Matilda Forsberg

In my paintings I explore heritage, identity, and the duality between the past and present. My work meditates on place, finding a sense of belonging, and intermingling histories and memories. The narratives are rooted in both my biological Swedish background and my daughter’s Chinese family, with imagery frequently sourced from family photo archives. My work explore this imagery as well as a confluence of my own memories of a place or situation, and signify feelings of a loss of a larger personal narrative and a search for new bonds and identities.

Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting

A Collective Escape, Deanna Evans Projects, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2021
Akwabaa Gallery, Newark, NJ / Group Show, 2021
Darkest Before Dawn | Art in a time of Uncertainty, Ethan Cohen KuBe, Beacon, NY / Group Show, 2021
Mother Tongue, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020
Black & White, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020 (Juried by Jenée-Daria Strand, Curatorial Assistant for the Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum)
Wide Open 11, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020 (Juried and awarded Best in Show by Paulina Pobocha, Associate Curator, Dept. of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA)
Refuge, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020
Twelfth Annual National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, New York, NY / Group Show, 2020
2020 National Juried Exhibition, First Street Gallery, New York, NY / Group Show, 2020
Ordinary Life in Unusual Times, Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT / Group Show, 2020
Silent Strength, Vacant Museum, Online / Group Show, 2020
(DE)PICT, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020
Portraits: Identity and Expression, Site:Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY / Group Show, 2020
Art Takes Miami, SeeMe and Samsung at Scope Art Fai...