ERNST BILLGREN
Ernst Billgren, born 1957 in Stockholm, currently lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. Ernst Billgren studied at Birkagårdens folkhögskola, 1979–81 in Stockholm, and at Valands Konsthögskola in Gothenburg, 1982–87. 1997 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Sweden.
Ernst Billgren’s work has been exhibited at Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Göteborgs konstmuseum; Prince Eugen´s Waldemarsudde, Stockholm; Norrköpings konstmuseum; Lunds konsthall; Jönköping läns museum; Bohusläns konstmuseum; Färgfabriken, Stockholm; Liljevalchs konsthall, Stockholm; Borås konstmuseum; Jönköpings konstmuseum; Linköpings konstmuseum; Kristinehamns konstmuseum; Västerås konsthall; Kalmars konstmuseum; Läckö slott, Lidköping; Varbergs konsthall; Samtidsmuseet, Oslo; Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris; Galleri Anhava, Helsinki; Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm and Helsinki; Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm; Musée Rath, Geneva; Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janerio; Musée Diego Rivera, Mexico City, among others.
Ernst Billgren’s work is in the permanent collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Moderna Museet, Malmö; the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; National Museum of Art, Oslo; Malmö konsthall; Borås konstmuseum; Norrköpings konstmuseum; Göteborgs konstmuseum; Gävle konstmuseum; Sundsvalls konstmuseum; Uppsala konstmuseum, among others.
Ernst Billgren has done several public commissions, among them Skåne University Hospital, Sweden; the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki; the Westman Palace, Stockholm; Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg; Sky City, Arlanda; and Umeå University.