ArtistSwedish
Ingrid Roth
0 active items
Ingrid Roth was born in 1958 in Strömsund, Jämtland, and grew up in a northern Swedish landscape that would later inform a palette built on bold, saturated colour contrasts. She completed her formal training in art and graphic design between 1990 and 1994, and held her first solo exhibition in 1994 - a debut that launched a steadily growing exhibition record.
Her practice spans oil and acrylic painting alongside printmaking, with a particular command of lithography and screen printing. Roth works within a figurative tradition, building scenes populated by floating figures, dogs, birds, moons, suns, tulips, and fragments of domestic life - coffee tables, bathtubs, washing lines. The imagery reads as lyrical rather than literal: objects and figures become carriers of emotional states ranging from quiet happiness to longing, loss, and self-doubt.
Colour is treated as a primary structural tool. Roth consciously sets strong hues against one another, pushing contrasts to a point where dissonance resolves into harmony. This approach gives her prints and canvases a visual warmth that is recognisable across different formats and scales. In parallel with her studio practice, she has been involved in training programmes for expressive art therapy in both Sweden and Norway.
Over thirty years of exhibitions, her work has reached galleries in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Uppsala, Bollnas, Boras, Varnamo, Tranas, Helsinki, New York, Bangkok, the Netherlands, France, Norway, and Longyearbyen on Svalbard. Travelling group exhibitions extended her reach to Tokyo and Bangkok. She is represented by several Swedish galleries, including Wass Konst, Galleri Melefors, and Galleri O.K.
In the Nordic auction market, Roth appears at a range of Swedish houses including Stockholms Auktionsverk Sickla, Goteborgs Auktionsverk, and Metropol Auktioner. The works offered span paintings and prints, with her acrylic urban scenes and the lithograph series 'Damen och hunden' (signed editions of 290) among the most frequently traded. Recorded hammer prices have ranged from around 400 SEK for smaller works to 7,900 SEK for a signed and dated acrylic on canvas, reflecting the accessible segment of the contemporary Swedish art market where she firmly sits.