Cecilia Edefalk was born in 1954 in Norrköping, Sweden. She lives and works in Stockholm. She has a degree from The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Konstfack in Stockholm.

Cecilia Edefalk was the artist of the year for SAK’s members’ edition 2025 for Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening. In 2020 an extensive retrospective of Edefalk’s work was presented at Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden. A significant presentation of her work was presented at Moderna Museet, Stockholm as part of the Maurizio Cattelan exhibition (2025). Recent solo exhibitions include, Fürstenberg Zeitgenössisch, Fürstenbergische Sammlungen, Donaueschingen, Germany (2024) and Hatt et Söner, Bergeres-Les Vertus, Champagne, France (2023), Lund Cathedral, Lund, Sweden (2022), Agueli Museet, Sala, Sweden (2021), and Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm, Sweden and Kunstmuseum Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany (2016). Also in 2016 she exhibited solo at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, USA. Edefalk is set to take part in a forthcoming group exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum at Palazzo Morando, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan.

Other notable solo presentations include, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2010), Dia Art Foundation, New York (2010), Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden (2010), alongside Hilma Af Klint at the Nordic Watercolor Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden (2009), Lunds konsthall, Lund, Sweden (2008), Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (2008), Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Antikensammlung, Kiel, Germany (2006), The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (2006), Moderna museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2005), Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden (2000), Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (1999). Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (1998), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (1996).

Cecilia Edefalk has participated in Documenta 11, Kassel (2002) and the 22nd Bienal de São Paulo (1994). Her work can be found in collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Göteborgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden; Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping, Sweden and the Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skärhamn, Sweden. She received the prestigious Ganneviksstipendiet in 2018.