Konstfack, or University of Arts, Crafts and Design, is a university college for higher education in the area of art, crafts and design in Stockholm, Sweden.
Valand Academy is a school for film, photography, literary composition, and fine art at the University of Gothenburg in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Per Hüttner is a Swedish visual artist who lives and works in Paris. He is mostly known for his photographic work and for his interactive, changing and travelling exhibition projects. A number of monographs about his practice has been published including Per Hüttner, 2003; I am a Curator, 2004; Repetitive Time 2006, Xiao Yao You2006, Democracy and Desire 2007. The Imminent Interviews 2010 and The Quantum Police 2011.
Stephen Lawlor is an honours graduate of its National College of Art and Design from 1980-1983. During the 1980s he taught in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dublin, his work during this time was based on the figure of the horse which he developed through drawings etchings, lithographs and monotypes. An accomplished painter as well as a master printer, Lawlor has recently started to make sculpture in bronze. He has had solo shows in Ireland, England and the U.S.A. and has participated in numerous International Group exhibitions. His work is in private collections in the United States, Australia, The Far East and most of Europe.
Ivar Axel Henrik Arosenius was a Swedish painter and picture book illustrator.
Elin Wikström is a Swedish artist and manager, born 1965 in Karlskrona. She lives in Gothenburg/Umeå, and was professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Umeå 2001-2005. She is currently the manager at the Gerlesborg School of Fine Art.
Frédéric Iriarte, is a contemporary plastic artist. Since 1986, he has lived and worked in Sweden.
Sverre Malling is a Norwegian visual artist. His work references classical art, botany, the occult, psychedelia, folk art and children’s illustrations.
Tom Cullberg is an artist born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972. He currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa.
Carl Wilhelm Wilhelmson was a Swedish painter, graphic artist, amateur photographer and art teacher.
Endre Nemes was a Slovako-Czecho-Swedish Surrealist artist who had a background in Lyrical Abstraction. While his early exhibitions included tailors' dummies and écorchés, he was notable in Sweden for his use of enamels in public art.
Björn Dawidsson, who publishes as Dawid, is a Swedish photographer based in Stockholm.
Einar Jolin was a Swedish painter best known for his decorative and slightly naïve Expressionist style. After studying at Konstfack, Stockholm in 1906 and at the Konstnärsförbundet målarskola, Jolin and his friends Isaac Grünewald and Einar Nerman went to Paris for further studies at Henri Matisse's academy from 1908 to 1914.
Maria Friberg is a Swedish artist known for her works revolving around themes of power, masculinity and man's relationship to nature. Her images depict ambiguous tableaus with isolated figures in provocative situations.
Mattias Härenstam is a Swedish artist. Härenstam specializes in sculpture, installation and video art.
Carl Gustaf Bergsten was a Swedish architect. He graduated in 1901 from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology and three years later from the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. A scholarship took him to Germany and to Vienna. He apprenticed with architects Isak Gustaf Clason and Erik Lallerstedt. Bergsten ran his own architectural firm from 1904-35. He was influenced by the National Romantic style and Functionalism. He designed a number of exhibition spaces including Liljevalchs konsthall. For the Norrköping Exhibition of Art and Industry in 1906, Bergsten designed the exhibition's two main buildings the Industrial Hall (Industrihallen) and the Art Exhibition Hall (Konsthallen) as well as the Hunting Pavilion (Jaktpaviljongen).
Ida Albertina Törnström or Sölve was a Swedish writer, teacher and painter.
Clara Ursitti is a Canadian-Italian artist based in Glasgow, Scotland. She was born in North Bay, Ontario in 1968.
Mollie Faustman was a Swedish painter, illustrator, journalist and author.
Vera Amalia Märta Nilsson (1888–1979) was a Swedish painter and a peace activist. One of Sweden's most prominent Expressionists, she is remembered in particular for her paintings of children, including her daughter Ginga, and for her landscapes, often scenes of Öland where she spent her summers. Her anti-war sentiments are vividly expressed in Penning conta liv, painted during the Spanish Civil War in 1939. In the 1960s, she painted works protesting nuclear war. Her work is represented in museums and galleries in Sweden and abroad, including Nationalmuseet and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
