About
Julia Peirone was born in 1973 in Argentina. She lives and works in Stockholm.
“In her work, Julia Peirone takes the viewer to the boundary regions of puberty.” – Niclas Östlind, 2017
Since her debut at the turn of the century, Peirone’s visual world is chiefly populated by girls or young women. Her series mirror aspects of vulnerability, shame, and sexuality in a time heavily influenced by social media and its effects on the creation of identities. The artist is looking for the gap between reality and construction.
Julia Peirone‘s oeuvre poses questions about the strengths and limitations of the photographic image and the way we encounter ourselves in photographs. The modern-day visual culture favors self-glorification and an obsession with abstract ideals of beauty. In her photography, Julia Peirone focuses on these notions to explore young, primarily female teenagers search for identity.
Peirone‘s work has a proximity to the moving image. Her photographic series often show casting situations and preparations. Retakes, fleeting moments, and failures are given a prominent position. The pictures can hardly be defined as portraits in a conventional sense; rather, they investigate mental states and visual conventions that reflect the demands of the external world. The photographs often capture the frustration that young women suffer after having been imprinted by certain ideals. The relationship between the model and the photographer, as well as those between the viewer and the viewed, is an aspect of several images by Julia Peirone. Their gazes almost never meet. The girls‘ eyes are shut or hidden by their hair. Tight tank tops and short skirts expose their skin. The artist stresses that “the girls in my pictures are victims of a gaze, but they are also strong and have power over your gaze”.
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Twisted Cherry
Bump
Badland
More than Violet
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1999 – 2001 Konstfack, University College of Art, Craft and Design (MFA), Stockholm, SE
1996 – 1999 University of Film and Photography (BFA), Gothenburg, SE
2023
Make up and smile, Dorothee Nilson Gallery, Berlin, DE
I am not blonde, Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, SE
2022
Braids and bruisers, Liljevalchs+, Stockholm, SE
2020
Diamonds Dancing, Galleri Belenius, Stockholm, SE
2019
Girls – A Female Gaze, Dorothée Nilsson Gallery, Berlin, DE
Girls, Girls, Girls, Arbetets Museum Norrköping, SE
Tuija och Julia – Det ljusa mörkret, Åmells Konsthandel, SE
2018
Girls, Girls, Girls, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, SE
Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simrishamn, SE
2017
Girls, Girls, Girls, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, SE
2016
Twisted Cherry, Belenius Galleri, Stockholm, SE
Coral Punch, Fotogalleriet Format, Malmö, SE
2015
Museum Anna Nordlander, Skellefteå, SE
2014
Bump, set, hit and spike, Stene Projects, Stockholm, SE
2013
Like a Hawk stealing for the prey, Dansens hus, Stockholm, SE
Konstforum Norrköping, SE
2012
Galleri Se, Falun, SE
Martin Bryder Gallery, Lund, SE
Armory Show, Crystal Contemporary Art, New York, US
Crystal Contemporary Art, Stockholm, SE
2011
More than Violet, Linköpings Konsthall Passagen, Linköping, SE
2010
Magnus Åklundh Gallery, Malmö, SE
2009
Peter Lav Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Norrtälje Konsthall, Norrtälje, SE
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, SE
The Solo Project, Basel, CH
Galerie f5.6, Munich, DE
2008
Golden Me, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, SE
Brandstrom Stockholm, Violet Vertigo, Stockholm, SE
Hamnmagasinet/Konsthallen in Varberg, SE
2007
Black Blondes, Skärets Konsthall Skåne, SE
2006
Reconstruction of Presence, Daniel Cooney Fine Art, New York, US
Galerie F5.6, Munich, DE
2005
Night Spots, Brändström & Stene Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Gallery Krista Mikkola, Helsinki, FI
Night Spots, Hässleholms Kulturhus, Hässleholm, SE
Night Spots, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, FI
2004
Tyresö Konsthall, Tyresö, SE
2003
Reconstruction of Presence, Gallery Format, Malmö, SE
2002
Reconstruction of Presence, Gallery 54, Gothenburg, SE
Reconstruction of Presence, CFF (Center of Photography), Stockholm, SE
2001
Pictura, Lund, SE
Gallery Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
2024
Disorders – Excerpts from the Collection Antoine de Galbert, macLYON, Lyon, FR
2022
Tore A jonassons Samling, Riksidrottsmuseet, Konsthall 16, Stockholm, SE
Picture this, Kulturhuset, Tuija Linsdtröm, SE
2020
Eurydikes systrar, Körsbärsgården, Gotland, SE
Simris, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Stockholm, SE
All cheered up, Hangmen Projects, Stockholm, SE
2019
Martin Bryder Gallery, Malmö, SE
Världen omkring dig, Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Göteborg, SE
Publicerat- utställning om Fotoboken, Cff Stockholm, SE
2018
Our Winter show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, SE
Publiderat – Fotoboken i Sverige, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, SE
2017
Landskrona Museum, Landskrona, SE
Polyfoni, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, SE
