Maria Friberg

Maria Friberg was born in Malmö, Sweden, in 1966.
Lives and works between New York and Stockholm.

Education:

1989-1995
Royal University College of Fine Arts, Stockholm
1992
Myndlista og Handidaskoli, Reykjavik
1988
Nordic Art school, Kokkola (Finland)
1987
Bild & Form, Lunnevad (Sweden)
1986
Art History, Gothenburg University

Selected Solo shows:

2013
Passagen, Linköping (Sweden)

2012
Galica, Milan
In Flux, Fotografiska, Stockholm
Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå (Sweden)
Sandvikens Konsthall, Sandviken (Sweden)
The Painting series, Galerie Voss, Düsseldorf

2011
Automatic thoughts and spinning wheels, Motala konsthall, Motala (Sweden)
The Painting Series, Bendana -Pinel, Paris
Teater Galleriet, Uppsala (Sweden)
Hotel Diplomat, curator: dep art ment, Stockholm

2010
Transmission, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
Transmission, Charlotte Lund, Stockholm

2009
commoncause, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Nordic Heritage Museu Seattle, Washington
way ahead, Östergötlands länsmuseum, Linköping (Sweden)
way ahead, Gallerie Voss, Düsseldorf

2008
Maria Friberg & Per Hüttner, Abecita Corsettfabrik Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden
MIT List Visual Arts Center Cambridge, Media Test Wall, US
Luleå Konsthall, Lulea (Sweden)
Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, (Sweden)
Alongside us, Galleria Galica, Milan
Alongside us, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Kulturhuset, Stockholm

2007
Gallerie Voss, Düsseldorf
embedded, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
Still lives,Skövde Konsthall, Skövde (Sweden)

2006
Working Model- Robischon Gallery, Denver, Colorado

2005
Galleria Galica, Milan
Conner Contemporary Arts, Washington D.C.
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Armory Show,New York, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Boys are us, Skärets konsthall, Skäret (Sweden)
Blown out, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca (New York)

2004
Out of sight , Goeteborgs Konsthall,Göteborg
Cafè Royal, Frankfurt - curated by Brigitte Trotha

2003
Endless limit, Sara Meltzer Gallery, Room 02,New York
AM DC, Conner Contemporary Art, Washington DC
Swedish Embassy, Washington DC - curated by Nancy Westman
Show up, Galleria Galica, Milan – curated by Iris Müller-Westermann
Liquidación Total, con Lawrence Weiner, Madrid – curated by Ulrich Schötker
Udda veckor (odd weeks), Moderna Museet, Stockholm - curated by Cecilia Widenheim

2002
Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Yvon Lambert, Paris
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara
Plains Art Museum, Fargo (North Dakota)

2001
Team Gallery, New York
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori (Finland)
Arndt & Partner II, Berlin
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens
Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping

2000
Statement, Basel Art Fair, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm
Are you there, where?, Gallery Mezzanin, Wien
Galleri Charlotte Lund , Stockholm
Millesgården, project room, Stockholm
STHLM/GBG, Göteborg

1999
blown out, De Kabinetten van de Vleeshal, Middelburg
Galerie Brigitte Trotha, Frankfurt

1997
me, myself and you, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm

1995
blundsyn, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm

1994
inside-out, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm

Selected Group exhibitions:

2012
Power, Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås (Sweden)
Skärets Konsthall, Skäret (Sweden)
ytspänning, (travelling exhibition in churches in Stockholm), Stockholm
Galleri Örsta Kumla (Sweden)

2011
Another story: Possessed by the camera - The Moderna Museet Collection, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Blink!Light, Sound and the Moving Image - Variable Media from the Collection of Polly and Mark Addison and the Denver Art Museum,
Denver Art Museum, Denver
Consume more, Norrköpings konstmuseum, Norrköping

2010
Commentary, Västerås konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden
No fear beyond this point, Galleria Galica, Milan
Tales from the forest, Virserumskonsthall, Virserum, Sweden
Le Temps du Corps, Swedish Institute, Paris
BELLE VUE, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

2009
DARK SIDE II, Photographic Power and Violence, Disease and Death Photographed, Fotomuseum Winterthur
UNDERWATER, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington
IN-FINITUM, Museo Fortuny, Venice - curated by Axel Vervoordt,Gaindomenico Romanelli, Francesco Poli and Daniela Ferretti
Helsingborg hjärta Malmö, Dunkers kulturhus, Helsingborg
Rebelle. Kunst & feminisme 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem

2008
Perspective. A contemporary feminist art project, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest
Grosser Auftritt, Kunsthalle Erfurt - Germania
Open Door "Människor", Passagen, Linköping
När solen står som högst - sommaren i bild, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden
We interrupt your program, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California

2007
About face: Facades, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign – curated by Judith Hoos Fox and Ginger Gregg Duggan
Global feminism, Brooklyn Museum, New York

2006
The Culture of Fear, The Federkiel Foundation, Leipzig
Momentum, Wienna
Attityd, Luna Kulturhus, Södertälje Konsthall

2005
Library, Contemporary Art Galleries: Storrs + Stanford University of Connecticut, Connecticut
Church of All Stars, Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo
Art and Feminism, Swedish Art and Feminist Issues from 1970 to the Present, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg; Liljevalchs Konsthall Stockholm, Göteborg, Hudiksvall and Sundsvall.
Prospective Sites, Billboard project in Austria
Western Bridge, Seattle
Young Art Europe, MOYA, Wien
Le Cube, Issy-les-Moulineaux
Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Iowa
The Dream of Myself, The Dream of the World, The Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Diskurs, Drammens Museum för kunst, Drammen (Norway)

