Biography

Cecilia Ulfsdotter Klementsson (born 1990, Stockholm SE) is and artist known for her large scale nude paintings of performing bodies in iridescent colours. Klementsson received a Painting Master at the Royal College of Art in London 2022, a Bachelor of Fine Art at Curtin University in Perth (AUS) 2015, and did a three month artist in residence at Pilotenkueche in Leipzig from October to December 2019. Klementsson was represented by Galleri Duerr in Stockholm 2020-2025 and has exhibited in London, Berlin, Leipzig (DE), Stockholm, Perth (AUS), Gävle (SE) and Kettinge (DK).

Artist Statement

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Interview by Mattias Timander, 2022

RCA2022 Online show, 2022

Kingdom, exhibition text, Mala Yamay, 2021

Cecilia Klementsson, Republic of Media, Vimeo Video, 2021

Stockholm Art Week gör comeback, Barnebys Magazine, 2021

Klementsson confuses her audience conceptually by having men pose like women and vise versa. In doing so she argues that gender is an illusion, Carmen Line Hust, articulate, 2021

Äntligen vår – stans bästa museum och utställningar, Svenska Dagbladet, 2021

"Naked Drag, in the power of the pose" är Cecilia Ulfsdotter Klementssons första solo-show på Galleri Duerr sedan hon blev representerad i september 2020, abundo, 2021

Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, review: a diverse show of soap sculptures and severed fingers, Florence Hallett, INEWS, 2021

Naked Drag, in the power of the pose | Cecilia Ulfsdotter Klementsson, Sverige Magasinet Kulturnytt, 2021