SELECTED ONE & TWO PERSON SHOWS
2019 SPACEHOLDERS, Thomas Hunter Projects, Hunter College, New York, NY
2018 The Shape of YES, The Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2010 The Pursuit of Happiness, Gallerie Bel’Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 No Dress Rehearsal, Galleri Syster, Luleå, Sweden
2009 in between, Sara Nightingale Gallery Apartment Annex, Shelter Island, NY
2009 Fail Better, Malin Abrahamsson & Todd Kelly, NoGlobe Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2009 Zenith, Malin Abrahamsson & Etta Säfve, NY Arts Beijing, Beijing, China
2009 in between, Malin Abrahamsson & Ricky Sears, RoCo, Rochester, NY
2008 Rainbow Canine Architect, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
2007 The Past is a Foreign Country, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
2006 Brooklyn Dog, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
2004 Breeze, Goliath Visual Space, Brooklyn, NYC. With music by Alvex
2003 Atmospheres, William Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
2003 Spills, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
2023 Unearthed: Objects of unknown origins, The Shirley Project Space, Brooklyn, NYC
2023 Reflections, AiR Show, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, Woodstock, NY
2020 The Longest Distance, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC
2020 Typos + Spills + Broken Glass, Amos Eno Gallery, NYC
Spillway Collective, Philadelpha, PA
2019 Let’s try listening again: 13th A.I.R. Biennial, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2017 FORWARD SLASH / Technology, Transcendence & Tea,
Anderson Contemporary, NYC
2014 Vantage Point, Concepto Hudson, Hudson, NY
2014 The Art of Planetary Science, Dept. of Planetary Sciences,
University of Arizona
2011 Full Circle, Sara Nightingale Gallery, Water Mill, NY
2009 The Route of the Dashing Commuter: The Long Island Rail Road at 175,
NYC Transit Museum
2008 Essence of Absence, Gallery Korea, NYC
2007 SITE MATTERS: Brooklyn Represents, BAC Gallery, NYC
2007 Ecologus: Perspectives on an Imperiled Habitat, Loft 36 KTV, NYC
2006 Salt Mountain, The Noble Maritime Collection Museum, NYC
2006 Once Upon A Time…, NurtureArt Gallery, NYC
2005 (be)longing, Konstens Hus, Luleå, Sweden
2005 Silver: 25th Anniversary of the Snug Harbor Studio Program,
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC
2004 Daydreaming, Slight Alienation, Cruel Kindness & Detached Sentimentality,
Joymore, NYC
2002 Special Editions Project, Brooklyn Front, NYC
1998 VIVA!, Visual Arts Gallery, NYC
1998 I’m Sorry, Visual Arts Gallery, NYC
PUBLIC PROJECTS
2022 Collaborative Concepts at Tilly Foster Farms: 35 Outdoor Sculpture Installations,
Brewster, NY
2018 Garment District Art Festival, Billboard screening at Times Square, NYC.Curated by ZAZ10TS
PS377Q, Queens, NY. Commissioned by Public Art for Public Schools and
NYC Dept. of Education
Development Through Walls, Tokyo, Japan
2013 Night Diving, LUMEN Video & Performance Art Festival, Lyons Pool, NYC
2013 Solar Cycle 24: 15 Nightly Animation Projections, “chashama 1351”, NYC
2011 Re:Construction Downtown Dogs, NYC. Commissioned by
Alliance for Downtown New York
2009 On the Trail… Permanent installation at Long Island Railroad station,
Valley Stream, NY. Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit & Urban Design
2008 Diamond Dogs, Figment Public Arts Festival, Governors Island, NYC
2008 The New: Social Club White, Brooklyn Oenology’s Special Collectors’
Wine Labels, NYC
2008 T&T Tanqueray Style Sessions Tour, from San Francisco to New York City
2004 Six Windows, Installation at NURTUREart non-profit at
Citigroup Lobby Window, NYC
1996 Assholes for Sale, Public performance, SoHo, NYC. Documentary video in