2004
Videoit, L’Espace, Turin
Attityd, Haningenkonsthall (Sweden)
The mythological machine, images in the media, Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, Warwick University, Coventry (UK)
Tusenfryd?, Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Drammen
In Praise of Silence, Still lifes in contemporary art, South Karelia Art Museum (Finland)
Control, Aula de Cultura, BBK, Bilbao – curated by Ramón Esparza
Memory and landscape, La Casa Encendida, Madrid - curated by Alicia Chillida
night train Surrealist Routes to Kiasma’s collection Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki

2003
Doing business (Dysfunctional Corporate Culture), University of Connecticut , University of Connecticut in Stamford, Connecticut –curated by Barry Rosenberg
Show unit (03-05), video tour in Sweden by Riksutställningar, Stockholm
Brave new world, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art, Athens
Whithout fear & reproach, Witte Zaal, Gent – curated by Jerome Jacobs
How to learn to love the bomb and stop worryingabout it, Programa Art Center, Mexico City
Contemporary Art from Sweden, European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main)
De bortbjudna, Rooseum, Malmö)
European Art at Dupont Circle, Washington DC
Projekt Framtiden, Sjöhistoriska Museet, Stockholm
Water is Art-Art is Water, Stockholm City Conference Center, Stockholm
Billboardproject: www.women2003 /Copenhagen, Malmö – curated by Hanne Lise Thomsen
HOME GROWN, Passagen, Linköping

2002-03
Beyond Paradise, Bangkok; Kuala Lumpur; Shanghai – curated by Dr Apinan Poshyananda

2002
Time-Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
FASTE, Friends Night at Isabelle Suret’s, Paris – curated by Christine Marcel
Skulpturens Hus, Stockholm
Coming!, Swdish Embassy, Tokyo, Zone/Mori Art Center,Tokyo

2001-02
DRIVEN, in collaboration with Monika Larsen Dennis, outside projection at P.S.1, Long Island City, New York

2001
"art works.consulting “, Haus am Lutzowplats, Berlin
Abbild (Depiction), Landemuseum Joanneum, Graz
Septembre Artique, film/video festival, Normandy
Maskuliniteter”, Nikolaj Plads, Copenhagen Contemporary Art center, Copenhagen
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear, Team Gallery, New York
Le Mois de la Photo à Montréal, Montreal
BLICK, NIFCA (Helsinki), Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Göteborgs Konsthall, Gothenburg
Perfunctory, Team Gallery, New York
My Generation, (Trans) position, London
Tell it like it is, Diehl Vorderwuelbecke, Berlin

2000
DRIVEN, with Monika Larsen Dennis, Sergels Torg,Stockholm, Out door video sculpture
Video 2000, Städtische Gallerie, Göppingen
THIS BOY COULD BE ME, Replica Theater, Stockholm – curated by Olga Kopenkina
SENSITIVE, Le Printemps de Cahors – curated by Chistine Marcel
Mülheim Media Mile 2000, Mülheim a.d. Ruhr- curated by Clemens Heinrichs
Real Work, 4th Werkleitz Biennale - curated by Christiane Mennicke
Organising Freedom, Moderna Museet Stockholm; Charlottenburg; Copenhagen – curated by David Elliott
Changing Minds, Experimental Intermedia, with John Ø Eggesbø, Gent

Public Collections:
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
National Public Art Council, Stockholm
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg
Linköpings Konstmuseum, Linköping
Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås
Norrköping Konstmuseum, Norrköping
Skövde Konstumuseum, Skövde
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö
Botkyrka Kommun, Botkyrka
Grafikens Hus, Mariefred
Linköpings kommun, Linköping
Umeå kommun, Umeå
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Kiasma, Helsingfors
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Herbert F Johson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Itacha, New York
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC
21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
European Central Bank, Frankfurt am Main
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Private Collections:
Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Ringier Collection, Zürich
DG Bank, Frankfurt
The Buhl Collection, New York
The Wonderful Fund, London
The Bonnier Group, Stockholm
Jan Widlund, Stockholm
Collection B von Ribbentrop, Frankfurt
Mario Testino, London
Progressive Art Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Martin Z. Margulies, Florida
Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, Virginia
Dr. Thomas Olbricht, Essen
Collezione Usoni Udine, Italien
Collezione Colombo Lugano, Schweiz
William and Ruth True, Seattle
Donald Marron, Lightyear Capital, New York
Sammlung Federkiel, Leipzig & München
Lena and Per Josefsson, Stockholm
Rosen Collection, New York

Grants:

2012 Signe och Ragnar Edlings Fond
2010 Bildkonstnärsfonden,( 5-year working grant)
2008 Längmanska kulturfonden
2008 Stockholms kulturnämnd (Stockholm City Grant)
2006 IASPIS
2005 Statens Kulturråd
2005 Bildkonstnärsfonden,(5-year working grant)
2005 Sveriges Författarfond
2005 Längmanska kulturfonden
2004 IASPIS
2003 Ellen Trotzigs fond, Malmö
2000 Bildkonstnärsfonden,(2-year working grant)
2000 Bildkonstnärsfonden
1999 NKKK
1999 Bildkonstnärsfonden
1999 IASPIS
1998 IASPIS
1995 BUS
1995 Gösta Mobergsminnesfond
1994 Letterstedska föreningen
1993,1994 Helge Ax:son Johnssons Stiftelse
1992 Clara Lachmansfond
1991 Nordplus
1990 Konsthögskolans drawing-grant
1990 Marta, Vivi och Åke Liljessonska Stiftelsen

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