Swedish artist Carl Hammoud was born in 1976 and lives and works in Stockholm. He has exhibited extensively in Scandinavia, having mounted solo shows at the Eskilstuna Konstmuseum (Sweden), Gothenburg Museum of Art (Sweden), Kalmar Art Museum (Sweden), and Malmö Art Museum (Sweden). He has participated in group shows at institutions such as the Borås Museum of Modern Art (Sweden), Hangaram Art Museum (South Korea), Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art (Stockholm), Trafo Kunsthall (Oslo), and Turku Art Museum (Finland). His work is included in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo), British Museum (London), Gothenburg Museum of Art, Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art, Malmö Art Museum, Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Sammlung Frieder Burda (Germany), and Scheringa Museum (Netherlands). In 2019 he was elected as a new member to the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.