Karin Mamma Andersson

Mamma Andersson (born 1962) is a Swedish contemporary artist. She is based in Stockholm and is married to artist Jockum Nordström.

Biography Born Anna Karin Andersson, she drew and painted from an early age without any family members being interested in art. Andersson's birthplace and childhood home of Luleå is in North Sweden, near the Polar circle.

Exhibitions Moderna Museet in Stockholm hosted a major solo exhibition of the artist's work in 2007, curated by Ann-Sofi Noring. The exhibition traveled to Helsingin Taidehalli, Helsinki, and Camden Arts Centre, London. The exhibition catalogue includes essays by Ann-Sofi Noring, Kim Levin and Midori Matsui, poems by Thomas Tidholm and a conversation between Karin Mamma Andersson and the author and playwright Lars Norén.

The artist's prints were exhibited at Crown Point Press, San Francisco in 2009. In 2010, Andersson exhibited at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado. Her work was the subject of a solo exhibition at Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany in 2011. She had three solo exhibitions at David Zwirner Gallery in New York City: Room Under the Influence (2006), Who is sleeping on my pillow (2010), and Behind the Curtain (2015).

Her solo exhibition Memory Banks opened in October 2018 at The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Cincinnati, Ohio.

Collections Mamma Andersson's work is included in the following collections: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York Apoteket AB, Stockholm, Sweden Bonnier Dahlins Stiftelse, Stockholm, Sweden City of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden Folkets Hus och Parker, Stockholm, Sweden Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden Kultur i Länet, Uppsala, Sweden Luleå Kommun, Luleå, Sweden Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall Malmö Konstmuseum, Sweden Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden National Public Art Council, Stockholm, Sweden Västerås Konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark