Jockum Nordström is a Swedish artist, best known for his vivid collages, but also for his drawings, paintings and work as an illustrator.
Background
Jockum Nordström was born December 19, 1963 in 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.
Career
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 Dagens Nyheter 1997-1999. Nordström has also designed record sleeves for the rock band Caesars. His first show in the United States was at Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco 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 New York
He joined David Zwirner Gallery in New York City in shortly after. They live in the Stockholm suburb Tallkrogen and have two sons.
2007 Los Angeles, California. Roberts & Tilton. Other Scenes, 2007.
Text by Aaron Rose. 2003 Galleri Magnus Karlsson.
Jockum Nordström: Between the table and the Legs /2000-2002, Stockholm 2003. 1997 "In his Loneliness" (10 minimum)
1994 "The Sunday Orchestra" (5 minimum)
2013 Villeneuve d"Ascq, France, Latin American (Lille métropole musée d"art moderne, d"art contemporain et d"art brut): "Jockum Nordström. All I Have Learned and Forgotten Again " (16 February - 19 May 2013).