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Residual Light (2025)
the sea is watching (2025)
Moths Drink Tears of Sleeping Birds (2024)
Nature Is Out of Control, part VI (2024)
Breathing Space (2021, 2023)
the sea is watching (2019)
Secretes and Silences (2018)
Let the day break (2017)
ABOUT
Anna Sofia Jernryd
Born 1965 in Kristianstad, Sweden.
Lives and works in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Phone: +46 (0)706 71 66 53
E-mail: annasofia(at)jernryd.com
Education
2019-21 MFA in Photography, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.
2016-19 BFA in Photography, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.
2015-17 Elective Courses, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.
1985-87 University certificate in Computer Engineering, Luleå University of Technology.
Exhibitions
Solo and duo exhibitions
2024 Nature Is Out of Control (solo), Gallery 54, Gothenburg.
2021 Nature Is Out of Control (solo), GIBCA Extended, Gallery Rotor2, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2018 Secret and Silences (solo), Street Gallery, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2017 Birds. Let the day break (duo with Mette Hultesjö), Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
Group exhibitions
2026 (upcoming) Tuftfesten 2026, Skanshof Gallery, Göteborg.
2025 Supporting Structures, GIBCA Extended, Studio Pilot, Göteborg.
2025 Wallstreet Art Festival, Varberg.
2025 Tuftfesten 2025, Skanshof Gallery, Göteborg.
2023 OTID, GIBCA Extended, Studio Pilot, Göteborg.
2023 Performative Positions, Kungsbacka Konsthall, Kungsbacka.
2022 Performative Positions, Mimers Konsthall, Kungälv.
2022 Went to the wall, Galleri Gasell, Halmstad.
2021 Vanishing Points, Röda Sten Konsthall, Göteborg.
2020 The Path of a Falling Leaf, Galleri Format, Malmö.
2020 Sound#4: Body. Mind. Nature, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg.
2019 This is not a Departure Hall, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg.
2018 Fotobok Gbg, Open Call, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg.
2018 Memory Foam, Street Gallery, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2017 Bending the Frame, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway.
2017 Photography Unsettled, Gallery Monitor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2017 Summer visions brings forgotten memories, Gallery Rotor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2016 Gallery Monitor, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2015 Frusen Tid, Skövde Art Space, Skövde.
2015 Frusen Tid, Konstnatten, Karleby Konst & Hantverk, Falköping.
2015 Graduation exhibition, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg.
2015 Samhällsbild, Göteborgs Stadsbibliotek, Gothenburg.
Grants
2025 The Otto och Charlotte Mannheimer Foundation.
2023 The Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
2021 The Swedish Arts Council.
2021 The Otto och Charlotte Mannheimer Foundation.
2021 The Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation.
2020 The Chamber of Commerce in Gothenburg Foundation.
2018 The Adlerbertska Foundation.
2017 The Adlerbertska Foundation.
Publications & Catalogues
2021 Thresholds: Interwar Lens Media Cultures 1919–1939, ISBN 978-37-533-0000-9.
2021 Vanishing Points catalogue, ISBN: 978-91-519-7651-8, Gothenburg University.
2021 The Moving Image Portrait - Between being and becoming (a sign), published by UGOT Photography, Gothenburg University.
2020 The Path of a Falling Leaf catalogue, ISBN: 978-91-519-7268-8, Gothenburg University.
2019 Anteckningar om det outryckbara, published by UGOT Photography, Gothenburg University.
2019 This is not a Departure Hallcatalogue, ISBN: 978-91-985465-1-4, Gothenburg University.
Collections
Region Skåne, Sweden.
Private collections, Sweden.
Positions and other engagements
2025 Art Project Manager, Linköping Offentlig Konst, Linköping Kommun, Linköping.
2023–24 PARSE coordinator, Department of Photography and Film, HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg.
2021–22 Art Project Manager, Konstenheten, Västra Götalandsregionen, Gothenburg.
2021- Board Member, Göteborgs Bildverkstad, Gothenburg.
2020–21 Research Assistant, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg.
2018 Selection Adviser, Department of Photography, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg.
2016–19 Gallery Group Member, Valand Academy, Gothenburg.
2015– Teacher, teacher assistant, Art College, Gothenburg.