Olivia Reuterswärd Swedish, b. 1963

Olivia Reuterswärd, born in 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden, holds a BFA from Beckman School of Art and Design in Stockholm and studied at Florence Academy of Art. She debuted as a painter in the early 2000s and currently works with a range of mediums, aside from painting, she also works with sculpture, performance, installation and poetry. Further, she has an extensive background as a notable illustrator with a strong focus on fashion illustration and as a textile designer. During the 1990s she was as a designer at H&M in the “White Room”. In her career a designer, Reuterswärd has collaborated with renowned institutions, such as The National Museum of Sweden, Svenskt Tenn, IKEA and Nordiska Kompaniet. She currently has her studio in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm. Her most recent exhibitions and projects include a performance at the House of Nobility in Stockholm in 2023, a group exhibitions at Galerie Leu, Munich, the solo-exhibition 'On My Honour' at Galleri Glas, Stockholm in 2019, and a poetry reading at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm in 2019.