Artist Spotlight - Stefan Fransson — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

Biography

Education: Chelsea school of art. London. 2 years.
Royal Academy. Stockholm. 5 years.

Commissions:

15 mobile sculptures for examination rooms in hospitals. Mainly in the Stockholm area.
Commission for an entrance at the Södertälje hospital. A painting in 3 parts.
Commission work for a staircase at the entrance of Alviks school.
A composition of a number of mobile sculptures.
Commission work for a special place at the Danderyd hospital. A big mobile work in 3 parts.
I spent a year in the Hadeland glassfactory in Norway. I made some design for glass.
Artistic commission for reception room, Google Stockholm.

CD cover, with the music of Chick Corea. A work that I made together with Real world records and Deutche Grammophone. The CD is called 'The Continents'.
CD cover for Dan Costa. Titel: Beams.
Have been working as a teacher in figurative drawing and sculpture at the Swedish high school of Art, Craft and Design (Konstfack) 1991-2013.
Represented by ArtPer in Paris, and Arty color Gallery.
Also contracted with Perseus Gallery in New York, and is represented by Arsty Gallery. New York.

Exibition list:

Gallery Bildhörnan, Umea 1974 Group show.
Vara Gardar Lycksele. 1976 Group show.
Gallery Oscar, Stockholm. 1980 Group show.
Gallery Sassi, Stockholm. 1983 Group show.
Gallery Sassi, Stockholm. 1983. Group show.
Gallery Ludvig, Stockholm. 1984. Group show.
Royal Academy Wienna 1984
Gallery Nordengade, Copenhagen. 1986. Group show.
Gallery Mejan, Stockholm. 1986. Solo exibition.

Deep Surface. Digital collage. Year: 2011

Gallery Ludvig, Stockholm. 1991 Solo exibition.
Gallery Konstfack. Stockholm. 1992. Group show.
My Studio Stockholm 1997 Solo exibition.
Skulpturens hus,Stockholm 2004. Group show.
Seyhoun Gallery,West Hollywood. 2009. Group show.
Shortlisted for Christies first open, 2015. London.
Art Capital salon at the Grand Palais Paris 2020. Group show.
Korda Artcenter. Sweden. 2024.
EuropArtFair.Amsterdam. 2024.
Korda Artcenter. Sweden. 2025.

Published at:

Aftonbladet.
Expressen.
Dagens Nyheter.
Svenska Dagbladet.
The Art magasine Paletten.
The book of Statens Konstrad
The book Internät.
The book Premiere.

Art Majeur Magasine N°12 2020
Art Majeur Magasine N°13 2020
Circle Quarterly Art Review Issue 5 2020
Spotlight Magazine 2021
Abode 2. Feature Dec-January 2021-2022
Abode 2. Feature and a presentation for the whole year 2022.
Tatler magazine. November 2021.
Featured on a whole page inside of the London Life magazine.
Dec 2021 and Jan, feb, march, april, may, june and july 2022.

Featured on a whole page at the back cover of Saint John's Wood Life magazine. Jan-Feb 2022.
Featured on a whole page at the back cover of Marylebone Life magazine. Jan-Feb 2022.
Featured on a whole page at the back cover of Marylebone Life magazine. Feb-March 2022.
Featured on a whole page at the back cover Mayfair Life magazine. March-April 2022.
Whole page feature at the back cover of Marlebone Life magazine. April- May 2022.
Whole page feature at the back cover of Notting Hill Life magazine. May-June 2022.
Whole page feature at the back cover of Battersea Life magazine. June-July 2022.

Featured:

Art By Now. Germany. 2009.
Culturehall. New York. 2011.
AATONAU. Japan. 2025.
Represented in several private and public collections,in Sweden, Norway, Iceland, France, Switzerland, UK, Germany, Belgium and in the US.

Influences
Picasso, Giacometti, Kapoor

Artist Statement

My work explores how images can stay in the consciousness and meld with the present, sometimes, as what you saw less than a second ago, but also with the more distant past.

https://www.stefransson.com
https://www.instagram.com/stefransson/