Jockum Nordström, born 1963, Stockholm, lives and works in Stockholm (SE). Jockum Nordström makes fragile collages and graphite drawings in which he evokes a surprising universe, populated with old school sailors, jazz musicians, delicately chronicled flora and fauna, ships and noblemen from past epochs. By consequently using the techniques of drawing and collage, the elegant and carefully composed fragments form a mysterious world, flirting even with the sinister. While looking at Nordström’s work, these excerpts and particularly their very specific mode of representation, trigger our imagination and stories start to develop like fine, curving lines. These stories can take the shape of fairytales, but mostly take on more complex forms questioning modern day alienation. 

Jockum Nordström had solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; LaM, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lille; Camden Arts Centre, London; Institut Suédois, Paris; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Uddevalla Konsthall.​

He has also participated in several group exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Tate Modern in London, MoMA in New York, Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, SFMOMA in San Francisco, S.M.A.K. in Ghent, National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavik and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles.​