Camilla Engström’s first solo exhibition in Sweden Målningar till Mamma och Pappa (Paintings for Mum and Dad) is now open at Carl Kostyál | Hospitalet in Stockholm
“This is the first time my parents have seen an exhibition of my work. They have been very supportive and sometimes lent me cash for all these years I spent running around the world so now I want to dedicate this show to them.” – Camilla Engström, September 2021
Engström was born in Örebro, Sweden, in 1989. Having tested the water in Shanghai and New York City, she landed in Los Angeles. Her bucolic, metaphysical landscapes celebrate the healing properties of Mother Nature. Their trippy, hallucinogenic palette and voluptuous curving forms call to mind the cut-outs of Henri Matisse, while channelling the female energy of Georgia O’Keeffe, Yayoi Kusama and her fellow Swede Hilma Af Klint. Hailed as both “feminist and fecund”, Engström’s art offers an uplifting riff on millennials’ preoccupations spawned by the digital realm, from body shaming to the cult of the self.
Engström’s recent solo exhibitions include ‘Returning Home’, Over The Influence Gallery, Los Angeles (2020); ‘Husa’s Garden’, Hilde Gallery, Los Angeles (2018); ‘Flora’, Cooler Gallery, New York (2017); ‘Faces’, Deli Gallery, New York (2016); ‘Camilla Engstrom’,Room Salon, New York (2016).
Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions in Los Angeles, Hong Kong, New York and Stockholm, when part of ‘Stockholm Sessions’ in May 2021 with Carl Kostyál Gallery.
Photography © Carl Kostyál (Viktor Fordell)