Artist Statement
Working with social and political issues, human rights.

 

 

Educated at International Center of Photography, New York

PRIZES, GRANTS and AWARDS:
2011 5-year grant, the Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 First Prize General News Singles World Press Photo
2009 Picture Imperfect winner of The Swedish Photo Book Prize
2008 ”Fotofrühling” The Kassel Fotoforum, Picture Imperfect among the 22 best photobooks of 2007/08.
2007 Nominated for a Robert filmprize, the danish Film Academy, short documentary, Denmark.Beth`s Diary.
2006 GuldDok for Best Short Film in Copenhagen Denmark, Beth`s Diary.
2006 Special mention, Beth`s Diary, 17th Nordic Short & Documentary Film Festival, Århus, Denmark.
2006 5- year grant, the Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, Sweden.
2005 Prize, Fogtdals Forlag, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2004 Grant, Sveriges Författarfond, Stockholm, Sweden.
2003 Grant, Sveriges Författarfond,Stockkholm, Sweden.
2003 Grant, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2003 Prize, the city of Västerås, Sweden.
2002 Prize, the Museum of Work’s documentary photography prize, Norrköping, Sweden.
1999 El Niño, Children of the streets, Mexico City. Winner of The Swedish Photo Book Prize

A CHOICE OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2011 KG52, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Gaza Photo Album / Photo Phnom Penh Festival 2010, Cambodia
2010 The Children of Ceausescu, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010 Gaza Photo Album, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2010 Gaza Photo Album, Umbrage Gallery, New York, USA.
2009 Gallery Tegen 2, Gaza Photo Album, Stockholm, Sweden.
2009 Mexico/Out of sight, Landskrona museum, Sweden.
2008 Out of Sight Out of mind, the Museum of Malmö, Sweden.
2008 Out of Sight Out of mind, exhibition on the streets in the city of Copenhagen/ The Danish Architecture Center, Denmark.
2007 A Family Story / Picture Imperfect, Kunsthallen Brænderigården, Viborg, Denmark.
2007 Children of Ceausescu, The Photo Museum, Sundsvall, Sweden.
2006 A Family Story / Picture Imperfect, Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden.
2006 A Family Story / Picture Imperfect, Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark.
2004 Street children, Mexico, Kaunas, Lithuania.
2001 Work in progress, Beth, Fotografevi, Istanbul, Turkey.
2001 Children of Ceausescu, The Swedish Cultural Institute, Paris, France.
2001 Street children, Mexico, City Hall, Sundsvall, Sweden.
2000 Street children, Mexico, Dunya Kitabevi, Istanbul, Turkey.
2000 Street children, Mexico, Center for Photography, Örebro, Sweden.
1999 Street children, Mexico, Visa pour lìmage, Perpignan, France.
1999 Street children, Mexico, Wermlands Museum. Sweden.
1999 Street children, Mexico. Center for Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1998 Street children, Mexico, Stockholm City Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
1997 Work in progress, Children of Ceausescu, Photofair Gothenburg, Sweden.
1988 Beth, Gallery Mira, Stockholm, Sweden.

CHOICE OF COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:

2007 Da Capo, Museum of Work, Norrköping, Sweden.
2006 The Best Photobooks in Sweden, The Swedish Cultural Insititute, Paris, France.
2006 Closed eyes, Brandts, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark.
2006 The Open Book,The Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2005 Scandinavian Photography: Sweden, Grinell College, USA.
2004 AIDS, Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden.
2004 Pandemic: Facing AIDS, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA.
2004 Michael E. Hoffman Tribute Collection, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA.
2002 Pandemic: Facing AIDS, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain.
2002 Pandemic: Facing AIDS, The National Museum of Art, Pretoria, Sydafrika.
2002 Pandemic: Facing AIDS, The UN building, New York, USA.
2001 Magnum degrees, Culturgest, Portugal.
2001 Magnum degrees, Louisiana, Denmark.
2001 Magnum degrees, Queensland Art Gallery, Australia.
2001 Magnum degrees, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, New Zealand.
2001 Magnum degrees, Waikato Museum of Art & History, New Zealand.
2000 Magnum degrees, Centro Oberdan, Milano, Italy.
2000 Magnum degrees, New York Historical Society, New York,USA.
2000 Magnum degrees, The Museum of Art, Osaka, Kintetsu, Japan.
2000 Magnum degrees, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
2000 Magnum degrees. Le Botanique, Bryssel, Belgium.
2000 Magnum degrees, Postfuhramt, Berlin, Germany.
2000 Magnum degrees, French National Library, Richelieu, Paris, France.
2000 Magnum degrees, Museum Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand.
2000 Magnum degrees, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switserland.
2000 Magnum degrees, Palazzo del Esposigioni, Rom, Italy.
1999 Magnum degrees, Barbican, London, England.
1998 Under/Exposed, Subway, Stockholm, Sweden.
1997 Work in progress, Beth, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
1994 Mexico through foreign eyes, Los Angeles, USA.
1994 Mexico through foreign eyes, The Tina Modotti Museum, Italy.
1993 Mexico through foreign eyes, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico.
1993 Mexico through foreign eyes, International Center of Photography, New York, USA.
1992 Mexico through foreign eyes, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City,

BOOKS:
2012 Where I am now, Bellyband books, Munich, Germany.
2009 Gaza Photo Album, Umbrage Editions, USA, Journal, Sweden, Politisk Revy, Denmark.
2008 Out of sight, Journal, Sweden.
2008 Picture Imperfect, Beth R, Politisk Revy, Denmark.
2007 Picture Imperfect, Journal, Sweden.
2001 Children of Ceausescu, Umbrage Editions, USA.
2001 Ceausescus barn, Journal, Sweden.
1999 El Niño, Children of the streets, Mexico City, Syracuse University Press, USA.
1999 El Niño, gadens børn, Mexico City, Tiderne skifter, Denmark.
1999 El Niño, gatans barn, Mexico City, Journal, Sweden.
1989 The Book of Beth, Aperture, USA.
1988 Beths bog, Tiderne skifter, Denmark.
1988 Beths bok, Norstedts, Sweden.
1988 Beths bok, Oktober, Norway.

 

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