Fia Backström

Fia Backström is a Swedish artist based in New York. Her multi-disciplinary practice includes photography, performance, events, installation, display architecture, and writing. Her work engages questions around the construction of the collective fabric often through collaboration or by re-contextualizing works by other artist. In her book COOP A-Script (Primary Information), she continues her exploration into modes of visual and spoken language. Backström received the Bernard Heidsieck – Centre Pompidou literary prize in 2018. In 2019, she performed Fluid Sites – Haunted Debris: virtual, possible, viscirreal with choreographer Mariana Valencia at the Centre Pompidou, and exhibited Facing Her Land – Notes from elsewhere at the Thiel Gallery Museum (Stockholm). Backström is an Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union.