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Annica Karlsson Rixon

Annica Karlsson Rixon's truckers (white), 1998, is composed of over seven hundred color photographs, all individually mounted and meticulously presented in her wall-size grid. Configured differently for each exhibition, most of the images for this piece were gathered from the American highway. The public space of the streets, roads, and freeways prove to be an unending source of inspiration for Rixon's ongoing truck series. Contained within their individual cabins, each driver monotonously traces their way across a web of interstates and trucking routes, perpetually arriving but somehow never quite home.


Annica Karlsson Rixon earned an MFA in 1997 from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia, California. She also completed a BFA at the Nordic School of Photography in Stockholm, Sweden.

Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Stockholm, Sweden; Gothenburg Art Museum, Gothenburg, Sweden; Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre Culturel Suedois, Paris, France; Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland; Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland; Fotodiffusione, Torino, Italy; Luum Galleri, Tallin, Estonia; International Center of Photography, New York, NY; Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA.

truckers (white), 1994/98
truckers (white), 1994/98 (detail).
Courtesy of the artist.