Stieg Persson has been exhibiting for over four decades with a practice that investigates the possibilities of what painting can do.

Recent exhibitions include ‘Bloom’, 2024, Melbourne Art Fair and Anna Schwartz Gallery; ‘Stieg Persson: Polyphonic’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, 2018; ‘The National: New Australian Art’, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2017; ‘Painting, More Painting – Chapter 2’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2016; ‘The Fragonard Room’, Anna Schwartz Gallery, 2014; ‘Theatre of the World’, La Maison Rouge, Paris, 2013; ‘Melbourne Now’, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013; ‘Mix Tape 1980s Appropriation’, Subculture, Critical Style, National Gallery of Victoria, 2013.

Persson’s work is represented in all major Australian collections including the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth; and the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; and internationally including Auckland Art Gallery/Toi O Tamaki and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.