Resumé
Irja Bodén
Born 1960, Kiruna, Sweden
Lives and works in Hudson Valley, NYSelected Solo and two-person exhibitions
2025 Return - Birds, Beasts and Other Beings, two-person exhibit, Roxbury Arts Group: Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2025 Elemental Terrain, two-person exhibit, BAU gallery, Beacon, NY
2024 Curious Arias, two-person Exhibit, Art Bites Gallery, High Falls, NY
2023 Irja Bodén: Constellations, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Irja Bodén: To Dress a Ptarmigan, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY
2022 Ceramics and Collage, two-person, The Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
2021 Irja Bodén: Untitled (”Blah, blah, blah”), Smallbany Gallery, Albany, NY
2021 Irja Bodén: Fractured Light, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2021 Irja Bodén: Virtual solo platform, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT
2017 Interwoven, two-person exhibit, Roxbury Arts Group: Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY
Selected group exhibitions
2025 phantom charges, National Artist Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 A ONE (Art Of the NorthEast), Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2023 North American Aurora, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2022 Split and Becloud, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
2022 On the Grounds, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY
2021 Radius 50, Woodstock Artist Assoc. & Museum, Woodstock, NY
2021 Embody, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2020 The Immigrant Artist Biennial /The Imminent Arrival, NY (virtual)
2020 New Folk: Hudson Valley Artists, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY
2020 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2019 En Vacker Utställning, Kin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, Sweden
2018 Land and Sea, Main Street Arts Gallery, Clifton Springs, NY
2018 Contemporary Landscape, Roxbury Art Group: Walter Mead Gallery, Roxbury, NY
2017 Northeast Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition, Art Centro, Poughkeepsie, NY
2014 Invitational Exhibit, Pleiades Gallery, New York City, NY
Residencies - Awards
2025 The Pollinator Program, a virtual residency of mutal support
2024 Mollie & Albert Jacobson Sculpture Award, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT
2024 The Puffin Foundation Ltd., Recipient of the Visual Art Grant
2023 NES Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2022 Portfolio Photography Award, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
2022 Byrdcliffe Residency, Woodstock, NY
2021 Studios at MASS MoCA, AiR, North Adams, MA
2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, MA
2018, 2017 Vermont Studio Center, Residency and Grant, Johnson, VT
2017 Public Art Fellowship, New York State Council of the Arts, NY
2000, 2003, 2007 Special Opportunity Stipend (SOS), NYS Foundation for the Arts, NY
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts, visual arts, SUNY Potsdam, New York
Bachelor of Arts, Social Science, Lund University, Sweden