Johanna Heldebro is an artist based in Stockholm, Sweden. Her often uncomfortably personal work explores notions of obsession, photographic representation and personal boundaries.

Johanna was raised in Northern Sweden. She holds a BFA in Photography from Concordia University (2006, Montreal, Canada) as well as an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media from School of Visual Arts in New York City (2009), where she was the recipient of the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for her thesis work, To Come Within Reach of You.... She has exhibited in Indonesia, Europe, throughout North America and most recently at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki, Finland. Johanna's work will be included in an exhibition at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art in Moscow, Russia, at Galleri Box in Gothenburg, Sweden, both in the fall of 2011 as well as in an exhibition at Gallery Steinsland Berliner in Stockholm, which opens in December, 2011.

Johanna is the co-editor of Laura, a print arts periodical that she launched in 2010 together with her longtime collaborator and husband, Jared Leon.


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