Gunilla Klingberg was born in 1966 and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.

Solo exhibitions include Skissernas Museum, Lund, Sweden, Trykkeriet, Bergen, Norway (both 2024), Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Sweden and Times Museum, Guangzhou, China (both 2016), A Sign in Space at the Åhus Museum, Sweden (2015), Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2014), Rice Gallery, Houston, Texas and Eastside Projects, Birmingham (both 2013), Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen and Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (both 2009), Kiasma, Helsinki (2004).

She participated in the Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania (2019), Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2016), the Curitiba Biennial, Brazil (2013), the 1st Biennial of Art, Nature and Urbanism, Gernika, Bermeo, Spain (2012), the Biennale for International Light Art, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (2010), the Istanbul Biennial (2007), The Moderna Exhibition 2006, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and the Venice Biennial (2003) with Peter Geschwind.

Public commissions include Slussen Bus Terminal, Stockholm, Sweden (2025), Sergel Pavilion, Stockholm, Sweden (2021), Detektiven, Linköping, Sweden (2020), Tromsø UiT Arctic University, Norway (KORO, 2017–18), Burrard Place, Vancouver, Canada (2021), Kristianstads Rådhus, Sweden (2014), Hjorthagen pathway (Stockholm Konst), Sweden (2013) and Citytunneln, Triangeln train station, Malmö (2010).

Klingberg's residencies include ISCP, New York (2025), Headlands Centre for the Arts, San Francisco (2019), the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2001/02) and IASPIS, Stockholm (2004). During the academic year 2023/24 she was an adjunct professor at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.

Klingberg has been a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts since 2019. Her work is held in the permanent collections of Moderna Museet, Malmö Konstmuseum, Koç Foundation, Istanbul and FRAC, France, among others.