Arvida Byström

Arvida Byström (b. 1991, Stockholm) is a visual artist and photographer working internationally. She studied Fine Art at the University of Gothenburg (HDK-Valand), where she began developing a multidisciplinary practice that combines photography, video, performance, and digital media.
Through the medium of digital and electronic technologies, Arvida Byström (b. 1991, Stockholm) explores how digital culture shapes our understanding, and consumption, of identity, intimacy and desire. Her utilisation of hyper-feminine aesthetics and visual tropes explores social aesthetics and power dynamics across digital landscapes, highlighting the performance of the self in online settings.

Previously based in London and Los Angeles, and now living and working in Paris, Byström travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, fruits in lingerie, tulips and AI sex dolls. Her photography, performances and sculptures have been shown in various international institutions, including V&A London and Tate. Last year her work In The Clouds was featured as one of the most defining projects of the year by Art News.

Selected Solo Exhibition: 2025: „Who’s Your Daddy?“, OK Linz, Linz, Austria; 2025: Arvida Byström, „Wink“, PLUS-ONE Projects; 2023: Weltgeist - curated by Bjorn Stern, Galerie Kandlhofer; 2018: Inflated Fiction, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden; 2018: Cherry Picking, Gallery Kranjcar, Zagreb, Croatia; 2018: Chef Picking, Gallery Steinsland Berliner, Stockholm, Sweden; 2018: Frenemy, Absolut Art Bar, Stockholm, Sweden; 2014: Wifi or wife, Bon Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden;

Selected Group Exhibition: 2025: „Model Collapse“, Vienna Digital Cultures Festival, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna, Austria; 2023: „…And that’s only (half) the story“, PLUS-ONE Projects; 2021: Mixed Pickles 9, Ruttowski;68; 2020: A WOMEN’S RIGHT TO PLEASURE, BlackBook Presents; 2020: Me, Myself and I, BIP, Liege, BE; 2020: Better Off Online, Ars Electronica, Online & Linz, AT; AT; 2020: No True Self, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, AU;