Exhibitions & Commissions
Yemisi Wilson | A Significant Sculptural Voice in Contemporary Nordic Art
Selected exhibitions, public commissions, and professional history
Yemisi Wilson has established herself as a significant sculptural voice with exhibitions across Sweden and Europe and a growing presence in public collections. Her work enters civic spaces as confidently as it does gallery settings, with major commissions for municipalities, hospitals, and cultural institutions. This record of exhibitions and public acquisitions traces the evolution of a practice rooted in stone, memory, and material intelligence.
Exhibitions & Commissions
Selected exhibitions, public commissions, and professional history
This section presents a chronological overview of Yemisi Wilson’s professional work, including solo and group exhibitions, public commissions, acquisitions, grants, and education. It offers a clear record of her development as a sculptor and her contributions to contemporary public and gallery spaces.
Solo exhibitions
2024 SouthNord presents Yemisi Wilson, Stockholm
2023 Art Gallery ABC, Vällingby, Stockholm
2022 Gallery Artsight, Stockholm
2020 Gallery Studio Animar, Stockholm
2018 Gallery Erik Axl Sund, Stockholm
2017 Gallery Bachlechner, Dietikon, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Gallery Artspace, Varberg, Sweden
Duo exhibitions
2025 Ekebyhovs Slott, Ekerö — with sculptor Stina-M. Velten
2021 Gallery Nord, Örebro — with painter Arjuna Geir Aasehaug
2017 MuSA, Museum of Sculpture & Architecture, Pietrasanta, Italy — with Maria Gamundí
Group exhibitions
2025 Vårsalongen, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
2024 OpenArt, Örebro Biennial
2024 Friends and Acquaintances, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2023 Rosendahl Garden Party, Royal Djurgården, Stockholm
2023 Miss Clara by Nobis, The Art of Being a Woman, Stockholm
2022 Art for All, Mörkö Bygdegård
2022 Like in a Mirror, Konstnärshuset, Stockholm
2021 Horisont Hospitalet, Ulleråker Hospital, Uppsala
2021 Landsort — The Island of Sculpture
2021 Oaxen — 26 sculptors in the historical chalk kiln, Oaxen
2021 Ekebyhovs Slott, Ekerö — Swedish Sculptors Society exhibition
Public Commissions & Acquisitions
2025 The Coast Whispers in Stone — Public commission, Bleket bathing place, Tjörn, Sweden
2025 Municipality of Nacka — Purchase of marble Gorilla Head for Nya Gatan
2023 City of Stockholm Cultural Board — Purchase of 8 sculptures and 3 framed drawings for Huddinge Hospital Emergency Ward
2021 Municipality of Knivsta — Purchase of bronze hippopotamus and yellow marble horse head for public park
2021 Municipality of Uppsala — Purchase of marble rhinoceros for Gottsunda School
2020 Municipality of Eskilstuna — Purchase of two concrete hippopotamuses for elder housing
Private commissions
2019 Seal in Swedish granite for Lars Engelbert (160 × 115 × 104 cm, 1,700 kg)
2019 Three hippopotamuses in onyx and marble with Studio Sem for private collector, USA
2015–2016 Commission for Klövern Julia AB — Concrete, marble, and bronze works for the Tele2 building, Kista
2010 Marble hippopotamus created with Studio Sem for Stephen Heyman, Oklahoma, USA
Grants
2024 Cultural Scholarship in Visual Arts, City of Stockholm
2023 One-year work grant, Swedish Arts Grants Committee
2023 Studio contribution grant 2023–2025, City of Stockholm
Workshops
2025 Millesgården — Alabaster workshop in the Sculptural Yard
2024 Globalstone Workshop — Albalate del Arzobispo (CIDA), Alabaster
2024 Museum of Hallwyl, Stockholm — Alabaster workshop
2023 Gallery Artsight — Alabaster workshops (January and March)
2022 Swedish Sculptors Society workshops — Nyköping and Örebro/OpenArt
2021 Swedish Sculptors Society & OpenArt workshop — Örebro
Education
2020 Konstfack — Art in the Open Space, 30 hp
2019 University of Stockholm — Geology I, 15 hp
2018 Akademin Valand, University of Gothenburg — Artistic Work in the Public, 30 hp
1994–2000 Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy — with 1997–1998 Erasmus Exchange to Facultad de Artes Libres, Granada
Yemisi Wilson working in Älvdalen, 2018.
During the summer of 2018, Wilson worked with Älvdalen porphyry, a material used by Swedish sculptors since the 1700s. She explored the stone’s varied colors and hardness using contemporary tools, developing new forms rooted in an established tradition. Her work continues the long history of artists engaging with porphyry while introducing a distinctly modern approach to this ancient material.