Karin Forslund

Karin Forslund trained as a glassmaker in Orrefors, Sweden, then earned her BA in Glass from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts’ School of Design in Bornholm, Denmark, and later pursued her MFA at RISD.  

Forslund’s studio and teaching practice asks fundamental questions such as: what is glass made of, what is craft, and what role does the artist play in the creation of an object? Through intensive journaling and material experimentation, she encourages a conversation that is intimate and manifests in the physical world through material, process, and haptic exploration.

In 2025 Forslund was awarded Norway’s prestigious Scheibler Award. Other awards include the Bronze Hetsch Medal of Craft, several of Norway’s Art Council’s artist grants, and first prize at the European Glass Context. Her works have been included in important group exhibitions such as the decennial Young Glass exhibition at the Ebeltoft Museum, The Scandinavian Glass project, and the international survey exhibition New Glass Now at the Corning Museum of Glass. She has been a Pilchuck Emerging Artist, a WheatonArts CGCA Fellow, a College of Creative Studies (Detroit, Michigan) artist in residence, and a participating artist in the Scala Salzkammergut Craft Art Lab.