Anna-Stina EHRENFELDT
1927–2003, Sweden
Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt Biography:
Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt was born on 2nd January 1927 in the Swedish west coast town of Halmstad.
She started painting at the age of 12 and studied with the famous surrealist painter
Axel Ohlson of Halmstad Gruppen, who on realising her talent taught her all the basics
of oil painting. After finishing her education at the local girl’s school in Halmstad,
she studied at Corners School of Art in Stockholm and married the jazz-musician and writer
Sture Dahlstrom in 1948 at the age of 21.
In 1956 Anna-Stina left Sweden and moved abroad with her husband and three children.
She spent the rest of her life living abroad in Spain, Paris, London, New York, San Francisco,
Arizona and New Mexico, while always keeping a foothold in her native Sweden.
Anna-Stina Ehrenfeldt had her first big exhibition together with three American painters at
the Casa de Cultura Museum in Malaga, Spain and another group exhibition at the Museo de Bellas Artes
a year later in the same city. Her first exhibition as a solo artist was at the Woodstock Gallery
London in 1965.
This London exhibition was followed by solo exhibitions at the Red Barn Gallery in San Francisco,
The Gorline Gallery in New York, Elyseum in Taos, New Mexico and an invitation to exhibit her work
as part of the “Hands Across the Sea” exhibition at the Workshop Centre in Tucson, Arizona.
From 1967 onwards her exhibitions were predominantly at different galleries and museums in her
native Sweden or at the successful gallery she set up at Heingeborgen, Lovestad.
Here she organised annual exhibitions from 1982 until the time of her death in 2003.
She also participated in a number of films/videos/performances now available on a DVD with
the title Hoghastighetsfilm ("High velocity films") from www.njutafilms.nu
Exhibitions
Tylohus Konstsalong, Halmstad, Sweden 1948
Gallery de Madame, Malaga, Spain 1960
El Salon de Mercedes, Torremolinos, Spain 1961
Gallery Beriro, Torremolinos, Spain 1962
Gallery Tartesso, Torremolinos, Spain 1963
Museum Casa de Cultura, Malaga, Spain 1963
Red Barn Gallery, San Francisco, U.S.A. 1963
Museum Bellas Artes, Malaga, Spain 1964
Woodstock Gallery, London, U.K. 1965
Mercury Gallery, London, U.K. 1965
The Newspaper Arbetet’s Art Club, Malmo, Sweden 1965
Scandia Vabis Art Club, Malmo, Sweden 1965
Workshop Center, Tucson, U.S.A 1966
Elyseum, Taos, U.S.A 1966
Gorline Gallery, New York City, U.S.A. 1966
Bank of Oxie Art Gallery, Malmo, Sweden 1967
Glemminge Gallery, Glemminge, Sweden 1968
Halmstad Konstsalong, Halmstad, Sweden 1974
SDS- Hallen, Malmo, Sweden 1974
Hermods Art Club, Malmoe, Sweden 1974
Scania Cars Art Club, Malmo, Sweden 1975
Glenstudio, Stockholm, Sweden 1976
Agrikonsult Art Club, Malmo, Sweden 1977
Halmstad Konstsalong, Halmstad, Sweden 1977
Konstringen, Malmo, Sweden 1978
Konstringen, Trelleborg, Sweden 1978
Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad, Sweden 1978
Bommersvik, Sweden 1979
Gustav’s Gallery, Osterlen, Sweden 1981
Bommersvik, Sweden 1981
Heingeborgen, Lovestad, Sweden 1982
Heingeborgen, Lovestad, Sweden 1983
Konstringen, Trelleborg, Sweden 1983
Kommunalgarden, Lovestad, Sweden 1983
Heingeborgen, Lovestad, Sweden 1984
Heingeborgen, Lovestad, Sweden 1985 – 2003
Source: http://www.ehrenfeldt.com/