Issa Salliander
b. 1984
Issa Salliander (b. 1984 in Stockholm) is a Swedish painter. She moved to Oxford as a teenager, where she began her art studies, and completed her master's degree at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2006. In gestural oil paintings that move between figuration and abstraction, she addresses opposites such as good and evil or light and darkness – and the humour and absurdity they contain. She draws on popular culture, particularly twentieth-century rock music, as well as on the European masters and Abstract Expressionism. She has had solo exhibitions in Oslo, Vienna, Mexico City and Stockholm, among other places; in 2024 her work was included in the exhibition “Breasts” at Palazzo Franchetti in Venice. With “Issa Salliander x Den of Wolves” (2024/25) she brought painting together with a video game.
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Biography
Education 2006 MA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School, London 2005 BA Fine Art, City & Guilds of London Art School, London Solo exhibitions (selection) 2025 Issa Salliander x Den of Wolves, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City 2024 Issa Salliander x Den of Wolves, Stockholm 2023 Love on the Record, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City 2023 Love on the Record, Querétaro 2022 Shadows, The Stable Gallery, Engadin 2019 Valentine Wheels, Mexico City 2013 Christmas and Paradise, Galerie Kandlhofer (then LisaBird Contemporary), Vienna 2011 Til Our Shadows Cease To Meet, OSL Contemporary (then Galleri MGM), Oslo Group exhibitions (selection) 2025 Índex VI: Intus Foris, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City 2024 Breasts, ACP Palazzo Franchetti, Venice 2024 Virginia Sins (with Natalie White), Galería Hilario Galguera Condesa, Mexico City 2023 Puertas de Esperanza, Galería Hilario Galguera / El Cuarto de Máquinas, Mexico City 2020 Virginia Sins (with Natalie White), Wallplay, New York 2015 Blow Up, Parafin, London 2012 Group exhibition, Artpark, Velden 2011 Location 2, Cullen Art Services, Zurich 2010 Faces, Leo Gallery, Shanghai 2010 Lisabird's Art Collective I (Kandlhofer Art Collective), Vienna 2010 Location 1.5, Cullen Art Services, Zurich 2009 Location 1, Cullen Art Services, London Awards 2005 Jeremy Haworth Award for Painting 2005 De Laszlo Portrait Prize 2005 D'Oyly Carte Award Publications 2011 Ausstellung, SoArt