Emma Tingård

Emma Tingård is a self-taught Swedish artist based in Stockholm. Her artworks, mainly portraits of strangers with captivatingly odd features, aim at depicting her personal insight into the model´s personality, which translates into ample strokes of vivid colors on a graffiti inspired outline; this technical approach is particularly evident in her series of street art driven works.

"All my body of work is based on two basic ideas: the color communicability and movement by improvisation. My creative process starts with a feeling, an unspoken image with an end result that often surprises not only my audience but also myself. It is like a game where the final object dwells in the unconscious, waiting to be unraveled. A timeless process without framed thoughts or words. Portraits are a recurrent theme. I love the human face. You can learn so much about a person by simply looking at them closely. What they have been through leaves a mark and my intention is to be able to interpret those marks into my art. My ultimate challenge is finding the specific features in a face, a bridge to cross from me the portraitist to the portrayed. I do not plan beforehand whom I will portrait, I could be walking down a street and fall in love with someo...

Self Educated Artist

Diploma in advertising Science, Stockholm University, 2008

Solo Exhibition,
Grand Central , Nov - march 2017-2018

Solo Exhibition
Clou, Stockholm, Dec - Jan 2016 - 2017

Group Exhibition, Amnesty Sweden, Stockholm, April 2016

Solo Exhibition
Berns, Stockholm, May 2016

Solo Exhibition
SO, Oslo, Jan 2016

Solo Exhibition
Scandic Vulkan, Oslo, May - Oct 2015

Solo Exhibition
Skönhetspalatset Göteborg, March - Aug 2015

Group Exhibition
Vista Palace Gallery, May - Sep 2014
Portraits, colored animals

Solo Exhibition
Story Hotel, March 2014
Design Hotel, Stockholm
Portraits, colored animals and abstracts

Solo Exhibition
Urban Deli, May - June 2014
Portraits, abstracts, street art

"Ansikten"
Solo Exhibition Shoreditch Town Hall, 2013
Shoreditch Town Hall, London
Portraits only. A commercial success, besides being well received by both critics and public

Group Exhibition
Fundacao, Centro Cultural de Belem - CCB Lisboa. September 2013. Presented by USIA

Solo Exhibition, Story Hotel, 2013
Story Hotel, Stockholm
A mix of Street Art and Fine art inspired Exhibition. Portraits and abstracts.

"Contemporary Drawing 2012"
Exhibition at Art Space Gallery, 2012
Three portraits exhibited by selection of a jury of curators.
Art Space Gallery, Lau...