I was born in 1956 in the north of Sweden and attended the Royal University College of Fine Arts in Stockholm from 1978–1983. In Dublin I have visited and worked at the Graphic Studio Workshop for many years. Since 2005 I am an Associate Member of Graphic Studio Dublin and since 2013 I am also a Associate Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London.
Since I was seventeen years old I have been working with the drypoint technique. To feel and hear the steel needle travelling in the copperplate is meditative music for me.
The happy surprise of printmaking is, besides working with a unique media, that after a long period of thinking and scratching upon the copperplate, I can print extra copies from the plate, give away prints, or sell the prints not too expensively. I print my prints myself. There is something unpredictable working with drypoint, the inscribed lines live theirs own lives in the copper – I like that.
Lars Nyberg
Lars Nyberg lives and works in Uttersberg, Sweden.
Member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, London, UK.
Guest teacher, CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, 2009.
Substitute Principal at same college 1997.
Teacher at the College of Printmaking Arts in Stockholm, Sweden 1986-96.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Exhibition together with Lina Nordenström, Aguéli Museum, Sala, Sweden
2018
Ebelingmuseet, Torshälla, Sweden
Himmelblau Graphics workshop, Tammerfors, Finland
2015
Väsby Konsthall, Upplands Väsby, Sweden
Grafik i Väst, Gothenburg, Sweden
2012
Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2010
American Swedish Historical Museum, Philadelphia, USA
“Printscapes: Impressions from Nature”
2009
Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2008
Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden
2007
Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2006
Konstnärshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
Galleri Astley, Uttersberg, Sweden
2000
Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
XVIIth Printmaking Triennial 2024, Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden
“Of Night and Light and Half Light” together with Richard Lawlor and James McCreary, SO Fine Arts Edition, Dublin, Ireland
2023
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2022
“Spring Salon 100 years” Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon 2021, Stockholm, Sweden
International Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2020
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon 2020, Stockholm, Sweden
2019
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon 2019, Stockholm, Sweden
2018
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
“Print Rebels”, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2017
“Another bite of the cherry”, Graphic Studio Dublin – Exhibition with new artworks by more than 50 artists, inspired by the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland
MINI PICTURE SHOW, Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmaker Winter exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
National Original Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon 2017, Stockholm, Sweden
2016
Pointe & Burin, Foundation Taylor, Paris, France
Presentation of Swedish Graphics by Lars Nyberg, Anders Zorn, Axel Fridell, Carl Larsson, Philip von Schantz, P.G. Thelander, Jukka Vänttinen, Mikael Kihlman et al.
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon, Stockholm, Sweden
National Original Print Exhibition, London, UK
2015
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon, Stockholm, Sweden
National Original Print Exhibition, London, UK
2014
Exhibition together with the Chinese artist Zhang Fangbai, arranged by Galleri Astley at the Beijing International Art Fair, China
RHA, Royal Hibernian Academy annual exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
“Off the Wall “, Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter Printmakers joint summer exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
The Liljevalch´s Spring Salon, Stockholm, Sweden
2013
RE Annual Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
2009
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin “Artists Proof”, Ireland
2006-2008
Gallery Astley “Fine Art Prints from Sweden”, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, New Delhi and Calcutta
2005
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, “Gardens of Earthly Delight”, Ireland
Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennal, Japan
2004
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden
2002
Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, “Holy Show”, Ireland
1998, 2001, 2007, 2010
3rd, 4th, 6th, 7th International Miniprint Triennal, Lahti, Finland
2001, 2007
Graphic Art Biennale, Drypoint, Uzice, Yugoslavia
Galleri Astley, ”Northern Light – Contemporary Swedish Art ”
2001
Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida, USA
1998, 2002, 2004, 2006
2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th British International Miniature Print Exhibition, UK
Selected Public Collections
The British Museum, London, UK
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm and The Art Museums in Västerås, Norrköping, Linköping and Örebro, Sweden
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark
The Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland
Office of Public Works, Dublin, Ireland
The Ballinglen Archive, Ballinglen Arts Foundation, County Mayo, Ireland
The National Tjuvasjisk Art Museum, Cheboksary, Russia
Public Art Agency Sweden
The Royal Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, UK
CAFA, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
Awards
Awarded “Printmaking Today’s” prize at the 5th British International Miniature Print Exhibition 2004.
Drypoint Technique
The Drypoint Technique with Lars Nyberg – Presentation in Swedish
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