b.1987 Auckland, New Zealand. Living and working in Stockholm.
T: +46 736 39 22 60
EDUCATION
2023 Landing Thoughts, 1 year Post Master Fine Arts course, St Sigfrids folkhögskola, with Laura Piasta and Kate Moss.
2017 Master of Fine Arts, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts & Design, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Rewordings, Summer workshop at Umeå Art Academy with Tris Vonna-Michell.
2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 At Sea, Alta Art Space, Malmö, Sweden.
2023 Florence Wild with Milli Jannides, Temporary Secretary, Stockholm, Sweden.
2020 Local Haunts, Florence Wild and Joran Stamatakakos, ID:I Galleri, Stockholm, Sweden.
2019 Cast Movements: Leitmotif, Mason’s Screen, Wellington, New Zealand.
2016 Silver Tea, Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
2015 The Rise/Demise of the Studio Apartment, Rolfsgatan 1, Malmö, Sweden.
2010 LIMBS, Physics Room Kiosk, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2009 Waterfront Morals/Fatherly Functions, Florence Wild & Clara Chon, Window Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2009 Dove Tail Joint, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
2008 Modern Love, Ash Kilmartin & Florence Wild, Rm 103, Auckland, New Zealand.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Stuff It, Bonniers konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
2020 Open Window, various balconies and windows across Stockholm, Sweden.
2020 Il Giardino, curated by Giulia Cairone, i partnership with Galleri Nos. Lidingö, Stockholm, Sweden.
2019 Group show curated by Alva Willemark, Hackås Maskin & Kultur, Hackås, Sweden.
2019 Vårschäslong 2019, Galleri Slätten, Malmö, Sweden.
2019 Crumb, Crum Heaven, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 Utställning Nr. 1, Arkivet för temporär konst, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 Mesh - A Nordic Video Art Marathon, Galleri CC, Malmö, Sweden.
2017 Silver Tea Suite, Konstfack Degree Show, Stockholm, Sweden.
2017 Impasse Finesse Neverness, curated by Daniel Saboía. Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da UFBA, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil.
2016 Ashken/Drawbridge/Lindsay/Wild 3-Generation Family Survey, Bowen House, Wellington, New Zealand.
2016 parallel lines, Galleri Verkligheten, Umeå, Sweden.
2016 It Felt So Good Up There, Platform, Stockholm, Sweden.
2015 Attempted Psychokinetic Connections to Clouds, Callum Harper, Erik Malmsten, Johanna Stillman, Florence Wild, Alva Willemark, Galleri Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden.
2013 Circuit, Eleanor Cooper, Signe Rose, Harriet Stockman, Florence Wild, RM, Auckland, New Zealand.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2023 Temporary Secretary. A curatorial project across 2023 initiated by Florence Wild, curator, writer, facilitator and artist. Vulcanusgatan 6, Stockholm. Artists included are Florence Wild, Milli Jannides, Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Katta Lundberg and Richard Krantz.
2019 Crumb, Crum Heaven, Stockholm. Curator and writer.
PUBLICATIONS
2020 Klistermärkesklubben Stickerpack #1, Florence Wild, Klas Eriksson and Ross Sinclair.
2017 Ensemble Piece, Konstfack MFA essay, Florence Wild
2016 parallel lines, Ellen Norlund, Florence Wild, Helle Lindskog, Jesper Henningsson, Jessika Björhn, Linda Morell, Maja Melsted, Sara Annsofidotter. Umeå, Sweden.
2015 Sundries vol.1 /Malmö, Florence Wild.
2009 Things You Would Find in Libraries, Fiona Connor with Ash Kilmartin and Florence Wild, featuring Tim Coster, Amelia Harris and Mythily Meher.
2008 Itinerant Press – A response to Wandering Lines, SCAPE Biennial of Public Art 2008, Christchurch, New Zealand. Ash Kilmartin, Charles Ninow, Casey O’Connell, Florence Wild.
TEXTS
2023 Envelope Poem, accompanying text for the exhibition Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė with Katarina Lundberg, Temporary Secretary, Stockholm, Sweden.
2023 Filmhuset, or, behind that red door, published in Urban Sprout, Malmö, Sweden.
2023 Stained Glass, accompanying text for the exhibition Milli Jannides with Tomas Sinkevičius and Viltė Bražiūnaitė, Temporary Secretary, Stockholm, Sweden.
2023 A Méliès Malady, accompanying text for the exhibition Florence Wild with Milli Jannides, Temporary Secretary, Stockholm, Sweden.
2022 (Naive Melody), performative reading and text for the exhibition Capable of Returning Home by Alva Willemark and Sybrig Doktor, Index, Stockholm, Sweden.
2021 Pearls, accompanying text for solo exhibition by Milli Jannides, Coastal Signs, Auckland, New Zealand.
2019 (Working title) Visiting, accompanying text for the exhibition Arbetstitel by Katarina Lundberg, Ingela S Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden.
2018 Simon. Sounds like Summon, and like Someone, Intransitive Journal, (online)
2018 Con affetto, accompanying text for Giulia Cairone, Konstfack degree show 2018, (online)
2018 Ode to the oarfish, accompanying text for Giulia Cairone at International Exchange Show Sweden-Japan 2018, ArtLab Tokyo, Japan.
2018 Moonlighting at the Dept. of Ways and Means, accompanying text for Dept. of Ways and Means, Katarina Sylvan & Richard Krantz, Platform Stockholm.
2017 Cast Movements: Refrain, as part of the exhibition Silver Tea Suite.
2016 Silver Tea Posters I-III, as part of the exhibition Silver Tea.
2015 Roy Orbison’s Types of Dreams, Brief #52.
2015 Looking for the Hook, Brief #52.
2014 Albatross (or how I get around), Brief #51: The Outer Link.
2013 About a boy, accompanying text for Dance Yourself Clean, Charles Ninow, Ozlyn Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
2012 If the wind changes your face will stay that way, Magasine #1.
2011 Snow, accompanying text for Rain: a one-day sculpture garden, Ash Kilmartin, Melbourne, Australia.
LECTURES, SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, PRESENTATIONS
2018 The Spectral Metaphor, Konstfack Research Week 2018, co-ordinated with Luis Berríos-Negron.
2017 Impasse Finesse Neverness, Konstfack Research Week 2017, as part of the workshop/exhibition/publication Impasse Finesse Neverness.
STIPENDS AND GRANTS
2021 1 year working grant, Swedish Arts Council
2017 Konstfack Stipend, Institution för Konst
PRESS
Artists in the Periphery: Florence Wild in Stockholm by Dinnis van Dijken
Konsten som process by Freddie Ross