Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Born 1960 in Kiruna, Sweden, lives and works in Ghent, NY
SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 Curious Arias, Two-person Exhibit, Art Bites Gallery, High Falls, NY
2023 Irja Bodén: Constellations, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Curator: Emireth Herrera Valdés
2022 Irja Bodén: To Dress a Ptarmigan, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY Curator: Alyson Baker
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: 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
RESIDENCIES - AWARDS - PUBLICATION
2023 NES Artist-in-Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2023 Review: ”Related Harmony of Living Potential” Online Journal, Zero Thought to Z, Steve Gambello
2023 Essay: “The Evocative Landscape of Irja Bodén’s Ceramic Sculptures by Emireth Herrera Valdés
2023 Feature in Ceramics Now, Constellations, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC, NY
2022 Artists of Hudson-Mohawk Region Exhibition Catalogue, and, Portfolio Photography Award, Hyde
Collection, Glens Falls, NY
2022 Featured Artist Interview, Upstate Diary Magazine: 6-page spread, essay+photography
2022 Byrdcliffe Artist-in-Residency, Ceramics, Woodstock, NY
2021 Studios at MASS MoCA Artist-in-Residency, North Adams, MA
2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund, Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation, MA
2021 White Columns, Curated Artist Registry (ongoing)
2020 The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Catalogue and Award
2018, 2017 Vermont Studio Center, Artist-in-Residency and Artist’s 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, magna cum laude, 2006, SUNY Potsdam, NY.
Bachelor of Arts, social science, 1987, Lund University, Sweden
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 The Shape of Things, BAU Gallery, Beacon, NY
2024 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition: Women in Sculpture, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
2024 Metamorphosis: The Changing Landscape, Silvermine Arts Center, New Canaan, NY
2024 Spring Mix: Varietals + Vases, Art Bites Gallery, High Falls, NY
2024 Convergence, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild's Member Show, Woodstock, NY
2024 The Back Room, Art Bites Gallery, High Falls, NY
2024 Holiday, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY
2023 North American Aurora, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2023 inFORM, Strand Center for the Arts, Plattsburgh, NY
2022 Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region, Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY Curator: Sophie Landres
2022 On the Grounds, Al Held Foundation, Boiceville, NY. Curator: Alyson Baker
2022 ART+NATURE+HOME ‘22, Upstate Diary Magazine, Stone Valley, NY Curator: Kate Orne
2021 Radius 50, Woodstock Artist Assoc. & Museum, NY Curators: Alyson Baker, Candice Madey
2021 Embody, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT Curator: Krista Scenna
2020 The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Here Together! (The Imminent Arrival) NY Curator: Katya Grokhovsky
2020 New Folk: Hudson Valley Artists, Dorsky Museum, SUNY New Paltz, NY Curator: Anna Conlan
2020 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art Assoc: University Place Gallery, MA Curator: Sharon Butler
2019 En Vacker Utställning, Kin, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kiruna, Sweden