Amanda Karlsson

Amanda Karlsson (b. 1989, Karlstad) paints in oil and works with wood in both two- and three-dimensional forms. She constructs scenographies and stages events, which she then documents, and recreates in installations and paintings. In her works, she explores human striving, drives, and feelings of inadequacy through a process that can be likened to digging where you stand, and in the pit are myths, humor, and symbolic worlds of ideas that in various ways attempt to explain human vulnerability and offer suggestions on how we can manage it. She is represented with several public artworks, and her works have been exhibited at, among others, Värmland Museum, Avesta Art, Ebeling Museum, and Ståhl Collection.

Selected exhibitions:
2026, you just dig, örnsköldsviks museum & konsthall2024, Igelfesten, Trollhättan Art Gallery2024, Hugg, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
2024, Enter Art Fair, group exhibition, with Galleri Helle Knudsen, Copenhagen
2024, Igelfesten, solo exhibition, Trollhättan Art Gallery
2024, Everything Must Go, Market Art Fair, duo exhibition with Lukas Cornix, Galleri Helle Knudsen
2024 Spring Salon, Liljevalchs Konsthall
2023, The leech party, solo exhibition, Värmlands Museum, Karlstad
2023, Vargfabriken i Vattentornet, solo exhibition, Säffle Vattentorn
2023, Grant Exhibition, Kristinehamn Art Museum
2022, Vargfabriken, solo exhibition, Ebelingmuseet, Torshälla
2021 , portrait now! TheCarlsbergFoundation's Portrait Award, Frederiksborg, Denmark
2020, You and what army, Installation for Ståhl Collection contemporary art museum, Norrköping
2020, Group exhibition, Galleri Thomassen, Gothenburg
2020, Beacon, solo exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
2019, Here be dragons, solo exhibition, The contemporary garage- OpenArt, Örebro
2019, The Great Anxiety, solo exhibition, Flaménska gallery, Borås
2018, BLUEPRINT, solo exhibition, Brohuset, Upplands Bro
2018, What Are You Looking For? Arvika Art Gallery, Arvika (with Marie Thorslund and Johanna Friberg)
2016, We Are Herd Animals, solo exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
2013, Ultimate Existence, solo exhibition, Galleri Ori, Berlin
2012, Cow Home, solo exhibition, Galleri Morgenrot, Berlin
2012, Under Influence, solo exhibition, Galleri Zeitzone, Berlin

Public commissions:
2026, vague terrain, sjuntorps fritidsgård, trollhättan
2026, being stone, curling hall facade, kristinehamn
2024, A flock of wild horses, Kristinegränd våbo, Borås municipality
2022, The Plummet, Mural, Ulricehamn municipality
2022, A kingdom for, Gothenburg circular economy&water, Sättfärgpå
2021, living archive, Rimbo culture scene, Norrtälje municipality
2021, Mural painting, Higab, Sättfärgpå, Gothenburg,
2020, Borderland, installation for sommargatan, Falköping
2019, Mural painting, Trafikverket, Gothenburg
2018, Ritz Kulturhus, Arvika
2018, Westcoastwalls, Halmstad
2018, Worthless knights, commissioned by Wermlands Invest and karlstad electricity and city network

Grants:
2023, One-year working grant, Konstnärsnämnden
2023, Kristinehamn Art Museum's grant
2022, Bror Marklund's grant
2021, Ståhl collection grant
2020, Johan Ahlbäck's foundation, Residency grant - young artist depicts working-class culture
2018, Byggnads cultural grant2016, Värmlands konstförening, youth grant recipient
2015, Våga se konstklubb
2015, En Snabb Slant, City of Gothenburg
2011, Liljessonska grant

Education:
2020, Individual project work 1, HDK-Valand
2009-2011, Lunnevads folkhögskola, Art Program

Represented:
Region Västernorrland
Ståhl collection
Region Värmland
Region Skåne
Region Uppsala
Region Sörmland
Region Gävleborg
Västra Götalandsregionen
Forshaga municipality
Falköping municipality
Arvika municipality
Karlstad municipality
Linköping municipality

Publications:
2022, Between Affinity and Rupture: Tracing Bubbles, arvinius+orfeus publishing
2019, Sci-Fi is for real, Niklas Wallenborg, Independent zine

Work and other:
2025, Gallery group Konstepideminmember of SKF, Värmlands Konstnärsförbund, KRO, Konstnärscentrum Väst