Sigrid Sandström was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden. She received her BFA at Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands in 1997 and her MFA in 2001 at Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT. She has also studied at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY (1995) and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME (2000).

Her work has been exhibited widely at Inman Gallery, Houston, TX; Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm; Brant Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston, MA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Frye Museum, Seattle, WA (catalogue); Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY; Galleri Thomas Wallner, Simris, Sweden; The Company, Los Angeles, CA; Kajsa & Olle Nyman Cultural Foundation, Saltsjö-Duvnäs, Sweden; ADAA Armory Show, New York, NY; Cecilia Hillström Gallery, Stockholm; Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; and The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm.

Sandström is the recipient of many awards including American Society’s Culture Award, New York, NY; Anna Whitlocks Minnesfond, Stockholm; Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship,Yale University, New Haven, CT; Awarded Fine Art Work Center Provincetown Residency, Provincetown, MA; The Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Eliza Randall Prize; Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden, Stockholm; Barbro Osher Foundation, San Francisco, CA; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY; The Joan Mitchell Foundation: 2008 Painters & Sculptors Grant; Vera och Göran Agnekils stipendium, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Artistic Development Work Grant (KU), The Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm; and The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts, residency scholarship at Grez-sur-Loing, France.

Sandström lives and works in Stockholm and New York.