Selected Residencies and Awards
2023
Stockholm City Cultural Stipend (Kulturstipendiat, Stockholms stads kulturstipendium) granted by the City of Stockholm
2021
Siri och Sven-Ivar Linds fond, Konstakademien / the Royal Art Academy, Stockholm (publication printed in 2023)
2021
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Stiftelse, Stockholm (for publication printed in 2023)
2020
Stiftelsen Längmanska kulturfonden, Stockholm (for publication printed in 2023)
2020
Résidence artistique internationale Appart’Atelier de l’été, Ferme-Asile, Sion
2015
Member of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2006
The Swedish Art Council’s work grant
2002
Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide
2000-01
Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD, Berlin
2000
Edstrandska Stiftelsen, Malmö
1996
The Swedish Art Council’s work grant / The Elisabeth Foundation, New York City
1994
International Studio Program, New York City / Olle Baertlings stiftelse, Stockholm
Selected Teaching
2012–22
Professor of Fine Art at Royal Institute of Art (KKH), Stockholm
2009–10
Visiting Artist/Lecturer, Harvard University, Department of Visual and Enviromental Studies (VES), Cambridge, Mass.
2001–09
Professor of Fine Art at Malmö Art Academy at Lund University
Selected Education
1986–91
Konsthögskolan / Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
1984–86
Gerlesborgskolan, Stockholm
1989–90
Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques, Paris
Selected Solo (S) and Group (G) Shows
2024
Frihetens språk – Måleri från 1946 och framåt / The Language of Freedom – Painting from 1946 to Today
Norrköpings Konstmuseum
Norrköping
Sweden
(G)
Somewhere Inside: ISCP and the Studio
ISCP
New York City, NY
(G)
Momentum – The Tore A Jonasson Collection
Konsthall 16, Riksidrottsmuseum
Stockholm
(G)
2023
World Framed. Contemporary Drawing Art of the Schering Stiftung Collection at the Kupferstichkabinett
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Berlin
(G)
(Cat.)
2022
Existing Systems
Hotel Villa Dagmar
Stockholm
(Pop up exhibition)
AiWHEtL
Konstakademien/The Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Stockholm
(S)
2021
FRIHET ÄR EN PRAKTIK – FREEDOM IS A PRACTICE *
Slussen subway station
Stockholm
(Public artwork commission)
Liljevalchs 100 years
Liljevalchs konsthall
Stockholm
(G)
(Cat.)
Social Photography IX
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
Monumento
Museo de Bellas Arte
Buenos Aires
Argentina
(G)
Sustainable Societies for the Future
Malmö Konstmuseum
Malmö
Sweden
(G)
2020
A Raft of Time
Belenius
Stockholm
(S)
Sense (Universal(s))
Ferme-Asile – Centre artistique et culturel
Sion, Valais
Switzerland
(S)
Social Photography VIII
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
All Together Now
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art
Athens
Greece
(G)
2019
Social Photography VII
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
Art-Walk
Hydra School Projects
Hydra
Greece
(G)
Nya Receptionsstycken
Konstakademien/The Royal Academy of Fine Arts
Stockholm
(G)
2018
I Am. Are You?
Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art
Athens
Greece
(S)
Social Photography VI
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
Loss
Hydra School Projects
Hydra
Greece
(G)
2017
Time Is Not
Galleri Erik Nordenhake
Stockholm
(S)
Show and Tell – att visa och berätta
Malmö Konstmuseum
Malmö
Sweden
(G)
Sites of Knowledge
Jane Lombard Gallery
New York
(G)
Dit Vindarna Bär – Whither the Winds
Lunds konsthall
Lund
Sweden
(G)
Molnet – The Cloud of Unknowing
Värmlands Museum
Karlstad
Sweden
(G)
2016
Photography Ends Here
Renata Fabbri arte contemporanea
Milan
Italy
(S)
above the ART ic circle
KaviarFactory
Henningsvær
Norway
(G)
Sophie Tottie
Belenius/Nordenhake, The Armory Show
New York City, NY
(S)
2015
Works From the Collection
Moderna Museet
Stockholm
(G)
State Of Being
Belenius/Nordenhake
Stockholm
(G)
2014
HERE/NOW
Artipelag
Stockholm
(G)
Time Is/Tid finns
Belenius/Nordenhake
Stockholm
(S)
Gerlesborgsskolan 70 år
Gerlesborgsskolan
Bohuslän
Sweden
(G)
Material Marks (as far as I can reach)
Giacomo Guidi Arte Contemporanea
Milan
Italy
(S)
2013
Signal to Noise
Galleri Niklas Belenius
Stockholm
(G)
(Cat.)