New Museum's XFR STN Project collection at the Internet Archive
RESIDENCIES, GRANTS & AWARDS
2022-2024 WiP Public Art Fellowship, Art Students League of New York, NY
2022 Woodstock-Byrdcliffe Artist Guild, Woodstock, NY
2021 Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2018 Women’s Studio Workshop, Ceramics residency, Rosendale, NY
2018 Artist-in-Residence, Hunter College Ceramics Department, New York, NY
2018 Brooklyn Art Cluster International Artist Residency Program, NYC
2017 Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2009 NY Arts Beijing, Beijing, China
2007 chashama North, Spruce Farm, Pine Plains, NY
2006 Premier Project Grant, COAHSI, NYC
2005 chashama AREA Visual Arts Studio Award, NYC
2004 YEAR: Young European Artists at Ricklundgården, Saxnäs, Sweden
2004 Exhibiting Arts Award, JPMorgan Chase Regrant, COAHSI, NYC
2004 Lambent Fellow of the Arts Nominee, Tides Foundation, NYC
2003 Irene C. Fromer Award for Visual Arts, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NYC
1998 Graduated with Honors, School of Visual Arts, NYC
SCREENINGS & PRESENTATIONS
2016 Spaces Between Dreams: David Bindman Quintet and Malin Abrahamsson,
College of Visual & Performing Arts, Dartmouth University of Massachusetts
2015 Art in Public Space: Nuances and Impact of Nordic Practice,
AIA Archtober Festival: No Longer Empty + the Nordic Consulates, NYC
2015 Garage Doors Video Series, BRIC, NYC
2013 Digital Art in the Urban Environment, Pace University, NYC
2013 Hunter College Library Day, Zabar Art Library, Hunter College, NYC
2013 MoMA PopRally: Abstract Currents, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
2012 Scene: Brooklyn, Galapagos Art Space, NYC
2012 Time Lapse, Church of Sweden, NYC
1998 BFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC
1992 2-year Fine Art Program, Sunderby Folkhögskola, Södra Sunderbyn,
Luleå, Sweden
PUBLISHED TEXTS
An "Anti-Handbook Handbook" for Unexpected Changes in a Library Organization. Abrahamsson, Malin, & Margolin, Stephanie. portal: Libraries and the Academy,
Johns Hopkins University Press. Volume 21, Number 2, April 2021, pp. 219-230.
Abrahamsson, M. & Margolin, S. (2018). Fair Use as Creative Muse: an ongoing case study. In Hobbs, Renee (Ed.), Routledge Companion on Media Education, Copyright and Fair Use (pp.169-181). New York: Routledge.
Abrahamsson, M. (2015). Solar Cycle 24: 15 Nightly Projections. In Marchese, Francis T. (Ed.), Media Art and the Urban Environment: Engendering Public Engagement with Urban Ecology (pp.285-293). Heidelberg, GERMANY: Springer Verlag GmbH.
2019 13th A.I.R. Biennial: Let's try listening again. Sarah Demeuse &
2014 New York's Underground Art Museum: MTA Arts and Design. Bloodworth,
Sandra & William Ayre. New York, NY: The Monacelli Press.
2014 Technology + Art, CODAmagazine
2013 Re:Construction 2007-2013: Portrait of Progress in Lower Manhattan.
Berger, Elizabeth H. New York, NY: The Alliance for Downtown New York.
2011 Creating beauty for commuters, Newsday, New York, Alfonso A. Castillo
2011 Norrländsk svalka och urban intensitet, Norrbottens Kuriren, Sweden,
Niklas Instedt
2011 Malin Abrahamsson’s Concept of Time, ARENA 2011, Japan, Rio Kojima,
vol. 11
2009 Konsten att inte förlora sig själv, Norrbottens Kuriren, Sweden,
Marianne Söderberg
2009 Malin Abrahamsson håller cynismen på avstånd, Norrländska
Socialdemokraten, Sweden, Patrik Boström
2009 Former Staten Island artist scores big-time commission, S.I. Advance,
New York, Michael J. Fressola
2008 Fängslad av ljuset, Svenska Dagbladet, Sweden, Niklas Instedt
2005 Residência sueca: móveis despojados, Viver Bem Decoraçao, Brazil,
#147, Dec.
2003 Summer Sleeper Hits at the Newhouse; S.I. Advance, New York,
Michael J. Fressola