About
Tony Wallström (b. 1985, Kiruna, Sweden) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Månstad, Sweden. He works across painting, collage, and digital media, focusing on contemporary abstraction and how images can register emotional and psychological states. His practice engages themes connected to mental health, uncertainty, and the quiet details of everyday life.
Wallström works with oil, acrylic, ink, dyes, pencils, pastels, and collage, often on raw, untreated surfaces. Many works are created without a fixed orientation, allowing them to be viewed from multiple perspectives. By combining traditional materials with digital tools, he develops a dialogue between physical mark-making and digital construction.
His visual language is rooted in abstraction. Recognizable brushwork, layered marks, and tactile, sometimes incidental textures create surfaces that feel active yet open to interpretation. The work balances conceptual intention with a strong gestural presence.
Individual works become spaces for reflection. Themes such as mental health, identity, mortality, and the unknown are approached through lived experience rather than narrative illustration. Viewers are invited to encounter the paintings on their own terms and form personal associations.
Selected exhibitions
2025
Contemporary Discoveries at Sotheby’s. New York City, NY | Group Exhibition, Auction
Every Way is the Right Way at Transient Labs. Online | Solo exhibition
Visual Detachment by Fakewhale x Verse. Online | Group exhibition
2024
The Space Between: Hive Mind by Hildabroom Management x Superrare x Colonna Contemporary. Philadelphia, PA | Group exhibition.
Fakewhale Art Market by Fakewhale. Online | Group exhibition.
2023
We Own the Night by Flannel Collective. Online | Group exhibition.
Monochrome Visions by Futura Drops. Online | Group exhibition.
IMAGINE by Funginon. Online | Group exhibition.
In search for it. Online | Solo exhibition.
Inhabitants of thought. Online | Solo exhibition
2021
VII by New Art Project. Online | Group exhibition.
Contemporary Narratives Pt. 1 by London Paint Club. Online | Group exhibition.
Winter Show by Hang Tough Contemporary. Dublin, Ireland | Group exhibition.
Untitled at Glasets Hus. Limmared, Sweden | Solo exhibition.
Press & Media
“Han började leka med vattenfärger – nu har Tony Wallström sin första utställning”
Marie Haglund, Borås Tidning | September 2021
“Samordnat kaos på duken när Tony staller ut för första gången”
Ylva Hideng, STT | September 2021
“Contemporary Narratives pt. 1”
Kelly Foster, London Paint Club | 2021
“One Artist ▇▇ One Artwork”
Dan “ODDJOBS“ Curtis | 2024
“Five Questions to Tony Wallström”
ART RADAR x New & Abstract | 2024