Social Photography III
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
distracting surface
Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis
Bregenz
Austria
(G)
Carnegie Art Award 2014
Konstakademien
Stockholm
(G)
1980–Now
Contemporary Galleries of MoMA
New York City, NY
(G)
2012
En linjes försvarstal – The Complaints of a Line (A Line’s Manifesto)
Thielska Galleriet
Stockholm
(G)
Segni e (non) Sogni
MiArt
Milan
(G)
White Lines (Metal Works and Drawings)
Andrae Kaufmann
Berlin
(S)
2011
White Lines
Malmö konstmuseum
Malmö
(S)
(Cat.)
Social Photography
Carriage Trade
New York City, NY
(G)
2010
On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century
MoMA
New York City, NY
(G)
(Cat.)
Aber Schwarz ist keine Farbe
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Düsseldorf
(G)
2009
Written Language (line drawings)
Konrad Fischer Galerie
Berlin
(S)
Från plats till plats II – From Place to Place II
Museum of Public Art
Lund
(G)
2008
Planes & Squares
Galleri Brändström
Stockholm
(S)
2007
Jag vill kunna se vad det är – I want to be able to see what it is
Lunds konsthall
Lund
Sweden
(G)
Fiction Is No Joke
Liljevalchs konsthall
Stockholm
(S)
(Cat.)
Wandauftrag II
Bayer
Leverkusen
(G)
2006
Common Destination
The Drawing Center
New York City, NY
(G)
(Cat.)
Red Pilot
carlier | gebauer
Berlin
(S)
2005
Les Perspecteurs (Baghdad)
Galleri Brändström & Stene
Stockholm
(S)
Konstfeminism – Art Feminism
Dunkers Kulturhus – Liljevalchs Konsthall – Hälsinglands Museum – Göteborgs Konstmuseum
Helsingborg – Stockholm – Hudiksvall – Gothenburg
(G)
(Cat.)
Isolario
Lunds konsthall
Lund
Sweden
(S)
(Cat.)
2003
Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall
Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall
Malmö
Sweden
(G)
Die Perspekteure
carlier | gebauer
Berlin
(S)
2002
I Want to Be Frivolous!
Göteborgs konsthall
Gothenburg
Sweden
(S)
(Cat.)
Gossip
Rooseum/Malmö Konstmuseum
Malmö
(G)
Carnegie Art Award 2002
Reykjavik Art Museum, Hafnarhus – Kunstnernes Hus, Kunstforeningen – Victoria Miro Warehouse – Helsinki City Art Museum, Meilahti Art Museum – Röda Sten
Reykjavik – Oslo – Copenhagen – London – Helsinki – Gothenburg
(G)
2001
Make Me Feel: Eight Statements from the Nordic Region
Art Athina
Athens
(G)
(Cat.)
For the Vicinity of Concorde
daadgalerie
Berlin
(S)
(Cat.)
Projects for a Revolution
Le Mois de la Photo
Montreal
(G)
(Cat.)
2000
Re-drawing the Line
Art in General
New York City, NY
(G)
escape_space
Ursula Blickle Stiftung
Kraichtal
Germany
(G)
(Cat.)
Under the Same Sky III
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Helsinki
(G)
(Cat.)
1999
Mirror’s Edge
Bildmuseet – Vancouver Art Gallery – Castello di Rivoli – Tramway – Charlottenborg
Umeå – Vancouver – Turin – Glasgow – Copenhagen
(G)
(Cat.)
