About

CV

Education
2015-2018 BA fine arts, Iceland University of the arts
2017, BA fine arts exchange, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing
2013-2015, Dômen art school, Göteborg, Sweden

Solo Exhibitons
2017, A Hand in the Game, Bachelor Exhibition, Kubburin, Reykjavík, Iceland
2013, Resilience, Galleri Kiro, Jönköping, Sweden

Group exhibitions
2020, Full Vision, Jönköpings länssmuseum, Jönköping, Sweden
2019, Af stað!, Norræna Húsið, Reykjavík, Sweden
2018, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Main Project, Moscow, Russia
2018, Out in the Open, BA Graduation Exhibition, Kjarvalstaðir, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018, Allir leiðir slæmar, Skaftfell art center, Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
2017, Það er allt svolítið bleikt, SIM Salurinn, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017, MERGUR, RÝMD, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017, Hröðun, Naflinn, Iceland University of the arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017, Floating art, Vejle Museum, Denmark
2017, Come clean my shitty kitchen, Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing, Norway
2017, Homecoming Queen, Österängens Konsthall, Jönköping, Sweden
2016, A-Z / Allt er viðgerd, Iceland University of the arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2016, Equality Days exhibition, Háskólinn í Reykjavík, Iceland
2016, Spring Exhibition, Iceland University of the arts, Reykjavík, Iceland
2016, Vinnslan #10, Tjarnabio, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015 Winter Exhibition, Bío Paradis, Reykjavík, Iceland
2015, Dômen art school, spring exhibition, Göteborg, Sweden
2014, Dômen art school, spring exhibition, Göteborg, Sweden

Screenings
2018, Impakt festival Algorithmic Superstructures, Utrecht, Netherlands
2016, Young Arctic Artists, Rovaniemi, Finland

Grants
2015, Otto och Charlotte Mannheimers fond
2013, Jönköpings Borgarekassa och Bjuggska fonden

Residencies
2018, Uncapitals, Kjøllefjord, Norway

Publications
2018, RÝMD Catalouge, Editor, Reykjavík, Iceland
2017, Það er allt svoltið bleikt, Editor, Reykjavík, Iceland

Curatorial and Other Projects
2017, Það er allt svolítið bleikt, SIM Salurinn, Reykjavík, Iceland (with Þorsteinn Eyfjörð)
2017, Co-initiator RÝMD projects, Iceland University of the Arts Student run gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland

b. 1994 in Jönköping, Sweden. Based in Malmö, Sweden

With the dawn of the industrial revolution humans became something more than just creatures that happen to live on a tumbling rock circulating a ball of flame in space. This is the point in time where humans became an actual geological force capable of reforming the surface of the planet.
Thus the works centre themselves in the Anthropocene era, Högström tries to come to terms with the world we live in and how we change it by simply being alive.