Madeleine Strindberg b. 1955

Madeleine Strindberg is a German-born artist, living and working in Britain.

Strindberg graduated from the Byam Shaw School of Art and Royal College of Art in 1985 with a Master's in Painting. In this year she also won the Barclays Bank Award, with her work being exhibited at the Warwick Arts Trust, London. In 1989, she was chosen to be Artist in Residence at the National Gallery and also won the GLC Peace Prize. In 1996, she was awarded the Abbey Award for Painting by the British School at Rome. She was one of the artists shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize at the Whitechapel Open in 1997. She won the influential Jerwood Painting Prize the following year.

The artist has lived in London, with her poet husband, for most of her life and worked in a studio in Bow for the past 25 years. She suffers from multiple sclerosis.

Strindberg has had many solo exhibitions, including at the National Gallery, London, Stables Gallery, Murray Edwards College, Brighton University Gallery, and in Leicester Square. Her work has been included in the Sharjah Biennial, UAE (2003), as is held in many private and public collections, including the Royal College of Art, Imperial College, London, and Jerwood Collection.