(A Story of the) Days to Come
Galleri Andreas Brändström
Stockholm
(S)
De Vleeshal
Middelburg
Netherlands
(G)
Contemporary Film and Video Screening
Wolfsonian Museum
Miami
FL
(G)
Urban Visions
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
(G)
(Cat.)
1998
Welcome to Earth
Arkipelag, Stockholm Cultural Capital
Stockholm
(S)
(Cat.)
Out of the North
Württembergischer Kunstverein
Stuttgart
(G)
(Cat.)
Come Closer
Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung
Vaduz
(G)
(Cat.)
Visions du Nord/Nuit blanche
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Paris
(G)
(Cat.)
The King Is Not the Queen
Arkipelag, Stockholm Cultural Capital, Nordiska museet
Stockholm
(G)
(Cat.)
1997
Deposition
47th Venice Biennale
Venice
(G)
(Cat.)
The Crystal Stopper
Lehmann Maupin Gallery
New York
(G)
Protect Identity
Malmö Konstmuseum
Malmö
(G)
Wall Project: Sophie Tottie (Untitled/Bloody Flyovers)
Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago
(S)
1996
På: Tiden
Moderna Museet
Stockholm
(G)
(Cat.)
The Architecture of Dreams
Museo Regional
Guadalajara
Mexico
(G)
SOHO20
New York City, NY
(G)
See What It Feels Like
Rooseum
Malmö
(G)
(Cat.)
1995
Pictures for the Chief Electrician
Patrick Callery
New York
(S)
1994
Médiations
La Base
Paris
(G)
(Cat.)
Galerie Anhava
Helsinki
(G)
Sophie Tottie
Galleri Andréhn Schiptjenko/Galleri Enkehuset
Stockholm
(S)
(Cat.)
1993
Ad Hoc
Galerie Nordenhake
Stockholm
(G)
1992
Identitet
Galleri Enkehuset
Stockholm
(G)
(Cat.)
1991
Stillstand/switches
Shedhalle
Zürich
(G)
(Cat.)
Moika 22/Granowskaya 5
Moika 22, apt. 9/Granowskaya 5, apt. 52
St. Petersburg/Moscow
(G)
(Cat.)
1990
Le Territoire de l’Art
The Russian Museum
Leningrad
(G)
(Cat.)
Selected Catalogues and Publications
2023
Arndtzén, Mårten; Bons, Magnus; Butler, Connie; Camnitzer, Luis; Tottie, Sophie:
Sophie Tottie: AiWHEtL (Catalogue and Related Works)
Art and Theory Publishing 2023, Stockholm
2021
Millroth, Thomas:
Artists’ books from a Swedish Point of view with special attention paid to the contributions of Denmark and GDR
Ellerströms/Tragus/Buchhandlung Franz und Walter König, Stockholm 2021
2019
Konstnärernas kollektivverkstad – en svensk kulturhistoria
Tottie, Sophie:
Konstens frågeformulär # 123
Carriage Trade:
Social Photography VII
Carriage Trade 2019, New York City
2018
Tottie, Sophie:
Loss
Hydra School Project 2018, Athens
2016
Filardo, Daria and Tottie, Sophie:
MATERIAL MARKS (as far as I can reach)
Propexus/Renata Fabbri 2016, Gothenburg
2014
Bruno, Giuliana:
Surface, Matters of Aesthetics, Materiality and Media
University of Chicago Press, Chicago
Hannula, Mika and Tottie, Sophie:
Sophie Tottie interviewed by Mika Hannula
Morris, Frances: Painting All Over, Carnegie Art Award 2014, Stockholm/Värnamo
2013
Birnbaum, Daniel and Noring, Ann-Sofi:
The Legacy of Hilma af Klint – Nine Contemporary Responses
Walter König 2013, Cologne
2011
Foster, Hal and Tottie, Sophie:
The Visit
White Lines, Malmö Konstmuseum/Distanz Verlag, Malmö/Koethen
Dziurlikowska, Magdalena:
Gränslös konst
Konstvärlden, No 6, Stockholm
Hornig, Sabine and Tottie, Sophie:
Mindspaces
Durchs Fenster, Pinakotek der Moderne, München
2010
Tottie, Sophie:
