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Irja Bodén

Born in Kiruna, Sweden
Lives and works in Hudson Valley, New York



CURRENT AND UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS


What We Hold, Create Gallery, Catskill, NY through March

Elemental Terrain, Bau Gallery, Beacon, NY  through March

Return - Birds, Beasts and other Beings, Walter Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY July - September 

National Artist Exhibit, AIR Gallery, Brooklyn, NY July - August


SELECTED SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS


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, Bushwick, NY

2022 Irja Bodén: To Dress a Ptarmigan, Al Held Foundation in partnership with River Valley Arts Collective, Boiceville, NY
2022 Ceramics and Collage, two-person exhibit, Courthouse Gallery, Lake George, NY

2021 Irja Bodén: ”Blah, blah, blah,” Smallbany Gallery, Albany, NY

2021 Irja Bodén: Virtual solo platform, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT

2021 Irja Bodén: Fractured Light, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Interwoven, two-person exhibit, Roxbury Arts Group: Walt Meade Gallery, Roxbury, NY



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


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 Convergence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Member Show, Woodstock, NY

2024 Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY

2023 North American Aurora, Skagastrond, 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 Assoc. 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 and 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 in Painting, SUNY Potsdam, New York

Bachelor of Arts, Social Science, Lund University, Sweden