Solo and two-person exhibitions

2025 Return - Birds, Beasts and Other Beings, two-person exhibit, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY (forthcoming)

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: Courthouse Gallery, 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

2016 Irja Bodén: Horse Virtues, Adirondack Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

2016 Irja Bodén: Horse Virtues, Town Hall, Potsdam, NY

2016 Irja Bodén: Horse Virtues, Pleiades Gallery, New York City, NY

2014 The Recycled, Courthouse Lobby, Canton, NY

2007 Ceramics and Painting, Adirondack Center for the Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Selected group exhibitions

2025  phantom charges, National Artist Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2025  7 Artists, 30 Days, Zine Project, National Artists, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2025  Comfort in Numbers, Create Gallery, Catskill, NY

2025  What We Hold, Create Gallery, Catskill, NY

2025  New Members Exhibit, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT

2024  A ONE (Art Of the NorthEast), Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT

2024  The Shape of Things, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY

2024  Metamorphosis: The Changing Landscape, Silvermine Galleries, New Canaan, CT

2024  Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY

2023  North American Aurora, Skagaströnd, Iceland

2023  Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY

2022  Split and Becloud, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY

2022  On the Grounds, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY
2022  ART+NATURE+HOME ‘22, Upstate Diary, Stone Ridge, NY

2022  Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, 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

Residencies - Awards

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