ABOUT
Isabella Ståhl is a Swedish artist and photographer. Isabella’s interest in photography started at a young age, leaving her hometown in the northern parts of Sweden to study in Stockholm. She continued her studies in New York and then moved to Paris and Berlin, where she started her journey as a freelance photographer. Years later when returning to Sweden she began to observe the familiar surroundings of her childhood with the same interest as when traveling unfamiliar parts of the world. Exploring these rural landscapes in order to uncover the otherworldly qualities through everyday settings has now become the focal point of Ståhl’s work. Applying both curiosity and personal experience Ståhl illuminates the beauty in the interplay between untouched nature, animals and leftovers from a once populated countryside.
Isabella Ståhl’s work is widely exhibited in Europe and the U.S.
Contact: info@isabellastahl.com
Social: @isabella.stahl
+46 (0) 702 345 606
Järvsö & Stockholm
S w e d e n
Artwork sold through
Isabella Ståhl’s Print Shop
Moutife, Stockholm
Photowall, Stockholm
Contributor to Adobe Stock Premium
Education
International Center of Photography, General Studies Program, New York 2012-13
Gotlands Folkhögskola, Photography, Sweden 2011-2012
Exhibitions
2023, Vetlanda Museum, Vetlanda, Smålands Konstrunda
2023, Soho Photo Gallery, New York, ImageNation
2021, Galerie Joseph Turenne, Paris Photo, ImageNation
2018, Klompching Gallery, New York, Lensculture Emerging Talent Awards
2017, Studio Duo, Long Island City, New York, Colors of Distance
2017, Kulturkossan, Järvsö, Stenegård, 100 Selfportraits by 100 artists
2017, Dusseldorf Photoweekend, curated by Marlène Meyer-Dunker
2016, Museum of Photography, Stockholm, Fall Saloon
2016, Landskrona Foto Festivals Fotosalong, Landskrona
2016, Doomed Gallery, London, Bedspread Zine Exhibition
2016, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, Winter Pictures
2016, Menier Gallery, London, Life Framer Edition II
2015, Museum of Photography, Stockholm, Höstsalongen
2015, Lokomotiv Bollnäs, "Left Behind" (solo)
2015, Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, New York, Everything Is All White
2014, Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, New York, The Holiday Show
2014, Kasher|Potamkin Gallery, New York, Intangible Beauty Part II: Go Out Alone And In The Dark
2014, Bollnäs Kulturhus, Sweden, Jag I Hälsingland
2014, Tingshuset Delsbo, Sweden, Jag I Hälsingland
2014, Galleri Ladan, Ljusdal, Jag I Hälsingland
2014, Humble Arts Foundation, New York, New Cats In Art Photography
2014, Bushwick Open Studios, New York, The Practice of Large
2014, Greenpoint Gallery, New York, 1st Salon Show of 2014
2013, Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York, Photoville
2013, Rita K. Hillman Education Gallery, New York, The View From Here
2012, Visby Art Museum, Sweden, Existence
2011, Levide Bygdegård, Gotland Sweden, Levide - A Photographic Documentation
2008, Asia Song Society, New York, Curated by Terence Koh, Anat Ebgi and Jenny Schlenzka, I Want A Little Sugar In My Bowl
Selected Publications and Press
Into the Wilderness - Aesthetica Magazine
Photographer Spotlight - Booooooom
In the Shadow of Dusk - Phroom Magazine
Feature - The Opal Club
Discussion with Naima Green - Fiiiirst
Sweet Melancholy Captured in the Swedish Countryside - New York Magazine
A Fairytale World Hidden in the Landscapes of Sweden - Feature Shoot
10 new photographers to keep track of in 2017 - Elle Magazine
Returned to her hometown to appreciate what she left behind - C41 Magazine
Feature by Stanley Bloom - Velvet Eyes
New Cats in Art Photography - Humble Arts Foundation
Finding Haze - Juxtapoz Magazine
Interview with photographer Isabella Stahl - Photoart Magazine
Interview - Somewhere Magazine
If You Leave Favorites
Also featured in
Interview with photographer Isabella Stahl - Spindle Magazine
Interview - Austere Magazine
Guest photographer - Yen Magazine
Brand new art we heart - Ballad of… Magazine
Burn Magazine
Fotografisk Tidsskrift
Landscape Stories
Urbanautica
Stand Quarterly
Positive Magazne
Culture Hall
GUP Magazine
Contributor Magazine
Then There Was Us
Girls on Film
Awards
Lensculture’s Emerging Talents Award Winner, 2018
Life Framer, Theme 7, "An Instant", Honorable Mention, 2015
Life Framer, Theme 6, "Animal Kingdom", Honorable Mention, 2015
Burn Magazine, "Emerging Photographer Fund", Selected Shortlist 2014
Hälsinglands Konstgille, Honorable Mention Award, 2014
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, Working grant, 2012
Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, Grant for photography studies, 2011
Books
Self
2018, Snö, PogoBooks (USA)
With others
2019, The Best of Lens Culture vol. 3 (USA)
2018, It’s a Gas!, Gestalten (Germany)
2017, Om döden, Self-published (Sweden)
2017, HUMBLE CATS: New Cats in Art Photography, Yoffy Press (USA)
2016, Share Scandinavia Edition II, the New Heroes And Pioneers (Sweden)