Inspired by filmic imagery, theatre sets, and period interiors, Andersson‘s compositions are often dreamlike and expressive. While stylistic references include turn-of-the-century Nordic figurative painting, folk art, and local or contemporary vernacular, her evocative use of pictorial space and her juxtapositions of thick paint and textured washes is uniquely her own. Her subject matter revolves around evocative, melancholic landscapes and nondescript, private interiors.

Mamma Andersson was born in 1962 in Luleå, she lives and works in Stockholm. She has studied at the Royal Art Institute in Stockholm (1986-1993). She is one of Sweden’s most internationally well-known artists and has exhibited her paintings in galleries and museums all over the world. She represented Sweden at the Venice Biennale in 2003, and in 2018, she made a comprehensive presentation as artist and curator at the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil. Her paintings are part of collections at museums such as MoMa, New York; MoCA, Los Angeles; The National Museum, Oslo and Moderna Museet, Stockholm.