Irja Bodén (b. Sweden) is an artist and ceramicist based in NY’s Hudson Valley. She received a BFA in Visual Arts from SUNY Potsdam, magna cum laude, and a BA in Social Science from Lund University, Sweden. Bodén is a 2021 Artist Resource Trust Fund grant recipient from the Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Recent exhibitions include Fractured Light (Amos Eno Gallery, New York, NY), Radius 50 (Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, NY), Embody (Ely Center of Contemporary Art, New Haven, CT), The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2020 (New York/online, USA), En Vacker Utställning (Konstmuseet, Kiruna, Sweden), New Folk (Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY), The 2020 National Prize Show (Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA).