CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden. Lives and works in Stockholm
EDUCATION
1996-1999 (MFA) The Academy of Photography, Department of Fine Arts, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden
1991-1992 Photography, GFU, Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm, Sweden
POST MASTER EDUCATION
2015-2016 Photographic Artist’s Book, Capture and Disseminate, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2015-2016 Research-Lab: Architecture, Design and Media, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Moral Pastorals and Managerial Pleasure, Royal Institute of Art, New York
2014-2015 Art & Architecture, Royal College of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2014-2015 Going Public, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design Stockholm, Sweden
2014 Artistic Research, Konstfack University College of Arts, Crafts and Design Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Remediation, Black Door Gallery, Örebro, Sweden
2017 Remediation, Tegen2, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Variations, Konstforum, Norrköping, Sweden
2015 Variations, Walla Scen, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Hagestad, Artifact, New York
2012 Circumstances, Konstforum, Norrköping, Sweden
2012 Circumstances, Borlänge Konsthall, Borlänge, Sweden
2011 Circumstances, Walla Scen, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Circumstances, Avesta Konsthall, Avesta, Sweden
2011 Circumstances, Halmstads Konsthall, Halmstad, Sweden
2009 Annika Thörn Legzdins, Galleri Ikon, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Cultivate the Void, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Shadows, Galleri art-E, Halmstad, Sweden
2002 Memento Mori-Memento te mortalem esse, Bildhuset, Stockholm, Sweden
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Pale Violet and Shades of Purple, gna project, Stockholm
2023 Stuff It, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 Supermarket, Tegen2, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Artist´s Books, Göteborgs universitetsbibliotek/Fotobok GBG, Göteborg, Sweden
2022 Athens Photo Festival 2022, Athens, Greece
2020 Kajko, Sätra Art Reserve, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Offspring, Sätra Nature Reserve, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Collapse of a Mass, Galleri Duerr, Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Messages & Remediation, (with Magnus Wassborg), Molekyl Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
2018 Stratum, Virsbo Konsthall, Virsbo, Sweden
2018 Remediation artist’s book, Landskrona Photofestival, Photobook Gbg, Swedish Institute, Paris
2017 Detroit Art Book Fair, Detroit, USA
2017 Unseen Book Market, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Artists as Independent Publishers, Bremen, Bergen, Stockholm, London, Vienna
2016 Fotobok Gbg, Gothenburg Sweden
2016 Photographic Artist’s Book, Capture and Disseminate, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Open Air Art Book Fair, Långholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
2014 Sidor, Centrum för fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Womens Voice in Art, Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus
2013 Omnejd, NevaBooks, (with Johan Hedbäck) Rimforsa, Sweden
2013 Body and language in art, ID:I Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 BELA Biennal, Porto, Portugal
2012 Samling, Walla Scen, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 Höstsalong, Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, Sweden
2011 Det osynliga | Das Unsichtbare, Planket, curated outdoor exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden and Berlin, Germany
2005 Sala Barna, Barcelona, Spain
1998 Galleri Charlotte Lund c/o Bildhuset, (with Svante Larsson and Johan Hedbäck) Stockholm, Sweden
1997 Galleri Gufot, (with Svante Larsson) Göteborg, Sweden
ARTIST’S BOOKS
Ephemera, Self-published 2022 ((Winner of Swedish Book Art Award 2022)
Deconstructing Diagramming Dreaming, A Synthesis of the Two Cities Daugavpils & Detroit, Praun & Guermouche 2020
Remediation, Jon Brunberg förlag 2017
Translucence, Bokförlaget Arena, text Sophie Allgårdh, Camilla Flodin 2012
REPRESENTED
The National Public Art Council, Sweden
Cultural Administration Stockholm County Council, Sweden
Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus
Borlänge Municipality, Sweden
Kinda Municipality, Sweden
