After her artistic and academic education, Dr. Berit Sahlström taught African art history general art history at Uppsala University. She worked as a researcher and lecturer in Uppsala, Linköping and Gävle universities and she was a project leader in bilateral research and education projects with Univ. of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. She taught courses in artistic development/theory and practice. She has published in the fields of cultural studies, art critic and African art history. She has contributed with illustrations to Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, book covers for Sylvia Pankhurst, Citizen of the World, by S. Harrison, and illustrations to Woven Into the Tapestry. How Five Women Shaped Ethiopian History, Text by Tekeste Negash. Tapestries by Berit Sahlström, Tsehai Publishers, Loyola Marymount University, 2016.
Måla med tråd, L. Berg, BIZ&ART nr 12 (p 34-38) (2010), Berit och Elin speglar olika världar, Arbetarbladet 22 juli 2011, Färgstarkt, Uppsala Nya Tidning 16 dec 2011, Väver in kvinnorna i universitetshistorien, Sara Borsiin, ERGO 2016:3, Årets stipendiat nu utsedd, Ystads Allehanda 17 aug 2017, En sprudlande glad stipendiat, Österlenmagasinet 24 aug 2017, Kvinnorna tar plats i universitetshuset av Annica Hulth, Nya horisonter 1:2017, Sjufaldig kvinnokraft, Uppsala Nya tidning (2018), Konsten du inte ska missa, av Carolina Söderholm, Sydsvenskan 6 mars 2021, Här finns konsten!, Sydsvenskan 22 aug 2022, Så fick universitetet sitt kvinnorum, Uppsala Nya Tidning 5 jan 2022, Double vision, by Anna Sjöstrand, VÄV, Scandinavian Weaving Magazine 3:2022 (8-10) English/Swedish
Artworks situated in public spaces
Gottsundabiblioteket, Uppsala
London Borough of Redridge, U.K.
Uppsala Cancerklinik
Stadsbibliotekets entré, Uppsala
Lunds Universitet: Konstnärliga fakultetens kansli, Malmö
Universitetshuset, Uppsala
Uppsala Kommun
Läkemedelsverket
Region Uppsala
Brusewitzsalen, Statsvetenskapliga inst, Gamla Torget, Uppsala
Gränby bibliotek
Selected exhibitions
2007 Cornell Univ., USA
2007 Sylvia Pankhurst Festival, Woodford, London, UK
2008 Women Arts Festival, Uppsala
2008 Fjällstugan, Jönköping
2011 Uppländsk salong, Uppsala konstmuseum
2011 Rosa Huset, Gävle, Sweden
2011 Berit Sahlström målar med tråd. Galleri1 Uppsala
2012 Uppsala Cancer Clinic
2014 Å-huset, Uppsala Artists’ Association Gallery
2016 Swedish Embassy, Addis Ababa
2016 Ethiopian Academy of Science, Addis Ababa
2016 Public City Library, Malmö
2018 Sofia University, Tokyo
2018 Institute of Developing Economies JETRO, Tokyo, Japan
2018 Nanzan University, Nagoya
2019 Kulturkuben, Vallentuna/Stockholm
2020, 2021 Malmö, Galleri Rostrum
2022 Southern Sweden Design Days/MalmöVÄV
2022 Ifö Center, Bromölla
2023 MalmöVÄV
2023-24 HV Galleri, Handarbetets Vänner, Stockholm
2023 Galleri 2, Uppsala
Berit Sahlström is a member of Swedish Artist’s Organisation/KRO, International and Swedish Associations of Art Critics/AICA, Nordic Textile Art NTA, Swedish Artists’ Region- South/SAC-S. 2017 she was awarded travel scholarship by Bror Ljunggren Memorial Foundation (New York, Paris, Vienna)
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