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Hanna Hansdotter - Artists - HB381

Artist and designer Hanna Hansdotter’s (Swedish, b. 1984) mold-blown glass sculptures and low-relief wall works ooze, slump, and bulge, their soft forms interrupted by the hard lines left behind by the casting process. Trained at the preeminent Swedish glass manufacturers at Kosta Boda Glass Center and the Orrefors National School of Glass, Hansdotter’s rebellious and individualistic vessels remain defiantly craft-oriented in their techniques. Over time, she has developed a practice of conceptual design overlaid with a punk sense of artistry, apparent in her sculptures’ warped and distorted silhouettes produced in the process of constraining hot glass within heavy iron frameworks. Once the metal cages are removed, the result is both high-gloss and heavily baroque, a merger of amorphous, fleshy forms and variegated surface embellishments. Today, Hansdotter works in Glasriket or “Glass Country,” the famed center of Sweden’s historic industrial glassblowing dating to 1742.

Hansdotter is the recipient of numerous awards, grants, and accolades, including the ELLE Decoration Design Awards, the Lauritz Craft Prize, and the Residence Arts & Crafts Award. In 2020, she received the Åke Andrén Grant in support of her exhibition Fading Prints at the Prins Eugen Waldemarsudde Museum. Since graduating in 2017 from Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design, Hansdotter’s work has frequently been exhibited within museums, including at the Gävle Art Center, Liljevalchs, and the Glazenhuis Flemish Centre for Contemporary Glass Art. Her sculptures are in the collections of the Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, the Public Art Agency Sweden, The Glass Factory at Boda, and the National Museum in Stockholm.

Selected Works

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Hot Pink Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

26" H x 16" W x 13" D

HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Hot Pink Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

26" H x 16" W x 13" D

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Canary Yellow Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5" H x 11" Dia.

HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Canary Yellow Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5" H x 11" Dia.

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Quilted Print, Burgundy Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

22.5" H x 13" Dia.

HANNA HANSDOTTER

Quilted Print, Burgundy Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

22.5" H x 13" Dia.

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baroque Love, Soft Yellow Metallic, 2023

Sand-blasted and mold-blown glass, mirrored

20" H x 12" Dia.

HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baroque Love, Soft Yellow Metallic, 2023

Sand-blasted and mold-blown glass, mirrored

20" H x 12" Dia.

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baby Baroque Print, Baby Blue Metallic, 2023 

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5"H x 12" Dia

HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baby Baroque Print, Baby Blue Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5"H x 12" Dia

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HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Hot Pink Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

26" H x 16" W x 13" D
HANNA HANSDOTTER

Tiffany XL Print, Canary Yellow Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5" H x 11" Dia.
HANNA HANSDOTTER

Quilted Print, Burgundy Metallic, 2023

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

22.5" H x 13" Dia.
HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baroque Love, Soft Yellow Metallic, 2023

Sand-blasted and mold-blown glass, mirrored

20" H x 12" Dia.
HANNA HANSDOTTER

Baby Baroque Print, Baby Blue Metallic, 2023 

Mold-blown glass, mirrored

25.5"H x 12" Dia

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HANNA HANSDOTTER
Swedish, b. 1984

EDUCATION

2017
Hot glass sculpting, CMOG, Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY
BA, Konstfack University of Arts, Craft and Design, Stockholm, Sweden 

2012
Technical glassblowing, Orrefors National School of Glass, Sweden 

2010
Qualified glassblowing and cold working, Kosta Glass Center, Sweden

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021
Once Twice, The Hole, New York, NY

2020
Ornamental Abstractions of Industrial Memories, Kulturcentrum Ronneby, Ronneby, Sweden
Fading Prints, in association with Åke Andrén Grant, Prins Eugen Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden
Rabbit Hole, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
2.0, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

2018
Fading Prints, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024
Summer Group Show, HB381, New York, NY, USA

2023
Generation Glas, Chill, Stockholm, Sweden 

2022
Enter Art Fair, The Hole, Copenhagen, Denmark 
The Collection, Gävle Konstcentrum, Gävle, Sweden 

2021
Once Twice, The Hole, New York, NY 
Market, Steinsland Berliner, Liljevalchs, Stockholm, Sweden 
Chart Art Fair, Steinsland Berliner, Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark 
East Hampton Hole, The Hole, New York, NY 

2020
Palatset, The Glass Factory Boda, Boda, Sweden 
Chart Art Fair, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden 

2019
Swedish Glass, Glazenhuis, Lommel, Belgium 
Bachelor, Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden 
Sculpture, Sculpture, Sculpture!, CFHILL, Stockholm, Sweden 

2018
Dallas Art Fair, Richard Heller Gallery, Dallas, TX 
Meet and Greet, The Glass Factory, Boda, Sweden 
Immersion, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 

2017
What’s Your DNA, Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Hommage, Kosta Boda Art Gallery, Kosta, Sweden 
What’s Your DNA, Form/Design Center, Malmö, Sweden

COMMISSIONS AND PROJECTS

2022
Commissioned work for Hötorget with Vasakronan, Stockholm, Sweden 

2021
Documentary SVT, Designhistorier 

2020
Storefront installation, Selfridges, London, UK 

2019
Public art installation, Linneuniversity of Kalmar, Sweden 
Designer of The Glass Factory Boda yearly museum collection 

2018
Absolute Vodka, commercial
Art Collaboration with Artilleriet, Göteborg, Sweden 
Interior installation, SneakersNStuff, New York, NY & London, UK 

2017
Designer/Artist at Orrefors Kosta Boda, Sweden 
Homage, Kosta Boda 275 years, “Nightfall series,” design commission for Kosta Boda
Interior installation, SneakersNStuff, New York, NY & London, UK 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2023
Swedish Government Export Prize for Cultural and Creative Industries, Artist of the Year

2020
Åke Andrén Artist Grant 
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant 

2019
Lauritz Craft Prize 
Residence Magazine, Design Award, Craft of the Year 

2018
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, one-year working grant 
New Glass Review (published in book), Corning, NY 
Plaza Interior, Design Award, Craft of the Year 
ELLE Decoration, Swedish Design Awards 

2017
Estrid Ericsson Travel Grant 
Studio Grant, The Glass Factory Boda, Sweden 
Degree Work Grant, Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design 
Konstfack Travel Grant for International Cultural Exchange, Corning, NY 
Fredrika Bremer Scholarship Fund 

2016
J.L. Eklund Foundation for Craft 
Petersenska Hemmets Scholarship Fund 
Kosta Boda Working Grant 
Fredrika Bremer Scholarship Fund 

2015
Petersenska Hemmets Scholarship Fund

COLLECTIONS 

2022
County of Gävle, Sweden

2021
Statens Konstråd, Public Art Agency Sweden
Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft, Gothenburg, Sweden

2020
County of Växjö, Sweden
Statens Konstråd, Public Art Agency Sweden

2019
Statens Konstråd, Public Art Agency Sweden
County of Uppsala, Sweden

2018
The Glass Factory Boda, Glass Museum, Sweden
County of Uppsala, Sweden

2017
Nationalmuseum, Swedish National Museum collection

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