A Line’s Manifesto/En linjes försvarstal
Hus 10, Gina Tricot, Villa G, Wingårdhs Arkitektkontor Annual Report 2010, Värnamo
Butler, Cornelia H:
Walkaround Time
On Line. Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Tottie, Sophie:
Språkskriftfragment
Det åskådliga och det bottenlösa: tankar om konst och humaniora tillägnade Margaretha Rossholm Lagerlöf, Festschrift for Professor Margaretha Lagerlöf, eds. Björk, Tomas; BorgWik, Lempi et al., Skrifter från konstvetenskapliga institutionen vid Stockholms universitet/Department of Art History, Eidos No. 22, Stockholm
2009
Tottie, Sophie:
Hegel’s House
Babel: Festschrift für Werner Hamacher, ed. Aris Fioretos, Urs Engeler Verlag, Basel
2008
Tottie, Sophie:
FOYM
Festschrift for Daniel Burén, Collective artist book, Atelier Daniel Burén, Paris
2007
Morgan, Jessica; Rossholm Lagerlöf, Margaretha; Jonsson, Stefan; Östlind, Niclas; Tottie, Sophie:
Fiction Is No Joke
Liljevalchs Konsthall/Hatje Cantz, Stockholm/Ostfildern
Rossholm Lagerlöf, Margaretha:
I bildkonstens reflektionskammare. Sophie Totties kommande dagar
Konstverk och konstverkan, eds. Rossholm, Göran and Sonesson, Göran, Symposium, Eslöv
2006
Carl, Katherine:
Sophie Tottie
The Drawing Center’s Drawing Papers, No. 64, New York City
Rossholm Lagerlöf, Margaretha:
Inlevelse och vetenskap. Om tolkning av bildkonst
2005
Jonsson, Stefan:
Consciousness Within
Isolario, Lunds Konsthall, Lund
2004
Allgårdh, Sophie and Estelle af Malmborg:
Svensk konst nu. 85 konstnärer födda efter 1960
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Stockholm
Tottie, Sophie:
Sometimes someone ends up alone with their image
Herr P, Dr Löwenskjöld och Björn Lövin, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
2003
Springfeldt, Björn:
Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Basualdo, Carlos:
Forms of the Possible
insert for For the Vicinity of Concord, Artist book, DAAD/Printed Matter, Berlin/New York City
2002
Tottie, Sophie:
18 Sunsets for Each 24 Hour Period
Carnegie Art Award 2002, Stockholm
Kramer, Jane; Meschede, Friedrich; Boethius, Lena:
I Want to Be Frivolous!
Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg
Tottie, Sophie:
No Question Will Be Answered Afterwards, Either Directly Or Indirectly
We Are All Normal (And We Want Our Freedom) – An Anthology of Contemporary Nordic Artist Writing, NIFCA/Black Dog Publishing, Helsinki/London
2001
Tottie, Sophie:
For the Vicinity of Concord
Artist book, DAAD/Printed Matter, Berlin/New York City
Blom, Ina:
Sophie Tottie
Make Me Feel, Art-Athina, Athens
Andersson, Fred:
Staden som minne och kuliss. Möte med Olav Christopher Jenssen och Sophie Tottie
2000
Wallenstein, Sven-Olov:
An Anomic Archive
1999
Enwezor, Okwui:
Mirror’s Edge
Morgan, Jessica:
Urban Visions
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Masui, Anette:
Öga mot öga
Bildjournalen, SVT/Swedish Public Television, Stockholm
1998
Basualdo, Carlos:
Monuments Without Attributes
Out of the North, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern
Bonami, Francesco:
The Terrorist
Come Closer, Liechtensteinische Staatliche Kunstsammlung, Vaduz
Basualdo, Carlos:
Pictures for the Chief Electrician
