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Bjørn Friborg - Artists + Designers - Hostler Burrows

Bjørn Friborg (Danish, b. 1983) is a glass artist who defies historical methods of making and reinvents process with a dramatically physical approach that pushes the limits of material and technique and is as much a performance as it is a means to an end. With bravado he penetrates, manipulates and ruptures the molten substance for results that are otherworldly, sublimely beautiful, and where the materiality viscerally and outwardly reflects his tour de force movements.

Friborg received a BFA from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Design and Conservation in 2013 after studying in Sweden at both the Åfors Glasbruk, V.1 Mästare Ingvar Carlsson “Kalle Pack” and the Kosta Glass School. His work has been exhibited nationally in Denmark and throughout the Scandinavian region as well as internationally.

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BJØRN FRIBORG
Danish, b.1983

Education
2010 – 2013   BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of
                      Architecture, Design and Conservation
2006 – 2009   Åfors Glasbruk, V.1 Mästare Ingvar Carlsson “Kalle Pack”   
2003 – 2006   Kosta Glascenter, Kosta, Sweden

Exhibitions 
2023   In the Making, Glasmuset Ebeltoft, Denmark
2022   Matters at Hand, Ten Artists from Denmark, Hostler Burrows,
           Los Angeles, CA
2021   Matters at Hand, Ten Artists from Denmark, Hostler Burrows,
           New York, NY
2019   British Glass Biennale, Boda Builders, Amblecote,
           United Kingdom
2018   Abstracts & Narratives, Bo Knutsson, Stockholm, Sweden
          Vessel Gallery, London, United Kingdom
          Harbour Front Centre, Toronto, Canada
          Kraft, Galleri Jeanette Ölund, Borås
          Ung Svensk Form, Swedish/International, Stockholm, Sweden
2017   Young Glass, Danish/International, Ebeltoft, Denmark
          Scandinavian Glass- Starting all over, Helsinki, Finland
          Glassyke, S12, Bergen, Norway
2016   VÄRK, The Glassery, Stockholm, Sweden

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