Julia Selin
Born 1986 Trollhättan, Sweden. Lives and works in Malmö, Sweden


News
2024 February Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
2024 April Tørreloft, Copenhagen, Denmark


Solo/duo Exhibitions
2024
Julia Selin knows nothing about the trees, Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen, DK
2023
Moth Paths, Tara Downs, New York, US
Market Art Fair Stockholm with Galleri Flach (with Matti Sumari) SE
The artist’s dream of the insect’s innermost desire, Krognoshuset, Lund, (with Matti Sumari) SE
2022
Chart Art Fair with Cora Hillebrand Gallery (with Viktor Rosdahl), DK
Follow a bug to the end of the World, Trollhättans Konsthall (with Matti Sumari) SE
Consequences, Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
2021
Hot sap, Rörsjögatan 10, Malmö (with Matti Sumari) SE
2020
Scandinavian rot, Galleri Cora Hillebrand, Gothenburg, SE
Hot soggy night writings, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
Nightcrawlers, Wanås Konst, Knislinge (with Haidar Mahdi), SE
2019
Root rot caused by live liquid, Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
2018
Leap wade sink swim run fly creep, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, SE
2017
WRONG PATH, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2016
Names are too intimate, Galleri Ping-Pong, Malmö, SE
2014
Förna & Tidevann, Galleri Box, Göteborg, (with Hannah Rosvoll) SE Soft ground, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
2013
Through an Eternal Stream of Nights, Trollhättans Konsthall (with Stina Persson) SE
2012
A Black Snake as a Path to Walk Upon, The Art Academy Gallery, Umeå SE
2009
Mammals, B-galleria, Turku, (with Matti Sumari and Jaakko Pallasvuo) FIN

Group exhibitions
2024
Chart Art Fair with Matteo Cantarella, Copenhagen, DK
Polyfoni, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, SE
Diva Portal, Skene, Malmö, SE
2023
Paralleluniversum, Porte, Leipzig, DE
Farbforscher, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin, DE
Present Nature, Alma Löv Museum, Östra Ämtervik, SE
Sunless Press, Galleri Cora Hillebrand, Göteborg, SE
Vår vår, Molekyl Gallery, Malmö, SE
2022
In the City Grows a Field, Malmö Konsthall, SE
2021
Malmö so there, Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
2020
Songs for Sigge, Celsius Projects, Malmö, SE
Polyfoni 5, Group exhibition at Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
Mörkveden, Malmö Konsthall, SE
2019
100, Galleri cc, Malmö, SE
Spooky action at a distace, Galleri Nos, Stockholm, SE
2018
Clara Gasang-Gottowt, Sofie Josefsson, Nicklas Randau och Julia Selin på Galleri Wallner c/o Hight Court, Malmö, Sweden
Evolution and Comfort, Ta-da space, Copenhagen, DK
Velvet Ropes, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, NO
The Painter, Strandverket Konsthall, Marstrand, SE
Box Play, 8. Salon, Hamburg, DE
Malmö so there, Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
2017
WHAT DO YOU REPRESENT NOW? Plan 5, Stockholm, SE
The Island of Blossoming trees, Drömmarnas växthus, Malmö, SE Campsite, Harrison Hill Road, Swannanoa, NC, USA
Selvskabt Modvind, Sunday-s Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
På annan plats, Ystads Konstmuseum, SE
Polyfoni, Galleri Wallner, Simris, SE
2016
Leonard Forslund, Sigrid Sandström och Julia Selin, Galleri Wallner/High Court, Malmö, SE
Deep inside, V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU Calculation, Kurgan Regional Art Museum, Kurgan, RU
Grant exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, SE
2015
Map of the New Art: Imago Mundi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, IT
Market Art Fair, Galleri Flach, Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2014
Market Art Fair, Galleri Flach, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
2013
24 Spaces, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, SE
Farewell My Lovely, Bildmuseet, Umeå, SE
Döden som sover, Galleri Flach, Stockholm, SE
HÄR, The Art Academy Gallery, Umeå, SE
2011
The Reflecting Landscape, Bildmuseet, Umeå, SE
2010
Europa Underground, Clab Gallery, Lodi, IT
2010
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Bildmuseet Umeå, SE

Education

2011 - 13 Master of Fine Arts, Umeå Art Academy
2007 - 10 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Umeå Art Academy
2005 - 07 The Nordic Artschool, Kokkola, Finland


Other
2015 - ongoing Founder and Co-ordinator at Alta Art space, Malmö

Grants
2021 Sparbankstiftelsen skåne’s culture grant
2019 Two year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2017 Exhibition grant, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2016 Ellen Trotzig’s grant, Malmö Art Museum
2016 Jenny Lind’s travel grant, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
2016 Trollhättan’s culture grant
2015 Vera och Göran Agnekil’s grant, The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts
2014 One year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2013 Grant from Umeå municipality Cultural Committee, Umeå, Sweden

Collections
Statens Konstråd
Malmö Konstmuseum
Ystad Konstmuseum
Apoteketes konstförening
Region Skåne
Nya Karolinska sjukhuset
Bonniers Konstförening
Trollhättans kommun
Umeå kommun
Sveriges Allmänna konstförening
Private collections

Press
2020 Milou Allerholm, DN 
2020 Magnus Bons, Konsten.net
2018 Joanna Persman, SvD
2018 Johanna Theander, Konsten.net
2017 Poetens delrapport, Leif Mattson, Omkonst.se
2017 Feature at Sunday-s.dk
2017 Konsten.net frågeformulär
2016 Interview at Young-space.com
2016 Artlover nr 27
2016  Tröstande Måleri, Christine Antaya, Sydsvenska
2014 Tätt måleri i dialog med traditionen, Milou Allerholm, Dagens Nyheter
2014 Jorden vi ärvde, Leif Mattson, Omkonst.se
2014 Galleridebut som bränner till, Clemens Poellinger Svenska Dagbladet
2013 Drömmen (och dess icke-uppfyllande), Kunstkritikk

Publications
2022 I staden växer ett fält, Malmö Konsthall
2018 Leap wade sink swim run fly creep, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2016 Deep Inside, 5th Moscow Biennale of Young art
2015 Kris och Kritik nr 5/6 
2015 Archive of Visions and Actions: Contemporary Art from Sweden, Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection
2015 Tomoko #3 France
2013 Farewell my lovely, MFA 2013, Umeå Art Academy 
2012 YESYES #1 Germany
2011 Tomoko #2 France
2010 Ruby Mag #56 Argentina
2010 Tomoko #1 France
2010 Waterfall Magazine #3, Taiwan
2009 The evening of the best day of my life, for Bakers Dozen, Australia
2009 Megaverse and other stories (with Jaakko Pallasvuo) published by Medium rare, USA




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