Biography
Olivia Reuterswärd was born in 1963 and lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden and is represented by Galleri Glas in Stockholm. She graduated from Beckmans School of Art and Design in 1987. In 2005 Reuterswärd began to work with oil painting, and in 2016 she studied at Florence Academy of Art. She has since then fully taken the step to solely focus on her career in fine art. Reuterswärd works in a range of different media including painting, sculpture, performance and conceptual installations.
Reuterswärd has an extensive background as a fashion drawer, fashion designer, textile designer and illustrator. She worked under the alias Olivia Blue, and made among other things textiles pattern which were sold at the National Museum of Stockholm, Nordiska Kompaniet, Ikea and at Svenskt Tenn.
Reuterswärd's work is currently on view in the exhibition MULTIFACETED at Galerie Leu, Munich, through February 27. Recent projects include the solo-exhibition På Heders/On My Honour at Galleri Glas in Stockholm and a performance at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.