Our Winter Show, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, SE
Golden Sunset, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Shuffle, Martin Bryder Galleri, Lund, SE
2016
Belenius Nordenhake Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Grundemark Nilsson Gallery, Stockholm, SE
Borås Konstmuseum, Screens and Mirrors, SE
Sven-Harrys Konstmuseum, Swedish Art: Now!, Stockholm, SE
2015
Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, SE
Nutcracker, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK
2014
Avspark, Haninge Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Circus, Belmacz Gallery, London, UK
Det Synliga, Artipelag, Stockholm, SE
Different Distances, Aperture Foundation, New York, US
2013
Different Distances, House of Sweden, Washington, US
Different Distances, Swedish Photography, Berlin, DE
Atletisk, Växjö Konsthall, Växjö, SE
Polifony, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simrishamn, SE
2012
Different Distances, Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris, FR
Braga – Encontros da Imagem, PT
Skärets Konsthall, 10-års jubileum, Skäret, SE
She’s in the picture, Center for Photography, Stockholm, SE
2011
Sport I konsten, Kristianstads Konsthall, Kristianstad, SE
Nordic Darkness, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Kristinehamn, SE
2010
Sport I konsten, Mjellby Konstmuseum, Sport I konsten, Halmstad, SE
2009
Skanstulls tunnelbanestation, Stockholm, SE
2008
LIPF- Lianzhou International Photo Fetival, CN
Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
War within, Reinier van Ewijk Projects, Amsterdam, NL
Transgressing Mind, Prague Triennale, Prague, CZ
Toys R us, Brandstrom & Stene, Stockholm, SE
2007
Stalking suburbia, The Westport Art Center, Westport, US
International Photo Magazine, Phillips de Pury & Co, New York, US
Miami Photo (Galerie f5,6), Miami, US
4Jahre f5,6, Galerie F5,6, Munich, DE
Barnet i samtidskonsten, Haninge Kulturhus, Stockholm, SE
2006
Northern Cities, Vorallberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz, AT
Labyrint, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, SE
Miami Photo (Galerie f5.6), Miami, US
Paris Photo (Galerie f5.6), Paris, FR
Northern Cities, Felleshuset, Berlin, DE
L.A Photo (Daniel Cooney Fine Art), Los Angeles, US
2005
Dogs, Flo Peters Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Northern Cities, Tromsö Art Association, Tromsö, NO
Northern Cities, Kerava Art Museum, Kerava, FI
Northern Cities, Oulu City Art Museum, Oulo, FI
Northern Cities, The Aine Art Museum, Tornio, FI
Unstable – new directions in Swedish Photography 1990-2004, Museum of Umeå University, Umeå, SE
Blick – New films and videos from the Nordic and Baltic region, Kunstverein Munich, Munich, DE
AIPAD (Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery), New York, US
Still life and stilled lives, Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, US
Scandinavian Photography, Gallery Faulconer at Grinnells College, Iowa, US
2004
New films and videos from the Nordic and Baltic region, Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, SE
Photography Now, Art Forum Berlin (Photography Now), Berlin, DE
Photofest 2004 Gwynne Warehouse Gallery, Hereford, UK
2003
Artforum Berlin, Berlin, DE
Sad Expo, Paris, FR
2002
BB – Gallery Lars Bohmans Project Room, Stockholm, SE
Swedish Style in Tokyo, Gallery Deluxe, Tokyo, JP
2001
Wetterling Gallery – Graduating class of Konstfack, Stockholm, SE
1999
Borås Museum of Art – Graduating class of HFF, Borås, SE
1998
Arles – Festival of Photography, Arles , FR
1997
Malmö Museum of Art, Smitta, Malmö, SE
Braids and Bruisers (catalogue), Liljevalchs Konsthall, 2022
Girls, Girls, Girls (monograph), Göteborgs Konstmuseum, 2017
Waiting for Red Pigtails (monograph), Sailor Press, 2013
More than Violet (monograph), Art & Theory, 2012
Contemporary Swedish Photography, Art & Theory, 2012
Konstnärer och deras Ateljéer, Bladh & Bladh By: Anette Mörne, Anne Nyblaeus, 2012
Blind Smek Min Kind, Julia Peirone, (monograph), Ordfront / Galago, 2002
2018
Längmanska Kulturfonden
2017
Swedish Arts Grants Comitte, 10-years working grant
2014
Nominated for Nöjesguiden artaward
2013
Swedish Arts Grants Comittee, Two year working grant
2011
Shortlisted to Sovereign European Art Prize
Längmanska Kulturfonden
2008
Swedish Arts Grants Comittee, Two year working grant
2007
Iaspis, One year Studio Program at Acme in London
Helge-Axel Johnson travel grant
2005
Swedish Arts Grants Comittee, One year working working grant
2004
Författarfonden, One year working working grant
2003
Northern Cities, Workshops/Exhibiton Project run by Northern Photographic Centre and Art Council of Oulo
Stockholm City Art Award
2001
Hasselbladstiftelsen Resident program in Grez-sur-loing, France
Lunds Konsthalls Vänner- Award to a young promising artist
Helge-Axel Johnson travel grant
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE
Göteborg Konstmuseum, Göteborg, SE
SE Banken, Stockholm, SE
Kiasma Museum of modern Art, FI
Stenersen Museet, NO
Portrait Collection of The National Museum, SE
National Art Council, SE
City of Stockholm, SE
City of Gothenborg, SE
Län I väst, SE
Linköpings kommun, SE
Norrtälje Kommun, SE
Tyresö Kommun, SE
Kulturförvaltningen i Göteborg, SE
Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, SE