SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2023 The Stories We Tell, Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, NJ
2023 Embodied Knowledge, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT (Selected by curator nico w. okoro)
2022 Reemergence, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
2022 The Patriot, O'Flaherty's, New York, NY
2022 Becoming, Out Left Art, New York, NY (A three-person show curated by Luma Art Advisory)
2022 Future Perfect/Imperfect: The Next Century, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2022 Maximum/Minimum, The Gallery Space, Rahway, NJ
2021 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY (Juried by Thomas Erben)
2021 A Collective Escape, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Deanna Evans, Elizabeth Buhe, Alejandro Jassan, and Nickola Pottiger)
2021 Group Show, Akwabaa Gallery, Newark, NJ (Curated by Jo-El Lopez)
2020 Darkest Before Dawn, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY (Curated by Raul Zamudio and Ethan Cohen)
2020 Mother Tongue, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Online (Co-curated by Mary Annunziata, Allison Cannella, Anna Mikaela Ekstrand, and Katya Grokhovsky)
2020 Black & White 2020, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juried by Jenée-Daria Strand, Curatorial Assistant, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum)
2020 Wide Open 11, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Juried by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA)
2020 Refuge, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Nicole Mouriño)
2020 Twelfth Annual National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY
2020 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY
2020 Hot Paper Show, GIFC Worldwide, Online
2020 Ordinary Life in Unusual Times, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2020 Silent Strength, Vacant Museum, Online
2020 (DE)PICT, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Portraits: Identity and Expression, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY (Juried by Claire Voon)
2019 SeeMe Salon, SeeMe at the Affordable Art Fair Chelsea, New York, NY
2019 Artsplash, sTudio 7, Rockaway Artist Alliance, Fort Tilden, NY (Curated by Angel Bellaran)
2019 Give me Shelter, Pop-Up, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Ebru Eltemur)
2019 Light, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Curated by Kat Ryals and Lauren Hirshfield)
2008 DREAM[land], Jail Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Curated by Annie Wharton)

AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES

2023 La Fourchette De Roze Artist Residency, Grand Bassam, Ivory Coast
2023 The City of Newark and Newark Arts Creative Catalyst Fund Fellowship
2021 Liquitex Residency Awardee (Juried by Brian Boucher, Rebecca Byrne, and Emily Steer)
2021 The City of Newark and Newark Arts Creative Catalyst Fund Fellowship
2020 Best in Show Award, Wide Open 11, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Awarded by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA)
2020 Newark Art Accelerator Grant, Project for Empty Space /the Warhol Foundation
2019 Gallery Aferro, Artist-in-Residence, Newark, NJ (Ongoing)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, INTERVIEWS, ARTIST TALKS

2023 New American Paintings, Northeast Issue #164
2022 NJ Arts Annual: Reemergence Artist Talk, New Jersey State Museum
2022 Juxtapoz, Instagram Live Interview by Editor-in-Chief Evan Pricco
2022 The Racket Journal
2021
Liquitex, Instagram Live Interview by Rebecca Byrne
2021 Zephyr & Maize, “
Studio Visit with Matilda Forsberg Part 2”, by Varia Serova
2021 Zephyr & Maize, “
Studio Visit with Matilda Forsberg”, by Varia Serova
2020 Art Spiel, “
The Immigrant Artist Biennial: Matilda Forsberg”, by Anna Mikaela Ekstrand  
2020 Artit Magazine
2019 Create! Magazine

EDUCATION

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

 

 

 

Matilda Forsberg

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