Jockum Nordström (born 1963) is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator.

Biography

Jockum Nordström was born December 19, 1963 in Stockholm, Sweden in a family with two brothers and one sister. His father Gert Z Nordström was a professor of art education at Konstfack, University College of Art, Crafts and Design, the same school and department from where Jockum graduated in 1988. Nordström’s national popularity increased with the series of children’s books about the character ''Sailor'' and his dog ''Pekka'', and while working as an illustrator at the Stockholm newspaper ''

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'' 1997-1999. Nordström has also designed record sleeves for the rock band

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. His first show in the United States was at Jack Hanley Gallery in

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1999. In 2000 his reputation increased rapidly when some of Nordström’s drawings were exhibited at Liste in Basel and quickly were sold out, among others to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. He joined

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in shortly after. Nordström met his wife, the Swedish painter

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, while working at a summer camp. They live in the Stockholm suburb Tallkrogen and have two sons.

Works

Nordström is known for his collages, paintings, drawings and sculptures that knit together references to

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and

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collage, furniture and

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design, human sexual habits and

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lore. He has also written children's books and designed album covers. His work is in the public collections of the

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in New York, the

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and Magasin 3 in Stockholm, and the

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Catalogues

2007 Los Angeles, California. Roberts & Tilton. Other Scenes, 2007. Text by

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2003 Galleri Magnus Karlsson. Jockum Nordström: Between the table and the Legs /Works 2000-2002, Stockholm 2003.

Animated films

1997 "In his Loneliness" (10 min)
1994 "The Sunday Orchestra" (5 min)

Exhibitions

Selected solo exhibitions * ''Jockum Nordström: Why is Everything a Rag'', Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, New Orleans, 2018 * ''Jockum Nordström: Rymden Tystar Ljudet'' Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2017 * ''Jockum Nordström: När ingen vandrar vägen fram, då vandrar vägen själv sitt dam'', Galleri Magnus Karlsson, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016 * ''Jockum Nordström: For the insects and the hounds'', David Zwirner, London, 2014 * ''Jockum Nordström: All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again'', LaM (Lille métropole musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut), Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, 2013.Le Lam Musee
(in French

References

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