1997
Morgan, Jessica:
Sophie Tottie
Deposition, La Biennale di Venezia 97, IASPIS, Stockholm
Ponce de Leon, Carolina:
Studio Visit
TRANS, No. 3, New York City
1996
Basualdo, Carlos:
The Structure of Paleness
See What it Feels Like, Rooseum, Malmö
1994
Wallenstein, Sven-Olov:
Sophie Tottie
Médiations, Art Node, Stockholm
Tottie, Sophie:
Untitled
Artist book, Sophie Tottie/Printed Matter, Stockholm/New York City
1992
Birnbaum, Daniel:
Våld kan vara långsamt
Expressen, April 4, Stockholm
1991–92
Olessia:
SOPHIA
(insert) Moika 22, apt. 9/Granowskaya 5, apt. 52, St. Petersburg/Moscow, Svenska Institutet/Statens Kulturråd/Sveriges Bildkonstnärsfond, Stockholm
1990
Tottie, Sophie:
Le Territoire de l’Art
Institut des hautes études en arts plastiques/Musée Russe, Paris/Leningrad
Selected Reviews
Bons, Magnus:
Konsten väljer: Sophie Tottie på Belenius
konsten.net, January 21, 2021
Rubin, Birgitta:
Stilla skönhet i Sophie Totties linjespel
Dagens Nyheter, January 13, 2021
Artforum International:
Social Photography VIII, Carriage Trade
MUST SEE, Artforum, August 5–October 10, 2020
Tzanetoulakou, Faih:
Hydra School Project – Loss as dispaced view
CultureNow.gr, July 8, 2018
Mattsson, Leif:
Nagla fast de undflyende ögonblicken
www.omkonst.com, October, 7, 2014
Allgårdh, Sophie:
Personligt opersonliga teckningar fängslar
Svenska Dagbladet, October 1, 2014
Jönsson, Dan:
Lavin av Linjer
Dagens Nyheter, January 12, 2012
Söderholm, Carolina:
På sin egen linje/Personligt linjespel
Sydsvenska Dagbladet, December 5, 2011
Jones, Ronald:
Sophie Tottie
Liljevalchs Konsthall, Artforum, September, 2007
West, Kim:
STOCKHOLM Critics Picks; Sophie Tottie
Liljevalchs Konsthall, www.artforum.com, May, 2007
Nilsson, Håkan:
Sophie Tottie, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
Dagens Nyheter, April, 2007
Hamacher, Sophie:
BERLIN Critics Picks; Galerie carlier | gebauer
www.artforum.com, February, 2006
Andersson, Fred:
Kartverk med visuell kraft och politiskt bråddjup
Svenska Dagbladet, April 2, 2006
Zetterström, Jelena:
Upptäcktsresa till verkligheten
Sydsvenska Dagbladet, March 1, 2005
Stange, Raimar & Dave Allen:
Sophie Tottie
carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Frieze, No. 76, 2003
Fechner-Smarsly, Thomas:
Berliner S-Bahn-Fries
Frankfurter Rundschau, October, 2001
Stjernstedt, Mats:
Sophie Tottie
Flash Art, November–December, 1998
Frankel, David:
Sophie Tottie
Patrick Callery, Artforum, February 1996
Public Works
2022
Shooting Star/Stjärnskott, former location of Råsunda football stadium, Solna, Stockholm
2021
FRIHET ÄR EN PRAKTIK – FREEDOM IS A PRACTICE, Slussen subway station, Stockholm
2015
And the Sun Also Rises, Linköpings universitetssjukhus (Commissioned by AmPublic & Landstinget i Östergötland)
2015
P.Ull, SLU (Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet) (Commissioned by Statens konstråd/SLU)
2008
Rundöga, Filosofiska Institutionens bibliotek, Lund universitet (Commissioned by Statens konstråd)
2007
FOYM, Cederqvist, Hovslagargatan, Blasieholmen, Stockholm (Commissioned by Kiwiab)
1999
Jag flyger, jag flyger, Mälardalens högskola (Commissioned by Statens konstråd/Mälardalens högskola)