Education

2001 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT M.F.A
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1997 Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands B.F.A
1995 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY

Residencies/Grants/Fellowships

2011 Artistic Development Work Grant (KU), The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2010 Vera och Göran Agnekils stipendium, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm 2008 The Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2008 Painters & Sculptors Grant
2008 Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA
2004 Barbro Osher Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2003 Artadia Award, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY
2003 Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden, Stockholm
2003 Eliza Randall Prize
2002 Eliza Randall Prize
2001-03
The Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2001 Awarded Fine Art Work Center Provincetown Residency, MA
2001 Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship,Yale University, New Haven, CT
2000 Anna Whitlocks Minnesfond, Stockholm
1997 American Society's Culture Award, New York, NY
1995 De Groote Brugmans fond, Groningen

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2012 Leap of Sight, Galleri Gunnar Olsson
2011 Hide-outs, The Company, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Video Screenings, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX2010 Olle Nyman huset, Saltsjö-duvnäs
2009 Galleri Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 Sigrid Sandström, The Company, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Mock-Ups, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
2008 New Paintings, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2007 Recent Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Märkt, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 Ginnungagap: Recent Works by Sigrid Sandstrom, Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2006 Action, Inman Gallery, Houston TX
2005
Her Black Flags:Video projections by Sigrid Sandstrom, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2004 Ginnungagap, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Hrönir, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm
2004 Sighting, Brant Gallery, MA College of Art, Boston, MA
2003 Tillflykter, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm
2002 I Know Where I'm Going, Inman Gallery, Houston,TX

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
"Sommar 2012", Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simrishamn
Art Brussels, with Inman Gallery
Market, Stockholm, with Galleri Gunnar Olsson

2011
"Sommar 2011", Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simrishamn
Från Eddie Figge f. 1906 till Linnea Rygaard f. 1990, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm'

2010
Shadow Effect, The Company, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Art Copenhagen, Köpenhamn with Galleri Gunnar Olsson
Pristagare och receptionsstycken 2010, Kungliga Akademien för de fria konsterna, Stockholm
Bo Siesjös samling av svensk samtidskonst , Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden 

2009-10
Carnegie Art Award 2010, traveling exhibition, The Nordic Countries, London, Nice, Beijing (catalogue)

2009
Samtidigt, Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden (catalogue)
Market, Stockholm, Sweden with Galleri Gunnar Olsson
Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2008
Cent, Galerie Defrost, Paris, France
Gallery Artists New Works, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program at the MFAH,
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Probably, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX

2007
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Art Benefit, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Saturn Falling, The Corridor Gallery, Reykjavik. curated by Gavin Morrison.
Frisbee LA, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike, Los Angeles, CA
Land Force, Sabina Lee Gallery, curated by John Moore, Los Angeles, CA
Market,Stockholm with Galleri Gunnar Olsson

2006
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, curated by Shinique Smith, The Proposition, New York, NY (catalogue)
Everywhichway, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Frisbee, Miami, Fl, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike
Aqua, Miami, Fl, with Inman Gallery
Pulse, New York, NY with Inman Gallery
Market, Stockholm with Galleri Gunnar Olsson

2005
Frisbee, Miami, Fl, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike
Aqua,Miami, Fl, with Inman Gallery
If you're feeling sinister,Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY
You Are Here,Ballroom Marfa, TX
Something is Somewhere,Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Cecilia Elde, Ulrika Lundberg, Martina Muntzig och Sigrid Sandström, Kabusa Konsthall, Sweden
The Edge of Darkness, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, NewYork, NY
Sollentuna Konstmässa 2005, Galleri Olsson, Stockholm
Outpost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (catalogue)

2004
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London
Perspective@25, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX (catalogue)
AFFAIR @ The Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR
Summer Group Show II: Landscapes, Nahcotta Inc. Portsmouth, NH
Svenska konstärer i världen, Millesgården, Stockholm (catalogue)
Rocks, scissors, paper, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
Why not live for art, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo Selections 04, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Selections 04, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

2003
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL
ARTissima Art Fair, Turin
Miniatures, Hook-Epstein Gallery, Houston, TX
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Paper Works, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sigrid Sandström & Jiha Moon, M3 Kunsthalle, Berlin
It's not the end of the world, Sigrid Sandström and Karyn Olivier, The Nave Museum, Victoria, TX
Core Artists in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, (catalogue)
function:assimilate, Tyler gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2002
New York, New Work, Now! The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester,NH
Core Samples, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX
Pertaining to Painting, The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, traveled to: Austin Museum of Art (catalogue)
New American Talent/17, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, The Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX traveled to: J.Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A &M University, Commerce, TX (catalogue)
Wall Power, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
Core Artists in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue)

Selected Bibliography

2012
Bjelvehammar, Bo, "Varje sommar målar sig själv", ystad Allehanda, July

2010
Malmberg, Carl-Johan, "En kropp. Bara en. En enda", catalog text to the exhibition at Kajsa & Olle Nyman Cultural Foundation in Saltsjö-Duvnäs, Sweden