Östergötland County Council, Sweden
Region Örebro County, Sweden
Printed Matter, New York, USA
Private Collections
PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2019 Cryptogamia, Danderyd Hospital, Culture Administration Region Stockholm, Sweden
2019 Hagestad, Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2022 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2018 Swedish Authors´ Fund, one year working grant
2018 Swedish union of journalists, working grant
2017 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
2017 Olle Engkvist-prize from Stockholms Byggnadsförening
2016 Swedish Authors´ Fund, one year working grant
2016 Nordic Culture Point
2016 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
2016 Längmanska Cultural Foundation
2016 Swedish Association of Professional Photographers, travel and education grant,
2013 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
2013 Swedish Institute, Creative Force, Collaborative projects, Belarus
2013 Iaspis, International exchange
2011 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2007 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
2002 Swedish Arts Grants Committee, two-year working grant
2001 NIFCA -Nordic Institute for Contenporary Art, Artists Residency in Riga, Latvia
1999 Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation
1998 Anna Whitlocks Foundation, travel grant
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Menke, Timo, Att tänka kamera med träd, Verk #4, 1/10 2021
Rubin, Birgitta, Konsten växer vilt i Sätraskogen, DN 6/6 2020
Lundberg, Elina, Corona stängde gallerierna – då flyttade konsten till skogs, Stockholm Direkt, 6/6 2020
Persson, Lasse, Morgon i P4 Stockholm, Sveriges Radio 4/6 2020
Danielsson, Jenny, Offspring i Sätraskogens Naturreservat, konsten.net, 29/5 2020
Epstein, Lars, Den gigantiska orienteringsskärmen en del av konstutställningen i Sätraskogen, DN Stockholm, 25/5 2020
Falck, Mats, Konstutställning i Sätraskogen, Bättre Stadsdel, 20/5 2020
Verk Antologi, ett urval av texter ur Verk tidskrift 2016-219, mars 2020
Bergman, Linda, Mellan det sakliga och poetiska, Verk, 24/10 2017
Slöör, Susanna, Vitpilens läkekonster, Omkonst.com, 19/10 2017
Strandhed, Michael, Från viskande natur till knivskarp jord, Kultursidan.nu 27/1 2016
Segraeus, Sara, Fotokonst som utforskar naturen, Folkbladet 16/1 2016
Austin, John, The Earthen Vision of Annika Legzdins, exhibition catalogue, NY 2015
Sjöberg, Sievert, Rimforsa ur två vinklar, Östgöta Correspondenten 26/9 2013
Svallin, Anna J, Med fokus på Rimforsa, Kindaposten 23/9 2013
Dandanelle, Eva, Nedtonad natur, Foto #5, 2013
Ström, Eva, Som en hägring, Fotografisk Tidskrift #1 2013
Johans, Sebastian, Svensk synd och intressanta landskap, Uppsala Nya Tidning 20/12 2012
Sandelin Ann-Charlotte, Naturliga stämningar, Kultursidan.nu 12/9 2012
Kuivanen, Pauli Olavi, På spaning efter tillstånd, Norrköpings Tidningar 10/9 2012
Andersen, Ivar, Drömskt med romantiska rötter, Dalademokraten 24/7 2012
Ekbjer, Cecilia, Laddad natur i Thörn Legzdins bilder, Dalarnas Tidningar 12/7 2012
Biennial of European and Latin American contemporary art, BELA, catalogue, 2012
Circumstances, NORR Magazin, # 1/4 2012
Det osynliga | Das Unsichtbare, Planket, catalogue, text by Milou Allerholm, Ute Noll och Lars Hall 2011
Virginia Beach, Style and the Family Tunes, #Spring 2011
Lembke, Christopher, Drömska bilder från Island på konsthallen, Hallandsposten 8/1 2011
Flodin, Camilla, Konsten och den hota(n)de naturen, Glänta, Swedish magazine for poetry, Philosophy and art #4 2009
La Serre, Ny Tid, Kontur #50 2009
Circumstances, Out of Focus Magazine 2009
Nysyner- Gränsöverskridande möten, Existentiella betraktelser, catalogue, Malmö Museums 2003
BOOK PRESENTATIONS
Konst-ig Books, Stockholm 2022
Rostrum, Malmö, Sweden 2018
Centrum för Fotografi, Stockholm, Sweden 2017
Fotobok Gbg, Göteborg, Sweden 2017
Dome of Visions, Stockholm, Sweden 2017
University of the Arts, Bremen, Germany 2016
PUBLISHED TEXTS
Skymd sikt –VERK tidskrift #1 2022
Böcker Bibliotek och berättande – VERK tidskrift #2 2020
OTHER
Chairman, Fotoförfattarna, Swedish Association of Professional Photographers 2018-
Founder of the artist and curating group Rävgral 2020-
Founder of gna project art space 2017-
Work with TV-Production since 1987
Member of Swedish Artists’ Association, Swedish Union of Journalists, Swedish Association of Professional Photographers, Centre for Photography, Swedish Artists’ Organization at Konstnärshuset