Nationality Swedish | Name Asa Elzen | |
Education Royal University College of Fine Art in Stockholm, Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program Website | ||
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Åsa Elzén is an artist whose work is informed by feminist theory, intersectionality and post-colonialism. Elzén was born in Sweden in 1972 and currently lives and works in Berlin.
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She is a member of the self-declared feminist separatist group the YES! Association and has worked on collaborative projects with Sonia Hedstrand, Ylva Elzén as well as Brian Manning Delaney.
Over the past decade she has participated in events, performances, public talks and seminars organized in IASPIS, Stockholm; Open Forum, The Armory Show New York; State University, Chisinau, Moldova; the 99th Annual Conference of the College Art Association in New York City; Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum, New York; Röda Sten, Gothenburg; Lilith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden; as well as the Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Education
Elzén studied sculpture at the National College of Art in the early nineties. She received an M.F.A. from the Royal University College of Fine Art in Stockholm in 2002 and was a participant in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program from 2007 to 2008.