Stieg Persson

Born Melbourne, Australia 1959
Lives and works in Melbourne, Australia

Stieg Persson’s paintings combine eclectic source material, such as food and graffiti, with monochromatic palettes and arabesques motifs. In melding these elements, Persson investigates the free interplay between abstraction and figuration, as well as operating as an articulation of painting and colour theory.

Exhibitions include: The National: New Australian Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2017); Painting, More Painting – Chapter 2, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2016); The Fragonard Room, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne (2014); Theatre of the World, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2013); Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2013); Luminous World-Contemporary Art from the Wesfarmers Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth (2012); Negotiating This World: Contemporary Australian Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (2012); Backmasking: The art of Stieg Persson, Bendigo Art Gallery; Wangaratta Exhibitions Gallery and Hamilton Art Gallery (2002); Södra, Konstepidemin, Gothenburg, Sweden (1998); Stieg Persson, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney (1996).

His work is held in all major Australian collections such as the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and the National Gallery of Australia as well as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and private and corporate collections around the world. In 2003 he won the inaugural Arthur Guy Memorial Painting Prize, Bendigo Art Gallery.

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