Björn Runquist / Tollef Runquist / Shiloh Runquist-Ariza

Three Generations

Björn Runquist

“My career spans many styles, including abstract, mixed media, pastels, water color, etching and oil painting. I have work in the permanent collection of the Farnsworth Museum and have exhibited widely in galleries on the East Coast from Florida to Maine, including the Allan Stone Gallery in New York, the Connecticut Biennial at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, the Caldbeck Gallery and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art in Rockland. I am in many private and corporate collections and have had number of paintings in the State Department’s Arts in Embassies program. I am currently represented by Landing Gallery in Rockland, ME. and has been featured several times in Maine Home & Design magazine and most recently in Maine Boats Homes & Harbors.”

Björn Runquist was Born in Sweden and grew up outside of New York city in a small town on the Hudson River. As a child he studied with Swedish artist Nils Strom. His engagement with art continued from then. When he was a teenager his family moved to France where he attended a French high school. “Paris was a revelation. One could not walk twenty yards without seeing a wonderful statue or a beautifully composed building, monument or garden. I felt like I had come home.” Aside from 4 years in London his adult life has been spent in New England where he has continued to paint for the last 40 years. “The New England landscape has become part of who I am”.

https://www.bjornrunquist.com/

B. Tollef Runquist

B.A. Studio Art, Dickinson College, Carlisle PA 2002

In the collection of the Farnsworth Museum

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

SOLO

2025 Double Door, Islesboro ME.

2023 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2021 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2019 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2018 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2016 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2014 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2014 Taylor Gallery, Meriden, NH.

2013 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT.

2013 Dowling Walsh, Rockland ME.

2011 Dowling Walsh, Rockland, ME.

2011 Ober Gallery, Kent, CT.

GROUP

2025 “Pushing Daisies”, Project Platform Space, Brooklyn, NY.

2015 “Art to Collect Now” CMCA, Rockland, ME.

2015 Drawing Room Gallery, Cos Cob, CT.

2014 “Art to Collect Now” CMCA, Rockport, ME.

2013 OK Harris, NY, New York

www.tollefrunquist.com // www.instagram.com/tollefrunquist/ // runquistt@gmail.com

Shiloh Runquist-Ariza