About

Isadora Israel is a Swedish-American artist born in New York and currently based in Malmö, working across Sweden, primarily in Stockholm, Malmö, and Bergslagen. She holds an MFA from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm (2024) and a BA in Design from HDK-Valand in Gothenburg (2021).

Her practice moves through drawing, assemblage, and sculptural gestures, tracing subtle transitions and partial presences. Working with materials such as expanded metal, thread, and semi-transparent parchment, she constructs layered environments in which tension, stillness, and movement coexist. Drawing is central to her work—not only as image, but as condition, structure, surface, and space.

A body, suggested rather than depicted, often anchors the work, hovering between figure and abstraction. Her installations evoke atmospheres shaped by fragility, resonance, and material sensitivity, where meaning remains in flux rather than resolution.

Solo exhibitions

2025
Blossomborn, Study For Art Platform, Stockholm view
2025
Metaxy, Konstfrämjandet Bergslagen, Örebro view
2024
Metaxy, Galleri Mejan, Stockholm view
2022
The Tree Outside the Window Taps Very Gently on the Pane..., Selected Art
2021
Virgulta Virentia, Not Quite, Fengersfors

Group exhibitions

2026
Berättelser, Nora Art, Nora
2025
ALERE FLAMMAN, Sulfur Ateljéförening, Malmö Gallery Weekend, Malmö
2025
& Teckning, Drawing Biennial, Hus 15, Slakthusområdet, Stockholm
2024
Master of Fine Arts Graduation Show, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2022
Rundgång, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2020
2Long 4ever, National Archives of Sweden, Gothenburg Regional Archive
2019
deCCa: 22:22, Kiosken, Gothenburg

Teaching and workshops

2025
LOCI, course and workshop, Örebro Art School

Assistantships

2024–2025
Assistant to Marja-Leena Sillanpää

Grants and scholarships

2026
One-Year Working Grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2026
Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
2025
Travel Grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2024
Assistant Grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2024
Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
2024
Hötorget Scholarship
2023
Scholarships for Art Students and Young Artists, Royal Academy of Fine Arts
2023
Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation
2022
Wilhelm Smith Fund
2021
Working Grant for the Restart of Malmö’s Cultural Life
2020
AAA Foundation
2020
Adlerbert Scholarships
2019
Adlerbert Scholarships

Education

2022–2024
Master of Fine Arts, Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2018–2021
Bachelor’s Programme in Design, HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, Gothenburg

Publications

2026
Contribution to a publication by Iman Mohammed, Art & Theory Publishing read
2025
Text contribution in OEI #108–109: Mould & Spore-radic Connections; Bureaucratic Language & Bernadette Mayer + Anne-Marie Albiach read
2022
Essay in Dark Envelopes and Poetry read