JH Engström
Born in Karlstad, Sweden
Lives and works between Smedsby, Sweden and Paris, France

Education
Graduates from Dramatic Institute, Advanced Course in Documentary Film making
Graduation from The Photography and Film Department of Gothenburg University
Assistant to Anders Petersen in Stockholm
Assistant to Mario Testino in Paris

Grants and awards
Winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack award for ‘Tout Va Bien’
Goldene Letter for the book La Résidence, given by Deutsche Buch Stiftung
Grant from the Swedish Art Council
Winner of the photo book award at Arles photo festival for the book From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen
Grant from KW Gullers fund
Grant from Swedish Art Council
Shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photographic Price
Grant from The Swedish Authors Foundation
Artist in residence at Musée de Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saône
Grant from the Swedish Authors Foundation
Grant from Hasselblad Center
Artist in residence at Contretype, Brussels
Grant from the Swedish Arts Council
Grant from The Swedish Arts Council
Stockhölm Cultural award
Grant from The Andrea Frank Foundation
Winner of “The photographic book of the year in Sweden”
Grant from the Swedish Authors Foundation
Bildhuset grant for young photographers

Solo exhibitions
The Frame, Apleton, Lisbon, Portugal
The Frame, Galerie Jean Kenta Gauthier, Paris, France
Härifrån, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Finland
Crash, Värmlands Museum, Sweden
Close Surrounding, Hôtel Fontfreyde - Centre photographique,Clermont-Ferrand, France
Close Surrounding, FOAM Amsterdam, Netherlands
Tout Va Bien, Galleri Final, Malmö, Sweden
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Flinxo Gallery, Gent, Belgium
La residence, GUN Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
From Back Home ,together with Anders Petersen, National Media Museum, Bradford, UK
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Artotheque Angers, France
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Galerie VU, Paris, France
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Värmlands Museum, Sweden
Trying to Dance / Haunts, Centre Atlantique de la Photographie, Brest, France
Trying to Dance/ Haunts Galerie Le Lieux, Lorient, France
Sketch of Home, GUN Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Trying to Dance/ Haunts, Huarte Art Center, Huarte, Spain
Je suis où, Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden
Haunts, Fotografins Hus, Stockholm, Sweden Haunts, Galerie VU, Paris, France
Nantes Photfestival
Haunts, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Trying to dance, Galerie VU‚ Paris, France
Shelter, The Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
Trying to dance, Arhotèque d’Angers, Angers, France
Trying to Dance, Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
Entreacte, Gallery F48, Stockholm, Sweden

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Group exhibitions
Out of Focus at Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Liege Photobienale, Belgium
La Residence, Contretype Photcenter, Brussels, Belgium
Darkside II, Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
Kunsthalle Wien, Das Porträt-Fotografie als Buhne, Austria
Arles Photofestival, show curated by Nan Goldin, Arles, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Darkside, Switzerland
Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, USA
Mois de la Photo, Paris, France
Caprice Horn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Contretype, “Genre Humain”, Brussels, Belgium Fotografins Hus, “Face a Face” Stockholm, Sweden Noorderlicht Photogallery, Groningen, Netherlands D-Foto, San Sebastian, Spain
Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell , USA
“Instable”, Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden
“Deutsche Börse Photography Price”, Photographers Gallery, London, UK
“Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt”, Winterthur Fotomuseum, Switzerland
Deutsche Börse Group, Frankfurt (Main), Germany
Gooroom project, SouthCorea
Langhans Galerie, Galerie VU, Praha, Tcheck Republic
“Instable”, Stockholm Cultural House, Sweden
“Stockholm too Close”, Stockholm Cultural House, Sweden
“Inspiration Strömholm”, Gallery CFF, Stockholm, Sweden
“Swedish Photography”, Theatre des images, Nice, France
Photographic Fair in Gothenburg, Sweden
“Tempo - A documentary Festival”, Stockholm Cultural House, Sweden
With Anders Petersen, Gallery Prinsen in Stockholm, Sweden
“Territory”, Stockholm Cultural House, Sweden

Bibliography
Crash, Akio Nagasawa Publishing
Revoir, Akio Nagasawa Publishing / Journal
Tout va Bien, Aperture, New York
Random, Mörel Books, London
Karaoke Sunne, Superlabo, Kanagawa
Ende Und Anfang - Early Trips until 1999, André Frère Éditions,Paris
Långt Från Stockholm (Far From Stockholm, Mörel Books,London
Sketch of Paris, Aperture, New York
7 Days, Athens, November, 2011 together with Margot Wallard,      Superlabo, Kanagawa
Foreign Affair, together with Margot Wallard, Superlabo, Kanagawa
La Residence, Journal, Stockholm
From Back Home, together with Anders Petersen, Max Ström,Stockholm
Sketch of Home, GUN, Stockholm 2008 CDG/JHE, Steidl, Germany
CDG/JHE, Steidl, Germany
Haunts, Steidl, Germany
Trying to Dance, Journal, Stockholm
Shelter/Härbärge, Bokförlaget DN, Stockholm

Films
HÄR/ICI/HERE (Silent film, 4:42 min)
A Film With About Anders Petersen
(52 min, Shown at Swedish Television 2006)
Bertil & Maggan Stay or go
(28 min, Shown at Swedish Television 2006)


Collections
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Hasselblad Center , Gothenburg, Sweden
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône, France The Nordic Museum in Stockholm, Sweden Noorderlicht Photogallery, Netherlands
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Värmlands Museum, Sweden