Kent Iwemyr

Kent Iwemyr (b. 1944 in Hallstahammar) lives and works in his hometown in Sweden. He studied at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm and worked for some years as an art teacher before making his artistic debut in 1992 at the age of forty-eight.

Iwemyr creates poetic, pictorial ballads and intimate tableaux, rendered with deliberate brushstrokes in acrylic on linen. His intuitive and open compositions give form to observations and reflections drawn from everyday life, most often rooted in his local surroundings in the small post-industrial town of Hallstahammar. Returning to imagery he first explored as a teenager, he began telling the stories of relatives and local figures from his hometown.

Since then, Iwemyr has exhibited regularly in Sweden and internationally. His work has been described as both “a strange bird in contemporary art” and “a Swedish rural Chagall.”

Born 1944 in Hallstahammar, Sweden
Lives and works in Hallstrammar, Sweden


EDUCATION

University Collage of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITONS

2025

Från en dag till en annan tid, Bror Hjorths Hus, Uppsala,
Sweden

2024

For the Geniuses of the Art there
Are no Limits, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023

DEN BLÅ RYTTAREN / THE BLUE RIDER, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden 

2022

Poesi från det vilda, Dalslands konstmuseum, Åsensbruk, Sweden

2021

Strange Are the Ways of Man, V1 Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark

2020

Nya mästerverk / New Masterpieces, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

En udda fågel / A Strange Bird, Ebelingmuseet, Torshälla, Sweden

2018

The Red House
in the Woods,
Anna Zorina Gallery, New York, United States

Poetry From the Wilds, V1 Galley, Copenhagen,
Denmark

2017

It’s not that
damned easy!, Galerie
Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg

2016

Now or Never, A private exhibition
curated by Julie Sylvester, Helsinki, Finland

The
Painting Genius / Målargeniet, The Inner Room of the Gallery, Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Stockholm

2015

The
Painting Genius / Målargeniet,  Västerås
Konstmuseum, Sweden

Kent
Iwemyr,
Värmlands museum, Karlstad

The Painting
Genius, Galerie
Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany


2013

The Vintage
Show, Galleri
Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden


2011

The Extra
Rough Collection, Galleri
Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden


2010

With the Pace
of My Heart,
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy


2008

Welcome to
Paradise, Galleria
Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milan, Italy


2006

Shaggy Dogs, Galerie Clairefontaine,
Luxembourg


2004

It’s not that
damned easy!,
Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

2002

Vildanden, Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

The ACE Gallery,
Hamilton, Bermuda

2001

On the Home
Ground,
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, United States

2000

Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

Galerie Francesca
Pia, Bern, Switzerland


1999

Dogenhaus Galerie
Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany


1998

Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

1997

Dogenhaus Galerie
Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

1996

Dogenhaus
Galerie, Berlin, Germany


1992

Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Västerås, Sweden


SELECTED GROUP
EXHIBITONS

 2025

Landscapes, V1 Gallery
& Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark

 2022

V1 XX – Twenty Years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Interior Dialogues, V1
Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Minimalism-Maximalism-Mechanissmmm Act 1–Act 2, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea

KÄLLAN / THE SPRING, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

 2021

Root in
the North, Art
Centre Silkeborg Bad, Denmark

2019

MINE III, V1
Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark

Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, Copenhagen, Denmark

2018

Stockholm Calling, Asia House, London, United Kingdom

MINE
II, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark


2017

Painting, Chart Art Fair, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Copenhagen, Denmark

Horses, Eighteen / V1 Gallery,
Copenhagen, Denmark


2016

Spotlight #2, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

2015

c/o Hotel le Manoir, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Banyuls-sur-Mer, France

2014

Bruegel Land, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium

The Cambridge Rules, Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany

An exhibition of current interest, Galleri Magnus
Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

2013

Summertime and
the living is easy, Galerie
Clairefontaine, Luxenburg

Time Waits for
Us,
Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

2012

Herr Gren, Galerie Leger,
Malmö, Sweden

2011

Today’s special, Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

2010

Today is Yesterday Tomorrow, Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden

Fernweh..., Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg

2009
Galleria Salvatore + Caroline Ala, Milano, Italy

Nordic Twalking, Galerie oqbo, Berlin, Germany

2005

Summer Group Show, Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

1999

Rötter, Mora Kulturhus, Sweden

Rötter, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden