MATILDA FORSBERG

Matilda Forsberg is a Swedish artist based in New Jersey. Her paintings engage with family, migration, and memory. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the dot.ateliers Foundation (Accra, Ghana), Shin Gallery (New York, NY), Deanna Evans Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Akwabaa Gallery (Newark, NJ), and the New Jersey State Museum (Trenton, NJ). In 2020, she was featured in The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Mother Tongue. Forsberg is a recipient of the 2024 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and other grants, including the 2021 City of Newark/Newark Arts Creative Catalyst Fund Grant, and the 2020 Newark Art Accelerator grant, jointly awarded by Project for Empty Space and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. She has completed several residencies, such as dot.ateliers (2025), the Potato Farm Project (2024), La Fourchette De Rôze Residency (2023), and Liquitex (2021). Her work has appeared in publications like New American Paintings, Art Spiel, and Juxtapoz Magazine. Forsberg holds a BFA in Painting from Pacific Northwest College of Art.