Emma LARSSON
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In Emma Larsson’s watercolors, extravagant and colorful vegetation flourishes, fungal forms abound with multiple eyes and toxic halo. Each watercolor is enhanced with dry pastel, markers, color pencils, pigments, spray. All these layers of colors offer a delightful set of textures, matters and transparencies. The pure joy of colors and shapes in organic compositions.
Emma Larsson was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1977. She lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Since her teenage years, Emma has had her own art studio. Even though she studied art, she did not do higher art education as she started to have a large family. She considers herself self-taught. She describes her work as an ongoing exploration without rules and conventions, continually generating new forms, patterns and themes. Larsson’s watercolors are in constant flow. She is not analytic. Emma’s paintings are purely intuitive, they source from pleasure and freedom. In her spare time, she walks in the virgin forests Stockholm. She finds most of her inspiration in nature’s shapes, colors and patterns, leading to abstract and moving forms in her paintings. -
Emma Larsson was born in 1977 in Sweden. She lives and works in Stokholm.
EXHIBITIONS & PROJECTS
2023
Commission artwork for Soho House, Stockholm
LA Art Show, Los Angeles
Featured in The Racket Journal, San Francisco
Limited edition of exclusive prints for Collagerie/Lucinda Chabers
Cover art for The Capra Review, New York
2022
Music Album cover art, ACT Music, Germany
LA Art Show, Los Angeles
Commission artworks for hotel ’The Fifth’, New York
Featured article/interview in Wrap Magazine, London
Group Exhibition, VSOP Projects, New York
Featured in Harper’s Magazine, New York
Drawing Now Art Fair via Gallerie DYS, Paris
Featured article/interview in UpperCase Magazine, Vancouver
Art on Paper art fair, New York
Solo exhibition, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles
Licensed artworks for upcoming Hollywood movie by Searchlight Pictures, Los Angeles
Art on Paper art fair, Brussels with Galerie DYS
6-month art residency in Merida, Mexico
2021
Guest artist at Rachel Comey fashion brand, New York
February Guest artist at Guts Gallery, London
Exhibition Galleri Nord, Örebro, Sweden
Featured on 16 pages of a fashion report, Marie Claire Magazine, Paris
Commissioned beer can design for Collective Arts Brewing, Ontario
Commissioned work for Selfridges, London
Featured in Luxiders Magazine, Berlin
Licensed sculpture works for upcoming Amazon Prime series
April Guest artist at Guts Gallery, London
Group exhibition, Gallerie DYS, Brussels
Textile print design for fashion brand Tela, Italy
8 x Carpet print design, Moooi Carpets, The Netherlands
2 x Silk Scarves print design, Moooi, The Netherlands
Bag print design, BABOON TO THE MOON, New York
16 page art Zine printed on Riso paper, Hato Press, London
Commissioned artwork for jewelry promotion, CLO Studio, London
Online exhibition at DearArt.jp, Tokyo
Group Show “Meta”, Alsace, France
Cover artwork and featured article/interview in Viewpoint Colour Magazine
Online exhibition at Gibson Contemporary, New York
Collective exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
Commissioned artworks for Lefranc Bourgeois, Paris
Luxembourg Art Week via Galerie DYS, Luxembourg
2020
Solo exhibition, Södertälje, Sweden
Contracted by Hugo & Marie Agency, Brooklyn NY
Guest artist at Part2 Gallery, Oakland
Featured in Harpers Bazaar Magazine
Featured on WePresent (WeTransfer) for +10 Million viewers
Solo Exhibition part I, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles
Featured in NicOtiNe Magazine
Endorsed by Pulizer Price awarded Jerry Saltz
Solo Exhibition part II, Simard Bilodeau Contemporary, Los Angeles
2019
Winsor & Newton Nordic scholartship award
Comission work Martimore House, London
Exhibition Strandvägen 7, Simrishamn, Sweden
Illustrations in Chor Data Magazine, N.Y. USA
Fashion illustrations, London Collage of Fashion & ShowStudio(Nick Night)
Exhibition North Kunstmesse, Aalborg, Denmark
Solo exhibition Hauss Space, Malmö, Sweden
2018
Solo exhibition, Flaménska Galleriet, Borås, Sweden
Solo exhibition, Galleri Roy Uddenberg, Gothenburg
Featured and reviewed at www.omkonst.se (Sweden’s main art review website)
Collages to Soho house, London
Antique Fair exhibition, Stockholm
Illustrations for Woman’s Health Magazine, USA
REVS Magazine, illustrations & interview in issue #20, "The Sharp Issue"
Scholarship award for production of 4x100 litographs series for Nordic Aquarelle Society
Patterns for fashion designer Rahel Comey A/W 2018
Pattern design for an exclusive limited silk kimono collection for Artpieces
Group Show MICRO, Galleri Roy Uddenberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Live paining with audience on the wall at Stockholm’s most prominent restaurant Sturehof
Fashion illustrations for ShowStudio(Nick Night), London
Pop-up exhibition at Galleri Sjögatan 7, Sundsvall, Sundsvall
Featured and reviewed in magazine Akvarellen / Nordic Aquarelle Society
Group Show at Gallerie NP33, Norrköping, Sweden
Affordable Art Fair exhibition, Stockholm
Exhibition at H&M / COS for the opening of the flag ship store in Kings Cross, London
Exhibition Acqua di colore, Edsvik Konsthall, Stockholm
2017
Illustrations for TRANOÏ, Paris Fashion Week
Group Show, Galleri Roy Uddenberg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Group Show, Bricklane Gallery, London
Group Show, FIG (Fashion Illustration Gallery), London
Group Show MICRO, Galleri Roy Uddenberg, Gothenburg
Live illustration painting - Paris Fashion week for ShowStudio(Nick Night)
Solo exhibition, Galleri Helle Knudsen, Stockholm
Illustrations for Anamika Khanna (India top fashion designer)
Affordable Art Fair exhibition, Stockholm
2016- 2017 A series of fabric textile designs for Svanefors Textil
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Dancing Colors II (2021)
77x58cm, watercolor, ink and pastel on paper
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The Vagabond (2021)
100x69cm, ink and pastel on paper
