklund, Karin, Mamma Andersson, Untitled No. 29, Winter/Spring, p. 63 Davies, Peter, The Pleasure of Paint, Modern Painters, Autumn Searle, Adrian, Stop that Racket, The Guardian, 17 June, p. 11 Meta Bauer, Uta (ed.), Komplex Berlin / Complex Berlin, Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany 2002 Morton, Tom, Mamma Andersson, Contemporary, December, p. 91 Skoldans by Mamma Andersson, Elle, November, p. 78 Lack, Jessica, Mamma Andersson, Guardian, The Guide, 12-25 October, p. 34 Herbert, Martin, Mamma Andersson, Time Out, 6-13 October, p. 57 Higgie, Jennifer, Morning Stands on Tiptop, Frieze, Summer Issue pp. 68-71 Brodow, Anna, Maling pa Malning pa, Svenska Dagbladet Castenfors, Marten, Sveriges Konst 1900-talet, del 3. 1970-2000, Sveriges Allmanna, Stockholm, Sweden
2000 Castenfors, Marten, Malerisk Berattare med Eget Revir, Svenska Dagbladet, Stockholm, Sweden, 25 March Sokolow, Paulina, Mamma, Provins, No. 2 Sokolow, Paulina, Jag Glombe Bort Mig, Catalogue text, Gallerie Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden 1999 Sylvan, Bo, Aptitretare; KF Presenterar 15 Unga Konstnarer, Stockholm, Sweden 1998 Rudling, Eva, Svenska Konstnar, Varnamo, Sweden 1997 Autio, Jonas & Instedt, Niklas, Karin Mamma Andersson, Panorama No. 2 Beck, Ingamj, Mellan Synvilla och Lapsu, Afftonbladet, Sweden, 29 April 1995 Halstrom, Jan, Utanfor Berattelsen, Maleri dar Barnen Vander Bort sin Blick, Dagens Nyheter, 10.11, Sweden Sundgren, Nills Petter, Maleriets Aterkomst. Manadsjournalen, No. 12 Millroth, Thomas, Aterkomst, Catalogue text, Konstens hus, Lulea, Sweden Projects 2013 Stargazer An exhibition curated by Karin Mamma Andersson, Sven-Harrys Museum, Stockholm, Sweden Public Collections MOCA, Los Angeles, USA Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden Apoteket AB, Stockholm, Sweden Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Stockholm, Sweden The Broad Art Foundation, California, USA City of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA Kultur I Länet, Uppsala läns andsting, Uppsala, Sweden Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden Satens Konstråd/National Public Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA