I think of my work as a compilation of impressions – different cut-outs of a landscape placed on top of each other, bringing images with me home and putting them together in a new way. This way of sorting and stacking has both to do with form and with content. A stack becomes a kind of visual memory, an assemblage of what remains of an experience – and the actual work as a way of trying to remember.

– Jesper Nyrén

Real places become imaginary spaces when Jesper Nyrén creates paintings from landscapes where he has lived and worked. Most of the paintings are painted at Björkö, where Nyrén had his home for many years. But other paintings originate from journeys he has undertaken in the footsteps of older artists. Tempo and color differ depending on whether the place is Aix en Provence or northern Italy, or if the inspiration has been the Swedish shoreline at the Baltic Sea. However, Jesper Nyrén's paintings are no reproductions. He seeks to recreate, or rather perhaps enable the viewer, the sensation of an atmosphere and a light the artist himself experienced at the specific time and place.

Jesper Nyrén, born 1979 in Sala, currently lives and works in Stockholm. Jesper Nyrén holds a MFA from the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, 2007.  

Jesper Nyrén’s work has been shown at Bohusläns museum, Uddevalla; Ronneby konsthall; Augélimuseet, Sala; Norrtälje konsthall; Galerie Forsblom, Stockholm and Helsinki; Galleri Flach, Stockholm; Enköpings konsthall; Åbo Konstmuseum; Långban Moderna, Värmlands museum; and the Borås International Sculpture Biennale, among others.

Jesper Nyrén has received the Bærtling Scholarship; Marabouparken’s P.A.N.K Grant; Stockholm City Culture Grant; Carl Larsson’s Grant; four times the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation Grant; twice a two-year working grant, as well as a one-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee, among others. 

Jesper Nyrén’s work is in the permanent collection of the Public Art Agency Sweden; the County Council in Stockholm, Uppsala, Sörmland, Dalarna; Värmdö County; Skåne Region; Sundbyberg City; Solna City; Västerås Art Museum; and Åbo Art Museum.

Jesper Nyrén has made several public installations, among them are New Karolinska, Solna; the façade at the Kv. Simonsland, Borås; Queen Silvia Children hospital, Gothenburg; and Gävle Hospital. 

Jesper Nyrén is currently working on a public commission; Gullmarsplan subway station, Stockholm. He also has an upcoming exhibition at The Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm, 23 August - 4 October 2025.