2009
Lind, Ingela, "Brinnande färg och stilla bottensug", Dagens Nyheter, October 8: kultur p.6-7
Malmberg, Carl-Johan, "Frusna ögonblick inför mystiken", Svenska Dagbladet, October 9
Brodow Inzaina, Anna, "Illusioner på duk blir verkliga", Svenska Dagbladet, August 28: p.21
Nilsson, Håkan, "Uppfriskande Abstraktioner", Dagens Nyheter, September 10: p.07
Gleason, Mat, "Coagula Interview: Sigrid Sandström", Coagula Art Journal, #97 April
Kempe, Jessica, "Supermarket/Market:Konstmässor leker på allvar", Dagens Nyheter, February 14
Lindquist, Gunnar, "Samtida måleri när det är som bäst", Östgöta Correspondenten, June 8
Ekström, Eleonor, “Nya vyer hemmavid,” Göteborgs-Posten, April 9, p.80
van Reis, Michael, “Rum för AlieNationen,” Göteborgs-Posten, April 17
Taft Catherine, Art Review, Issue 32, May 2009, p.118
Taft, Catherine, “Catherine Taft’s round-up of the best shows in LA”, Saatchi Online, http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon/art_news/catherine_tafts_round-up_of_the_best_shows_in_la/5483
Sigrid Sandstrom, Daily Serving, March 18, http://www.dailyserving.com/2009/03/sigrid_sandstrom.php
Reihsen Joe, “Sigrid Sandstrom”, Flavorpill, March 14, 2009, http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/3/14/sigrid-sandstrom

2008
Söderholm, Cecilia, "Än kan allt hända", Sydsvenska Dagbladet, December 10:B5
Britt, Douglas, “ Last Chance to catch hot August shows,” Houston Cronicle, August15:E1,E2
Core: Artists and Critics in Residence, The Museum of Fine Arts, pp.166,197

2007
Fry, Naomi, "Critic's Pics New York: Sigrid Sandstrom", Artforum, December 2007            
Brodow, Anna,  “Sigrid Sandström, Verkligheten tränger sig på”, Svenska Dagbladet, January 27,
Kultur: 8

2006
Ginnungagap- Recent Work by Sigrid Sandström. Seattle: Frye Art Museum.
Texts by Midge Bowman, Robin Held and Jaimey Hamilton (exhibition catalogue)
Hackett, Regina, “Yoder, O’Neil, Sandstrom, Helfand”, Seattlepi.com, June 16th
Graves, Jen, “ Wondering about Wandering-Sandstrom Asks What We Expect to Find Out There”, The Stranger, June 22-28, 2006
Naves Mario, “ This Way, That Way”, The New York Observer, (online) July 24th
Johnson, Ken, The Listings, “Everywhichway” The New York Times, July 7th,

2005
Marshall, Robert. “Something is Somewhere”, New York Press, Vol.18, Number 21, May 25-31

2004
Flash Art,November - December p.119-120
Perspective @ 25, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Keough, Jeffrey. Outpost, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Arts
Klaasmeyer, Kelly .“Polar Flair-Sigrid Sandström brings arctic splendor to Inman Gallery”, Houston Press, September 30:46

2003
Johnson, Patricia C. "Five Houston artist honored with Artadia awards", Houston Chronicle,April 28:12C
New American Painting, Boston:The Open Studio Press, MA, #46
Sillman, Amy. Top Ten, Art Forum, November

2002
"Pertaining to Painting":Chocolate Box', The Austin Chronicle, December 27: vol .22.no.17
Devine, John. "She Knows Where She's Going", The Houston Press, August 8-14:56
Morsiani, Paola,."Pertaining to Painting" (exhibition catalogue), Perspectives 133:22-21
Biederman, Christine. "Planet of the Apes", Dallas Observer, May 16-22: 61.
Core Yearbook, (exhibition catalogue). Houston: The Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Mitchell, Charles Dee." Think Big Picture", The Dallas Morning News, April 18: 12C.

Publications
Grey Hope: the persistence of melancholy, 2006, edited by Sigrid Sandström and Atopia Projects

Lectures/Panels/Seminars

2012
Seminar: "From Hand to Thought and Back", Bonniers Konsthall, StockholmDegree show examination panel member, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki
Visiting Artist lecture, Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki

2011
Panel member on Melancholy in Turner, Monét, Twombly exhibition at Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Artist conversation on the on the Cosima von Bonin, Per Kirkeby and Tal R exhibition at Magasin 3, Stockholm
Visiting Artist lecture, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA

2010
Visiting Artist lecture, Tyler School of Art / Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Visiting Artist lecture, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
Tyler School of Art / Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA

2009 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden, lecture, October 29, November 15

2008
Visiting Artist lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist lecture, Princeton University, Lewis Center for the Arts, NJ
Visiting Artist lecture, Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, MD

2007
Visiting Artist lecture, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

2006
Visiting Artist lecture, Royal University College of Art, Stockholm

2005
Visiting Artist lecture, Mills College of Art, Oakland, CA

2005
Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT

2003
Visiting Artist lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Visiting Artist lecture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Visiting Artist lecture, Victoria College, Victoria, TX

Teaching experiences

2010- Professor of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm

2005 – 2010 Assistant Professor Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY

2006, 2007
Royal University College of Art, Stockholm, Visiting lecturer

2005
Yale University, Summer Program, Basic Drawing

2004
Edinburgh College of Art, asnE (Art,Space,Nature Science Graduate Program)
work shop: Building a Studio (www.atopiaprojects.org/workshops)

2003-2005
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Undergraduate Program (Junior/Senior major Studio),
Graduate Program , Visiting Artist/ Assistant Professor

2001-03
Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston/ University of St Thomas

2001
Yale University Art Gallery, Visiting Artist, Education Department, " Neighborhood
Place Summer Program" (public school children grade 1-5) and "Vietnam Veteran Program"
Yale University School of Art, Teaching assistant to Lisa Corinne Davis

Curatorial Project

Oyster Skies: Meditations on Northern Landscapes (August 2008 – February 15 2009), curated from the collection by Sigrid Sandström, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA

In Collections

Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Borås Konstmuseum, Borås