Omma Moon is a portrait painter based in Sweden.
Omma Moon explores the meeting between figurative oil painting and modern-day life, using old materials and techniques in her timeless portraits.
Born in 1995, she grew up in Sweden, Ghana, and the United States, working in Australia and Ireland before returning to Sweden where she now lives and paints. With an academic background in material science coupled with a deep interest in historical methods, she received her artistic training at the Florence Academy of Art, complemented by studies at HDK Valand. This diversity of cultural and academic backgrounds converges in a global, materially grounded sensibility defining her approach to contemporary portraiture.
She is a member of the Pastel Guild of Europe and of Sweden's Konstnärscentrum. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in private collections as well as in the collection of the Swedish state.
Current & Upcoming Exhibitions:
Omma Moon
September 26ᵗʰ–27ᵗʰ 2026
Kulturstugan, KarlsborgModPortrait 2026
October 2ⁿᵈ–30ᵗʰ 2026
Auditorium Arroyomolinos, Madrid
Past Exhibitions:
Celeste & Moon
Gallery Engleson, Gothenburg, 2026Once Upon a Time
Gallery Konstkapellet, MarstrandThe Society of Women Artists, 165ᵗʰ Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, 2026ModPortrait 2026
The Royal Artistic Circle of Barcelona, Barcelona, 2026The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Portrait Prize
RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, 2026The Pastel Society, 127ᵗʰ Annual Exhibition: Direct Touch
Mall Galleries, London, 2026The Society of Women Artists, 164ᵗʰ Annual Exhibition
Mall Galleries, London, 2025The State of Things & The Salon des Refusés
Gallery Konstkapellet, Marstrand, 2025
Salsta Castle, Vattholma, 2025Paper, Mirror, Paper
The Florence Academy of Art, Florence, 2025Diversity/Diverse City
Espace Sylvia Rielle, Paris, 2024MEAM Hall
European Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, 2024
First Street Gallery, New York, 2024Futurum
Gallery Konstkapellet, Marstrand, 2024Konst på Väg
Salsta Castle, Vattholma, 2024Winter Exhibition
Gallery Konstkapellet, Marstrand, 2023-2024Still Life Exhibition of the Century
Strandverket & Gallery Konstkapellet, Marstrand, 2023[Ellipsis]
Gallery Kvarnfallet, Mölndal, 2023Legends: Narrative Painting and Sculpture
Gallery Konstkapellet, Marstrand, 2023
Salsta Castle, Vattholma, 2023Konstrakan
Tranås, 2023Monochrome
Gallery Kvarnfallet, Mölndal, 2023
Recognitions:
Galeria Artelibre
Grandes Autores Scholarship, 2026ModPortrait
Finalist, International Painting and Drawing Competition, 2026Pastel Guild of Europe
2ⁿᵈ Place, Get Dusty Member Competition, February 2026Pastel 100
Honourable Mention, 27ᵗʰ Annual International Competition, 2026Art Renewal Center
Honourable Mention, 18ᵗʰ International ARC Salon, 2025The Almenara Collection
Honourable Mention, The Almenara Art Prize, 2025Beautiful Bizarre Magazine
Finalist, Catherine K. Gyllerstrom Award, 2025Richeson75
3ʳᵈ Place, International Figure/Portrait, 2025BoldBrush
Winner, The BlodBrush Award, May 2025Jackson’s Art
Longlisted, 10ᵗʰ Jackson’s Art Prize, 2025Art Renewal Center
4ᵗʰ Place, 24ᵗʰ ARC Scholarships, 2024Portrait Society of America
Select Fifty, 26ᵗʰ International Portrait Competition, 2024National Portrait Gallery
Longlisted, Herbert Smith Freehills Portrait Award, 2024Plein Air Magazine
Honourable Mention, Figure & Portrait Category, Plein Air Salon December 2023
Featured in:
Print International Realism (ACC Art Books), 2026
Online National Oil & Acrylic Painters' Society’s International Fall Online Exhibition 2025
Online Beautiful Bizarre Art Prize 2025
Online The Society of Women Artists 2025
Online The Almenara Collection’s Online Exhibition 2024
Print 100 Emerging Artworks (Charuka Arora Studio Books), 2024