Märta Mattsson

Sweden

 

Education


2008-10 
- Royal College of Art
GSMJ Department, London, MA
2005-08 
- HDK- School of Design and Crafts 
Jewellery art, Gothenburg, BA
2007  
- Rhode Island School of Design
Exchange program at the jewelry department, 1 semester
2006  
- Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry
Exchange program 1 semester, Tokyo
2004  
- HPU- Hawaii Pacific University 
Exchange program 1 semester
Jewellery design, Textile design, Drawing
2003-05 
- HD- Hantverk och Design på Nääs fabriker
Silversmithing and jewelry design

 

Awards


2016
- Young Applied Artist 2016
Bengt Julins Fund, administered by the Friends of Nationalmuseum
2014
- Nominated for the Swedish Award ‘DesignNU’ by Formmuseets Vänner
2013
- Award of Excellence
‘Pushing Boundaries & Chasing Challenges’ 2013 Beijing 
International Contemporary Metal Art Exhibition.
2012
- Talente Prize
Handwerkskammer für München und Oberbayern
2010 
- Overall Excellence award, 1st prize, Theo Fennell, London 

 

Work in Collections


- Schmuckmuseum in Pforzheim 
- Röhsska Museum Göteborg
- China Academy of Art, Hangzhou
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
- Royal College of Art, London
- Hiko Mizuno College of Jewelry, Tokyo
- Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
- Galeria Sztuki W Legnicy, Poland
- GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig
- Town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France
- MAD, Museum of Art and Design, New York
- Museums für Naturkunde Chemnitz, Germany
- The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- RAM, Racine Art Museum, Wisconsin
- Alice and Louis Koch Collection, National Museum, Zurich
- Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden
- RIAN designmuseum, Falkenberg
- Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada

Solo exhibitions

 

2021
- Can You Hear Me?!, Nääs Konsthantverk, Lerum, Sweden
2019
- Only Mermaids Can See Other Mermaids, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
- What is all that BUZZ about?, Kaleido Konsthantverk, Uppsala
2018
- STILL (A)LIFE, 84GHz, Munich
- Hybrid Haven, Konsthantverkarna, Stockholm
2017
- Remains, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, USA
2016
- Immortal Memories - Artefacts from a voyage to Easter Island, Project container at Nationalmuseum Design, Stockholm
- Death occupies the space between us, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
- Deadly Beautiful, Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm
2015
- Uncanny Pleasures, WE WALKA Gallery Space, Santiago
- Frozen Flora, Flourishing Fauna, Marzee, Nijmegen, Holland
2014
- The Sweet Perfume of Decay
, Sintra, Göteborg, Sweden
2013
- United in Death
, Putti Gallery, Riga, Latvia
2012
- Metamorphosis, Hammer Gallery, Hong Kong
- Fossils, Galerie Marzee, Nijmegen
- Petrified lives, Sienna Gallery, Lenox, MA USA
- Forever Dead, Platina, Stockholm
2011
- Rebirth, Galerie Diane et Eric Lhoste, Biarritz , France
- Rebirth, Two Little Birds, Göteborg, Sweden 
- Rebirth, Four, Göteborg, Sweden
2010
- Wonderland, Gallery HL, Seoul (Won-suh-dong) South Korea
2006 
- Mixed Matters, Gallery Yu, Tokyo