Shahla K. Friberg (born in Toronto, Canada, 1978) currently works and lives in Skäret, Sweden.
An Iranian/Canadian artist, Shahla Friberg is captivated by the sensorial impacts of light and its properties. For the past 8 years she has been primarily focused on creating sculptural works using glass, mirror, and solder, which materialize in an organic, meditative process, resulting in diverse outcomes from reflective forms casting complex fragmented reflections of ourselves and our surroundings back at us, to translucent multi-color forms which attempt to encapsulate the spectrum as a whole. Her works are activated by light, and she explores the interplay of disorder and harmony through the manipulation of perspective evident in how the work shifts and changes as the viewer moves around it.
In 2020, she relocated from Los Angeles to the south of Sweden, where she is creating works on a seaside nature reserve, a location sought by Scandinavian artists for its distinctive light qualities.
Her works have been featured in acclaimed exhibitions such as: "The Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome," alongside Isabelle Albuquerque, Mike Kelly, Devin B. Johnson, presented by Jeffrey Deitch Gallery and Nicodim Gallery for LA Frieze week 2020; "The Desire for Transparency," alongside Ai Weiwei, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, curated by Paul Laster and Renée Riccardo for Intersect Chicago/SOFA; "Suggested Followers" at Sotheby’s New York 2022, an immersive installation; "Glowstone Refuge" for the duration of the 2023 program at Gallery Arnstedt, SE. and Remarks on Colour, a solo exhibition at GSA Gallery in Stockholm in 2024.
CV
2024
- Remarks on Colour, Solo Exhibition, GSA Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2023
- Recent Acquisitions Exhibition, Kristianstad Konsthall, Kristianstad, Sweden
- Shahlaland, Solo Exhibition, GOMA - Gallery of Modern Art, Höganäs, Sweden
-Jubileum, Group Exhbition, Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, Swedem
- Glowstone Refuge, Indefinite immersive installation, Galleri Arnstedt, Östra Karup, Swedem
- Transcendent Voices, Group Exhibition, Edward Cell Art and Architecture, Los Angeles CA USA
- The Swedish Arts Grant Committee 2022 grant recipient
2022
- Julsalong, Höganäs Museum, Höganäs, Sweden
- Garden, group exhibition, Ladie’s Room, Los Angeles, CA USA
- Suggested Followers, Group Exhibition, Sotheby’s, Manhattan, NY
- Market Art Fair, Marie Kirkegard Galleri presentation, Stockholm, SE
- One in the Whole, Solo Exhibition, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, DK,
- Intersect Palm Springs Art Fair, Edward Cella A&A, February, Palm Springs, CA
2021
- Galleri Arnstedt, Group Exhibition with Steffan Nihlén, Östra Karup, Sweden
- Enter Art Fair, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, DK.
- All Tomorrow’s Parties, Group show, Domicile (n.), Curated by Michael Slenske, L.A., CA
- Garden, Group Exhibition, Ladies’ Room, Los Angeles, CA
2020
-Untitled Art Miami, Winston Wächter Fine Art Presentation
- The Desire for Transparency: Contemporary Artists Working with Glass, Intersect Chicago, SOFA Expo, Curated presentation by Paul Laster and Renée Riccardo, Chicago, IL
- Redirection, Solo Exhibition, Edward Cella Art & Architecture, Los Angeles, CA
- Enter Art Fair, Marie Kirkegaard Gallery presentation, Copenhagen, DK.
- When You Waked Up the Buffalo, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- The Stars Look Very Different Today, Joint Show,Marie Kirkegaard Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
- The Re-Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Frieze Los Angeles Group Show, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery & Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2019
- Open Studio Soho House LA, Paris Texas LA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
- Group Exhibition, Galleri Lohme, Malmö, Sweden
- 40thAnniversary Venice Family Clinic Art Walk & Auction at Google Headquarters LA, Los Angeles, CA
- Art House LA, Curated by Jacquie Israel, Los Angeles., CA
- Barbarella Psychadella, Spring Break Art Fair, Hilde Gallery, Los Angeles., CA
PRESS
- Konstguiden Magazine, 3 Aktuella Konstnären (3 Artist to Watch) interview by Malin Ebbing, Spring 2024 issue
- One in the Whole, What to see, Kunsten.nu 2022
- One in the Whole, IDO Art, 2022
- Create! Magazine Women Artist of 2021 Issue, 2021
- Redirection, LALA Magazine, 2020
- Redirection, Edward Cella Gallery los Angeles
- The Re-inauguration of the Pleasure Dome- The Hollywood Reporter, 2020
- The re-inauguration of the Pleasure Dome - Los Angeles Magazine, 2020
- The Stars Look Very Different Today - IDO Art, 2020
- The Stars Look Very Different Today - Wall Street International Magazine, 2020
- When You wake The Buffalo, Nicodim gallery, Artforum, 2020
- When You wake The Buffalo, Nicodim gallery, Artland, 2020