Artist in Residence at ISCP in New York, April – June 2026

Edith Hammar (b. 1992, Helsinki) is a visual artist whose primary medium is drawing. Their figurative and often large-scale works are based on autobiographical motifs. The focus lies on gender-transcending characters who interact in various stages of being dressed or undressed. Viewers are invited to explore how discomfort and pleasure intertwine in different everyday situations. The images function as homoerotic mirror worlds in which Hammar challenges intimate and spatial norms.

Foto: My Mattsson/Moderna museet

Hammar was educated at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm and has published two graphic novels, exhibited at institutions including Moderna Museet in Stockholm, and received awards for artistic achievement, most recently the Inez Leander Prize from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.